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Two American journalists on a reporting trip to the border between China and North Korea have been detained by the North Korean military, a human rights activist and another source said Thursday.
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Serious news watchers regularly lament the decreasing coverage of international affairs on television news programs. And public television station managers often ask why PBS has no regular newscast, aside from the analytically oriented ''News Hour With Jim Lehrer.''
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A day after three suspects were acquitted in the 2006 murder a Kremlin critic, the judge reopened the case.
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Carlos Slim Helú has been criticized as an “evil monopolist” and praised as a man “focusing more and more on using his wealth to improve the world.”
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Nearly 5,000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Yet the photographic record documents only a tiny fraction of those who have given their lives for their country.
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CBS war correspondent Kimberly Dozier talks about surviving a 500-pound car bomb explosion while working in Iraq.
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The Bush administration turned the U.S. military into a global propaganda machine while imposing tough restrictions on journalists seeking to give the public truthful reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Associated Press chief executive Tom Curley said Friday.
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SOC Prof. Gentile Quoted in Quill Article on Conflict Coverage
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Op-Ed Contributors Say Endowments Can Save U.S. Newspapers.
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Citing concern with protecting its impartiality in the Arab-Israeli dispute, the BBC declined to broadcast an appeal by aid agencies for victims of the recent conflict.
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