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Romney's Making the Right Play in Iowa

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - Jeff Zeleny’s weekend story about how Mitt Romney’s campaign will exert more rather than less effort in Iowa deserves your attention. It reflects what is perhaps the most important strategic decision that any Republican candidate will make this year. Mr.

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The final nail in coffin for Net neutrality

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Business 2.0 - By David Goldman - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - Before Tuesday's midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content. All of them lost -- and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead.

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Chasing Fox

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Gabriel Sherman - Oct. 03 (News Analysis) - In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea. CNN was in trouble. While the network remained a profit engine and an iconic brand, prime-time ratings were stalled. Fox News had surged ahead in the cable-news race, and now, alarmingly, Keith Olbermann was coming on strong. His anti-Bush broadsides were transforming his 8 p.m. MSNBC show, Countdown, into a bombastic counterweight to Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, and combined, both personalities were drowning out CNN’s Paula Zahn, the respected television veteran who was anchoring a standard newscast during the 8 p.m. slot.

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Disaster Messaging

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By George Lakoff - Jul. 08 (Opinion) - Democrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here's a description of the typical situation: * The Republicans out-message the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, face disaster: They lose politically, either in electoral support or failure on crucial legislation.

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Billionaire funds web news rival to San Francisco Chronicle paper

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Stephen Foley - May. 26 (News Report) - One of America's oldest and largest newspapers, the San Francisco Chroncile, faces a new online-only rival from today, with the launch of Baycitizen.org – a not-for-profit website that is part of a growing trend reshaping US journalism.

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