Archive | June 26, 2012

Facebook: the most congenitally dishonest company in America

by on June 26, 2012 in Business & Finance, Crime & Corruption, Internet, Telecom & Social Media

If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” Did you know you have a Facebook email address? Maybe you did and maybe you didn’t. But if you have a Facebook account you have a Facebook email. And that email is now your default email on FB. WTF? […]

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Newspaper ownership shifting, says Pew; better days ahead? Nope.

by on June 26, 2012 in Business & Finance, Economy, Internet, Telecom & Social Media, Journalism, Media & Entertainment, Politics, Law & Government, United States

Those grad students in the business of writing dissertations about media and newspapers now have an old topic with a new twist: Who owns the media now? Critic Ben Bagdikian, author of six editions of “The Media Monopoly,” traced ownership of America’s media through decades of consolidation. In a PBS interview at the end of […]

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Iran nuclear standoff: what Israel has wrought

by on June 26, 2012 in War & Security

Israel’s nukes beg to be balanced, claims a noted international relations scholar.

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NYTimes Green blog: Burning Colorado forests may not regenerate

by on June 26, 2012 in Environment & Nature, Science & Technology

The NYTimes Green blog reports that the burning Colorado forests may not regenerate into forest, but rather into shrubland.

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