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India Weighs Social Media Curbs
By Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI - After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.
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Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime
By Daniel Sitole
NAKURU, Kenya - Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages.
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Radio Static for Ghana’s Community Stations
By Sandra Ferrari*
ACCRA - There is a tension resonating through Ghana’s airwaves, an electric current fueled by rivaling interests between community radio advocates and Ghana’s National Communications Authority.
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BRAZIL
Community Radio Flourishes Online
By Fabíola Ortiz*
RIO DE JANEIRO - Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
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TURKEY
Filtering Out Internet Freedom
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas
ANKARA - Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds.
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Websites Black Out over "SOPA Censorship"
By Chris Arsenault*
DOHA, Qatar - The number one rule young journalists are taught when starting radio broadcasting is simple: No dead air. Cough into the microphone if you must, but don't allow silence to creep in.
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BURMA
Political Prisoners Freed - Conditionally
By Preethi Nallu
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - The release of 651 prisoners, a process which started this month, is being seen as a victory for activists and families who have had to contend with Burma’s notorious prison system.
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U.S.
"Arab Spring" Dominated TV Foreign News in 2011
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The so-called "Arab Spring" led U.S. network television evening news coverage during 2011, comprising a total of about 10 percent of all the news coverage provided by the three major commercial networks during 2011, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
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OP-ED
This Spring Breeze Did Not Arise in the West
By Emad Mekay*
PALO ALTO, California, U.S. - So here I am, an Arab journalist in Silicon Valley, where four out of every four people I meet believe Facebook invented the Arab Spring. Three more weeks here and I may start to hallucinate that Mark Zuckerberg was a Cairo-slums native named Hassouna El-Fatatri, who rotted in a Mubarak prison for advocating personal privacy rights.
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Jailed Journalists Reflect Greater Struggle for Internet Freedom
By Rosemary D'Amour
WASHINGTON - The number of journalists in prison worldwide has spiked to its highest level in 15 years. Of them, nearly half worked online, raising larger questions about Internet freedom for more than just reporters, but average citizens as well.
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BOOKS-US
Deconstructing Thomas Friedman
By Sandra Siagian
NEW YORK - A new book on the influential New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sets out to debunk his hawkish, neoliberal views, accusing him of overt racism, factual errors and skewed judgments on issues ranging from the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opening Virtual Doors for People with Disabilities
By Rosemary D'Amour
WASHINGTON - As the International Day for Persons with Disabilities approaches this Saturday, one institution is working to remove some of the barriers that prevent disabled people from taking a leading role in policies that affect their lives.
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PHILIPPINES
These Shots Target AIDS
By Kara Santos
MANILA - A unique campaign in the Philippines is using stylised online photos to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Fashion and conceptual photographer Niccolo Cosme first initiated Project Headshot Clinic in 2007 as a way of merging profile photos online and advertising.
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PAKISTAN
At the Butt of a Joke
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - The Butts of Punjab have become the butt of jokes after Pakistan’s telecom authorities moved to ban "obscene" content on short messaging service (SMS) texts over mobile phones.
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DEVELOPMENT
UNESCO Turns On the Radio
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - The demise of radio has been predicted for many years, but the medium is adapting, transforming and proving to be a cost-effective tool in development, experts say.
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