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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is not tolerated. To a slight degree, the Internet has changed that. New York Times reporter Robert Worth notes the viral spread of a video of a Syrian teacher beating her students, which ultimately led the Education Ministry to issue a statement indicating she'd been ...
Instead of "Paper of Record?" Too much of a reach?The New York Times published a phony letter from a very famous mayor, slamming Caroline Kennedy's stealth Senate bid:Dear New York Times,how can Caroline Kennedy become a US Senator? She pals around with pals of domestic terrorists, and, goshdarnit, she's not even from the real America...Sorry, wrong one. Here it is:Caroline Kennedy running nine-eleven 9/11...Damn, sorry, I've got it here somewhere:I declare these cheeseburgers DELICIOUS! But not Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid...OK, it was actually the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë. Well, it ...
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