JERUSALEM — President Obama made an impassioned appeal Thursday for renewed peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, urging each side to compromise on key issues so as to sideline extremists who “thrive on conflict.”

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What a farce...

And I don't mean the Labor's spill today... the fault of which lay squarely on Simon Crean's lap...

a case study of quick picture switch at News Limited...

News Limited is the main perpetrator of media abuses in Australia, writes Alan Austin, and hence the strongest proof the current self-regulation system is useless.

Journalists and editors love to bang on about press freedom - but which interests curtail freedom of the press most? Veteran journo Trevor Grant on the day his idealism died

Media is there to entertain us — not to inform us. The product of choice is inanity.

When media tries to inform us it's always with twisted view points and a pander to our express desire to be distracted from reality with make-believe "reality" and to feed our pre-munched bigotry... And the more we enjoy the make-belief, the more we develop the habit to be entertained with illusions until we get bored and demand more powerful entertainment. The process is addictive as it presses the buttons of our creature of habits, with cleverly added "surprising" increments to alleviate the habit of habit-forming... Like a drug addict, we need stronger doses of inanity to make us enjoy more inanity...

Anyone who think that the media self-regulation works please place your hand up...

This Gus picture shows "the Gulf" about 100 miles from Normanton.

Caption: "He was the only one who had not been blacklisted and could speak Italian"...

The merde-och press gets it wrong again...

News Limited chief executive Kim Williams says the media reform package tailored by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is targeted at his company.

Indigenous people travelled for three days to get to Canberra to put their case to a Parliamentary committee; Tony Abbott walked in late, didn’t apologise, sat down and then fell asleep. Lavinia Projustice saw it all.

Today, Catholic Cardinals will assemble at the Sistine Chapel to elect the next Pope. But that’s not the only news out of Italy involving men closely gathered in a room. It turns out the Holy See purchased 20 shares of an apartment building housing Europe’s largest gay sauna.