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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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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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Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google in months

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Emma Barnett - Nov. 13 (News Report) - Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google's search index "within months" as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.

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AP First to Fact-Check Sarah Palin Book--Finds That She Goes 'Adrift'

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 13 (News Report) - WASHINGTON Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the

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Catholic Church gives D.C. ultimatum on same-sex marriage issue

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Tim Craig, Michelle Boorstein - Nov. 12 (News Report) - The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with adoption, homelessness and health care.

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Mormon Church Backs Salt Lake City's Gay Rights Law : NPR

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Associated Press - Nov. 11 (News Report) - The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment

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Greenpeace Seeks Newsweek Disclosure of API Revenue

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Anne C. Mulkern - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Greenpeace is demanding that Newsweek disclose how much money it has made selling the oil industry's biggest lobbying group advertising deals that included the ability to co-host energy policy forums and seat the association's president as a panelist beside members of Congress.

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Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By David Espo, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Nov. 07 (Breaking News) - Capping months of months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote

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API's Partnership With Newsweek Raises Ad Cash and Ethics Questions

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Anne C. Mulkern - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - Newsweek and API have teamed on four forums so far and are planning another -- "Climate and Energy Policy: Moving?" -- for Dec. 1, when the Senate could be holding a floor debate on climate legislation. An invitation sent yesterday to lawmakers' offices said Gerard again would be a panelist and that requests to speak were "currently pending confirmation with notable members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate." Lawmakers receiving invitations included Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Dylan Ratigan - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have

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A Deal Finally Ends Honduras' Coup Crisis

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Tim Padgett - Oct. 31 (News) - Related Photos Violence Erupts During Honduras Protests More Related •Clinton Helps Push Honduran Foes to Negotiations •Is the U.S. Softening Its Opposition to the Honduras Coup? •Why Obama Won’t Use the M-Word for Honduras’ CoupThe pact may well restore Zelaya to office before the country's Nov. 29 presidential elections. It may also salvage the Obama Administration's standing in the hemisphere.

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What's So Scary About Michael Pollan? Why Corporate Agriculture Tried to Censor His University Speech | Health and Wellness

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Martha Rosenberg - Oct. 28 (News) - "Agribusiness gets plenty of opportunities to preach its point of view at agriculture schools such as Cal Poly, where the likes of Monsanto and Cargill fund research," the Times wrote, calling the 800-acre Harris Ranch, near Coalinga, whose "smell assaults passersby long before the panorama of thousands of cattle packed atop layers of their own manure,"--"Cowschwitz." Ouch.

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Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Gallup - By Lydia Saad - Oct. 26 (News Report) - Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.

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Season of false starts for news organizations

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By David Bauder - Oct. 26 (News) - A balloon racing across the Colorado sky without a 6-year-old boy inside. A major lobbyist not changing its position on climate change. A shootout with terrorists on the Potomac River that never happened It's been a rough season for non-news. The recent spate of hoaxes and premature stories exposes a dangerous fault line for journalists in the world of second-by-second news. Each situation was unique. But they all diminished the credibility of news organizations at a time when the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press has reported that 63 percent of Americans believe news stories are often inaccurate -- the worst report card it has ever seen.

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Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By John F. Burns - Oct. 24 (News) - The appearance of Nick Griffin, leader of the far right British National Party, on the BBC’s flagship politics show unleashed a storm of protests in London.

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Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Dina Cappiello - Oct. 23 (News Report) - At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world's oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.

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W.H. attacks worry moderate Dems

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Jonathan Allen, Jake Sherman - Oct. 23 (News Report) - A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans. “It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

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Behind War Between White House and Fox

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Rutenberg - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Late last month, the senior White House adviser David Axelrod and Roger Ailes, chairman and chief executive of Fox News, met in an empty Palm steakhouse before it opened for the day, neutral ground secured for a secret tête-à-tête.

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Dallas police chief: Dozens of tickets issued for not speaking English

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Scott Goldstein - Oct. 23 (News Report) - Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle said this afternoon that his officers have written at least 39 citations to people over the past three years for not speaking English

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'Fairness' in talk radio

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Carol Costello - Oct. 22 (News Report) - CNN's Carol Costello looks at the idea of a "Fairness Doctrine," being pushed by some Democrats, for political talk radio.

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