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...Mezhennaya's case is only one in a series of crackdowns on the regional press. In January police searched the offices of Den Za Dnem, a Volgograd weekly critical of Governor Nikolai Maksyuta. In February police raided Novaya Gazeta, a weekly in Ryazan which had criticized Regional Governor Vyacheslav Lyubimov in its coverage of his election campaign. In March the regional prosecutor's office in Belgorod pressed charges against Olga Kitova, a correspondent for the local daily Belgorodskaya Pravda who questioned alleged financial machinations by the regional legislature. Though a member of the legislature herself, Kitova was detained and beaten...
...mannered Rudenstine, the official line sounds like that of a last-action hero: I don’t negotiate with terrorists. I envision him sitting (at home?) spamming the student body, his words booming out to the faceless (and bodyless) crowd, which roars in answer, “Ru-den-stine! Ru-den-stine...
...den-stine. Ru-den-stine...
...Still, we seem to love the lion's den experience, the Silicon Valley press corps. There we were again on Tuesday, crammed into the auditorium of Infinite Loop building 4 on Apple's Cupertino campus for the launch of the new and improved iBook. Who else but Jobs could attract a standing-room-only theaterful of journos for something so mundane as a laptop show-and-tell, we mused afterwards? To be fair, most of us were there as a result of that classic Apple tactic: don't show or tell until the very last possible moment...
...There is statistical and anecdotal evidence that ambient media do work. Hatfield's research shows that supermarket floor ads can increase a product's in-store sales an average of 15.5%. Van den Bergh Foods reports that gas-pump nozzle ads for its Peperami snack sticks boost in-store sales by 22.5%. "Pump nozzles are a good way of promoting Peperami as an on-the-move snack," says a Van den Bergh spokesman, adding that 80% of its customers are males 34 and younger. Ambient ads often "reach a specific audience when they're most receptive," notes Hayes...