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...main duties of a free press to inform citizens of the facts as objectively as possible, then today's media are failing. We citizens don't want "enlightened" journalists presenting opinions as news, ignoring facts that don't serve their biases, and generally trying to manipulate our views. The media's liberal bias is a bigger problem than just their favoring Obama over McCain. It infects coverage of all significant issues. Michael V. Lurski, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania...
...London, those woes have been compounded by a series of squabbles and scandals. The Met's Assistant Commissioner, Andy Hayman, resigned last December after press stories about his expenses and his friendship with a member of the IPCC during the Stockwell investigation, all of which Hayman dismissed in a statement as "leaks and unfounded accusations...
...told a press conference that the pair planned their attack for a month. He said that on early Monday morning the two suspects stole a large Dongfeng delivery truck. Shortly after 8 a.m. Beijing time (or 6 a.m., in the unofficial local time) one of the suspects telephoned the other to say that a group of Chinese border police was on a training jog outside their compound. The driver accelerated the truck to a high speed and plowed it into a group of 70 from behind. The truck hit a pole and turned over, and the driver lost...
...rights record, and when athletic competition could supersede geopolitical tension for a few short weeks. Instead, in the weeks leading up to the Games Chinese organizers decided to censor websites about Tibet, Falun Gong, and other politically sensitive groups to the foreign media, causing the predictable outcry from international press and human right groups. (Officials have since backed down and opened up the sites). Now comes word that China has banned Cheek to enter the country on the eve of the Games, revoking the visa of an American athletic hero who donated his $40,000 in medal winnings from...
With the American media descending on Beijing this week and looking for a headline before the sports start, the move almost guarantees that China will take a beating in the foreign press. Those stories will not be about the impressive architecture of the Bird's Nest stadium, or how the new fleet of Olympic buses are running smoothly. Now, headlines will point to how a humanitarian essentially got kicked out of the country. The timing could not be worse...