Identifying Bias

Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday.  read more »

Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines

Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from:  read more »

Obama Details Small Business Lending Initiatives

President Obama, who has declared creating jobs one of his top priorities for 2010, has finally unveiled details of his $30 billion plan to increase small-business lending through community banks.  read more »

Army used profiles to reject reporters (Afghanistan)

WASHINGTON — The secret profiles commissioned by the Pentagon to rate the work of journalists reporting from Afghanistan were used by military officials to deny disfavored reporters access to Americ  read more »

Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows

The online popularity contest between celebrity Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrowed Thursday, with Kutcher's Twitter following growing considerably overnight.  read more »

Opinion: Why South Carolina Doesn't Want 'Stimulus'

America's states are laboratories of democracy. They are both affected by, and relevant to, the larger national debate.  read more »

Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban

The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure.  read more »

How Fannie and Freddie seizure affects homeownership

WASHINGTON – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Sunday moved to take control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which operated like private companies but had enjoyed implicit government backing until t  read more »

Medvedev says Russia will continue active role in S.Caucasus

MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Monday that Russia will continue its active role in the South Caucasus after the current conflict, and pledged to see through the operation  read more »

Beijing tightens security after protests, attack

Authorities in Beijing are tightening security after an attack on a police station in China's north-west and protests in the capital.  read more »

Kabul Blast Kills At Least 40

A suicide bomb that struck Kabul on Monday blew off the gates of the Indian Embassy, where Afghans often line up for visas to leave the country.  read more »

Texas officials defend removing FLDS children: Child advocate says state is ready to argue they be placed in foster homes

Texas lawmakers joined with state child and health advocates Tuesday to defend the removal of 416 children from a polygamous sect's ranch and the separation, a day earlier, of older children from thei  read more »

Let them eat ethanol

SHARON SMITH explains that the source of worsening global hunger is a system that puts greed first.  read more »

Was WWII inevitable?: Collection of eyebrow-raising narratives prompts reassessment of conflict

In 1937, a prominent British politician wrote, "Those who have met Herr (Adolf) Hitler face to face in public, business or on social terms have found a highly competent, cool, well-informed functionar  read more »

Chinese Police Fire Tear-Gas at Protesting Tibetan Monks (Tibetan Reporting)

KATHMANDU—Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, RFA's Tibetan service reports.  read more »

Spitzer's Media Enablers Share The Shame, Blame

The fall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer holds many lessons, and the press will surely be examining them in coming months.  read more »

US Public Losing Interest in Iraq As News Coverage Wanes

A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday.  read more »

Ferraro: 'They're attacking me because I'm white'

Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen.  read more »

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA

FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E.  read more »

Faking It boss: I made doctored Queen tape

The TV production company boss at the heart of the row over faked footage of the Queen yesterday admitted he was personally responsible for making the fateful edit of her storming out of a photoshoot,  read more »

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