Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007 Posted: 2 years ago by wags273
News stories from around the world that got little attention.
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Odd News from Around the World (compiled from various newswires) Posted: 3 years ago by susiesunshine
Silly & wierd news clips from around the world - Ex. A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount in the afternoon.
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Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2008 Posted: 11 months ago by fugazi
Just what it says..according to the site.
#4, #5
btw...the things that show up when searching for an image by tags are simply bizarre...
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10 Most under-reported news stories of 2006 Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
You saw the stories that dominated the headlines in 2006: the war in Iraq, North Korea’s nuclear tests, and the U.S. midterm elections. But what about the news that remained under the radar?
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Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets to Injured Soldier. Posted: 4 weeks ago by suebe
After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.
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World of Weird News Posted: 2 years ago by davethefish
Here's todays run of weird stories from The Sun news paper.
All the stories are one page so read away!
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Uncle Jay explains the news Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
Funny, Emmy-winning Uncle Jay thinks it’s really, really important for today’s news to be understood by today’s innocent, ignorant and immature minds.
Also children.
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Play The News Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Think the news is boring? Well here is a site that may change your mind. It is a community driven experience – imagine fantasy sports meets the evening news. Roleplaying, prediction of real world events and more are combined into a new fun learning experience.
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Courthouse News Service Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Site is filled with legal stories, lawsuits, photos and more. Most articles have links to pdf files of legal filings. It is basically a news wire for lawyers and those interested in legal cases.
Includes lawsuits such as one where a land owner is suing FEMA and Homeland Security for failure to pay rent on his land since June of 2007
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Blosker, a very strange social news site [NSFW] Posted: 3 years ago by norequest
Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news.
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The online virtual news Posted: 3 years ago by TheStep
News At Seven automatically gathers news with relevant images, videos and opinions from blogs and combines them into a virtual newscast.
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Police To Investigate News Corp Phone Tapping Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Following the revelations about phone tapping by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag. Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.
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What Do You Remember? Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
2007 was a big year for news -- in America and around the world. But how much attention were you REALLY paying? Here’s our 50-question, tougher-than-our-usual-weekly-news-quiz test -- your chance to measure your news-junkie mettle (and a good excuse to avoid that holiday-time chin-wag with boring old Uncle Charlie).
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Bad News Robot Posted: 1 year ago by bernardblack
No one likes to give bad news. What if there was a better way to give out bad news? What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?
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Rupert Murdoch to charge to view News Corp's online news Posted: 4 months ago by topofall
News Corp chairman plans to charge readers of the websites of all his newspapers within the next 12 months.
Will this work? Doomed to failure I think.
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Two unpublished Poirot short stories found in Agatha Christie's holiday home Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
There were more "leetle grey cells" than anyone dreamed of: two previously unpublished Hercule Poirot stories have emerged from a mass of family papers at Agatha Christie's favourite home.
Both unpublished works are short stories, the form in which the author often worked out details of characters and plots, before rethreading them as full-length novels.
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"Where is my golden a-a-a-r-r-r-R-R-M-M-M?" ghost story audio Posted: 3 years ago by myrthachang
Listen to this ghost story. First time I heard the ghost story "Where is my golden arm?" I could not sleep for days. This ending suggested by Mark Twain will kill me for sure.
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Mine Explosion Kills 78, Rescue Efforts Continue Posted: 3 years ago by indierockcafe
As of 3:30 pm PST, Russian officials say 78 bodies of miners have been recovered from the mine site explosion in Siberia, but fear casualities will increase.
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Associated press to track, charge for news content Posted: 4 months ago by meggysue
Starting in November, AP text stories will contain a 'beacon' that will allow tracking where their news go. Sources submitting to AP can opt in too. "This is a pivotal step in the fight to ensure that quality journalism can be funded in the digital era," said Tom Curley, AP's chief executive. "We have stood by too long and watched other people make money off the hard work of our journalists."
What will this mean for Plime?
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No Bad News: Good News Blog Posted: 3 years ago by kissmenow
"If you’re looking for some good news in these days of hurricanes, insurgency and high oil prices, go to goodnewsblog.com for links to stories that are uplifting but not maudlin." - Newsweek Blog Watch, Sep. 12, 2005
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Meet Scott -- outside of Plime, the most important person in the news biz Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
Scott Moore is in charge of news at Yahoo! Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. But over the course of a month, the online portals are providing news to more people.
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