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In an attempt to recognize prescription opioidabusers who have been working to change their lives for the better, theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)this week launched a new social media initiative welcoming the stories of those who have been affected by prescription painkilleraddiction.

The CDC launched its campaign, titled When the Prescription Becomes the Problem, this week at the fourth annual National RX Drug Abuse Summit.The social media activity, designed to raise awareness of prescription painkiller abuse and overdose, will run through May 15.

Prescription drug overdose devastates individuals, families and communities, said Erin Connelly, associate director for Communication at the CDCs Injury Center. Wed like to get everyone talking and thinking about the risks involved with opioid painkillers.

[The] CDCs approach to prescription drug overdose remains on primary prevention of opioid addiction and overdose that is, addressing the problematic opioid prescribing that created and continues the fuel the epidemic, Connelly said.

We particularly emphasize the role of states and work to equip states with the resources they need to advanced comprehensive, data-driven prevention, she said. States drive prevention they regulate the health professions, run prescription drug monitoring programs, administer large public insurance programs like Medicaid, and have the public health surveillance capacity to track the behavior of the epidemic.

According to the CDC, therewere 16,235 deaths involving prescription opioids in 2013, an increase of 1% from 2012.

Congressman Hal Rogers who is the co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Prescription Drug Abuse became involved in the CDCs social media campaign after being asked by Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDCs director. Rogers believes the CDC is doing great work in the field of opioid abuse.

The Fiscal Year 2015 Omnibus appropriations bill provided $20 million for CDC to expand its Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States program, which will provide 17 states with resources to enhance prescription drug monitoring programs and implement evidence-based and innovative prevention programs, said Rogers, who represents Kentuckys fifth congressional district. [The] CDC is also uniquely positioned to implement strong surveillance to track the progress in reducing addiction and abuse.

Even though the program now is limited to only small portion of the country, the presidents proposed budget for fiscal year 2016 requests that the CDC expands thePrescription Drug Overdose Prevention for States program to all 50 states.

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A Labour government would protect media plurality and implement recommendations for independent press regulation found in the Leveson report, according to the partys election manifesto.

The commitment to media plurality and reminder of promise to victims of the phone-hacking scandal is likely to be seen as an attack on Rupert Murdochs News Corp, the ultimate owner of the Sun and Times. However, the pledge on media ownership falls short of Ed Milibands suggestion in 2012 in that no owner should be allowed to control more than 34% of the UK media, a cap which would force News Corp to sell one of the titles.

The manifesto reads: Labour will take steps to protect the principle of media plurality, so that no media outlet can get too big, including updating our rules for the 21st century media environment.

In his evidence to the Leveson inquiry, the Labour leader said he did not believe that one person should continue to control 34% of the newspaper market, and that he believed News Corp had power without responsibility.

No one media owner should be able to exert undue influence on public opinion and policymakers, says the document, launched in Manchester on Monday. No media company should have so much power that those who run it believe themselves above the rule of law.

Asked at the launch whether he supported a cap on media ownership, Miliband said: It it is incredibly important that we have a free press, and that they can write what it likes about me. And they certainly have.

On the vexed issue of regulation, the manifesto reads: We remain strongly committed to the implementation of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry. We expect the industry to establish a mechanism or independent self-regulation, which delivers proper redress for individuals, as set out in the royal charter, and agreed by all parties in parliament.

We made a promise to victims of the phone-hacking scandal. We stand by that promise and will keep it.

Miliband added at the launch: Weve got to have a press that doesnt treat victims in a way that means they have no redress, thats what Leveson was all about.

Labours statement raises questions for Ipso, the regulator set up by publishers after they failed to agree a system backed by royal charter. Ipso chairman Sir Alan Moses has ruled out seeking charter recognition.

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The Philippine media industry is now at the forefront of advancing the countrys progress through the information it disseminates, a modern-day reality underscored by Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez, Jr. yesterday in his keynote speech during the opening of the Confluence Media Congress 2015 in Pasay City.

The event gathered some 1,700 delegates comprised of media suppliers, advertisers, marketers at the Newport Performing Arts Theater at Resorts World Manila.

The meeting of the strategic objectives and the publics feelings happen every day, Jimenez said. [The] media provide the avenues, the public provides the message.

The advent of technology, social media in particular, according to Jimenez, has played a big role in the success of the Department of Tourisms Its More Fun in the Philippines campaign.

Organized by the Media Specialists Association of the Philippines (MSAP), the biennial confab urges todays media practitioners that rethinking and reshaping the future of media today is an indispensable part of engaging the general public. The first congress was held in 2013.

The focus is on media and development, MSAP Media Congress 2015 Chairman Nic Gabunada Jr. told Manila Bulletin (MB). At the turn of the century, we can see that the media have become more like above the line.

The game is now all about content and how the media engage the consumer via content, according to Gabunada, who delivered the welcome remarks and introduced Jimenez.

Its no longer just the straightforward use of your advertisement by being on television, radio, or print. Now, you have to consider that there are digital, online, [and] mobile platforms. We call this new distribution, he said.

The consumer has changed because he has more control over content now, he said.

Asked to further elaborate on Confluence in the confabs theme, Gabunada said that its a portmanteau of convergence and influence.

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Author: Beina Xu Updated: April 7, 2015

The Chinese government has long kept tight reins on both traditional and new media to avoid potential subversion of its authority. Its tactics often entail strict media controls using monitoring systems and firewalls, shuttering publications or websites, and jailing dissident journalists, bloggers, and activists. Google's battle with the Chinese government over Internet censorship, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee's awarding of the 2010 Peace Prize to jailed Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, have also increased international attention to censorship issues. At the same time, the country's burgeoning economy relies on the web for growth, and experts say the growing need for Internet freedom is testing the regime's control.

China's constitution affords its citizens freedom of speech and press, but the opacity of Chinese media regulations allows authorities to crack down on news stories by claiming that they expose state secrets and endanger the country. The definition of state secrets in China remains vague, facilitating censorship of any information that authorities deem harmful (PDF) to their political or economic interests. CFR Senior Fellow Elizabeth C. Economy says the Chinese government is in a state of schizophrenia about media policy as it goes back and forth, testing the line, knowing they need press freedom and the information it provides, but worried about opening the door to the type of freedoms that could lead to the regime's downfall.

In May 2010, the government issued its first white paper on the Internet that emphasized the concept of Internet sovereignty, requiring all Internet users in China, including foreign organizations and individuals, to abide by Chinese laws and regulations. Chinese Internet companies are now required to sign the Public Pledge on Self-Regulation and Professional Ethics for China Internet Industry, which entails even stricter rules than those in the white paper, according to Jason Q. Ng, a specialist on Chinese media censorship and author of Blocked on Weibo.

The France-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked China 175 out of 180 countries in its 2014 worldwideindex of press freedom (PDF). Former CFR Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow Matt Pottinger says Chinese media outlets usually employ their own monitors to ensure political acceptability of their content. Censorship guidelines are circulated weekly from the Communist Party propaganda department and the government Bureau of Internet Affairs to prominent editors and media providers.

Certain websites that the government deems potentially dangerouslike Wikipediaare blocked during periods of controversy, such as the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Specific material considered a threat to political stability is also banned, including controversial photos and search terms. The government is particularly keen on blocking reports of issues that could incite social unrest, like official corruption and ethnic strife. The websites of Bloomberg news service and theNew York Times were blacked out in 2012 after each ran reports on the private wealth of then Party Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Wen Jiabao. Restrictions were also placed on micro-blogging services in April 2012 in response to rumors of a coup attempt in Beijing involving the disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai. Censors were also swift to block any mention of an October 2013 attack on Tiananmen Square by individuals from Xinjiang province, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority group.

More than a dozen government bodies review and enforce laws related to information flow within, into, and out from China. The most powerful monitoring body is the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department (CPD), which coordinates with General Administration of Press and Publication and State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television to ensure content promotes party doctrine. Ng says that the various ministries once functioned as smaller fiefdoms of control, but have recently been more consolidated under the State Council Information Office, which has taken the lead on Internet monitoring.

Some estimates say that the government employs roughly 100,000 people, hired both by the state and private companies, to constantly monitor China's Internet. Additionally, the CPD gives media outlets editorial guidelines as well as directives restricting coverage of politically sensitive topics. In one high-profile incident involving the liberal Guangdong magazine Southern Weekly, government censors rewrote the paper's New Year's message from a call for reform to a tribute to the Communist Party. The move triggered mass demonstrations by the staff and general public, who demanded the resignation of the local propaganda bureau chief. While staff and censors reached a compromise that would theoretically relax some controls, much of the censorship remained in place.

The Chinese government deploys myriad ways of censoring the Internet. The Golden Shield Project, colloquially known as the Great Firewall, is the center of the government's online censorship and surveillance effort. Its methods include bandwidth throttling, keyword filtering, and blocking access to certain websites. According to Reporters Without Borders, the firewall makes large-scale use of Deep Packet Inspection technology to block access based on keyword detection. As Ng points out, the government also employs a diverse range of methods to induce journalists to censor themselves, including dismissals and demotions, libel lawsuits, fines, arrests, and forced televised confessions.

As of December, 2014, forty-four journalists wereimprisoned in China, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based watchdog on press freedom issues. In 2009, Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to eleven years in prison for advocating democratic reforms and freedom of speech in Charter 08, a 2008 statement signed by more than two thousand prominent Chinese citizens that called for political and human rights reforms and an end to one-party rule. When Liu won the Nobel Peace Prize, censors blocked the news in China. A year later, journalist Tan Zuoren was sentenced to five years in prison for drawing attention to government corruption and poor construction of school buildings that collapsed and killed thousands of children during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province. Early 2014 saw the government detain Gao Yu, a columnist who was jailed on accusations of leaking a Party communiqu titled Document 9.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

In early 2007, the mainstream political pundits were already falling in line, predicting that Hillary Rodham Clinton would be her partys presidential nominee for an election still nearly two years hence.

Hillary was The Chosen One. The pundits said she was unstoppable: She had the Clinton Machine behind her the ruthless team of operatives and dirt-diggers who twice put her husband into office as well as tens of millions of email addresses and, of course, access to hundreds of millions of dollars at the snap of her fingers.

She lost. Badly. But she didnt just lose. While selling herself as the mature candidate whom Americans could trust to handle properly that emergency 3 a.m. phone call, she got her hat handed to her by a 47-year-old with more experience as a community organizer than a U.S. senator, a job hed held only since 2004.

Americans didnt love Barack Obama. And most probably didnt fall for his tripe about hope and change and a post-partisan presidency. They simply didnt like and didnt trust Hillary.

More, though, the media decided it was time for a change. Instead of a professional politician an old and tired face the mainstream media put its muscle behind the up and comer. When reports emerged in March 2008 that Mrs. Clinton had lied about taking hostile fire from snipers during a March 1996 visit to U.S. troops at Tuzla Air Base in Bosnia, the press pummeled her.

There was a new Chosen One. And while she stayed on for two more months, Mrs. Clinton was done. The media had decided they bailed on her to support the man whose victory would be the historic election of the first black president. On June 7, she quit the race.

Now, shes back with a whole new bag of lies. But this time she has a plan: Shell control the media and shes already putting her plan into action.

Before her Sunday announcement, Team Hillary held private dinners with media bigs. Off the record, of course. Attending were ABCs Diane Sawyer, David Muir and George Stephanopoulos, who was Bill Clintons White House communications director (and also the guy who created the war on women narrative the press used against Republican Mitt Romney in 2012). Also wining and dining were CBSs Norah ODonnell and NBCs Savannah Guthrie, who recently attacked Sen. Rand Paul and repeatedly talked over him during a contentious interview (which, as you can predict, led to MSM charges that Mr. Paul hates women).

MSNBCs Joe Scarborough (once a Republican lawmaker) was there, as were several reporters from CNN, and, as always, Mike Allen of the liberal Politico website.

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