January 2005

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Personal
The view abroad
01.31.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Back in Germany I was thinking about reflecting on US american news coverage of events in Germany. Now I am living in San Diego and every morning the paperboy brings the San Diego Union Tribune to my house. The Union Tribune is a quality newspaper with quite some pages of local and regional news. While [...]
Political
Fox is fair and balanced – Live interview about inauguration went into politics
01.21.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Have a look at : Fair an Balanced | Oliver Willis for a videostream of yesterdays Fox News during the President’s inauguration. I guess Fox wasn’t expecting such criticism, otherwise they probably would have stepped in earlier. A German translation can be found at Spiegel. Needless to say that yesterday the inauguration wasn’t a big [...]
Big Brother
Big Brother 30: Q/Depeche Mooshammer und der Polizeistaat
01.20.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

Die Thematik ist so wichtig das ich einfach die Meldung aus der Quintessenz ML weiterleite: q/depesche 2005-01-20T21:21:30 DE: Von Moshammer zum Polizeistaat Da man angeblich dank – illegal – aufbewahrter DNA-Proben den irakischen Moerder des beruehmten Hunde- und Modeliebhabers Moshammer so schnell gefasst hat, ueberschlagen sich in DE die Ueberwacher. Alle sind sich einig: Datenschutz [...]
Personal
Still alive
01.20.05 | Permalink | Comments Off

I am sorry for not writing anything in the last three weeks. Travel to the USA was without any troubles (even the immigration procedure was not as time consuming as expected) and San Diego seems to be like a fine place. Currently I still don’t have direct internet access at my home and worse, I [...]