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...loath to tamper with or degrade a brand that has made its reputation by consistently providing quality journalism. The financial consequences of any intervention by Murdoch would simply be too great. Yet the media’s rapt attention on Murdoch’s purchase does serve to highlight a growing fear among journalists and others that high quality, objective news sources will slowly vanish, in this age of new media, for lack of demand. The rise of blogs and news sources tailored to niche audiences, along with the decline of newspapers’ advertising-based business model...
...Both blasts were within a mile of the Pakistani Military Headquarters, where President General Pervez Musharraf lives. One took place at a busy intersection just outside a military housing playing field, the other in a small civilian market across the street from an army depot. These attacks highlight growing instability in Pakistan, just as Musharraf prepares for a highly contested presidential election that could see the end of the military leader's eight-year tenure heading the country...
...show does more than highlight the horrors of war: it also captures the minutiae of daily life. A claustrophobic tent reconstructs the unit's sleeping quarters, replete with its mosquito nets, toiletries, uncomfortable cots, a portable shower and the overbearing scent of plastic sheets. Scattered across the room are letters and personal paraphernalia, donated by more than 150 soldiers...
...Since Hollywood discovered its Oscar-minting potential in the 1990s, Toronto has grown in stature and glitz, but it hasn't forgotten where it comes from. This year, along with Reese Witherspoon's Rendition and Sean Penn's Into the Wild, the festival will also highlight hundreds of Canadian films and international offerings that will probably never see the inside of a multiplex. Unless, of course, Toronto's enthusiastic crowds tip Hollywood off to something it missed...
...point in the exchange, Jordan offers to give the investigators the prisoner identification numbers of detainees who had been released from Abu Ghraib, including "a female" and others who "could probably highlight negative stuff" about Stefanowicz and his civilian associate...