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Media Urged To Improve Coverage On Social Protection Issues

Edit Modern Ghana 30 Apr 2016
Communications Manager of Challenging Heights Ghana, Miss Pomaa Arthur, has admonished Ghanaian journalists to improve their coverage on social protection and child-sensitive issues by involving people with less power and influence in public exchanges and debate ... She said because the media plays an important role in creating greater public debate ......

Germany's Schaeuble 'doesn't understand' bonuses for crisis-hit VW: report

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
"I can't understand how you can steer a major DAX (German stock exchange) company into a crisis that threatens its very existence, and then defend your own bonuses in a public debate," Schaeuble told the German daily ... Debate has been raging for weeks in Germany over whether VW's top execs are morally entitled to performance-related ......

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 4/29/2016 (President of the United States)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Apr 2016
And the significance and scale of what transpired explains why such a detailed investigation has been conducted and made public ... And the President, as a voter, has cast a ballot, but has not weighed in publicly about who his preference is ... Q So you said multiple times that you welcome robust debate, this is just what happens with the election; it's good for the country ... And there should be a debate, and there should be a public debate....

Birzeit vote: 'Last stronghold' of Palestinian politics

Edit Al Jazeera 30 Apr 2016
Analysts say the repeat victory of the Hamas-aligned group reveals continuing public dissatisfaction with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) ... The day before Wednesday's vote, students held an hours-long public debate in the scorching midday sun on Birzeit's campus, with dominant issues including women's political participation and the long-standing rivalry between Hamas and Fatah, the ruling party of Abbas....

Fidel Castro gives rare speech saying he's nearing the end

Edit Naples Daily News 30 Apr 2016
"I'll be 90 years old soon," Castro said in his most extensive public appearance in years ... Castro's speech and his brother's promise that more extensive public debate would come in the weeks and months after the congress appeared to have at least temporarily quelled discontent among the party ranks ... "It's easy to love Fidel now that he doesn't have a public position....

Snowden Slams US Supreme Court Decision to Grant FBI More Hacking Powers

Edit Infowars 29 Apr 2016
"FBI sneaks radical expansion of power through courts, avoiding public debate." ... ....

Eagles make it official and select Wentz

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 29 Apr 2016
CHICAGO - After a week of speculation and public debate, the Eagles selected North Dakota State quarterback Carson Wentz with the No. 2 overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night ... 1....

Advertising Watchdog Moves To Ban “Idealised” Images Of Pretty Women

Edit Breitbart 29 Apr 2016
The UK’s advertising watchdog is investigating the “objectification and sexualisation of women in ads” because of an “increasing political and public debate” driven by “offended” feminists on social media ... gained considerable public interest,” the ASA claims....

Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power

Edit Slashdot 29 Apr 2016
An anonymous reader cites an article on The Intercept (edited and condensed) ... with a single warrant ... "FBI sneaks radical expansion of power through courts, avoiding public debate." ... Read more of this story at Slashdot. ....

PETER BERGEN INTERVIEWs PRESIDENT OBAMA ON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF BIN LADEN RAID (New America Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Apr 2016
(Source. New America Foundation). Washington, D.C ... He also helms New America's Fellow Program, which brings on thinkers-journalists, producers, practitioners, and scholars-whose work enhances the public debate about the most pressing problems of our time. Watch the Anderson Cooper 360 Special. 'We got him' ... Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 29 April 2016 14.29.11 UTC. Original Document....

On World Day for Laboratory Animals, 24 Belgian Institutions Unite in Support of Animal Research

Edit Huffington Post 29 Apr 2016
Public support for research and acceptance of the vital role of animals in developing medical treatments are of the utmost importance to science ... But in that way, the information about animal research that the public receives is one-sided. By communicating openly about the importance of animal research to scientific research, we want to create a better balanced public debate....

Atwater defends 'transparent' process

Edit Herald Tribune 29 Apr 2016
TALLAHASSEE — It wasn’t a pretty process, but Florida now has a new insurance commissioner ... From left, insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty, CFO Jeff Atwater and Gov ... (AP Photo/Steve Cannon) ... Bailey abruptly resigned in December 2015 after he was told Scott and the Cabinet members wanted him to leave, although they never publicly debated or voted on that action ... Who won the Democratic debate in New York? Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders ... ....

YouTube Changes Content ID Rules to Allow for Money Collection During Rights Investigations

Edit Billboard 29 Apr 2016
The money retained will then be distributed to the correct parties ... Europe and Copyright ... War of Words ... The move comes in the midst of a growing public relations problem with artists are asking YouTube specifically to pay out royalties more fairly while politically sensitive negotiations are going on in the U.S ... The public debate prompted an op-ed piece in The Guardian published earlier today (Apr....
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