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AP: Sleeping, Hijacked, or just plain Stupid?

Oscar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:45:53 +0000

What the hell, was the AP sleeping, hijacked or did it get hit upside the head with one of those mythical stupid sticks? According to the Dallas Fort Worth NBC online news, AP released an official copyrighted news note on March 9, 2009 with...

Is Associated Press justified in protecting free use of its content by New Media?

View Point — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:43:34 +0000

The Associated Press has revived the Old Media-New Media fight by trying to draw a line between reference and reproduction. The 162-year-old news service created ripples, not for the first time, last week by legally demanding the Drudge Retort...

Britney’s obituary and tombstone already prepared

Asmita — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:09:00 +0000

The horror show that is Britney Spears’ life these days is inspiring print media giants to come out with obituaries. Anticipating the whirlwind misadventures of the troubled singer to end in a tragic death soon, publications are preparing...

Iraqi Journalists are the target of 'Mass Campaign of Terror'

Adheesha — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:37:07 +0000

A dream to seek Truth. A dream to become the ‘Voice of the People’. A dream to become a Journalist. Samira al-Shibli had nurtured this dream in a country where over 100 reporters have been killed since the war began and where death...

U.S. military death toll raises to 3,281 in Iraq

Naresh Chauhan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:28:52 +0000

The battle-fields of the Middle East, especially Iraq, is just turning into a killing-grounds for the US led Allied forces. The total number of the U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003 has well crossed the 3,000 mark. As the...

US army accused of deleting Afghan attack news coverage

Naveen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:34:07 +0000

The Associated Press intends to complain to the US military after some journalists reported that US soldiers deleted the footage of the upshot of an attack in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai commented that 10 people passed away when...

AP says no to Paris Hilton Stories!

Nidhi Chauhan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:03:26 +0000

No gossips about Paris Hilton for a whole week! No one should bother! Right? This is a blackout experiment conducted by News agency Associated Press. Associated Press has banned its journalists from filing stories about Paris Hilton. They will...

Wii News Channel goes live

Yashpal — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:28:16 +0000

Nintendo is showing the innovative ways to the gamers all around the world through its creation weather it be a console or game. Now brining the unique feature to its gaming console (Wii), Nintendo has introduced the new News Channel that...

Mother accused for renting her daughter to a pedophile

Pooja — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:49:33 +0000

A woman was convicted to a sentence of seventeen and a half year imprisonment for renting her daughter to a pedophile for more than 200 times. Joe J. Champion who sexually molested the little girl was too sentenced to 15 years...

Kidnapped Associated Press photographer released safely in Gaza

Vikas — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:28:14 +0000

Emilio Morenatti, photographer of Associated Press kidnapped on Monday, was lucky enough because after kidnapping he was neither harmed nor tortured. While in the possession of kidnappers, Morenatti was kept in a small room where he was...