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Mother Jones obtains Syrian government hit list containing thousands of names
From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they believe that it is authentic. As Bashar Al-Assad’s military continues a deadly crackdown on dissent inside the country, the list appears to confirm in explicit detail the scale of the regime’s domestic surveillance and its methodical efforts to destroy widespread opposition.
(Source: matthewkeys)
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Calling Bullshit on Sports Illustrated.
Gawker calls SI out on positioning themselves as the Mother Jones of sports publications. Ads running in South Africa seem to suggest they covered the 1968 Olympics in a way that transcended sports. In fact, they did just the opposite and brushed off the events as a distraction from the Olympics.
Earlier this week Gawker themselves had bullshit called on them, when they tried to explain away their own advertising controversy involving their True Blood campaign, as a disagreement between what is important to their ad department and the integrity of their editorial department.
