The phrase eerily brings to mind harrowing scenes from Adolf Hitler’s “Final Solution” to finally annihilate the Jews from Europe.

But here in the Philippines it is actually the name of a recently unveiled police measure against journalists covering at the scene of political crises.

It is not, as I first thought, another

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There's been plenty of debate about the future of professional journalists in the face of challenges from the internet (particularly bloggers). But there's a myth about what journalists actually do which seems to be carried across many of the debates, and it's an important one. And it means that many of the debates aren'

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Anatomy of a Press Release

A press release, seen simply, is a piece of communication letter (or email) to inform, announce, educate or deny and sent to a media publishing house for mass distribution through their news channel - print, radio, television or the web.

What should it contain - the barebones, in chronology

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On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governm

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Carty Finkbeiner is an American Democratic politician who is the current mayor of Toledo, Ohio. Carty Finkbeiner first elected in 1993, Carty Finkbeiner took office on January 1, 1994. In 1997, Carty Finkbeiner defeated challenger Nick Wichowski to win a second term. Term limits prevented him from running a third consecutive ti

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Is this the new way news presentation is going evolve online? (See website here)

This is how a news portal should be. A world map occupies the main section with text-linked categories at the side.

A user reaches the page, looks at the navigation at right, clicks on the category that interests him, and start reading news

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The AP wants to change the very fundaments of the Web and how it works to protect their content, but they are guilty of the very things they accuse bloggers of doing!

Learn more about the AP's pointless argument for changing how hyperlinking works and what we can link to, as well as how the AP is doing the world - and Cyber

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FreakyMartin.com has a compilation of an amazing set of photos captured involving the top stories of 2007 from MSNBC.

They are really cool photos ranging from frogs, to working on the job, to destruction, to outer space, and to just plain out strange. My favorites include the manhole that get turned into a drain. Great sho

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