NPR Adopts Orwellian Speech

by Billy Beren on July 21, 2010

NPR censored an essay they asked Barry Eisler to contribute.  The topic was “favorite thrillers” and Eisler had chosen 1984 by George Orwell. It’s telling which elements of the essay NPR found so objectionable they needed to censor them.

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Washington Post and (lack of) Transparency

by Billy Beren on July 12, 2010

Glenn Greenwald writes today about a disturbing interaction he had with the Washington Post, trying to follow up on their coverage of the WikiLeaks / Bradley Manning case.

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Is the NY Times complicit in torture?

July 11, 2010

In 2004, the NY Times changed how it refers to water boarding in news stories. As the graph above shows, for nearly 70 years, the Times referred to water boarding as torture and then all of a sudden, stopped doing so.
The graph and insight are from an April 2010 study by Harvard’s Kennedy School of [...]

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