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There’s no denying that Al-Jazeera has some severe problems with bias that affect the way it presents the news. By the same token, it’s hard to blame the station for sharing the partiality of its viewers who tune in everyday. It’s a proven fact that people the world over tend to consume media that share their own personal opinions. A pro-democracy, anti-Israel Lebanese person watches Al-Jazeera for the same reason a pro-life, pro-Bush Texan watches Fox. Al-Jazeera has to cater to its viewership...
...You’re going to have the opportunity to vote in these elections and it is very important because it will affect the entire world,” he said. “In these times, timidness and apathy only serve the interest of those reactionaries in power. Silence and abstention are opposed to liberty and freedom...
...disparity. Recall that during the fateful 2000 campaign, Al Gore ’69 actually thought he could get away with claiming to have invented the Internet. Certainly, times have changed. And so we must ask: how will the steady progress of the now clichéd digital revolution affect our massive and venerable electoral politics system...
...ARENA: Joe Klein on the wins and spins of the first debate and how they'll affect the race...
...work. Remember the talking ads, animated cereal box and self-updating newspaper in Stephen Spielberg's Minority Report, set in 2054? All from Schwartz. Meanwhile, his consulting firm, Global Business Network (GBN), based in Emeryville, Calif., plots out future scenarios--such as whether another SARS outbreak could affect Singapore Airlines--to help businesses plan for the unthinkable. "Somewhere in each scenario exercise--if we've done our homework--is the future," says Schwartz, 58. "Very rarely have we really missed. More often our failure is in getting people to take it seriously...