Word: journalisting
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...term worry that goes beyond any possible Syrian connections-that Fatah al-Islam is one of a group of armed, extremist factions that have been spawned in the triangle of political instability from Baghdad to Gaza to Tripoli. Those groups include Iraqi insurgents, the mysterious Palestinian faction holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston hostage in Gaza, and the radical Salafist cells that have multiplied in Saudi Arabia and across North Africa all the way to Morocco. Taken together, these groups threaten the entire Middle East. Exploiting the Internet, using cell phones to communicate, stealing cash and smuggling drugs to finance operations...
...fungus there, with both mainline Fatah and Hamas losing followers to it. In Gaza you could see the place was seething. But frankly the notion of bin Laden taking over sounded like propaganda to me. Now, though, watching the growing chaos, and with the kidnapping of a BBC journalist, I think the Israelis were right...
Recently, that skill-set has extended to political punditry. West recently surfaced at a Houston conference organized by journalist Tavis Smiley on the “State of Black America,” where he criticized Barrack Obama’s absence from the conference despite having been invited “a year in advance...
...When Katzenberg asked for questions, the international press was ready. "To bee or not to bee - this is the question," one journalist posed. "Will there be a C and a D movie," another asked, "and maybe an X?" Seinfeld winced at each joke. "The bee pun reflex," he observed with a kind of courtesy, "is something we've struggled with for three years." Warning to the press: Never try to make a comedian laugh...
...carmaker thrown in as part of the deal, and Cerberus agreed to invest a few billion dollars to help get struggling Chrysler back on its feet. Just after the transaction was announced, DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche (he of the big mustache and the TV ads) bristled when a journalist suggested that he had paid Cerberus to cart Chrysler away: "It was clearly stated that Cerberus invests 7.4 billion U.S. dollars in this transaction, which is not any form of being paid," he snapped...