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New in B1G

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July 29th, 2011 at 9:09 pm

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John Blake: Trouble

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July 27th, 2011 at 8:34 pm

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Pineapple Pastry

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July 27th, 2011 at 10:55 am

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Murderer

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From Bloomberg:

Charlie Beckett, director of the media institute Polis at the London School of Economics, said Rupert Murdoch’s answers were “either a brilliant act or he’s lost it.’’

About what it was like at a News Corp. newspaper, from one of the fallen, disgraced, or now dead (Sean Hoare):

Explaining why he had spoken out, he told me: “I want to right a wrong, lift the lid on it, the whole culture. I know, we all know, that the hacking and other stuff is endemic. Because there is so much intimidation. In the newsroom, you have people being fired, breaking down in tears, hitting the bottle.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1311011219-LWnHMUspWMYzR2PnEkkU/Q

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=1

 

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July 19th, 2011 at 10:14 am

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Facebook

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On a daily basis, and in ways that the general public does not even recognize, our right to privacy is disappearing rapidly. Our political leaders allow companies such as Google and Facebook to continually infringe on this right. Both of those companies serve as data mines, selling information about their users. Facebook, behind a mask of individual privacy settings, has almost single-handedly killed privacy; founder Mark Zuckerberg has actually stated, according to reports, that he doesn’t believe in privacy. The government needs to get back to its roots: protecting the privacy of its citizens while encouraging the individual freedoms on which this country was founded.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/larry-flynt-rupert-murdoch-went-too-far/2011/07/13/gIQA9ifnGI_story.html

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July 16th, 2011 at 8:49 pm

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Prediction: Amanda Knox

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July 11th, 2011 at 1:23 pm

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Casey Anthony

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July 6th, 2011 at 6:58 pm

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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As massive, legitimate suspicions about the the accuser are uncovered, we are witness to how the process worked and is still working.

As for the case, perpetrating a crime against a criminal is a relatively safe way to do it.  And, as for what appears to be happening here, lies and suspect histories make both of them–the accused and the accuser–vulnerable.

Wall Street Journal article (good expose of the ethics and procedures of prosecutors):

“The day we stop being able to believe people is the day that we can no longer prosecute,” Ms. Iluzzi-Orbon said.

“We triumph with the truth.”

NY Times article: letter.

“… detectives’ duty to advocate for a victim.”

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2081364,00.html

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July 4th, 2011 at 5:57 pm

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Allocution

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July 1st, 2011 at 6:39 pm

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