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- Santorum’s war on teleprompters
- Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Surveillance
- A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators
| Santorum’s war on teleprompters Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:00 AM PDT
Gulfport, Mississippi – Republican Rick Santorum has for quite a while taken issue with candidates on the trail who use a teleprompter. It’s a dig on President Barack Obama, and more recently has been used to attack Mitt Romney – a man who’s also been known to use a prompter or two. But campaigning along the Gulf Coast in the Tuesday primary state of Mississippi, Santorum took it a step further, saying use of the digital word machine should be outlawed. “See, I always believed that when you run for president of the United States, it should be illegal to read off a teleprompter,” Santorum said at a Gulfport restaurant. “Because all you’re doing is reading someone else’s words to people.” He continued to elaborate on why he believes prompters should have no place in politics, saying that people should know that a candidate’s words haven’t been “focus-grouped” and that the words are the candidate’s – not those of “pollsters and speechwriters.” To read more, visit: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/11/santorums-war-on-teleprompters/ |
| Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Surveillance Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:58 AM PDT By COLIN MOYNIHAN,The New York Times On Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, protesters gathered for an Occupy Wall Street "day of action," which organizers had described as an attempt to block the streets around the New York Stock Exchange. Then, Ms. Moyer-Sims said, about 30 police officers surrounded her and the people in the car. All four were arrested, said Vik Pawar, a lawyer for Ms. Moyer-Sims and two of the others, and taken to a police facility in the East Village. He said officers strip-searched them and ignored their requests for a lawyer. The fourth person could not be reached for comment. Ms. Moyer-Sims, 20, said members of the Police Department's intelligence division asked about her personal history, her relationship with other protesters, the nature of Occupy Wall Street and plans for upcoming protests. "I felt like I had been arrested for a thought crime," she said. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-protesters-complain-of-police-monitoring.html?hp |
| A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:55 AM PDT By DAVID CARR, The New York Times As words and articles became digitized over the last 15 years, they began to float, there for the plucking and replication elsewhere. Words like "curation" and "aggregation" became the language of the realm, sometimes used as substitutes for describing the actual creation of content. What had once been a craft was rapidly becoming a task. Traditional media organizations watched as others kidnapped their work, not only taking away content but, more and more, taking the audiences with them. Practitioners of the new order heard the complaints and suggested that mainstream media needed to quit whining and start competing in a changed world, where what's yours may not be yours anymore if others find a better way to package it. So where is the line between promoting the good work of others and simply lifting it? Naughty aggregation is analogous to pornography: You know it when you see it. To read more, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/business/media/guidelines-proposed-for-content-aggregation-online.html?_r=2&ref=business |
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