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Yes, it's that time of the week again...when we do our stint as a Guest Blogger on Dean's World. Just click on THIS LINK and you can visit us there. Our regular posts resume here on Monday morning, possibly as early as late Sunday night. … [Read more...] about We’re Guest Blogging

Now it appears as if Staples may have done corporate CYA in light of  David Brock's just released letter to the office supply giant indicating it had actually APPROVED AND EDITED Media Matter's press release indicating it was pulling its advertising from Sinclair Broadcasting. We ran the original story here on the reported pulling of ads from Sinclair. And then later in … [Read more...] about Media Matters Letter To Staples: They Did Pull Sinclair Ads

The newspaper/blogging revolution -- where a newspaper is co-opting blogging to bring its online news into the 21st Century -- is poised to happen in a big way in Greensboro, North Carolina. Once again, the updated news comes to us from Jay Rosen's PressThink, which has covered in great detail the blogging culture's unwitting incursion into a major North Carolina … [Read more...] about BLOGGING: A Newspaper Gets Ready To Incorporate Blogging, Bigtime…

This just in: you may soon have to pay for the New York Times'  online (which will be extra money for all the newspapers, broadcast and cable networks that still follow its choice of stories as The Newsworthy Ones):NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. is considering subscription fees to the online version of its flagship newspaper, which now is available for free, … [Read more...] about You May Have To Pay For The New York Times’ Online

No matter how you slice it, dice it, and try to finesse it , in  journalism and professional opinion-writing taking money from someone to promote their position is NOT CORRECT -- it's considered corrupt. If it was OK then someone could write something and put a little "Thank Yew" at the end for the financial support for their ideas....but they wouldn't. Guess … [Read more...] about White House Paid A Commentator To Argue Its Case

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was shocked by what he saw in the tsunami battered areas -- calling it among the worst damage he has ever seen"I have never seen such utter destruction mile after mile," a shaken Annan told reporters. "You wonder where are the people? What has happened to them?"Indeed, by all accounts the 160,000-plus death toll is expected … [Read more...] about Tsunami: UN Chief Shocked By Tidal Wave Damage

Oliver Stone has revealed the REAL reason why his movie Alexander bombed:LONDON - Often-controversial director Oliver Stone has blamed the failure of his epic film Alexander on the "raging fundamentalism" in the U.S. South. But that doesn't explain why the film was also repudiated in the North, East and West.The film, which stars Irish actor Colin Farrell in the … [Read more...] about On The Other Hand, Maybe Your Movie Just Sucked…

There are consquences to every event and former Army officer Ralph Peters sees a strategical roadmap drawn by a cruel Mother Nature via the tragedy of South Asia's killer tsunami. Yes, the tsunami -- the one that butchered 160,000 people (and counting). In a piece in the New York Post Peters writes of a stragegical map...literally drawn  by monster waves, and tears:THE … [Read more...] about Strategy Out Of Tsunami?

There has been a milestone for China -- a big one:BEIJING (Reuters) - China named the first baby born at a Beijing hospital Thursday as the 1.3 billionth person of the world's most populous nation, more than two decades after a one-child policy was introduced to keep its numbers in check. China's population exploded after the late Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong exhorted … [Read more...] about I Wish I Owned A Diaper Factory There

Clearly, Social Security "reform" is going to be a monster topic. We say "reform" because some say it is true reform; others contend the real goal of the GOP plan is an  ideological plan to basically gut it. All this comes amid a Washington Post report that Congressional Republicans are divided on the issue and have warned the White House talk about … [Read more...] about The Gathering Storm Over Social Security

Someone...namely TiVo, Inc...has finally come up with an idea for tidying up the arrange of video gadgets you use at home to keep up with the latest TV shows -- and it will be coming to a living room near you soon:SAN JOSE, Calif. Jan 6, 2005 — TiVo Inc. wants to declutter living rooms and simplify changing channels with its television recorders as it announced plans … [Read more...] about Big Changes In Store For Your Home Video Recording

An interesting photo essay by Stephen Green, aka Vodka Pundit, about a Christmas vacation where he displayed model behavior as he tried to piece some things together. (I shouldn't do puns but I can't Lego of it.) … [Read more...] about How He Spent His Christmas Vacation

Justice may take decades...but many times it's inescapable. And today it seemed like one of those days in Philadelphia, Mississippi -- a Mississippi not the same as  it was 41 years ago:PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - A reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested Thursday night on murder charges in the 1964 slaying of three voter-registration volunteers, one of the last unsolved mysteries … [Read more...] about Inexorable Justice: Reputed Klansman Arrested in 1964 Civil Rights Worker Slaying

Actor Richard Gere is working hard to get-out-the-vote -- among Palestinians in their upcoming Presidential elections, and they're dismayed. Don't the Palestinians hate the U.S. enough already? Is there a danger Osama bin Laden will consider Gere's TV spots an unspeakable outrage against the Arabs? You know what they say about the road to hell being paved with (fill in the … [Read more...] about Gag Them With A Gere

The Watcher of Weasels Council has announced its weekly winners (The Moderate Voice was invited to sit on the Council; he is and they are squished...) COUNCIL MEMBER WINNING POST: Alpha Patriot's Spinning The Numbers NON-COUNCIL MEMBERS WINNING POST: La Shawn Barber's Academic Freedom, Hate Mail and David Horowitz. … [Read more...] about Watcher Of Weasles Council Winners

  If you thought the Starr Report was lurid, wait until you read this exhaustive account by The Smoking Gun that suggests The King Of Perps Pop could well be going bye-bye for awhile. It's simply too explicit for us to run on this site but if you're interested in childrens' abuse issues you should read it in full. Obviously Jackson's defense lawyer will have a LOT to say … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun: The Case Against Michael Jackson

Earlier today we ran a post reporting that Staples reportedly had pulled its advertising from Sinclair Broadcasting. There's also this link to Sinclair Action on Media Matters which is apparently what the wires used for their story. But a just-received email from the National Center for Public Policy Research insists  that isn't so. Here's their full release:Office … [Read more...] about Staples Reportedly Denies It Is Boycotting Sinclair Broadcasting

CNN's Stan Grant offers a gripping  account of what he saw on the tsunami scene. It's one more thing that will haunt us, so we offer this large excerpt:We were traveling with a group of Tamil Tigers, who were collecting the bodies of the dead from one area that had been devastated. And we came across a group of bodies in the distance. From where I stood, I could see that … [Read more...] about CNN REPORTER: The Tsunami Killed More Than Statistics

NOTE: We have been putting many update links at the bottom of our original post on the tsunami (this was the one about the Asian bloggers). Since that post is running very long, we're starting a new update here. Save this permalink since all updates from Jan 6, 2005 on will go here. (For a complete chronology, go back to our first post). This update roundup will also include … [Read more...] about Tsunami News Update