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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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Neutralizing the opposition

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

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - The Foxified debate over whether the White House is being mean to a certain network is morphing into a broader argument about the politics of negativity. The question, which is being pushed on the right, is whether the Obama team is using its muscle to demonize its opponents. The president bears a special burden in this regard. He ran as a post-partisan guy who would reach out to the other side. (Of course, Bush also ran as a uniter-not-a-divider, and that didn't work out too well.) But while Obama is a conciliator by nature, what should a politician do when the opposition refuses to meet him even a quarter-way? Number of Republican votes for the stimulus: zero. Number of Republican votes so far for health-care reform: one. And if the insurance industry, after making a deal with the White House, attempts to sink health care? What administration wouldn't fight back? I just wonder if Obama is being held to a higher standard when he practices plain ol' politics.

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Ruckus on the right

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Rachel Maddow, Dave Weigel - Oct. 20 (News Report) - The right has fractured over this one race. They are not only disagreeing over whether to chose the conservative or republican candidate, they are denouncing one other, pledging the death of one another's political career over this split. The local impact of this chaos on the right, the ultimate effect for New York's 23rd disctrict, may very well be that the 23rd disctrict of New York elect its first democrat since around the time of the Civil War. With Republicans split over the two candidates on the right, the Democrat in the race is now ahead in recent polling.

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Insurers say health care bill will lead to system failure.

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Jennifer Brown - Oct. 19 (News Report) - Colorado insurance executives, cautious supporters of health care reform throughout the past year, are now warning that current proposals could cause a "system collapse." At issue are what insurance companies consider absurdly low penalties for people who choose not to buy health insurance.

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Love, honor ... and blog: Musings on marriage are surprise hit - Love & Relationships

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Ana Veciano-Suarez - Oct. 14 (News) - Couple in Miami is finding surprise success in blogging about happiness.

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A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Oct. 12 (News Analysis) - A presidential spokeswoman said, “We don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

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-- Argentine Senate overwhelmingly approves media law

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mayra Pertossi, - Oct. 11 (Breaking News) - Argentina's Senate overwhelmingly approved a law that will transform the nation's media landscape on Saturday, and President Cristina Fernandez quickly signed it into law.

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In Today's Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue?

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ann Gerhart - Oct. 10 (Special Report) - "... the Internet has changed the relationship between the elite and the non-elite. Everybody has the opportunity to be a great communicator for 15 minutes,"

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Calling 'Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By The Huffington Post News Editors - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - Nine of those so-called czars, it turned out, were subject to Senate confirmation, making them decidedly unlike the Russian monarchs. "The idea — that the Washington Post didn't even question it," Dunn says, still marveling at the decision.

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House behind a public option

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann, Lawrence O'Donnell - Oct. 07 (News Report) - MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and the Huffington Post's Lawrence O'Donnell discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comment that the House of Representatives will produce a bill with a public option in it.

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The Future of Health Care Is Social

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Fast Company - By Jennifer Kilian, Barbara Pantuso - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - Too many of us are too busy to be healthy--not because we lack awareness. We know what we need to do. It's finding the time to do it that's the problem. In an age of 24/7 connectivity that requires our near-constant vigilance, time feels more pressed than ever. Yet, it may be that the very technology allowing us this around-the-clock connection can transform how we manage our health.

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ACORN Loses Its Funding From Big Foundations

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Susan Kinzie - Oct. 02 (News Report) - The liberal political organizing group ACORN, battered by the release of embarrassing videos and allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud, has also been losing support from several major foundations

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Hellman to invest $5 million in journalism nonprofit

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By James Temple - Sep. 25 (News Analysis) - San Francisco financier Warren Hellman will invest $5 million to develop a nonprofit journalism venture that will provide regional news coverage online and feed stories to media partners including KQED and possibly the New York Times. The goal of the organization, which is expected to begin next year and create "more than dozens" of positions, is to ensure thorough coverage of local politics, social issues, education and other topics as the traditional media industry shrivels. "We've lost a lot," said Hellman, who specifically bemoaned dwindling reporting on subjects like the San Francisco Ballet, local business openings and vetting of political candidates. "We're going to be meeting an unmet need."

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In San Francisco, Plans to Start News Web Site

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Richard Perez Pena - Sep. 25 (News Report) - A wealthy investor, a university journalism school and a public radio station have joined forces to create a nonprofit local news Web site for the San Francisco area, in what may be the largest and most ambitious of dozens of similar local news operations that have cropped up around the country.

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All Evidence to the Contrary

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Lane Wallace - Sep. 25 (Special Report) - One hundred years ago this month, two intrepid explorers returned from the Arctic reaches and declared that they had reached the North Pole. Not together, but on competing expeditions to become the first person and team to the Pole. Robert E. Peary led one expedition, and Frederick A. Cook led the other. And each declared the other's claim to the Pole untrue. Today, of course, that kind of controversy could be settled far more easily. At the very least, we would expect a GPS track record showing that the Pole had been reached, and airborne photographs or other corroborating evidence might be required, as well. Without that technology, however, the claims were a little harder to confirm. It's not like there was an exact marker at the spot, because nobody had been there before. And unlike the peak of Mt. Everest, the landscape at the precise location of the North Pole doesn't look distinctly different from the rest of the terrain--for hundreds of miles in any given direction.

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