Day July 3, 2005

KCRW Listeners load up on podcasts via iTunes

Podcast downloads from Santa Monica-based KCRW zoomed to 100,000 a day from 3,500 when iTunes began hosting podcasts. I used to volunteer at KCRW, a nominally public radio station which now arguably has more advertisements than some commercial radio stations.…

More torture in Iraq

Revealed: grim world of new Iraqi torture camps Secret torture chambers, the brutal interrogation of prisoners, murders by paramilitaries with links to powerful ministries… Foreign affairs editor Peter Beaumont in Baghdad uncovers a grim trail of abuse carried out by…