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Last week, hackers took down Sony's PlayStation Network, and potentially got hold of 77 million users' personal information. Nick Bilton, technology writer for the New York Times' Bits Blog, says this is just the latest and largest in a long spate of unintentional releases of personal data by corporations.
Fighting in Libya is ongoing and worsening. Countless civilians have been killed. Four journalists have died, two this week. In Japan questions abound in the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. Yet, media interest in these international stories has waned. Brooke talks with PEJ’s Mark Jurkowitz and journalist Steve Coll about media and public attention spans. Then reporter Anthony Shadid and photojournalist
Lynsey Addario discuss how dangerous conditions in Libya are a major impediment to covering the conflict.
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