By Joe Sottile via NewsVandal So far, the biggest revelation of the NSA spying story is…that anyone actually thinks this story is a big revelation. A look back to 2006 reveals a story in the USA Today...

Via BBC A Greek court has ordered that state broadcaster ERT, which was shut down by the government last week, can resume transmissions. However, the court also upheld a plan by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to replace...

By Isaac Stone Fish via Foreign Policy On its homepage on Wednesday, amid articles about Chinese astronauts, holiday celebrations, and Chinese territorial disputes, the website of the nationalistic Chinese newspaper Global Times featured a screenshot from the...

By Souad Mekhennet via Nieman Reports It seemed surreal during the Boston area lockdown last month when my cell phone rang and two inmates at a jail in Morocco were on the line asking if I was...

By Jonathan Peters via PBS Last year, a former student contacted me to ask if her news outlet, a network affiliate, could use a video clip from a Comedy Central show to introduce a segment about election-year...

By Danny Schechter It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of the PBS News Hour where bland has been beautiful for years, and an obsessive loyalty to mechanistic balance — always veering right —...

By Tom A. Peter via CSM In the first days of the protests, CNN-Turk, the Turkish version of the American news network, opted to play a three-part documentary about penguins rather than cover what is arguably the...

By Eliza Kern via Gigaom Some of the tech industry’s biggest and brightest companies denied incredibly damning and wide-reaching reports Thursday from The Guardian and The Washington Post that alleged the companies participated in a secret program...

Via Phys Org If you think keeping up with what’s happening via Twitter, Facebook and other social media is like drinking from a fire hose, multiply that by 7 billion – and you’ll have a sense of...

By Matt Bewig via AllGov The revolving door between big business and government is spinning again. Despite his promise during the 2008 campaign that lobbyists would take a back seat in his administration, President Barack Obama recently...