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At first glance, three uproars that buffeted American politics in recent weeks have little in common. Former congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) ended his political career over sexually charged e-mails to former House pages. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) stumbled over his puzzling use of the word "macaca" and his clumsy response to revelations about his Jewish ancestry. Former president Bill Clinton had a...

HARARE — Zimbabwean authorities have again locked horns with the country’s independent media after a state watchdog accused the journalists’ union of disseminating propaganda against President Robert Mugabe’s regime. The latest complaint was filed against the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) days after a case against an independent radio station was thrown out by a court in Harare last week...

NEW YORK: Although The Miami Herald had no direct involvement in the ethical dust-up over paid broadcast appearances at El Nuevo Herald, its Spanish-language sister paper, Miami Herald staffers are being impacted in several ways. First, Executive Editor Tom Fiedler said he plans to institute a new policy requiring every Miami Herald newsroom employee to review and sign the paper's ethics policy...

With the exception of government workers, no group of wage slaves possesses a greater sense of job entitlement than journalists, and none enjoys a better platform from which to howl when downsizing threatens. As newspaper publishers have announced buyouts or laid off newsroom staff in recent months at a dozen top newspapers in the country, journalists have given the cutbacks disproportionate play...

New York, October 4, 2006-The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns this week's arrest of Rudy Apolo, a columnist and publisher of the Asian Star Journal and Asia Star Balita, and three members of his editorial staff on a criminal defamation charges related to reports on alleged government corruption. The four were arrested Monday morning in the city of Barangay Santa Fe, Cavite province, on a...

Here's some news from the media space now. the Financial Times, FT, of London wants to publish from India. It is pushing for a change in the present policy that allows only 26% foreign direct investment, FDI, in the print media. This is the first India visit of Lionol Barber, the editor of Financial Times and he is taking two weeks out, not only only to soak in the country but also to persuade...

Panic. That's the operating system of the war on terror. Panic is produced and mobilized. The pope's comment about Islam coincides with the E.coli spinach outbreak. Both create a phantasm of panic, with fear of the unknown shutting down borders everywhere, from countries to people to difference to ideas. The current outbreak of Islamophobia has distinct visual markers in the commercial mass media...

A Sudanese journalist specialising in the war-torn Darfur region has been held incommunicado for five days without charge, journalists said on Wednesday. Abu Obeida Aballah covered the Darfur peace talks in Nigeria, forging contacts with many rebels there. Since a May peace deal, signed by only one of three negotiating rebel groups, violence has escalated with a dozen aid workers killed and tens...

BRUSSELS, Belgium: A European Union high court on Wednesday denied a German journalist's request for damages after the EU anti-fraud office gave information to law enforcement authorities that led to his detention. The EU's Court of First Instance said that handing over the information about Hans-Martin Tillack, who was a correspondent for German news weekly Stern, to authorities in Belgium and...

NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters) - The average number of monthly visitors to U.S. newspaper Web sites rose by nearly a third in the first half of 2006, a study released on Wednesday said, though print readership at some larger U.S. newspapers fell. The study, released by the Newspaper Association of America, underscores the Internet's importance to papers beset by falling circulation and advertising...