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During the financial crisis, several media outlets reported that the University scrambled for cash last year and was forced to sell bonds in order to meet operating expenses and pay off older debt...
Second, more Crossfires. In today's highly segmented, partisan news environment, it's hard to create big new media institutions dedicated to objective news reporting. But it might be possible to create new talk shows and blogs in which liberals and conservatives interrogate one another's views - programs like the early (and more substantive) incarnation of CNN's Crossfire or William F. Buckley's Firing Line. There's no guarantee that the conversation would be edifying, of course. But it would be a useful antidote to the current cable and blog ghettos, where you can go years without hearing...
...would have found it more honest - and none the worse, creatively - if Ms. Hegemann would have asked Airen for permission to so excessively use the stories," says Debora Weber-Wulff, a media professor and plagiarism expert at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Weber-Wulff believes that Hegemann's generation shares the same laissez-faire attitude toward copying and pasting that comes from growing up in the Internet age. "Digital information is infinitely copyable," Weber-Wulff says. But she adds that questions remain over just how much of a person's creative work can be copied and how that...
...founder and iconic figure of the digital age, once remarked that he had "always been shameless about stealing great ideas." The same frank revelation by a 17-year-old literary wunderkind who is accused of liberally - and unabashedly - lifting passages from another writer has now sparked a heated media debate in Germany...
...Relief International doctors at a field clinic in a hard-hit suburb of the capital encountered a woman who only a few days before had found an infant abandoned in an open-air latrine. The NGO contacted UNICEF, which is registering the baby and conducting a search through various media, like radio, for her family. What's more, even though the woman who found her is poor, she has been allowed to care for the infant under the UNICEF network's supervision - largely because experts like de la Soudiere says it's often a better option to keep children...