| MySpace takes measures to make hip youth Web site predator-free |
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LOS ANGELES - Fighting its reputation as an unsavory online hangout, "social networking" site MySpace.com has hired one former federal prosecutor to patrol the service and launched ads warning kids about Internet predators.
Internet safety expert and former Justice Department porn buster Hemanshu Nigam will become MySpace's first chief security officer and oversee initiatives to protect the Santa Monica company's 68 million members. Nigam's appointment, effective May 1, was announced Tuesday. ... |
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| Read all about it: journalism still alive, but not well |
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Across the world, fewer and fewer resources are dedicated to the gathering and processing of public information and the traditional role of journalists in providing two-way communication between the authorities and citizens.
The latest annual report on the state of the news media by the Project for Excellence in Journalism in the US — the largest-scale look at trends in the news media — warns: “The worry is … the decline of full-time, professional monitoring of powerful institutions.” ... |
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| Many ban gays, lesbians |
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Gay and lesbian students face expulsion at scores of evangelical Christian schools across the country if they come out of the closet while enrolled.
In all, more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities ban gay-lesbian-bisexual and transgendered youth, according to Soulforce, one pro-gay interfaith group. In this country, religious organizations are allowed to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation, said Richard Lindsay of Soulforce. ... |
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