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Government watchdogs, meanwhile, worry that taking away forms of oversight, even when there isn't a pressing need for it, sets a dangerous precedent. "We're taking another piece [of information] in order to stroke and soothe one small segment of society," says Charles Davis, executive director for the National...
“It was a struggle of the future, a struggle to establish a precedent for global engagement,” Habib added.
Santoro is hardly an outsider in an industry where press and politics often walk hand in hand. He first started working at RAI in 1982, and when his show went off the air, he served briefly as a European Parliament member, representing Italy's center-left political coalition. But supporters...
The campaign is not without precedent. Social media was embraced by activists during the protests after the contested 2009 presidential election in Iran, when users of Facebook and Twitter made their profile photos green - the color of the Iranian opposition.
Yet for many Germans, Merkel is right not to put their country's money on the table too soon, as it could lift the pressure for reform in Greece. "That would risk setting a precedent of profligate countries taking advantages of the others," says Silvio Peruzzo, a London-based analyst...