[Link] Sky News claims Alan Jones’s misleading commentary balanced by covering daily Covid press conferences

Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

Sky News sought to justify misleading Covid commentary then-host Alan Jones put to air, saying it was balanced by coverage of the daily Covid press conferences, according to a letter sent to the broadcasting regulator.

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[Link] Remote WA town steamrolled by media attention as Cleo Smith rescued

Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

For a sleepy beach town of 5,000 people, it was three weeks in the eye of a storm. The visceral shock of a vulnerable little girl just disappearing in the night resonated around the world.

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[Link] Now Married, Japan’s Ex-Princess Mako to Move from Palace to a One-Bedroom in New York

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Four years after publicly announcing their engagement, former Princess Mako of Japan has officially tied the knot with her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro.

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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.

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[Link] Young North Koreans told to shun slang and ‘cultural penetration’ from South

Read: 20/7/2021 www.theguardian.com

Young North Koreans have been warned to adhere to the country’s standard language and follow “traditional lifestyles” as part of the regime’s campaign to stamp out cultural influences from neighbouring South Korea.

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