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How to save millions per year for your newspaper?

Submitted by Yunyao on Sun, 04/20/2008 - 07:45
Dear CEO of XXX News:
 
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As a proof of concept, I have conducted a comprehensive comparison study. The results show that on issues with regard to Olympic Torch Relay 2008,  the similarity of the automatically generated news articles and those manually written by human reporters is higher than 99%, making them undistinguishable by any of your valuable readers. With a click of a button, you can generate news articles using NAW at your wish anytime anywhere.
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YouTube censors BBC's documentary in USA

Submitted by Huahai on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 15:15

BBC is broadcasting a documentary series titled "A year in Tibet". From the program description on BBC Web site, this documentary shows the real life today in Tibet. The first segment was shown on Mar. 6. Not surprisingly, there is a Youtube video of this first show. Surprisingly, if you attempt to access this video in US, Youtube says " Continue reading »

Interesting Comments on The Election From MITBBS

Submitted by Yunyao on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 02:41

So funny!

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发信人: restarted (New Day), 信区: USANews
标 题: Re: obama说昨天hillary clinton赢是因为媒体帮忙
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A nice political commercial is for girls everywhere.

Submitted by Yunyao on Sun, 02/17/2008 - 23:22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z-Aatd0wA

 

Girls need role models like Hilary Clinton, not fancy dressed Hollywood teenagers stars (not all of them are that bad; but you know what I mean).

Interesting Comments on The Election From New York Times

Submitted by Yunyao on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 19:03

I found that comments on the news for the election are often much more entertaining than the news acticles themslves. For the next few months, I will keep on updating this blog entry with comments that I found interesting, regardless whether I agree with the comments themselves or not.

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"Women Are Never Front-Runners" - From NY Times

Submitted by Yunyao on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 21:36

With only basic cable subscription, I am so sick of all the political news by now. But I found this article very interesting.

 

Edit: Yet another confirmation on the topic http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/opinion/07kristof.html?em&ex=1202619600&en=0ada286aade52b12&ei=5087%0A 

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