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Justice, Anonymous-style

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The hackers' group Anonymous has come to the support of a Canadian teenager who committed suicide because of alleged internet harassment. Yet is it ethical to release the name of the girl's supposed tormentor? Also, demographics cause controversy in Israel and in the Vatican; a new challenge for Felix Baumgartner and a study says maybe the French really are a little smelly!

MEDIAWATCH
By James CREEDON
Vilnius mayor crushes badly parked car with tank
03/08/2011 - MEDIA WATCH

Vilnius mayor crushes badly parked car with tank

MEDIAWATCH, Tues. 2nd August 2011: The mayor of Vilnius finds a novel way to dissuade parking on bike lanes: crushing a Mercedes Benz by driving over it in a tank! First though, The Guardian reports on another arrest in the News of the World phone-hacking scandal; and writers and filmmakers cited by Anders Behring Breivik speak to the press.
PSG's 'Arab Spring'
02/08/2011 - MEDIA WATCH

PSG's 'Arab Spring'

MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Tues. 2/8/2011. Paris St-Germain football club gets a big injection of cash from Qatar. This and other stories in today's Mediawatch France.
Another woman speaks to media about Dominique Strauss-Kahn
01/08/2011 - MEDIAWATCH

Another woman speaks to media about Dominique Strauss-Kahn

MEDIAWATCH FRANCE, Mon. 1/8/2011: Another woman comes out of the woodwork in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal - we look at the details of Marie-Victorine M.'s interviews with the Swiss media. Also, it's August in France which means holiday frenzy, and the media is talking about little else.
Drunken wanderings in Paris's maze of bones
29/07/2011 - MEDIAWATCH

Drunken wanderings in Paris's maze of bones

MEDIAWATCH, Fri., 29/07/11: As investigators publish their third report on the Air France Rio-Paris crash, some wonder why we still use black boxes in the internet age; we also discover allegations of drug-trafficking policemen on the island of Mayotte, while YouTube saves the face of a French TV presenter and thrill-seekers get more than they bargained for - lost in the catacombs of Paris.
Wenzhou train crash: web users want China to 'slow down'
28/07/2011 - MEDIAWATCH

Wenzhou train crash: web users want China to 'slow down'

MEDIAWATCH, Thu., 28/07/11: We focus on last weekend's deadly train crash in China - web users and the media demand answers on the Wenzhou viaduct tragedy after refusing to accept the government's version of events.

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