Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Amok under hunting stand

23 November 2004

A Minnesota story makes the Hamburger Abendblatt: Amok under hunting stand – five hunters dead. The Abendblatt doesn’t mention the racial overtones… the dead hunters were rural Wisconsin natives, the accused killer is a Hmong immigrant from St. Paul.

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Wild Wild East

23 November 2004

I enjoyed talking with Anton Nossik last night after the discussion. (The LiveJournal link is his personal blog, professionally he has several Russian news sites including mosnews.com in English.) It was interesting to hear his main first impression of Germany: the “friendly” roads and drivers. The autobahns are certainly well built, and built for speed, [...]

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Pirates of the Internet

23 November 2004

Since we didn’t actually talk that much about press freedom at the discussion, I didn’t get a chance to use the line I came up with. So I’ll have to give it here. If we’re talking about press freedom in a place where it can really make a difference, we’re talking about a place that [...]

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Early Morning Cologne

23 November 2004

I came to Cologne grateful for the invitation from the Deutsche Welle, but skeptical about the event. A discussion forum about blogging, organized for and by the mainstream media, Das kann nicht gut gehen, that could never work. However, it turned out that DW let the bloggers run the show, and so it was an [...]

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