2012: Palin vs Obama

Michael O'Brien of The Hill explains how Sarah Palin has finally sent out her resolution to win the next presidential election. She has had interviews with ABC and at Fox news. She declares:

"I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here," to the New York Times

While she may has gathered a number of supporters, her credentials are definitely the first obstruction to her campaign. Because she is a paid contributor to Fox news, the interviews seem less harsh and demanding of Palin. They were simply asking her very broad and easy-to-answer questions. Nevertheless, she does have the public speaking skill to drive her campaign, but is still weak when matched up with Obama. The advantage that she has is that the Republicans have control of the majority of the Senate and this may prove to be a source of influence and convincing point for her campaign. Overall, it is really up to Palin how to present herself in the campaign, how well she can say her policies, and keep herself from making ground-breaking mistakes during her campaign.

Journalist dangers in Russia

Independent journalist in Russia, Novaya Gazeta, is described in an article of The Wall Street Journal by Elena Milashina. Gazeta describes the dangers that journalists such as herself must watch out for in Putin's reign in Russia.

 Over the past 10 years, five of Novaya Gazeta's journalists have been murdered. One of the victims was our star correspondent and my mentor, Anna Politkovskaya, who was assassinated in 2006 after tirelessly exposing brutal human-rights violations in Chechnya.

Shown to them by the daring reporters and journalists who freely expressed their freedom of speech and press in America, Russian journalists try to mimic this verbosity. However, the government obviously has many flaws that it wants to contain and keep from the public and the world. Gazeta can consider herself lucky because she is one of the few that is able to still report the misdoings of the government and has not suffered the punishment of assassination. Articles such as these are brought to light in America and rightfully so. As a country we can deem the killings of these journalists unmoral and hopefully offer the ones living sanction.

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