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Tiger Woods Reporting Avoids Issues

30, Nov 2009

Give it up to Dave Zirin, who finally proves something valuable can be said about the Tiger Woods controversy. “As the saying goes, behind every great fortune is a great crime,” Zirin says, and he is right. The relationship with Chevron via the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament Woods is skipping amid the media landslide [...]

Climate Email Coverage Casts Big Chill

30, Nov 2009

The conservative blogosphere has been atwitter the last week or so about email exchanges from scientists they claim are efforts aimed at fabricating the idea of climate change. But that storyline misses some crucial details. The Guardian reports hackers apparently sympathetic with climate change skeptics broke into a British university’s computer network and posted the [...]

Mexican Journalist Assassinated

29, Nov 2009

The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reports a Mexican journalist who has covered political corruption and the environment was murdered Nov. 25. José Emilio Galindo Robles, a 43-year-old journalist known as Pepe Galindo, was the regional director for Radio Universidad de Guadalajara in Ciudad Guzmán. Police confirmed Galindo was killed, but have not [...]

Houston to Protest Honduras Elections

29, Nov 2009

Local Honduran activists are calling for a protest of this weekend’s elections by those in the United States with rights to vote in this race. Several sites have offered Honduras election coverage and protest information. Upside Down World has had stellar coverage of the Honduras democracy crisis. One report quotes investigative journalist Dina Mesa, recipient [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

29, Nov 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-22 http://bit.ly/08PcCGL # Rape and the Plight of the Female Migrant Worker http://bit.ly/1Wq8fd,8599,1937707,00.html # Protest Today for Labor & Ethical Food http://bit.ly/07Sxmju # Guatemala: Beneath the Rock and the Storm – Photo Essay http://bit.ly/3kEso0 # Relations Between the Black Nation and Red China Pt 1 http://bit.ly/1bWDoj # The Ideology of Hope: [...]


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