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MEMOIR: Thousands have turned out in Prague for the state funeral of the former President Vaclav Havel. He was the leader of the dissident movement and massive street protests that commenced the transition of Czechoslovakia from communist state to membership of the European Union.
Lee Duffield prepared this memoir: … Read More »
This week saw the announcement of a new venture by the online Huffington Post, setting up in France, in an agreement with the Le Monde group – the host organisation itself enduring fresh problems.
The new product is to be called Le Huffington Post. … Read More »
A week of hard fighting in and around the city of Sirte in Libya has ended with the interim government forces regaining control of the city’s airport. … Read More »
OPINION: Few could have expected a media story, about a tabloid empire, playing like a tabloid story - as it were.
Information became very messy about the “pie attack” incident as Rupert Murdoch neared the end of his testimony at a parliamentary hearing in London, 19.7.11. … Read More »
“This is the most humble day of my life”, said Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corporation, on Tuesday, at the commencement of a parliamentary hearing in London into the affairs of his company.
Well into the hearing, a member of the public lunged at him with a shaving cream “pie” on a plate, causing a ten-minute recess, a young man ending up in handcuffs, (and journalists there saying Wendy Murdoch, defending her husband, took on the assailant).
The Select Committee on Culture and Media said it had reconvened because it had been misled in a 2009 investigation into the hacking of private telephones by the Murdoch group newspaper, The News of the World. … Read More »
A mega-story befitting the land of the tabloids: on the eve of the scheduled appearance of the Murdoch principals before a parliamentary committee, London was taking stock of the resignation of the Police chief, and the weekend arrest and interrogation of Rebekah Brooks. … Read More »