The News Review:
- Mom Recognizes Daughter on ABC Prostitution Special
- UNC labor-practice protest continues
- Make sure you can speak freely
Mom Recognizes Daughter on ABC Prostitution Special
FXNews – Apr 22, 2008
A Manhattan hooker interviewed by Diane Sawyer for an ABC special on prostitution was busted by her mom — who recognized her daughter despite the network’s efforts to disguise her. “I’m mentioning the interview now because last night I learned that my parents tuned in to ABC that fateful day and promptly recognized me in spite of the silhouette the altered voice the distorted profile the vague and thoroughly dated details” wrote the hooker who blogs on wordpress. com under the name “debauchette. “I received an e-mail from my mother saying that she knows. She saw the interview and decided to sit on this knowledge until she could see it again and then she decided to contact me. The blogger refused an interview with The Post.
UNC labor-practice protest continues
News & bserver – Apr 22, 2008
In a statement UNC-CH said it belongs to two labor monitoring organizations and had explored joining the Designated Suppliers Program beginning in 2005 but didn’t reach consensus. Campus officials have set ground rules for the protest. Protesters have been told they must respect university property not disrupt operations during normal business hours not occupy any offices and not exceed the fire marshal’s posted capacity for the rotunda. The students have set up a Web site with video of the protest at dsp4unc. The university has posted a fact list at.
Make sure you can speak freely
New Statesman – Apr 22, 2008
If you have your own blog then putting videos on YouTube means you never have to worry about hitting bandwidth limits but if you make sure that people watch them through your site by embedding them in posts then if YouTube gets nasty you can move to another service without losing your audience. It may require more programming expertise but even here some rather sophisticated software is freely available to download. It’s fairly straightforward to install Wordpress on a rented server giving you an easily-tailored blog with widgets embedded content trackbacks and comments all under your control. And if you run your own mailing list however basic then you can decide when and how to send messages instead of relying on Facebook’s clumsy facilities. It may not be necessary to seize the means of digital production in order to change the online world but these days it’s wise to have your own small factory or rather server – in case you come up against the limits imposed by the commercial providers. Post this article to.