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		<title>BBC to issue global apology for &#8216;news fixing&#8217; scandal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming.
BBC World News viewers from Kuala Lumpur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Sennitt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly  inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have  knocked it offline. &#8220;CIA Tango down,&#8221; a member of Anonymous said  on @YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. &#8220;Tango down&#8221; is an  expression used by the US Special Forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet firms aren&#8217;t broadcasters: Canadian court</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Sennitt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet service providers are not broadcasters, and don&#8217;t need to adhere to strict rules designed to boost Canadian content on domestic television and radio, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday. The decision is a victory for telecommunications and Internet companies, including Bell Canada, Telus, Rogers Communications, Cogeco Cable and Bell Aliant, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EBU&#8217;s first media director began work on 1 February</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/ebus-first-media-director-began-work-on-1-february</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Sennitt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, the first Media Director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), officially took up her position on 1 February. The new Media Department will be formed in the coming months and is a consolidation of the activities of the Television and Radio Departments, News Services, EBU Training and a new Media Lab. EBU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto demo demands return of RAI International</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, Italian-Canadians have held a demonstration to protest the end of production of RAI Internazionale’s programming for markets abroad. The entrance hall was crowded with demonstrators displaying posters and requests to reactivate two programmes especially: Gran Sportello Italia and Italia chiama Italia – RAI Internazionale’s two most-watched  programmes.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukraine to use DRM to continue national MW b&#8217;casts</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/ukraine-to-use-drm-to-continue-national-mw-bcasts</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Radio Company of Ukraine (NRCU) plans to continue  broadcasting on mediumwave with the help of DRM transmitters. Two  channels of Ukrainian radio will go on broadcasting on mediumwave with  new DRM digital radio transmitters; this was stated by the Chairman of  the State committee for television and radio broadcasting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU - public policy has to remain neutral to technological solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Commission has said that the future of radio distribution  will be multi-platform and public policy has to remain both neutral in  terms of technological solutions and sufficiently flexible to adapt to  future evolutions. This has emerged from the response of European  Commission to the letter sent by The Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Files on Australia Network kept secret</title>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/files-on-australia-network-kept-secret</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia&#8217;s federal government has refused to release documents on the abandoned tender for the Australia Network under Freedom of Information laws, citing the integrity of the tender process, despite the responsible minister calling it &#8220;compromised&#8221;. The tender for the soft diplomacy broadcasting service is believed to have been scuttled by leaks from the government.
After two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi government trashes Press Freedom index report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malawi government has disputed a report released recently by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), arguing that Malawi’s poor showing on the Press Freedom Index was based on inappropriate criteria. The Worldwide Press Freedom ranking for 2011-2012 has listed Malawi as one of the worst countries in the world in promoting press freedom. The study shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lebanon cable providers drop Al Jazeera in fees dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Lebanese cable providers stopped broadcasting Al Jazeera channels earlier this week to protest the Qatari corporation’s demand for new fees from local cable providers. The popular news broadcaster was taken off the air on Tuesday and all Al Jazeera channels on televisions in Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Kesrouan and the north were replaced by a [...]]]></description>
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