If 'twere only so always and everywhere.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 3:08:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41424/mccain-endorsing-papers-lose-seats-on-air-obama.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Obama campaign has kicked reporters from the New York Post, Washington Times, and Dallas Morning News off its campaign plane, and as the Drudge Report was quick to note, all three papers endorsed McCain. An Obama spokesman confirmed the report, but said it was not politically motivated, noting that Fox News has retained its spot.http://www.newser.com/story/41424/mccain-endorsing-papers-lose-seats-on-air-obama.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 31 Oct 2008 10:59:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40607/afghan-writers-death-sentence-reduced.html?refid=rss_all_defaultParwez Kambakhsh won’t be executed for distributing literature on women’s rights, but the student and part-time journalist will spend the next 20 years in prison, an Afghan appeals court ruled yesterday. “This is arguably worse for him,” one human-rights advocate told the Los Angeles Times of the 24-year-old’s death sentence for blasphemy being reduced, noting the influence of radical Islam on the country’s “kangaroo-court justice.”http://www.newser.com/story/40607/afghan-writers-death-sentence-reduced.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 22 Oct 2008 8:04:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40170/china-cracks-down-on-internet-cafes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultChina has resumed a strict crackdown on Internet users less than two months after the Olympic Games, ending the more relaxed regulations that accompanied the international spotlight, reports the Times of London. All visitors to Internet cafes in Beijing will be required to have their photograph taken, reports the Times of London. All photos and identity cards will be scanned into a database maintained by China's Cultural Law Enforcement Task Force.http://www.newser.com/story/40170/china-cracks-down-on-internet-cafes.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 16 Oct 2008 23:31:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/40067/chinas-great-baffling-failure-public-relations.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIt’s no secret that China is moving into position as a global superpower, writes James Fallows in the Atlantic , and this only further highlights its leaders’ baffling inability to understand how the country is viewed from the outside—and how to change those opinions for the better. Officials just don’t understand “the crass value of cultivating the press,” he writes.http://www.newser.com/story/40067/chinas-great-baffling-failure-public-relations.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 16 Oct 2008 12:55:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/37274/gop-plays-down-book-ban-controversy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSarah Palin’s inquiries into book-banning were hypothetical and entirely appropriate, a McCain campaign spokesman said today, trying to clamp down on the growing online controversy. As mayor of Wasilla, Palin on three occasions asked the head of the library if she’d have a problem with banning books. The librarian said she would, and Palin soon fired her, saying she didn’t feel she had her “full support.”http://www.newser.com/story/37274/gop-plays-down-book-ban-controversy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 12 Sep 2008 6:46:57 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/35538/at-840m-viewers-china-tv-wins-global-attention.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThis year's Olympic opening ceremonies, perhaps the most watched television event in history, were a huge programming coup for CCTV, one of the main propaganda conduits for the Chinese government. CCTV has a larger audience than every major TV station in the US and Europe combined, writes the New York Times . And global companies seeking Chinese customers are beginning to take notice.http://www.newser.com/story/35538/at-840m-viewers-china-tv-wins-global-attention.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 22 Aug 2008 5:54:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34998/cops-turn-china-protesters-into-propaganda.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe Rev. Patrick Mahoney posed for pictures during his interrogation in Beijing—half of it, anyway. Over 7 hours, police ran a classic good cop/bad cop routine on Mahoney, who had unfurled a “Jesus Christ is King” banner in Tiananmen Square, he tells the Washington Post. "They wanted to document our treatment," says Mahoney.http://www.newser.com/story/34998/cops-turn-china-protesters-into-propaganda.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 15 Aug 2008 10:37:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34103/media-at-full-boil-over-china-restrictions.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAs the Beijing Games draw near, journalists are worrying about the Chinese government's handling of a swarm of international reporters in an otherwise heavily censored society. Der Spiegel compiles commentaries from varying German sources, all of which agree that the decision to award China the 2008 Olympics was misguided at best.http://www.newser.com/story/34103/media-at-full-boil-over-china-restrictions.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 05 Aug 2008 8:45:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33956/china-lowers-internet-firewall.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFacing pressure from the Olympics, Beijing lowered its so-called Great Firewall today to allow access to some news and human rights websites, Time reports. But other sites—like those supporting Tibetan independence or the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong—remain off-limits in China. And "everyone knows that the minute the circus is over, the walls will be put straight up again," one Chinese scholar said.http://www.newser.com/story/33956/china-lowers-internet-firewall.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 01 Aug 2008 20:47:24 CDT