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Journalist Banned from Climate Change Conference

November 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments

It appears that drug cartel-related kidnappings and murders are not the only crimes taking place in Mexico these days.  According to a message received this morning, Phelim McAleer has been denied press accreditation for the Cancun Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Only days before the international conference opening today, the United Nations refused access [...]

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Spurlock’s Latest Effort Generates Little Buzz

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In a post Dec. 5, 2007, I expressed skepticism about fast-food filmmaker Morgan Spurlock’s claim that he had found Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Three months later, I wrote a post about the release of a trailer for Spurlock’s documentary, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Since then however, I’ve heard very few [...]

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Release Set for ‘Where in the World is Osama?’

March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has released a new trailer for his upcoming documentary, “Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?” News of its release comes nearly three months after I published a post expressing my deep skepticism about the claims made by the man behind the 2006 fast-food documentary, Fast-Food Nation. Others, including Debbie Schlussel, [...]

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