Topic: TV - on September 25, 2011 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Al Jazeera's change of guard - A look at the real reason why the channel's director-general resigned.
This week on Listening Post: A change of guard at Al Jazeera. What does Wadah Khanfar's resignation mean for the network? Also, Peru and the ideological battle on the airwaves.
When the former director-general of Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, announced on Twitter that he was leaving the network, the news media immediately began speculating why. The New York Times, amongst others, linked his departure to leaked US diplomatic cables that appeared to show Khanfar had altered Al Jazeera's coverage at the request of the US government.
The focus then turned to his successor, Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani, and whether the network was losing its independence with his appointment.
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Topic: SECURITY - on September 25, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
TSA Scanners Can’t Seem to Detect Your Concealed Weapons Through Shiny Clothes
It never stops. Caught somewhere between hilarious and infuriating, Marilyn W. Thompson with the Washington Post discovered that her shiny shirt prevented the roughly $150,000 TSA scanner from doing its job. You mean wearing my late-90s shiny suit means EXTRA gropings??
Thompson remarked on her confusion that these scanners can pick up bladed weapons and ass explosives but can't handle a shiny shirt from Banana Republic.
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