The News of the World phone hacking scandal, which cost the jobs of top level News Corporation (NWS) executives over the last 10 days, has lit a fire under the armchair and desktop activists in the media reform movement.

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But the rebel Justice and Equality Movement was not included in the case-fire talks.

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"The cease-fire enabled us to conduct disease surveillance with the freedom of movement, not fearing land mines and getting shot, " said Dr. Nabil Azziz, who coordinated Sudan's national Guinea worm eradication program until 2007.

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Some of us can remember the public health and environmental catastrophes that propelled Earth Day, the Earth Day movement in the first place, the Cuyahoga River literally catching on fire from all the oil and dumped trash that was in it.

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The movement to strengthen boards has gone too far, so far that the boards too easily fire CEOs and reject bold decisions like investments in U.S. manufacturing that have a long-term payoff.

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