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Appalling Quality of Journalism Today

If you’ve been living in the western world this week you’ve probably heard of the woes with News Corporation and News International regarding the phone tapping ‘scandal’ at the News of the World newspaper. To me, the scandal itself is bad enough, but realistically it only highlights what I’ve been thinking myself for many years [...]

July 20th, 2011 General, Personal, Politic No Comments »
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Why Julian Assange (and WikiLeaks) is not a terrorist.

And why assigning him that label is extremely dangerous for everyone
Assange may have done things that have annoyed the American government. And probably the British and Australian governments too. In fact, possibly a whole slew of other governments throughout the world.
But doing something with which the government disagrees does not a terrorist make.
Terrorists, by definition, [...]

December 6th, 2010 Personal, Politic 1 Comment »
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