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...your speech yesterday you criticized the role of the media in politics, saying that we do not have a “vigorous press.” How do you think we got to this point? What do you think should be done about this...
...Dean's statement, distributed in a press release, was a political attack meant to raise questions among independent voters. And as with most political attacks, it turned a grain of truth into a misleading landslide of overheated accusation. A review of the record shows that McCain has neither changed his position on torture nor taken sides with President Bush on the substance of the issue. But at a time when new details are emerging of the Administration's intimate involvement with formulating specific detainee interrogation practices, the Arizona Senator does now find himself in the uncomfortable position of agreeing with...
...Committee president, said on Thursday that he was "saddened" by the violence that broke out along the torch relay's bumpy road and acknowledged that it had not been "the joyous party that we had wished it to be." Hours later, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security held a press conference to announce that the authorities had nabbed two terrorists groups in Xinjiang that had "attempted to carry out sabotage to undermine the Beijing Olympic Games." Despite Beijing's alarm, however, some observers are looking at this unveiled terror threat with a skeptical...
However, that opinion is not shared by all. Nicholas Bequelin, Chinese researcher for the New-York-based Human Rights Watch, says it is "too soon to tell the nature" of the groups condemned by the authorities at the press conference. "Claims of terrorist catastrophe of course need to be taken seriously, but the government also needs to have hard evidence for the charges they are making. China has had a poor record there...
...crackdown on the two groups once again proved that the "Chinese security force is fully prepared to safeguard the life and property of the people, as well as the coming Olympics," Wu Heping concluded at the ministry's press conference. But that promise alone would not do for an event under such international scrutiny. "This sounds like a typical PR line by the Ministry of Public Security," said Bequelin, "I think China doesn't need to reassure the international community with this. What they need to do is to be more precise, objective, and factual in disclosing and presenting criminal...