Swedish Photographer, Reporter branded “terrorists” in Ethiopian Show Trial

Breaking: An Ethiopian court has declared Swedish photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye guilty of supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally, according to an AFP report.
“Guilty as charged, period, unanimous vote,” the…

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Christopher Coke, and a massacre in Jamaica

Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone.
Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds…

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Are Celebukid Reporters and Newsertainment the wave of the future?

According to Gawker it is. Here’s an interested snippet on the “rise” of “Celebukid Reporters and News-ertainment”
“Even after the rise of cable news and online news, network “news” broadcasts are still the biggest single…

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Andy Rooney RIP

Via Washington
November 5, 2011 – CBS writer, producer, and commentator Andy Rooney passed away Friday evening at the age of 92, only a month after retiring from his long and legendary media career. The precise…

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News Photo of the Day – Nov 8, 2011

via Gawker: It’s a bleak landscape for the mighty black rhinoceros. The WWF announced this week that 353 of the endangered mammals, whose horn is incorrectly thought to have cancer-curing powers, have been poached this…

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