The Washington Post continues its legacy of investigative journalism through comprehensive political coverage, especially online. It caters to its readership in Washington D.C. and provides in-depth information on government officials and policy issues. While the Post's international coverage has room for improvement, its strengths lie in proactive, national coverage of political processes and holding officials accountable. The Post learns from past reporting mistakes and works to maintain its standard of investigative journalism.
The Rising Police State - The New American Magazine Oct-7-2002miscott57
Senior Editor William F.
Jasper uses this telling quote to begin his
article "The Action Is in the Reaction"
(page four). Therein he explains that the
terrorist masterminds hope to beguile
Americans into saclificing freedom for security.
He also shows that bin Laden's alQaeda
is simply a spoke in an "axis of evil"
that includes not only Iran, Iraq, and North
Korea but some of our supposed allies in
the war on terrorism such as Russia, Syria,
and China.
Other articles in this issue show how
America is moving toward a police state by
design - with powers concentrated not
only in Washington but (eventually) in an
emerging world government under the
United Nations.
The US bombing of serbia in 1999 have a positive impact on the fall of milose...Service_supportAssignment
The US bombing in Serbia has completed its 15th anniversary. The Kosovo war in Serbia could be remembered as the “good war”. Some of the scholars have considered it as the genuine and moral military action, which offers a comforting difference from the Iraq disaster. Kosovo war was undertaken, as it was the last option to restrain a horrible dictator like Slobodan Milosevic. He was the person who could only be controlled by the force. The bombing in Serbia brought the positive impact, as it freed Kosovo from the oppression of Serb and brought the downfall of Milosevic. Now, even after years, this war is remembered as excellent case of humanitarian intervention .
The costs and consequences of drone warfare MICHAEL J. BOYLE*MYO AUNG Myanmar
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2346.12002/epdf
file:///C:/Users/aung/Downloads/BOYLE-2013-International_Affairs.pdf
On 21 June 2010, Pakistani American Faisal Shahzad told a judge in a Manhattan
federal court that he placed a bomb at a busy intersection in Times Square as
payback for the US occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and for its worldwide use
of drone strikes. When the judge asked how Shahzad could be comfortable killing
innocent people, including women and children, he responded: ‘Well, the drone
hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody. They
kill women, children, they kill everybody. It’s a war and in war, they kill people.
They’re killing all Muslims.’1
In a videotape released after his arrest, Shahzad
revealed that among his motives for the attack on New York City was revenge
for the death of Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani Taliban leader killed in a drone
strike in August 2009.2
While his comments were reported in the American press,
the Obama administration never acknowledged that it was revulsion over drone
strikes—which Shahzad was rumoured to have seen at first hand when training
with militant groups in Pakistan—that prompted his attack.3
In his official statement
on the attack, President Obama fell back on language reminiscent of his
predecessor to describe Shahzad as just another of those ‘who would attack our
citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women and children in pursuit
of their murderous agenda’ and ‘will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of
life’.4
That the Times Square attack was blowback from the growing use of drone
strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere was never admitted.
These slides elucidates two aspects: one that which explains the reasons of US involvement in Afghanistan, with historical insight; while the other one portrays the major stakes of US in Afghanistan with respect to the emerging power politics of the world and the logic behind its pro-long presence since Post-Cold War.
My article published in Eurasia Review yesterday (March 9, 2013) has thrown some lights on how we are suffering in the world that is both leaderless and defenseless. It also gives some evidences and few suggestions that can help us to manage with.
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Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
The Rising Police State - The New American Magazine Oct-7-2002miscott57
Senior Editor William F.
Jasper uses this telling quote to begin his
article "The Action Is in the Reaction"
(page four). Therein he explains that the
terrorist masterminds hope to beguile
Americans into saclificing freedom for security.
He also shows that bin Laden's alQaeda
is simply a spoke in an "axis of evil"
that includes not only Iran, Iraq, and North
Korea but some of our supposed allies in
the war on terrorism such as Russia, Syria,
and China.
Other articles in this issue show how
America is moving toward a police state by
design - with powers concentrated not
only in Washington but (eventually) in an
emerging world government under the
United Nations.
The US bombing of serbia in 1999 have a positive impact on the fall of milose...Service_supportAssignment
The US bombing in Serbia has completed its 15th anniversary. The Kosovo war in Serbia could be remembered as the “good war”. Some of the scholars have considered it as the genuine and moral military action, which offers a comforting difference from the Iraq disaster. Kosovo war was undertaken, as it was the last option to restrain a horrible dictator like Slobodan Milosevic. He was the person who could only be controlled by the force. The bombing in Serbia brought the positive impact, as it freed Kosovo from the oppression of Serb and brought the downfall of Milosevic. Now, even after years, this war is remembered as excellent case of humanitarian intervention .
The costs and consequences of drone warfare MICHAEL J. BOYLE*MYO AUNG Myanmar
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2346.12002/epdf
file:///C:/Users/aung/Downloads/BOYLE-2013-International_Affairs.pdf
On 21 June 2010, Pakistani American Faisal Shahzad told a judge in a Manhattan
federal court that he placed a bomb at a busy intersection in Times Square as
payback for the US occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and for its worldwide use
of drone strikes. When the judge asked how Shahzad could be comfortable killing
innocent people, including women and children, he responded: ‘Well, the drone
hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody. They
kill women, children, they kill everybody. It’s a war and in war, they kill people.
They’re killing all Muslims.’1
In a videotape released after his arrest, Shahzad
revealed that among his motives for the attack on New York City was revenge
for the death of Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani Taliban leader killed in a drone
strike in August 2009.2
While his comments were reported in the American press,
the Obama administration never acknowledged that it was revulsion over drone
strikes—which Shahzad was rumoured to have seen at first hand when training
with militant groups in Pakistan—that prompted his attack.3
In his official statement
on the attack, President Obama fell back on language reminiscent of his
predecessor to describe Shahzad as just another of those ‘who would attack our
citizens and who would slaughter innocent men, women and children in pursuit
of their murderous agenda’ and ‘will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of
life’.4
That the Times Square attack was blowback from the growing use of drone
strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere was never admitted.
These slides elucidates two aspects: one that which explains the reasons of US involvement in Afghanistan, with historical insight; while the other one portrays the major stakes of US in Afghanistan with respect to the emerging power politics of the world and the logic behind its pro-long presence since Post-Cold War.
My article published in Eurasia Review yesterday (March 9, 2013) has thrown some lights on how we are suffering in the world that is both leaderless and defenseless. It also gives some evidences and few suggestions that can help us to manage with.
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Succession “Losers”: What Happens to Executives Passed Over for the CEO Job?
By David F. Larcker, Stephen A. Miles, and Brian Tayan
Stanford Closer Look Series
Overview:
Shareholders pay considerable attention to the choice of executive selected as the new CEO whenever a change in leadership takes place. However, without an inside look at the leading candidates to assume the CEO role, it is difficult for shareholders to tell whether the board has made the correct choice. In this Closer Look, we examine CEO succession events among the largest 100 companies over a ten-year period to determine what happens to the executives who were not selected (i.e., the “succession losers”) and how they perform relative to those who were selected (the “succession winners”).
We ask:
• Are the executives selected for the CEO role really better than those passed over?
• What are the implications for understanding the labor market for executive talent?
• Are differences in performance due to operating conditions or quality of available talent?
• Are boards better at identifying CEO talent than other research generally suggests?
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
1. Can the Post maintain its legacy? Meg. Dave. Tom. Arianna. Hsin-hsin
2. Legacy of the Washington Post As we’ve explored in class, the Washington Post’s investigative journalism during the Watergate scandal spoke truth to power and is regarded as a striking example of proactive journalism. Does the Post continue to live up to this high journalistic standard in times of crisis?
3. Living up to the Legacy Strengths & Weakness of the Post Case Study: Japan Case Study: Conflict in the Middle East Case Study: America and future Crises Conclusions
4. Post’s Coverage of Crises Strengths Weaknesses Focus on Washington DC bubble Comprehensive policy coverage Editorials provide factual understanding of events Holding officials accountable Well organized website Supplemental & interactive materials online Effective in national and international news Learning lessons from past crises Innovative sources Focus on Washington DC bubble Subjective opinions in “news” pieces Dramatization Lack of unique information from the ground
9. Legacy of Katrina Universally Observed Pitfalls Lack of Media critique of public officials (FEMA) and city protection Focus on Destruction Dramatization Abundance of personal pieces, lack of overall, comprehensive coverage Early portrayal of relief / minimal damage
10. Successful Journalism in Japan “No one should underestimate the potential effects of such a catastrophe - human, political, economic.” Efficiently delivered the core facts Addressed official responses and the nation’s preparedness Captured severity of situation Coverage progressed from focus on incident, to overarching consequences “Scientists said the event has reinforced a growing sense that the field of seismology needs to ditch some of its presumptions.”
11. Missteps in Japan Lack of in-depth analysis Few examples of excessively U.S. focused coverage Focus on numbers – magnitude, death toll “grim accounting” Articles directly from the post quickly declined Replaced with heavy use of AP articles, “Official says rescuers have pulled a 70-year-old woman from rubble 4 days after Japan tsunami”
13. CHERNOBYL CRISIS Strengths: Restricted information forced proactive journalism Find and maintain alternative sources Authority questioned Weaknesses: Cold War à Anti-Communist sentiment Numerous unnamed sources à Trustworthy? Today: Less informative and more dramatic.
14. JAPAN NUCLEAR CRISIS Strengths: Detailed explanation of what happened Persistent coverage Impact on us Weaknesses: Oversaturation, Drama How could this have been prevented?
17. Coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan Bush’s War “A War of Choice or Necessity?” “Second thoughts from Pentagon about year-end deadline to pull American soldiers from Iraq” Obama’s War “Which Is 'The Real War'?” “Will we ever find Osama bin Laden? Don't count on it.” “Forgotten, but not gone”
18. Bob Woodward on the Iraq War Reactive and proactive “If it’s not working, what do you do? This is the untold history of how the Bush administration wrestled with that question. Compiled from classified documents and interviews with more than 150 participants” “No administration willingly puts its disagreements on display, but what happened in Washington during 2006 went beyond the usual give-and-take of government.”
19. Obama and Bush: Rhetoric on Libya and Iraq Holding authorities accountable “With skillful use of language and images, President Bush and his aides have kept the American public from turning against the war in Iraq despite the swelling number of U.S. casualties there.” “Bush's opponents say he is building support for the Iraq war -- and himself -- by deceiving the public.” “All these assertions are debatable and highly disputed. But the public appears to have accepted Bush's views.” “President Obama has used his rhetorical and intellectual skills in the past to get himself out of a jam or boost his standing when he needed it most.” “He will try to do that again with his scheduled speech Monday night on the Libyan conflict.” The president and his most senior advisers have struggled to define the mission. They have relied on euphemisms — “time-limited, scope-limited military action” being the most widely quoted — to explain what the conflict is and isn’t, what the U.S. role is and isn’t. The results of their efforts have been mixed at best.”
20. Libya, Iraq, and Humanitarian Wars Why humanitarian wars can go so wrong “In Libya, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Obama are already beginning to confront many of the classic dilemmas that bedeviled their predecessors facing massacres and genocide in Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda.” “After the United States invaded Iraq, Condoleezza Rice reportedly warned George W. Bush about Darfur: ‘I don’t think you can invade another Muslim country during this administration, even for the best of reasons.’” “If Western strategists saw a more complex interest in furthering the democratic impulses of the Arab revolutions, Libya still may not have seemed of paramount importance compared with, say, Egypt or Tunisia. But what seemingly counted most in Libya was that civilians in Benghazi might, as Obama said last month, ‘suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.’” “Editorials provide factual understanding of events” “Supplemental & interactive materials online”
21. Editorial Gone Too Far? President Obama’s muddled Libya policy Editorial Board Opinion, March 23, 2011 “The only solution to Libya’s crisis, as Mr. Obama first recognized several weeks ago, is the removal of Mr. Gaddafi from power.” All this would require Mr. Obama to do something he has avoided from the beginning in Libya: Exercise U.S. leadership.
23. Conflict in Kosovo First War: Early 1998 until 1999 between the army and police of Yugosalvia and the Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA] Second War: March 24, 1999 to June 11, 1999 between ethnic Albanian militants and Yugoslav forces NATO supported ethnic Albanian militants [KLA]
24. Effective Kosovo Coverage Holding the Government Accountable: “The bombs falling for a third consecutive day over Yugoslavia yesterday are the tangible consequences of what President Clinton on national television Wednesday night called his ‘lessons in Bosnia’. It took nearly four years, and the loss of some 300,000 lives before Clinton led NATO to military intervention in Bosnia in 1995. In Kosovo, the White House has acted on a series of lessons…it must lay the political basis for military action with passes at diplomacy, however remote their chances of success”
25. Ineffective Kosovo Coverage Ineffective and subjective language: “Rebels With a Crippled Cause” by Peter Finn (April 23, 1999) “New recruits arrive so raw that they can be used only for food detail.” “Nasty, limited and seemingly unwinnable, this is the Kosovo Liberation Army's war one month into NATO's air offensive against the Serb-controlled government of Yugoslavia.” “While the battle for the future of Kosovo is far from over, it is clear that the Kosovo Liberation Army will be central to its final outcome -- just as its leadership always insisted it would be.”
26. Kosovo and Libya Lessons from the past: “When intervening against Muammar Kaddafi, Western officials take comfort in recalling the 1999 NATO air war against the Serbian occupation of Kosovo, which is viewed as a “successful” humanitarian intervention. It is widely believed that intervention protected the Kosovar people from Serb aggression, and thus alleviated the humanitarian emergency…One hopes that the recent U.S. and European air strikes will have a similarly positive impact on Libya.” -- David N. Gibbs, “Beware the pitfalls of foreign intervention”(March 25, 2011)
27. Kosovo and the DC bubble “The Senate plans a daylong debate on the issue Monday. At a late afternoon meeting, its Republican leaders decided to seek a vote Tuesday on whether to block funds for the operation unless Congress authorizes it, according to an aide to Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.). But the vote will occur under rules requiring 60 votes for approval, which Republicans acknowledged would be difficult to get. They hold 55 of the Senate's 100 seats.” -- “Serb Aggression” by Charles Babington (March 20, 1999)
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29. “Protests Spread against Mubarak” – by Sherine Bayoumi and Leila Fadel(January 26, 2011) “US seeks swift transition in Egypt” – Karen De Young(January 31, 2011) “Delusions of decline” – Michael Gerson(February 11, 2011)
32. Catching the Budget Crisis Early February 18th: “But Boehner ruled out passing a temporary funding resolution to keep the government operating unless it contained at least some spending cuts, possibly setting up a showdown with Dem leaders in the Senate, who said Boehner had increased the risk of a government shutdown”
33. D.C. was prepared for the worst April 8, 7:55 PM Why the budget deal happened April 8, 11:02 PM Boehner’s leadership is tested in the budget battle April 8, 11:08 PM Budget Fight Shows Washington Still Broken. April 8, 11:11PM Government Shutdown: What happened when Congress missed its deadline. April 9, 12:36 AM Government Shutdown Averted: Congress agrees to budget deal, stopgap funding. April 9, 2:48 AM Obama set to sign stopgap budget bill Saturday, April 9, 12:29 PM Strengths Timely updates that provides both sides of the argument Historical context, future implications, and current prospects
40. Print vs Online Readership Highest online readership in DC Comprehensive political coverage caters to this audience Fall 2009 data
41. Conclusions Learning and adapting from their mistakes Continuing to walk the line within the DC bubble Maintaining a proactive stance, emphasized online, especially with political coverage The international coverage is adapting and improving upon mistakes, but the national policy coverage is the true unique trait of the Post and how the Post in-part lives up to the Watergate legacy
42. “The Post on its worse days is better than most newspapers on their best days”
Editor's Notes
Holding the government accountable for their past actionsRelating past wars to the current warsObjective coveragePositive tone
This is an example of ineffective journalism due to the subjective and overly illustrative language. The language is strong, as it is in the Egypt and Libya coverage, but instead of including a balanced account of humanitarian crises, the journalists seem to overly embellish the details. The article does not provide any background information for the reader regarding the two players, even though this crisis began March 24, 1999.
David N. Gibbs is a guest blogger on the Washington Post’s Political Bookworm blog.
Demonstrates the prevalence of the Washington bubble and the importance of policy to the Washington Post due to the amount of space in the article devoted to the discussion of Senate policy
Example on one of the strengths of the post:Constant Updates on current situationLaid out arguments for those who supported vs. those who didn’t—then divided those into Republicans and Democrats—then outlined what they are disagreeing over (abortion) and eventually a comment from Planned Parenthood.References to 2012 BudgetWhat it meant if the government really shuts down (affects on jobs, Washington D.C. district..etc.)Used Editorials to provide analysis on why each side compromised—compared Congress to college student facing term paperReferences Past Cases (Bill Clinton vs. Newt Gingrich 1995 budget showdown)Did not really talk about what this means for people OUTSIDE of washington DC