Posts Tagged ‘Post’

Joshua Bell “Stop and Hear the Music” by the Washington Post

November 1st, 2010

tinyurl.com From the Washington Post: Pearls Before Breakfast Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a DC rush hour? Let’s find out. By Gene Weingarten Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10 HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. It was 7:51 am on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L’Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant. …for the rest of the article go to: www.washingtonpost.com
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Alex talks about illuminati symbolism in today’s music and also defends George Washington from the rumors that he accepted the illuminati and what they stood for. www.infowars.com
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The Listening Post – Obama administration vs. Fox News, media hoaxes

August 4th, 2010


The war of words between the Obama administration and Fox News, and the hoaxes played on the news media

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The Listening post – Bin Laden tapes

August 4th, 2010


This week on the Listening Post: the debates and the ethics of airing material from Osama bin Laden. Also, we revisit the site of the brutal massacre of journalists in the Philippines.

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The Listening Post – Ethiopia in 1984 and now

August 3rd, 2010


Its been 25 years since footage of the Ethiopian famine shocked the world but why arent we seeing much of the same kind of news being reported today

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The Listening Post – Afghanistan media coverage / Guardian gagging order

August 3rd, 2010


the increased media coverage of the war in Afghanistan / UKs Guardian newspaper gagged from reporting Parliament.

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The Listening Post – Sri Lankan media as elections loom

August 3rd, 2010


On our show this week, we look at reporting in Sri Lanka as the country nears a presidential election and reporting on Eritrea from outside.

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The Listening Post – Maziar Bahari

August 3rd, 2010


Richard Gizbert talks to the Iranian-Canadian journalist who spent 118 days in Iran’s notorious Evin prison.

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The Listening Post – Copenhagen Climate Summit / Iranian blogosphere

August 2nd, 2010


Media coverage of the Copenhagen climate summit and news seeping out of Iran through its blogosphere.

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The Listening Post – Media conflict of interest debate

August 2nd, 2010


On this week’s episode of The Listening Post: The debate over The New York Times and its apparent conflict of interest in Israel and the tug of war for control of Kenya’s media.

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The Listening Post – Media battle in Thailand and Kyrgyzstan

August 1st, 2010


On the Listening Post this week: TV wars in Thailand as the political turmoil gets worse. And in Kyrgyzstan, a government is toppled and the opposition zeroes in on state television.

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