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Quadrant Online goes to town

Nothing like a good stouch, complete with the usual character assassinations. Mervy Bendle must have gotten out of the wrong side of bed before he penned this little diatribe…complete with an attack on the lunatic left, represented in the red corner by none other than Guy Rundle of Crikey fame. Of course the wicked witch [...]

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Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

YouTube – TRAILER: Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ – OPENS NATIONWIDE OCTOBER 2nd!.

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Bill Gates has the answer on hurricanes

A worldwide effort to stamp out polio and malaria is very commendable, if somewhat unlikely but this has to make you wonder what really goes on inside the head of the man who won the IT lottery.

Bill Gates in bid to tame hurricanes – Times Online.

Now by itself this seems like a bit of a [...]

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BBC NEWS | Business | Murdoch attack on ‘dominant’ BBC

My first temptation is to delete the BBC classification of Business in the headline since this is much more than a business matter but I’ll just make this observation instead. Murdoch jnr sums up his address with these lines – “for a better society…the only reliable, durable and perpetual guarantor of independence is profit” – [...]

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The news you have to pay for

Ok let’s try this idea. You have a business, its core activity consists of people stringing a few words together based on information received. They, the stringers-of-words, do this stringing thing regularly and they also spend more than the average amount of time reading other stringers-of-words. Then there is a certain accumulated body of knowledge [...]

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What is required?

Apparently “what’s required for serious — which is to say expensive-to-produce — journalism to survive is that all the quality English-language papers and news sites agree to charge for Web access and then mercilessly sue anyone who makes more than fair use of their work without paying a fee.”

That’s according to the Tim Rutten on [...]

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