Just do not get a job right now!

...fantastic header of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's notorious conservative newspaper writes today:

Just do not get a job right now! You do not have to do it like Diogenes and refuse any kind of work only to live and focus on your animal side. You shouldn't either only live for the work. We can learn from Diogenes how to live with animals, to simplify life and how to get over days that are stretched like tired dogs.(metaphor for boring!)

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Leveson inquiry: Blair says newspapers used as 'instruments of political power'

Tony Blair has told the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch and other proprietors use their newspapers "as instruments of political power", with the Sun and Daily Mail being the two most powerful. MUST READ HERE!

Telestreet: The Italian Media Jacking Movement

What century is this? Support democracy in Hungary with new Radio Free Europe broadcasts

Mark Palmer was the U.S. ambassador to Hungary from 1986 to 1990. Miklos Haraszti, a Hungarian author, was the representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe from 2004 to 2010. Charles Gati is a professorial lecturer in Russian & Eurasian studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

In recent weeks, the Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban has frequently attacked Western media outlets but none more than CNN for its reports on the sorry state of Hungarian democracy. Hungarians can still watch CNN, but since January the network is no longer part of the package offered by Hungary’s largest cable provider. MORE

How The News Gets Edited on Hungarian State Television

Almost exactly a year after the enactment of Hungary’s restrictive media law, a scandal reveals editing techniques in use to manipulate the news reported on the country’s state-operated public television stations. The scandal concerns the manipulation of a television report of a press conference held by Zoltán Lomnici, Chief Judge of the Hungarian Supreme Court between 2002 and 2009.Airbrushing The Chief Justice Of The Supreme Court. ITT

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