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Tiny Virginia allegedly abused seven students, the youngest being 13 years old, was released on bail after she pleaded not guilty on Monday.
She had been formally charged with 13 counts of abusing and assaulting students at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The prosecutor for the case said Virginia held a position of trust at the school for being the girls' matron, but that abused that trust.
The CNN article included many quotes from Oprah, the prosecutor, and other people involved in the case, so it was informative.
They could have included more quotes, not just attribution, to people involved in the case because they quoted Winfrey several times in the article.

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Eighteen workers were killed and seven more were missing when a portable drilling rig crashed into an oil platform during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday.
Sixty-one other workers were rescued, a staement from Petroleos Mexicanos said.
The accident also created a gas and oil leak that was not expected to be controlled for three to five days.
The accident had been caused because of the powerful storm where winds had reached 80 mph and waves reached 26 feet.
The article was brief, without much explanation or statement.
I would think that CNN would provide more detail because 18 people died.
I think they could have gotten more quotes or perspectives on the incident.

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Eighteen workers were killed and seven more were missing when a portable drilling rig crashed into an oil platform during a storm in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday.
Sixty-one other workers were rescued, a staement from Petroleos Mexicanos said.
The accident also created a gas and oil leak that was not expected to be controlled for three to five days.
The accident had been caused because of the powerful storm where winds had reached 80 mph and waves reached 26 feet.
The article was brief, without much explanation or statement.
I would think that CNN would provide more detail because 18 people died.
I think they could have gotten more quotes or perspectives on the incident.

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An interesting article was written on foxnews.com in connection to another article about Italian men who are paid to move out of their homes.
The average age an Italian man moves out of his parents' home is 36.
So the program was started to encourage more men to leave at an earlier age.
The article has human and online sources.
One of their major sources then was this piece written online from the Daily Telegraph in the U.K.
An economist and the government in Italy were cited as their sources.
The Daily Telegraph states much more about the program, including how much money is going to be given and all the other details of why it is important.
One of the main reasons why men stay at home so long is because of the high cost of living and low job market, so the Italian government hopes to change all that with this program helping students with finances,

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Reality TV has always been a popular medium in China. According to media anaylists familiar with the markey "Super Girls 2005", which is similar to American Idol, brought in 400 million viewers. This was more than any previous record of ratings in China.
The new regulations surrounding talent TV shows state that timing, programming and judging will be more closely observed.
This will essentially destroy any sort of talent TV shows because it would impossible to run a show under these conditions.

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A bomb exploded Friday admist the country's turmoil, killing three citizens.
The bomh was hidden by the entrance to a police house compund. Algeria has recently suffered two other attacks from Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, formerly knowns as GSPC.
The president of Algeria responded by stregthening military force againist Islamic terrorists.
The Star Tribune also had a brief piece on the bomb and hostile situation in Algeria. One word they used, "officaldom", seems to be a made-up word.

This article uses a direct lead. It addresses the main questions in it. The who were Algerian police officials. The what was a bomb exploded, on Friday in Algeria. The why and how is not immediately apparent in the lead but later explained in the article. They made the fact that three people were killed in the bombing the central point of the lead, and that it was caused by a bomb.

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The story is of a missing British girl's parents becoming suspects in the four-month old case. Msnbc's coverage of the event was not as journalistically balanced as it could and should have been.
The title of the aritle was "Missing U.K. girl's parents want to go home". It was fitting because the article focused on the parents, who being interrogated for several hours, just wanted to return back to Britain.

On the other hand, financial contributions are also a part of this global story, but sacrely mentioned in the story. Cnn.com tellls a similar story. This news site focused on the opinion of the grandparents.
There was speculation in both stories of accounts from police, also sparked by traces of blood found in the rental car and apartment of the McCanns. In the msnbc.com account, there were two pictures, one of the parents kissing on the street which seemed a little bit inappropiate for a news piece of such grave content.

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