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Any idea on motive?

 

It is trending on facebook.

 

Damn it, they teach you not to do this in the first semester at J school.

 

Damn it, interns are supposed to wait until the summer break to start acting like idiots.

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Not at Penn State.

Early life and education[edit]
Verducci was born in East Orange, New Jersey and raised in Glen Ridge.[1] He attended Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, New Jersey and then went to Penn State, graduating with a B.A. in Journalism and appeared in the first edition of The Weekly Collegian.

 

Because he went to my college. We're all rising stars. It gets very crowded in the Liberal Arts Skies.

 

How'd you get from Jay Solomon to Tom Verducci?

 

It's notable that Sports Illustrated does not seem to demand the same conflict of interest barriers that the Wall Street Journal does.

 

Dick, I have to think there's a little difference between Verducci's situation and arms dealing. I'm not saying Tom was right, just that you might want to save that hobbyhorse for a different thread.

 

I'm not anticipating or interested in having a full-blown discussion on the fact that Tom Verducci collects a paycheck from the league he ostensibly covers as a journalist for Sports Illustrated. But it should be worked in every once in a while, especially since the board has never seemed to have much of a problem with it.

 

The Times editorial last week, about politically motivated shootings, which resulted in multiple corrections was bad, but this one may be worse.

It doesn't actually defend Al Jazeera against the charge that it supports terrorism, it only points out that Saudi Arabia doesn't have a great record either. It thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is a lose political network, and that their renouncement of violence means something. And, hey, other than not reporting on Qatari royal family, some undetermined percentage of the rest of their reporting news to "international" journalistic standards.

Muzzling Al Jazeera, the state-funded news station that has projected Qatar’s influence throughout the world, was high on the agenda when Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Yemen moved to isolate the tiny nation on June 5.

Qatar’s critics accuse the station of supporting Sunni Islamist terrorism and Iranian ambitions. But Saudi Arabia is hardly innocent when it comes to spreading Islamist extremism or supporting terrorist groups.
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That uprising ousted the military-backed autocrat Hosni Mubarak and led to Egypt’s first free election, which brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power. A loose political network founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has renounced violence. The real reason it’s been labeled a terrorist group is that autocratic regimes see it as a populist threat.
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Al Jazeera is hardly a perfect news organization: Critical reporting on Qatar or members of Qatar’s royal family is not tolerated. But much of the rest of its reporting hews to international journalistic standards, provides a unique view on events in the Middle East and serves as a vital news source for millions who live under antidemocratic rule.

Opinion | Misguided Attacks on Al Jazeera

 

I denounce it.