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SAO PAULO, Brazil — In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim. Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking. "The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get...

One British man was murdered after his chat with the BBC. Andreas Liveras died from multiple gunshot wounds after he talked with the BBC from the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. British tycoon Andreas Liveras was shot to death in the Taj Mahal Hotel shortly after he talked with the BBC and revealed his location. The Telegraph reported: Andreas Liveras, 73, was gunned down moments after he phoned the BBC from inside the Taj Mahal hotel to give an eyewitness account of the terrorist attacks. He was one of dozens of Britons either injured or taken hostage by Islamic extremists...

A South Wales couples’ safety was compromised by Cable News Network, better known as CNN, during the standoff at Mumbai. The terrorists that were looking for westerners were watching CNN during the attacks. The news network alerted the terrorists to their location.

A couple from South Wales, England, are claiming that CNN had broadcast their position compromising their safety while they hid from the Islamic terrorists that roamed the streets and hotels of Mumbai, India killing tourists as they went. WalesOnline posted a story headlined, "We thought we were safe... then CNN stepped in!," wherein a couple that safely escaped the terror attack scolded CNN for it's ethical lapse. A SOUTH Wales couple caught in the Mumbai terror attacks claimed last night that CNN put their lives at risk by broadcasting where they were. Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that...

When it comes to gladly broadcasting secrets that are detrimental to the United States and the safety of the men and women who serve it, the mainstream media now remind me of the joke about the New York Times cover page as it would have appeared before the Revolutionary War if the news organization had the mindset that it does now: Instances of the media gladly reporting U.S. secrets that could actually, ultimately, and ironically, lead to the demise of the free press (which reporters actually used to be smart enough to realize) seems to be increasing in numbers over...

A Dutch reality television show in which a terminally ill woman is to select one of three contestants to receive her kidneys when she dies is to air this week despite criticism that it pushes the boundaries of the format too far.The government has called for De Grote Donorshow (The Big Donor show) to be dropped because it is "unethical" and "wretched" but the broadcaster BNN said it would go ahead to highlight the difficulties of searching for kidney donors. In the show, due to be broadcast on Friday, a woman identified only as Lisa, 37, will select a recipient...

The Fine Line Between Pulitzers And Prison....

Pham Xuan An, 79; Reporter for Time, Spy for Viet Cong By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 21, 2006; B07 Pham Xuan An, 79, the Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. news organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the communists, died of emphysema Sept. 20 in a military hospital in the former Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. The secret of Mr. Pham's double life was kept for almost 30 years, from 1959 until the 1980s. He was the first Vietnamese to be a full-time staff correspondent for...

The fact that NBC has aired (and aired again, and again!) the Va Tech killer's manifesto isn't surprising. What is surprising is the way the internet chatters are responding to this fact. Quite clearly, there are a lot of people very angry at the Peacock network at this moment. By airing these tapes, NBC has given the killer what he wanted: notoriety. Since the guy wimped out and killed himself, short of there being GE televisions in hell, Cho Seung-Hui knows nothing of this notoriety since HE IS DEAD. However, future would-be killers have gotten the message: go nuts, kill...

In a surprisingly strong Op Ed on Friday, Ted Koppel, the former "Nightline" host who is now an occasional columnist for The New York Times, argues that when it comes right down to it, the U.S. adventure in Iraq is, as some charge, "about the oil." He likened the situation to H.L. Mencken's statement that when someone says something is "not about the money" it is indeed "about the money." The same is true in this case relating to oil. While it's wrong to say that we invaded the country to take over its oil supply, Koppel writes in the...

LONDON (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's whereabouts remained a mystery Monday even after his capture, with CNN reporting he had been moved to the Gulf state of Qatar and an Iraqi official insisting he was still in Iraq. The plot only thickened when the U.S. military declined to say where it was keeping the former dictator, who was still being hidden after eight months hiding himself. "For security reasons we cannot identify where he is at the moment," Captain Bruce Frame from U.S. Central Command in Florida told Reuters. U.S.-led troops who toppled Saddam, 66, in April captured him Saturday in...

CNN's Jordan Defends Self; CNN Refuses toLet U.S. Use Its News     CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan sent a memo to his staff on Monday reacting to criticism of him for withholding from CNN viewers information he had about Saddam Hussein's brutality, a confession he made in a Friday New York Times op-ed. "Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin," Jordan insisted in the memo reported in Tuesday's Washington Post by Lisa de Moraes.     Jordan wrote: "Some critics say if I had told my Iraq horror stories sooner,...