He dismissed most of the chatter around politics and mass shootings as distracting noise (adding that nothing shook his belief in the industry more than the violence in places like Aurora, Col. and Owl Creek, Wisc.).

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Politics, entertainment, sex, mass media, crime and commerce are being reshaped by a population as online as it is offline.

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There are moments in politics where opinion reaches a critical mass and Estelle Morris may have fuelled that this morning by announcing an inquiry not just into what went wrong with this year's A-level grades but into the whole question of whether A-levels are "not what they used to be".

BBC: Thursday 19 September

It marks a remarkable change in Hungarian politics: Mr Orban is turning the right into a mass movement.

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The founders aimed to create a participatory democracy, rejecting the European notion that there should be two classes in politics a cadre of professionals who govern, and a mass of people who pass judgment on their efforts by means of periodic votes.

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At the same time, the wily leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, the 30-million-strong Muslim mass movement, was constantly positioning and repositioning himself in the byzantine world of Indonesian politics.

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