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Drudge links directly to InTrade prediction markets, bypassing journalos. — [SCREENSHOT]

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BetFair continues to be lambasted by The Guardian, and for all the good reasons. — [LINKS]

One, they are losing all their good people. Two, they’ve banned the media from their stockholder assembly, which is a guarantee to get horrific press. Thanks for our faithful reader for the links.

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Japanese nuclear disaster and Japanese press coverage — [TRUTH SOCIOLOGY]

In response to Marginal Revolution. Here’s a French journalist covering the events in Japan. My translation. I got rapidly aware that information is blocked. It is not possible to assist to press conferences or to get accredited. And our Japanese … Continue reading

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How they shut up the free press at Copenhagen

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TRAFIGURA: The Guardian was served with a gagging order forbidding it from reporting parliamentary business.

“The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why … Continue reading

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Columbia Journalism Review not much convinced by Wall Street Journal’s Justin Wolfers

To say the least. [...] Unfortunately, by the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Wolfers was back in the Journal, writing this time that the newspaper’s own prediction market, WSJ Political Marketplace, run by Intrade, was showing that New Hampshire … Continue reading

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Care to revise your statement, sir?

Justin Wolfers: “In a few years, we may regard the second half of the 20th century as the aberration in which the press used polls rather than markets to track political races,” Justin Wolfers, a business professor at the University … Continue reading

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