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On the mechanics of self-censorship
I stumbled upon this piece by Frank Dai, and find the description of the mechanics of self-censorship to be equally entertaining and explicable: All the staff at the Chinese bureaucratical institutions tend to think one thing first before they did anything else: how their bosses will consider? They were always trying to figure out the […]
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M.I.A – Born Free
Det er grafisk og nokså blodig. Samtidig virker det nesten for absurd. Jeg har tenkt på denne siden jeg så den midt på dagen i går, og tenker fortsatt på den. Derfor syns jeg det er en god ytring. Kommer med andre ord tilbake. Hva syns dere? Pedagoger og andre? Den åpenbare samplinga/homagen til Suicide […]
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Shouting across the divide
When he addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this spring, his State Department translated the text into 13 languages and hired bike-messengers to hand-deliver recordings to African radio stations. Sasha Issenberg on Barack Obama’s ability to make America’s international reputation an issue ((in Monocle, issue 28, vol. 03, p.044))