Feb 13, 2012
August, 2008
- Aug 15, 2008
The European media devoted heavy coverage to the relatively lenient prison sentence (five and half years) for terrorist offenses given to Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, by a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay August 7.
- Aug 12, 2008
One of the more irritating habits of some journalists is to describe a recent event as “little noticed.” By this they mean that they alone appreciate its significance and can exclusively reveal it to the world. Frequently, however, the event has in fact been reported elsewhere but these reports have gone “unnoticed” by the egocentric writer.
- Aug 8, 2008
In a delightful series of articles from across the United States, Frankfurter Allgemeine's Washington correspondent, Matthias Rüb, has been taking the pulse of the United States three months before the election. Rüb shows that not all reporting from rural America has to be marred by popular stereotypes and old clichés.
- Aug 5, 2008
Transatlantic media coverage immediately after of the collapse of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of trade talks in Geneva July 29 provided a wide range of different perspectives on the same story. Commentators blamed the failure variously on the United States, India, or China, or a combination of some or all of them, with occasional tangential swipes at the European Union and B