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		<title>MP&#8217;s Google Ga-Ga</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country is in recession, the unions are getting away with murder and the people in charge desperately need to get a grip&#8230; so what does the MP for Hereford do? He tries to divert attention away from his abject failure as an MP by claiming Google Maps is going to put the SAS at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=246&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unite-d in stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the scenario &#8211; you work for a multi-national company which employs tens of thousands of people, you already get paid better than the industry average, thanks to the global downturn your company starts to lose money and develops ways to try and keep the company viable by changing some working practices and downsizing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=240&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fox News &#8211; The jihadists&#8217; teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock horror&#8230; Fox News are ratcheting up the fear factor again with another of their ever-so-fair-and-unbalanced reports &#8230; this time about GPS jamming equipment which could&#8230; only could you understand&#8230; be used to try and crash an aeroplane. Having establish a tenuous connection, between GPS jammers and airline navigation systems, and said they can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=237&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kiss your sanity goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made many observations in the past about the stupidity of the law, and it&#8217;s now becoming clear that different laws and different legal systems are stupid for different reasons. Take Sharia for instance. There are many people I know who believe it is a perfectly sensible system and who abide by it every day, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=228&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Press: Onion causes tears&#8230; of laughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw this on the interwebs today&#8230; another video that should be shown to every journalism student the day after they enrol: Filed under: Journalism Training Tagged: Bad journalism, Education, Journalism, Media, Television<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=199&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another day&#8230; another censor</title>
		<link>http://quardlepleen.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/another-day-another-censor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day after I highlighted the removal of a blog piece from the Al Jazeera English website because it dared to tell the truth about an ally of the Qatari government, it seems the infection is spreading, and it&#8217;s another champion of free speech that&#8217;s succumbed. This time it&#8217;s The Huffington Post who have removed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=193&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publish and be&#8230;. censored?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I noted the start of the &#8216;new&#8217; blogs section on the Al Jazeera English website, and the utter lack of imagination that had been put into them, not least by the correspondents, who seemed to think that describing the tedium of their journey to their latest interview was a suitable substitute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=180&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hull Daily Mail reaps its whirlwind</title>
		<link>http://quardlepleen.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/hull-daily-mail-reaps-its-whirlwind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a friend who lived in Hull it was known universally as the Dull Daily Mail &#8211; the newspaper that served the readers of Hull and East Yorkshire was never known for its journalistic prowess and from all accounts spent most of its time rehashing the day&#8217;s breakfast headlines from BBC Radio Humberside. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=174&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Essential learning for new journalists</title>
		<link>http://quardlepleen.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/essential-learning-for-new-journalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Brooker has always been a bit hit-or-miss for me, but his new BBC series, Newsswipe, really has hit the mark &#8211; here&#8217;s an example which will probably become essential viewing in every journalism school across the UK: Filed under: Journalism Training Tagged: Bad journalism, Education, Journalism, Old Media, Television<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=201&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headliner headline</title>
		<link>http://quardlepleen.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/headliner-headline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick posting on a potential headline of the year, courtesy of News.com in Australia: Dead fox terrier prompts &#8216;bloody rifle frenzy&#8217; revenge attack Hats off to the sub who came up with that gem, the only thing it&#8217;s missing is the word &#8220;shocker&#8221;! Plaudits also to the twit who came up with the pay-off line. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quardlepleen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7563282&amp;post=186&amp;subd=quardlepleen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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