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We Media/Zobgy story shows Americans think journalism is important but that traditional journalism is currently failing
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Research firm reports there are now more internet users in China than in US. China is the first country to outpace the US on the net since the network’s creatino
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Taliban convinces mobile phone operators to shut down network at night to prevent American forces from tracking soliders. Unclear whether this isn’t just a way of showing their current power in Afghanistan
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Cass Sunstein endorses Obama, emphasizing his powers of legal reasoning, his skill as a listener, and his desire to seek out and incorporate other points of view.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
re: the Taliban shutting down cell service at night, it makes sense for them for a few reasons:
a) shows their power - they made a threat, carried it out, and cell companies complied with Taliban wishes.
b) only shut down at night - the Taliban can’t execute operations nearly as well as NATO and the Afghan govt can at night because they don’t have night vision, eyes in the sky, and the other stuff that allows forces to conduct nighttime operations. So they get to keep the cell networks up during the day when they are useful to them, and shut them down when they aren’t useful.
c) the Taliban reportedly has their own small pirated cell networks that they can use if necessary in addition to radios.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
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