- Australia bushfires spark 'unprecedented' climate disinformation | Conservative-leaning newspapers, websites and politicians across the globe have promoted the theory arson is largely to blame. "This is a global campaign with the purpose to discredit scientific evidence of climate change." https://phys.org/news/2020-01-australia-bushfires-unprecedented-climate-disinformation.html 1495 comments worldnews
- Chinese soldiers stationed in Hong Kong are not there merely for symbolic purposes and they will have “no reason to sit on their hands” if the situation in the city worsens, an editorial in the China Daily newspaper said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-military/chinese-troops-in-hong-kong-wont-sit-on-hands-if-situation-worsens-china-daily-iduskcn1vk02a?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 6 comments worldnews
- Norwegian forensic scientists surgically removed the hearts and brains of around 700 dead babies for research purposes without informing the parents, the country's VG newspaper has discovered. http://www.thelocal.no/20140521/forensic-scientists-took-brains-of-700-babies 5 comments worldnews
- Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. Why don’t all newspapers do the same? | As moderators responsible for what millions of people see, we felt that to allow a handful of commenters to so purposefully mislead our audience was simply immoral. http://grist.org/climate-energy/reddits-science-forum-banned-climate-deniers-why-dont-all-newspapers-do-the-same/ 680 comments science
- Sheldon Adelstein started a newspaper in Israel with the sole purpose of supporting Benjamin Netanyahu. http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000784906&fid=4111 4 comments politics
- Borrowing a page from patent trolls, the CEO of fledgling Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission. And he says he’s making money. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/ 67 comments business
- A bill to save newspapers: Senator Cardin's Newspaper Revitalization Act would allow newspapers to operate as nonprofits for educational purposes under the U.S. tax code, giving them a similar status to public broadcasting companies. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsnews/idustre52n67f20090324 4 comments reddit.com