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Caster Semenya's Lawyers: Guardian Interview "Wrongful And Unlawful"

AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | Sports

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LONDON — Caster Semenya's lawyers say she was tricked into speaking to a reporter at The Guardian for a story in the British newspaper. The 18-...

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Gordon Brown, British PM, Faces "Bullying" From British News Corp Paper The Sun

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Gordon Brown's poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime ...

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Iraqi Court Rules Guardian Defamed Nouri Al-Maliki, Iraq Prime Minister

The Guardian | Martin Chulov and Julian Borger | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime minist...

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The Guardian: Afghanistan War As "Groundhog Day"

The Guardian | 1hr 8min Ago | Posted 11.07.2009 | World

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The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are...

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The Guardian's Shortlist For Best Debut Book

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

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Powerful fictional storytelling dominates the shortlist of this year's Guardian first book award, announced today, which includes works that range fro...

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Jan Moir Column On Stephen Gately Death Sparks Row In British Papers Over Homophobia

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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The tragic death of former pop-star Stephen Gately has brought two of Britain's most polarized papers to verbal blows this week, as a column by the of...

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The Internet as Toxic Avenger: Trafigura and the Ungagging of the Guardian

Micah Sifry | Posted 10.13.2009 | Technology

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Micah Sifry

Here's a cautionary tale in how not to manage your message in a networked media age, or rather, further evidence of John Gilmore's brilliant maxim, "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

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The Guardian: Ahmadinejad Not Jewish, Family Didn't Convert

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Just a couple weeks ago, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the podium inside the U.N.'s grand hall and suggested that there was a worldwid...

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Sisters, Unhook!

Stephen Bayley | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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Stephen Bayley

Greer, who regards the bra as "ludicrous", has had her polemic reflexes tickled by my new book Woman as Design, devoting an entire page of splenetic "comment" in London's Guardian.

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My Letter Addressing the Guardian's Distortions

Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 09.27.2009 | Media

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I used to think that the US press was guilty of distortions. Recent events changed my mind, as UK anti-Cameron papers tried to cut and paste from my talk to weaken him by trying to demonize me.

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Members Only: Journalism Clubs

Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

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Rory O'Connor

Desperate to stay alive, beleaguered newspaper executives first tried to monetize their content. Now they're desperately trying to monetize their journalists.

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I'm Proud to Kill the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

The Guardian in London ran a piece Tuesday by my friend Ed Pilkington, the paper's correspondent in New York, about the financial woes of the photogra...

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Which Website Has The Stupidest Commenters?

Cracked.com | Posted 08.21.2009 | Comedy

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The original intent of the comments section–a place for readers to respond to content and start a dialog between author and audience–works fabulou...

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The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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Shirin Sadeghi

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.

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Afghanistan: Could Britain be Losing its Appetite for War?

Cedric Perrier | Posted 08.14.2009 | World

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Cedric Perrier

Defense is clearly at the sharp end of the Government's ongoing budget cuts. Yet British coffers alone may not be the only reason Brown is willing to stand firm.

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Could Murdoch's Love of Gossip Doom His Family?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

Gossip, for Murdoch, is partly business intelligence, but Murdoch also likes to know who is sleeping with whom. It is a prurient interest, but it is also leverage.

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The Best Michael Jackson Story Yet!

Stu Kreisman | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

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Stu Kreisman

Oh...my...God. This is currently running on the internet front page of The Guardian, one of London's most influential newspapers:"Tippi Hedren Tells J...

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A Father's Day Remembrance

George Mitrovich | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

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George Mitrovich

My father taught his children to treat every person with dignity and respect, and to never lose the grace of saying, "Thank you."

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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Denis Campbell | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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Denis Campbell

In many ways Gary's disease reveals an intellectually and emotionally na�ve child locked in a man's body. There his mind is both his biggest friend and greatest enemy.

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Copenhagen 2009; An Interview With Katherine Richardson, Chair of The International Climate Conference

Jerry Cope | Posted 04.16.2009 | Green

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Jerry Cope

How many people in the US realize that the UN panel on climate change said there is 90% chance that the climate change we are seeing at the moment is caused by human activity?

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Why Won't Michelle Pfeiffer's New Movie Reach Theaters?

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.12.2009 | Entertainment

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Marshall Fine

Blink and you'll miss Personal Effects, a moving contemporary drama starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates that's playing for one night only in New York next Monday.

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The New York Times' And Guardian's Fear Mongering on Iran Hits a New Low

Sam Sedaei | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

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Sam Sedaei

Since the attacks of September 11, American journalists have shown an obsession with Iran's nuclear program and paid a disproportionate attention to Iran's enrichment of uranium.

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Saturday's Provincial Elections Demonstrate "Ordinary" Iraqis' Courage

Heather Robinson | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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Heather Robinson

For the first time in Iraq's democratic history, at Saturday's provincial elections, Iraqis handled security themselves -- a remarkable accomplishment.

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England: a Dusting of Snow, a Climate of Chaos

Ben Carmichael | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

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Ben Carmichael

Today was much the same; to me, it was simply the weather, and beautiful weather at that. But to England, it was enormously disruptive.

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