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Friday, February 29, 2008
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We spend time learning WHAT media workers do, but it's just as important to think about HOW they do it and WHY they do it. Let's get some ideas percolating about what we see and how it affects us. I call it "Sunrise on Media" because I often arrive at work obscenely early and will update this blog then.
The floor is yours, what news mattered this week? Post your comments and get a discussion going.
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Labels: current events, kc news meeting, quiz
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Timothy Geoglein, a White House official, resigned today after admitting that he plagiarized 20 columns for an Indiana newspaper. He took the material from a Dartmouth College publication and did not give any attribution. Geoglein worked for President Bush since 2001.
A woman who wrote a book about her experience in the holocaust, made up the story, according to a Cnn story. She claimed, in her memoirs, that after the Nazis took her parents away during WWII, that she lived with wolves in the forests of Europe. The Belgian writer, is not even Jewish, although she claimed to be in the novel. Her book was a best seller and was even made into a movie in France.
This is really an interesting story. Here is the link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/02/29/holocaust.bookhoax.ap/index.html
My question is, why is the first time her story was questioned?
Palestinian President Abbas suspended peace talks with Israel because of violence killing around 60-70(numbers vary in each news source) Palestinians in Gaza.
Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential election today in Russia. Many suspect that outgoing President Vladimir Putin will still have a lot of power, because Medvedev is Putin's handpicked successor.
So is it Dmitri or Dmitry Medvedev?
CNN says Dmitry.
NYT says Dmitri.
It is kind of interesting with the article we read on the NYT's spelling errors. Maybe CNN has it wrong this time?
Just wouldn't want to get this wrong on a quiz or anything...
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