"There is zero evidence for television or the other popular media disseminating or influencing sound changes or grammatical innovations, " wrote linguist J.

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The lower barrier to speaking online allows anyone with an Internet connection to publish his thoughts free from the editorial constraints that serve as gatekeepers for most traditional media of disseminating information.

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But a low level of professionalism in many media outlets, especially outside Kathmandu Valley, and self-censorship induced by the political atmosphere make it difficult for the media to rise above the challenge of disseminating accurate, timely and non-partisan information on the peace-building process.

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" That's an overstatement, but Mr. Grundfest is right that social media "is a highly efficient means for broadly disseminating many different forms of information in non-exclusionary manner" and that Facebook and Twitter are "uniquely ill-suited to the selective disclosure of information.

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The idea is that the students will then absorb all the wit and wisdom on offer and ask more questions, before disseminating it all to the rest of the new class through the raft of social media and interactive channels now available to them.

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Or how about we levy a special tax on newspapers and magazines and direct the money into a New Media Trust Fund out of which bureaucrats can support research on new non-dead-tree methods of disseminating news?

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