News and Media

Media battles ‘good news rule’ (Daily Dispatch)

9 Jul 2008

A EUROPEAN media watchdog is pressing Romania’s president to veto legislation that would require radio and TV stations to ensure half of their coverage deals with good news.

Sacked China police chief alleges corruption: official media (AFP via Yahoo! Singapore News)

9 Jul 2008

A police chief sacked after major riots in southwest China has accused former colleagues of being linked to triad mobsters and a history of crushing dissent, state-run media reported Wednesday.

Americans embrace a smaller world (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)

9 Jul 2008

So Iraq is back in the news. No, not coverage of the war — but rather news of a love tryst between a pair of paramours and Lara Logan, an attractive CBS News correspondent who recently was complaining to Jon Stewart about the lack of news media's attention to Iraq.