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! 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.

Report: CBS News' Logan talks about her baby drama (The Charlotte Observer)

9 Jul 2008

Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq. Logan's relationship with Joseph Burkett - who's in the midst of a divorce from wife Kimberly, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter - has made media headlines, including the front page of the New York ...