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Danger lies in threat to Fed independence

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Alan Blinder - Nov. 19 (Special Report) - H.R. 1207 seems innocuous enough. The overall question it raises sounds fair: After all, why should the Fed be immune from audit?

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Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salem-News.com - Nov. 19 (News Report) - We believe that the information we referenced in those paragraphs – specifically about the use of section 215 – is essential to understanding the full scope of the PATRIOT Act, which is about to be debated in Congress. As we said in June, if you have concerns about declassifying the specific language contained in our letter, we ask that you work with us to find language that conveys enough information to allow for an informed public debate on the PATRIOT Act’s reauthorization

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Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ari Melber - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - A recent article in Newsweek states that Democrats could have won a "very significant number of Republican votes in Congress" for the stimulus -- had there only been a "meaningful tax-cut component." Political journalism is often imaginative, but this verges on delusion. After all, Obama labored to delusion.

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Google Computes News Quality

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

InformationWeek - By Thomas Claburn - Nov. 16 (News Report) - A recently filed patent application suggests that Google is taking steps to promote news produced by major media companies on Google News. Whenever a newspaper dies, Google turns up on the list of suspects. The evidence of Google's involvement tends to be sketchy. A close examination of the crime scene typically points to a different villain -- the classified revenue killer known as Craigslist, parasitic news sites that siphon potential visitors, declining subscription and ad revenue, management that can't adapt, or the hyper-competition created by the Internet's ability to collapse distance and divert attention. But Google nonetheless has been forced to defend itself. In May, Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet that Google is the hand that feeds media companies, channeling over one billion clicks every month to online publishers through Google Search and Google News. She suggested that Wikipedia, with its constantly updated articles, might offer a better model for journalism in the Internet age than a series of separate articles. And she proposed that online publishers might be failing their readers by presenting them with Web pages that lack engaging social features.

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Gary Ginsberg, Adviser to Murdoch, to Step Down

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tim Arango - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Gary Ginsberg, a close adviser to Rupert Murdoch for 11 years who often served as a liaison between the conservative Mr. Murdoch and the Democratic Party, will leave News Corporation at the end of the year....Mr. Ginsberg, a former lawyer in the Clinton White House, was hired in 1999 to be News Corporation’s director of communications. He was hired partly to refurbish the company’s image after a controversy in which Mr. Murdoch was said to have stopped publication of a book by Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, to curry favor with the Chinese government.

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US supreme court rejects bid against Washington Redskins NFL team

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Daniel Nasaw - Nov. 16 (News) - American Indian activists have called the team's mascot offensive and derogatory

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'The Bloomberg Way' comes to D.C.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Michael Calderone - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Defining the ethos of one of Washington’s fastest growing news organizations is a style guide called “The Bloomberg Way,” which among other things bans words like “but,” “despite,” and “however,” because they “force readers to deal with conflicting ideas in the same sentence.” But there’s an unambiguous phrase that Matthew Winkler, the style book’s author, thinks should define Bloomberg News — “most influential,” as in the world’s most influential news operation.

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More Than Ever, You Can Say That on Television

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Edward Wyatt - Nov. 14 (Special Report) - Ever since George Carlin laid out the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” in 1972, television writers and broadcasters have been digging more deeply into the thesaurus, seizing on new ways to titillate, if not offend. And while the word “douche” is neither obscene nor profane — although this usage is certainly offensive to many people — it seems to represent the latest of broadcast television’s continuing efforts to expand the boundaries of taste, in part to stem the tide of defections by its audience to largely unregulated cable television.

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Liberals cry ‘unfair’ after Fox orders unbalanced YouTube purge