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...That was then. Angry at what he has termed sensationalist reporting, Musharraf launched a crackdown on the press two weeks ago. Live coverage of rallies related to Chaudhry have been banned, as have live talk shows on the issue. Opposition party organizers are routinely detained prior to planned antigovernment demonstrations. Outspoken activists have been charged with terrorist acts and others have simply disappeared. Qazim Bugti, mayor of a small town in the insurgency-wracked province of Baluchistan, was picked up in November. His is one of 99 abductions documented by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan last year...
...been a supporter and signatory to the Sudan Divestment initiative since last year.On a pragmatic level, however, The Salient has digressed into a status at Harvard that garners little to no respect. The paper has replaced The Lampoon as the campus humor rag—mainly because the sensationalist social commentary printed neither represents conservatives nor our values. The latest issue features denunciations of modern ballet as “whimsical and weightless,” commentaries arguing for a “healthy and overflowing WASP culture” and calls for all men to buy stockings...
...Ain’t So!” blared the front page of last Thursday’s Boston Herald. I noticed this sensationalist headline while strolling past Out of Town News and immediately feared the worst: Had Mayor Thomas M. Menino ingested hallucinogenic toxins while bathing in the Charles? Was he now drafting plans for Boston to secede from the union in a fit of “dirty water” driven lunacy? I took a closer look at the Herald’s front page and my mouth swung open in horror. I stood paralyzed in shock...
...While the challenges are clearly daunting, some scientists complained in the wake of February's IPCC report that sensationalist media coverage painting an inevitable and apocalyptic picture of climate change paralyzes rather than galvanizes the public. But the unwritten word behind the IPCC's dire predictions, and its source of hope, is if. If we can limit and later eliminate carbon emissions, if we can make a rapid transition to cleaner energy, if we help poorer nations adapt to the changes underway, then the worst consequences will be averted. But that can only happen if we act globally...
...commentators quickly forced the comparison between the current Prime Minister and Iron Lady Thatcher, who exactly 25 years ago imposed the British will by force, defeating an Argentine military invasion of the Malvinas islands. Remembering Teddy Roosevelt’s famous quote of diplomacy by sticks and carrots, the sensationalist Sun grudged that Britain “appears to have lost the stick...