European bloggers

France has nearly 1 million bloggers, making it the most active European country in terms of the Internet personal Web sites, a new study published by the US firm Forrester Research showed this week.
Still, only 3 percent of Europe's estimated 130 million Internet users create blogs, it said, adding that most of the bloggers were in France, Italy, and Spain.
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Full article in Middle East Times.

New TV channel for the Portuguese-speaking communities

Canal de Língua Portuguesa (CLP TV), a satellite TV channel based in Paris and dedicated to Portuguese-speaking communities throughout Europe, will be launched on November 25.
CLP TV will offer general entertainment content 24 hours a day, including information, debates, movies, soaps, Portuguese language lessons, music programmes and sports. According to its director, António de Morais Cardoso, 80 per cent of the programming will be transmitted in Portuguese, while foreign programs will be subtitled.
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Full article in ATV's News Archive.

"Insolent" question?

A Dominican journalist was fired yesterday after Armed Forces minister Ramon Aquino complained about a question that the reporter made to the cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez.
Adolfo Salomón, who has worked in the local television station "Color Vision” for 8 years, told the press that he was dismissed after Aquino sent a letter to that company, complaining about a question from Salomón recently asked to Lopez Rodriguez, asking to comment on the issue of homosexuals in the Dominican catholic Church. The prelate reacted angrily calling the reporter "insolent".
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Full article in Dominicane Today.