... any expected guest that God might send would be greated with a hot meal, a hot stove, and a roomful of good-hearted people staring stupidly at a television.

Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book, p. 124

Induction


From here.
Seen
here.

"Social danger"

Guillermo Espinosa Rodríguez of the Agencia de Prensa Libre Oriental (APLO), an independent news agency, was sentenced by a court in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba on 6 November to two years of house arrest for being a “danger to society.” Espinosa was brought before the court after being held for 12 days at Department 21 of the state security police. (...)

Full article: Reporters without borders.

A new concept of being politically incorrect:

Borat, the movie.


Trailers: here and here.

Istanbul Independent Media Forum

This weekend Istanbul will be hosting the Istanbul Independent Media Forum at Bilgi university. Important speakers from all over the world will be attending this event which lasts for two days at the Dolapdere campus.
Participants to the Istanbul International Independent Media Forum call the governments and mainstream media and independent and local media across the globe to take action for their particular part to ensure the peoples enjoy their right to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of access to information.

Event website here (turkish and english).

'Metro' sets world record

Metro International has today been awarded the prestigious accolade of 'World's Largest Global Newspaper', by Guinness World Records, the global leader in world records. (...)
Metro is the largest and fastest growing international newspaper in the world. It publishes 70 editions in 93 major cities in 21 countries and in 19 languages. It has a unique global reach – attracting a young, active, well-educated, metropolitan audience of over 18.5 million daily readers. The first Metro newspaper was published in Stockholm in 1995, followed by Prague in 1997. (...)

Full article here.

"Paris’s Europe Agenda"

Radio France International (RFI) has cut Turkish broadcasts, which have been on the air for 35 years, on grounds of financial difficulties.
The radio station, which broadcasts in 19 languages, cut only its broadcasts in Turkish.
(...)
The radio management announced the end of Turkish broadcasts was a part of financially-triggered reform program, but they decided to continue broadcasting in Lagos, Bulgarian, Albanian, Vietnamese and Serbian. (...)

Full article: Zaman Daily, 28th October 2006.

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