Word: informant
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...serious negative consequence. As it is natural to assume that a story’s importance is proportional to the amount of media coverage it generates, the media is disseminating a warped worldview to an unsuspecting, gullible public. The media must remember that it has an ethical responsibility to inform the public about issues that most impact them, and not resort to yellow journalism to ramp up ratings...
...officials ordered him out in 1986, Cazalas says, he called his Libyan colleagues and talked his way back into his old job. Darrell Livingston, 51, from Winterhaven, Fla., who works on Essider's metering equipment, says he was once detained by federal agents after arriving home and asked to inform for them in Libya. Livingston says he rejected their offer but kept his job, even filing yearly U.S. tax returns listing his overseas residence as Libya. "The IRS didn't seem to care," Livingston says...
...that the number of girls a guy can convince to accompany him to a party is an indicator of his worth. Some organizations even go to extreme lengths to increase the girl to guy ratio. In order to attempt to decrease the number of (male) party crashers, these groups inform their members of parties via last second phone calls. This situation is not exclusive to Final Clubs. It is the state of college parties as a whole...
Panasyuk said he was visiting friends at Northeastern University when he was pulled out of the crowd and arrested on Boylston Street and Park Drive, according to Boston Police Department (BPD) spokesman John T. Boyle. Panasyuk alleges that the police did not read him his Miranda rights or inform him of the reason for his arrest...
Let’s look at the target audience of these editorials: voters who are still undecided at this point in the race. In endorsing a candidate, news sources are coalescing months of debate, information and promises into one well-grounded opinion. If voters can’t make up their minds, the newspapers are effectively helping them by laying it all out there. These editorials don’t come out at the start of the campaign or in the middle of the debates; they come at point when all is almost said and done. They are not presumptive...