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Haiku news from the European Parliament
This week, a group of journalists endeavoured to make a “news” experiment. They isolated themselves from the world’s traditional media (no radio, no television, no newspapers) and “produced” news having as unique sources of information “haiku” texts on Facebook and Twitter. To complicate things, they were not allowed to click on the links proposed in [...]
About and against dictatorships
Lenin is dying, and talking things over with Stalin, his successor. “The one worry I have,” says Lenin, “is this: will the people follow you? What do you think, comrade Stalin?” “They will,” says Stalin, “they surely will.” “I hope so,” says Lenin, “but what if they don’t follow you?” “No problem,” says Stalin, “then [...]
What do mobile phone prices and electromagnetic fields have in common?
One day in April, one of my colleagues noticed a paradox on our website: within a couple of hours we had published one article on the reduced charges for mobile roaming calls and another on the risks that electromagnetic fields used by mobile telephony can pose to human health. I’m not going to question the [...]
The human faces of (some) public faces
“One must go in and fetch a diamond out” says one of Arthur Miller’s characters in “Death of a Salesman”. The same process applied to collecting 10 reasons to vote from ex-EP presidents when they gathered in Brussels last week. I met them together with other three editors and our photographer Pietro and asked them to give our readers the reasons to participate to the European elections.
Public versus secure
All night long I had nightmares about being stripped bare by security officers who were looking for plastic guns in my pockets. This morning I feared coming to work. Not because a man with a gun robbed yesterday a branch of the ING bank in a building of the European Parliament. But because I feared [...]
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