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makers, carriers and governments.
“It’s a bit like squeezing a balloon,” Jack Wraith, chairman of
the UK’s Mobile Industry Crime
Action Forum, tells Smith. “You
squeeze it in one place and it pops
out somewhere else.”
Meanwhile, there’s also a painful
trail of human grief. Hwangbum’s
father still sleeps in his son’s bed,
and his mother prayed at the scene
of his shooting each day for four
weeks. “It’s like he’s always beside
me,” she told Smith, fighting back
tears. “I miss him so much.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Michael
Calderone shows us how another
story has continued after the election. As he reports, it’s not just the
Republican Party that’s struggling
to regain its footing, but conservative media as well.
“While outlets like The Daily
Caller, Breitbart News and the
Washington Free Beacon have
sprouted and, in some cases, prospered during President Barack
Obama’s administration,” writes
Calderone, “concern is mounting
that they and others in the conservative media universe are shedding
their credibility by focusing more
on supposed scandals than report-
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ing the basics of who, what, when,
where, why and how.”
Calderone takes us inside the
conservative media world, introducing us to those who are trying
to reform it, along with those being blamed for turning it into an echo
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National Review, the
picking.”
27-year-old rising
star wants to focus
on reporting. “Conservative journalists are recognizing that they
have to offer more to readers beyond talking points and columns,”
he tells Calderone. “I think that’s
the evolution right now — moving
toward narrative journalism, investigative journalism. It’s a growing process. There will be
some growing pains.”
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