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The media and access issues: content analysis of Canadian newspaper coverage of health policy decisions
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Background ::: Previous studies have demonstrated how the media has an influence on policy decisions and healthcare coverage. Studies of Canadian media have shown that news coverage often emphasizes and hypes certain aspects of high profile health debates. We hypothesized that in Canadian media coverage of access to healthcare issues about therapies and technologies including for rare diseases, the media would be largely sympathetic towards patients, thus adding to public debate that largely favors increased access to healthcare—even in the face of equivocal evidence regarding efficacy.
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The authors give a comprehensive overview of library and information services in China over the last 20 years, in the context of political developments in the region
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Introduction - 'The Future of Online Journalism: News, Community, and Democracy in the Digital Age'
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This is the introductory essay in the "I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society" symposium on the future of online journalism. It argues that, notwithstanding the innovative journalism practices enabled by digital technologies, market-driven online enterprises alone will prove insufficient to provide local communities the accountability journalism they need in order for democracy to thrive.
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Goal, Scope and Background ::: This paper describes the modelling of two emerging electricity systems based on renewable energy: photovoltaic (PV) and wind power. The paper shows the approach used in the ecoinvent database for multi-output processes.
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Welcome New Face for Critical Media Studies in South Pacific [Book Review]
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Review(s) of: Tokwin edited by Sorariba, Nash G., Information and Communication Science in association with UPNG Journalism Studies, University of Papua New Guinea 2001. 107 pp. ISSN 1607-6931.
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Acknowledments Judgment Day: A Vignette Introduction: The Supreme Court Under the Media Lens 1 A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court 2 Equal in Alberta: The Vriend Case 3 Court and Spin Country: The Quebec Secession Reference 4 "Sea of Confusion": R. v. Marshall 5 "Parents Can Sleep Soundly": The Queen v. John Robin Sharpe 6 Judges and Journalists Conclusion: Reporting the Supreme Court through a Political Prism Appendix A: Interview Questions Appendix B: Method of Analysis -- Coding Instructions and Sample Code Sheet About the Authors Index
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Newspapers and the Making of Modern America: A History
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Newspapers and Their Cities, Towns, and Villages Tabloids and the City: The New York Daily News, The Daily Mirror and Evening Graphic Small Town Reform Newspapers: The Des Moines Register, The Emporia Gazette and Anniston Star The Black Press Goes to War: The Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and The Baltimore Afro-American Postwar Newspapers, Suburbanization, and Land Development: Los Angeles Times and Long Island Newsday Florida in Chains: The Miami Herald and Tampa Tribune The Community Newspaper: The Village Voice, East Village Other, and Chicago Seed to CNHI National Newspapers and the Nation: The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY
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In this paper I will, from a multimodal perspective, examine how social media maychange the relationship between students' own-produced texts and the schoolsubject that is studied. I will also disc ...
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The grassroots reach for the sky
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In a light-hearted departure from typical conference proceedings, this paper identifies the need for research related to greenways and attempts to entice the conference scholars into undertaking such studies. Greenways are long, skinny connecting corridors for nature, recreation and transportation which need the attention of academicians and researchers to move into mainstream America.
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Subtitle: Eclispe Aviation founder Vern Raburn explains why he still dreams of making business jet travel accessible to millions.
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The Tainted Hero: Frames of Domestication in Norwegian Press Representation of the Bali Climate Summit
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This article presents an analysis of two major Norwegian newspapers’ coverage of a major transnational media event—the Bali Climate Summit in December 2007. Climate Summits are seen as ample opportunities to study journalism at the global level and simultaneously the relation between global and local perspectives. It demonstrates how main national actors within the political field exercise their hegemony toward the press and that the Norwegian leaders in Bali are partly framed as global heroes. But it furthermore reveals how a critical scrutiny of Norway’s role as a major oil polluter emerges in the press in opposition to the hero framing. Thus, a distinction between different modes of journalistic domestication is made, which invites more critical scrutiny of Climate Change actors both within the confines of the nation-state and more globally. The investigation is based on textual analysis as well as framing theory—and on perspectives of hegemony and “good sense” within the journalistic field.
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Introduction: Making Spaces for Speech Amanda Whiting, Andrew Kenyon, Tim Marjoribanks, with Naomita Royan 1. Media Governmentality in Singapore Terence Lee 2. Why Singapore Journalists don't Press for Legal Reform Cherian George 3. Malaysiakini's Citizen Journalists: Navigating Local and National Identities Online Janet Steele 4. Seeking Democracy in Malaysia: New Media, Traditional Media and the State Mustafa K. Anuar 5. Defaming Politicians, Scandalising the Courts: A Look at Recent Developments in Singapore Kevin Y.L .Tan 6. Media Professionals' Perceptions of Defamation and other Constraints upon News Reporting in Malaysia and Singapore Amanda Whiting and Timothy Marjoribanks 7. Moulding a `Rational' Electoral Contest Regime Singapore-Style Tey Tsun Hang 8. New Media and General Elections: Online Citizen Journalism in Malaysia and Singapore James Gomez and Chang Han Leong
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Climate change politics: communication and public engagement
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Climate change politics: communication and public engagement / Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson, Eds. Cambria Press, November 2012, 396 p. ISBN 9781604978230 http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=528 This book examines communication as a key component of climate change politics and shows how climate change communication has the potential to invigorate civic politics. It analyzes how citizens represent, construct, and circulate ideas about climate change and how th...
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ABSTRACTIntroduction: Governments need to do far more to help curb the emergence and transmission of antibiotic resistance and help protect the efficacy of any new antibiotics that come to the mark...
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Policing perception: postpolitics and the elusive everyday
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ABSTRACTThis piece argues that urban postpolitical scholarship should pay greater attention to the everyday lives of urban residents and the everyday spaces of contemporary cities. Recent debates i...
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Climate change politics: communication and public engagement / Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson, Eds. Cambria Press, November 2012, 396 p. ISBN 9781604978230 http://www.cambriapress.com/cambriapress.cfm?template=4&bid=528 This book examines communication as a key component of climate change politics and shows how climate change communication has the potential to invigorate civic politics. It analyzes how citizens represent, construct, and circulate ideas about climate change and how th...
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Which of these best explains why the different news media outlets cover the same news stories in different ways?
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Why do different news outlets not cover the same news stories in exactly the same way?
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Why do different news outlets not cover the same news stories in exactly the same way?
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As always, all important issues were moved to the back burner on Friday before noon, that is half an hour after the start of the debate.
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The issues were pushed back on the agenda.
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The issues were pushed up on the agenda.
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He says that they do their congressional work during the day and do media in the evening.
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He says that they are doing congressional work while the media does it in the evening.
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The congressional work that they do takes place in the evening.
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The press can also do a poor job analyzing policy issues--what was the last really illuminating story you read about the Social Security trust fund?
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The press sometimes do a bad job of assessing policy issues.
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The press publishes very frequent and highly informative stories about social security.
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The mainstream media do not cut George W. any slack.
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George isn't given any slack by the mainstream media.
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The mainstream media was very casual when talking about George.
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The principal topic of discussion about the Martha Stewart Living IPO was Martha Stewart's death.
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Ironically, Martha Stewart's death turned out to be the primary subject being discussed at the Martha Stewart Living IPO.
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At the Martha Stewart Life IPO, the subject being brought up by the panel the most was Martha Stewart's death.
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An exclusive report reveals that controversial feminist Naomi Wolf is advising the Gore campaign on how to win the women's vote.
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A report revealed that Wolf is advising the Gore campaign.
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Wolf is advising Gore's campaign on how to get men to vote for him.
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There, accompanying a story about politicians speaking their minds about other countries, you'll find a looming picture of Al Gore, cropped so close that none of his hair is visible and you can see the sweat that's bubbling out of every giant pore in his face.
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You;ll find a close cropped photo of a sweaty Al Gore with large pores and visible hair loss with the story about politicians speaking their minds about other countries.
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The photo of Al Gore was cropped closely but you could not see his pores and his hair looked great.
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Some of the Gore-related sites that Direct Hit said were visited most by those searching for Gore material are out of date and thinly visited.
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The sites did not have current materials about Gore.
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The sites had too much information to process in one day.
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and uh it's it's just like a different different world getting involved with those kinds with those with those people in politics so it is interesting very interesting
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It's quite interesting to get involved in the politic world.
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I really hate politics, I would never get involved in it.
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Trump, climate change and white US Evangelicalism
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President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord last week was made possible by the rise of a climate-denying faction within white US Evangelicalism. Over the past decade this growing faction has come to regard the very idea of climate change as a threat to their identity, presenting climate discourse as a cultural attack on the embattled Christian identity. Willis Jenkins argues that we should view this climate denial not as the result of a religious narrative, but as a way of avoiding accountability for polluting the atmosphere.
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AbstractThis systematic review extends the boundary of prior reviews in the environmental education (EE) field by analyzing publications focused on Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM). We exami...
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Conversations and Campaign Dynamics in a Hybrid Media Environment: Use of Twitter by Members of the German Bundestag
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This article examines how Members of the German Bundestag (MdBs) used Twitter in the context of the country’s 2013 federal elections. In particular, we explore the dynamics in the MdBs’ use of Twitter during different periods of the electoral term: How do the tweeting habits of MdBs differ by party before and during the election campaign in (a) public versus personal communication and (b) campaign versus policy messages? How are the selection of interaction partners, centralization on leading actors, and reciprocity of the MdBs’ Twitter networks affected by election campaigning? We address these questions by conducting a content analysis combined with a network analysis of interaction patterns. The comparative application of both methods explains the differences of MdBs’ networks. The comparison clearly exhibits election campaign-driven changes related to the amount of activity and the character of tweeted messages. During the campaign period, MdBs’ tweets clearly discussed specific policies less than bef...
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My first federal election campaign was in 1996. I'd been a journalist for two whole weeks when Paul Keating called the election he would lose to John Howard. I was entirely clueless. No responsible editor could put me on the bus where reporters are positioned to cover the leaders-at least not in those days, because in those days only senior people went out on the campaign trail. My bureau chief, a benevolent soul, hid me in plain sight, deploying me to Tasmania on a contained field trip to interview Bob Brown, who was running for the Senate. Not even the new kid could screw up that assignment, but I managed to, somehow. A colleague had to help me beat the piece into shape to get it published. It was a less than auspicious start but fundamentally I'm implacable and relentless, and was fixated on the notion that political journalism was my vocation. I vowed there would be more campaigns, and I would learn from every single one of them.
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Why is the mass media more effective in forming public opinion today?
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Some nigerian work on the effect of mass media on adolescents' behaviour?
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Why is mars never visible like Venus?
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Andrew Revkin, Exploring the 'Top of the World'
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New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has covered climate change and climate politics for 20 years. His new book The North Pole Was Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World is geared toward young adults. He writes about scientists monitoring the polar ice cap, and early expeditions to the North Pole -- some successful, some not. Revkin has been to the Arctic three times in the last three years.
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Commentator Andrei Codrescu says the real conceptual artists are working on the Web now. He compares what is being done online favorably with the best museum pieces that went up and then were dismantled.
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Golden Globes reduced to news conference
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The Golden Globes, the ceremony known for getting Hollywood's awards season off to a rollicking start, will be reduced to a news conference Sunday by the writers strike and will likely draw picket lines and lack star power.
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Description: NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks to Tandelaya Wilder, host of She Got Game, about the results of the US Open tennis finals.
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Writers won't picket the Golden Globes
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Striking Hollywood writers said Friday they had decided not to picket the Golden Globe Awards because organizers of Sunday's event changed it from an exclusive NBC broadcast to an event open to all media.
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Paparazzi, beware. George Clooney has a plan to put celeb-snapping photographers out of business.
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Broadcast of Golden Globes Is in Doubt
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Hollywoodâs glamour machine is stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next monthâs Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away.
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Description: NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks to Tandelaya Wilder, host of She Got Game, about the results of the US Open tennis finals.
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An active environmentalist , Scott has also joined with WWF-Canada to speak out in favour of efforts to maintain British Columbia 's natural wilderness .
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Niedermayer is an environmentalist and joined WWF-Canada to speak out in favour of efforts to maintain British Columbia 's natural wilderness .
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After leaving Idol , Brown gave several media interviews with `` Entertainment Weekly '' , `` USA Today '' , `` The Los Angeles Times '' , `` People '' , several Fox affiliates , MTV , E! , with Ryan Seacrest on his radio show ( `` On Air with Ryan Seacrest '' ) , with Ellen DeGeneres on `` The Ellen DeGeneres Show '' , along with several in New York , including `` the Wendy Williams Show '' and `` The Late Show with David Letterman '' , where she performed `` What a Wonderful World '' .
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Thomas Rhett & Crew Share Moment of Silence for Las Vegas
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By Scott T. Sterling
Thomas Rhett and his touring crew had a moment of silence before a recent show in honor of the shooting victims at the Route 91 festival in Las Vegas.
Related: Artists Respond to Tragedy in Las Vegas
The moment happened as Rhett was preparing to perform at the North Charleston Coliseum in South Carolina last night (Oct.5), which he shared on Instagram.
“Today we gathered for a moment of silence in the arena we are playing in tonight as a family,” Rhett wrote next to a photo of his touring entourage gathered on the main floor of the empty arena. “We have people on our crew that were on the side of the stage during the shooting in Vegas and some that were there working in other areas. It was very strange walking into an arena for a night of music after the horrible events that took place a few days ago,” he continued.
“We decided as a band and crew that we would not play this or the shows to come in fear, but rather in a spirit of love and joy that music is supposed to bring. We will never forget this tragic event but we will continue to celebrate the good in the world. Much love 🙌🏼 God bless.”
See the post below.
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Notes: In the Affiliates version there is a break point with re-introduction at 23:49 for stations needing to insert station ID or announcements.
The time has come for many things: for peace, for climate action, for economic sanity, the list is long.
This week on Radio Ecoshock we thunder into another place humans don't like to go. The nasty truth is we are killing off the only known living companions we have in the universe, as our first guest says. The venerable biologist and head of the Stanford Center for Biodiversity Paul Erhlich joins us.
Paul is followed by Will Tuttle, author of "The World Peace Diet." Tuttle says you can't care about climate change and still eat meat, because about half of all global emissions are driven by the industrial slaughter of our fellow species. That hidden holocaust of animals is also eating into our minds, twisting itself back out as illness and violence.
Too much information? Don't worry, be happy with this week's "Climate Variety Hour... In just ten minutes." Get inspired with Bernie Sanders, climate humor from UK's Guardian newspaper, and bits from climate songs by people who can actually sing.
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NPR: 07-14-2009 Fresh Air
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Stories: 1) Investigative Journalist Probes CIA Secrets 2) Covering Iran Without A Press Pass
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You'll breeze towards the heart of summer with this week's music from Eddi Reader, William Jackson, Nightnoise and more. This episode originally aired the week of June 30. For more information on this program, please visit www.thistleradio.com.
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NPR: 09-04-2007 Fresh Air
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Stories: 1) Author Stephen Walt Takes On 'The Israel Lobby' 2) Anti-Defamation League Takes On Stephen Walt 3) In Memory of Michael Jackson, King of Beer
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You'll breeze towards the heart of summer with this week's music from Eddi Reader, William Jackson, Nightnoise and more. This episode originally aired the week of June 30. For more information on this program, please visit www.thistleradio.com.
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who is eric spencer
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Eric Clay Spencer is a financial advisor employed by Secure Asset Management in Bloomfield, Michigan. Eric is registered with the SEC as an Investment Advisor, which is defined as someone who is paid to provide advice about securities.
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Eric Francis Coppolino. Eric Francis Coppolino, a Brooklyn native, is the worldâs only astrologer to carry international press credentials. After a long career as an investigative reporter covering corporate crime, Eric went from the front page to the horoscope page. Today he's the editor of Planet Waves, a daily astrology magazine, and is the the host of Planet Waves FM, a weekly program affiliated with the Pacifica Radio Network.
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where is adam tod brown
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Adam Tod Brown is a popular columnist, comedian, and podcast host working out of Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He has written for Playboy.com, but is most well for his a weekly column called The People vs. Adam Tod Brown on Cracked.com, which is known for riling up both conversation and controversy with his views on music, society, and historical perspective.
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Dr. Douglas Brown is a neurologist in Rapid City, SD, and has been in practice more than 20 years. more
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On brink of $10 million year, ho-hum Singh talk, toast of golf
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No cheering in the press box. This is the first, second and third commandment of sports journalism, at least until Vijay Singh's approach shot on a Sunday back nine appears to be sailing a tad too long.
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I am surprised this is still making news after so many days. However, if someone pays 28000 dollars for a grilled sandwich⦠it is something.
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1. Billboard + Simon/Rapoport
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SPORTS/ELVIS: ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE OPENING OF THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION'S PLAYOFFS AND RON OFFERS PREDICTIONS. AND SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE "PANTHER," A FICTIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE BLACK PANTHER MOVEMENT OF THE 1960'S.
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A canceled-then-reinstated trade shakes basketball before it can even start up again. Also, do Tim Tebow's victories speak as loud as his prayers? Host Scott Simon talks sports with NPR's Tom Goldman.
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Listener Letters: Republicans, and Yankees
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NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Michele Norris read from listener's letters about our coverage of the Republican National Convention, The New York Yankees' 22-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians, our report on "Extreme Croquet" and our feature on Sam Marsenison's first day of kindergarten. Also, we have a correction to our piece on Andy Warhol's time capsules.
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David and Tom Gardner discuss AOL-Time Warner, Xerox, IRS deductions, and baseball salaries.
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Kentucky Sports Radio Show Becomes A Destination For Politicians
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A popular sports radio show in Kentucky is becoming a must stop for political candidates – even some of the presidential contenders. Ashley Lopez from Here & Now contributor WFPL in Louisville explains how Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones turned a show about basketball into a place where sports fans can hear from people seeking elected office.
Read more via WFPL
Guest
Ashley Lopez, political reporter for WFPL in Louisville, Kentucky. She tweets @AshLopezRadio.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and <em>ESPN the Magazine</em> about the significance of — and fallout from — professional athletes kneeling during the national anthem.
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North Dakota Journal
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Last year, we broadcast a story about a North Dakota high school basketball championship back in l968. NPR's John Ydstie played in that game. After hearing the piece, a listener named Ted Sherarts, took a car trip through the small towns of North Dakota. He sent us his travel diary, and we hear excerpts from that trip. (7:30)<BR>
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NPR's Noah Adams talks to Web logger Glenn Reynolds about the ban on personal online diaries for Olympic athletes.
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Sports: On Comebacks And Siblings
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Hockey is back, and so are the crowds. Is Tiger Woods, too? Host Scott Simon talks to NPR's Tom Goldman about these stories as well as the science of siblings in the ultimate brotherly faceoff.
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Baseball's post-season is here, and it's getting warmer at the ballparks with some smokin' pitching. And I've heard of cold duck, but what's all this about hot ducks in Oregon? Host Scott Simon talks to NPR Sports correspondent Tom Goldman about the baseball playoffs and college football.
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Hollywood paper Variety lures rival's top writers
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Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety said on Monday it hired the editor and deputy film editor of its archrival the Hollywood Reporter, a move that comes three months after the Reporter laid off 10 people.
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The man who provided key documents for an anti-spying suit against the telecom giant breaks his silence, claiming the Los Angeles Times killed his story at the feds' request. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray Column: Thursday Night Offers Some Tough Choices
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By Ellen Gray, Philadelphia Daily News Sep. 21--SHARK. 10 tonight, Channel 3. SIX DEGREES. 10 tonight, Channel 6.
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Description: NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks to Tandelaya Wilder, host of She Got Game, about the results of the US Open tennis finals.
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Hollywood writers press talks with small producers
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Striking Hollywood writers have opened preliminary contract talks with small, independent producers willing to break from major studios with whom the writers are deadlocked, their union leaders said on Wednesday.
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ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership, shrivelling papers...is journalism imploding? Can independent journalism survive?
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White House cut warming impact testimony
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The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents.
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Excerpt from report by Russian Ekho Moskvy radio on 2 February [Presenter] Precisely today, when experts from the whole world are discussing the long-awaited climate change report, more and more information is turning up here in Russia in connection with unusual snow.
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What is news to John Q. Public?
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With the rise of user-driven content sites, Internet users have a say in what is news. A new study examines the differences between what editors think is newsworthy and what the public does.
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Washington Post Co. WPO.N said on Friday that quarterly profit jumped, beating analysts' forecasts, boosted by results at its Kaplan education unit and television broadcasting operations.
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WITNESS: "Hurricane Katrina was big, but God is bigger"
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Jon Hurdle has been reporting for Reuters from Philadelphia since 2004. A native of England, he has been a print journalist for 25 years. In the following story he recounts his experiences as a volunteer helping to rebuild after the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina 2-1/2 years ago.
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Sodom and Gomorrah for the information age Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet.â¦
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Mad Magazine Uses Pulitzer Winners to Tweak Bush
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Mad magazine enlists the talents of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists for its upcoming two-page exposé, âWhy George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming.â
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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Each scientist also attacked the other in scientific publications , seeking to ruin his credibility and have his funding cut off .
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Each scientist attacked the other in scientific publications , seeking to ruin his credibility and have his funding cut off .
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The opening of group homes is occasionally fought against by neighbors who fear that it will lead to a rise in crime and\/or a drop in property values .
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Conservative William Kristol becomes NY Times columnist
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William Kristol, a prominent conservative pundit and magazine editor, has signed on as a columnist for The New York Times, a publication he has often sharply criticized, the newspaper announced on Saturday.
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CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos travels to Tokyo to find out what might be winding up on U.S. shelves in the not-too-distant future.
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News: we are in Wired
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Gabe: Wired has a pretty big article about Penny Arcade in it's latest issue. We've done a lot of interviews but Wired actually sent a writer named Chris Baker out to spend a few days in our office. Sort of like a geek version of Jane Goodall, He hung out with us all day and took notes while we played games and made the comic. Chris interviewed everyone here and even found time to question our wives and friends. Living with us the way he did I think he managed to get some pretty candid stuff out of Tycho and I. Things we might never have divulged during a standard interview. By the end of the week I think we all considered Chris a friend and a valuable addition to any Halo 3 team. The resulting article is a pretty complete look at our little company here as well as the most honest interview I think anyone's ever managed to get out of us. If you're interested you can read it online right here. -Gabe out
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Mad magazine enlists the talents of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists for its upcoming two-page exposé, âWhy George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming.â
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Breakthrough in striking writers talks
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A breakthrough in contract talks has been reached between Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week, a person close to the ongoing negotiations said Saturday.
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The surge of interest in Barack Obama after his speech to the Democratic National Convention is spilling over to a book he wrote a decade ago, with a first edition copy going for $255 on eBay and pre-release orders for a new edition already putting it on best-seller lists.
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Media criticise jailing of Tempo chief editor
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JAKARTA - International and local observers lambasted the guilty verdict against Tempo magazine's chief editor Bambang Harymurti as a setback for press freedom and democracy.
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--MediaCorp and Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. (T39.SG) Tuesday said they will shut down an English language TV station and lay off 132 employees ahead of a merger of their mass market TV and free newspaper operations.
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Progressives Think Bloomberg Might Be Spoiler (U.S. News & World Report)
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U.S. News & World Report - The villain of the 2000 presidential election, Ralph Nader, was greeted by boos and hisses this morning by Progressives at their annual conference in Washington D.C., as he introduced Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel.
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The nytimesriver.com site is the perfect way to read news on a mobile web browser, on a Blackberry, iPhone or Nokia N95, as examples. The home page of the site is a stream of new stories, in reverse chronologic order, with titles, links and descriptions. Until today the links went to printer-friendly versions of articles, now they point to mobile versions, with ads on them, so they make a bit of money for the Times. This was the first concrete result of my meeting with the Times tech guys on Thursday in New York. http://nytimesriver.com/ Here's an example of a mobile Times story.
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The Winds of Change Are Felt at Publishers Weekly
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Sara Nelson, who will take over the top editorial job at Publishers Weekly on Jan. 24, says the magazine "needs to be modernized."
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WASHINGTON - The Washington Post Co. said Tuesday it is buying Slate from Microsoft Corp. for an undisclosed sum, in an effort to boost the newspaper company's online traffic.
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Google Is Watching You
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Kevin Bankston didn't think anyone would notice his little cigarette break. His family didn't know he sometimes snuck a smoke.
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Gawker Media will now pay its bloggers based on the number of times each post they write is read.
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Blogging the Story Alive
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I was clicking through cable TV channels the other night looking for something (anything) to watch when I came across two guys sparring over "Memogate.
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Coffee shop debate without the froth? Those with stuff they just have to get off their chests now have a new venue: Friction.tv. The site has been running in public beta, but had its official launch this week.â¦
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New era in news begins at NBC
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NEW YORK - Anchor Brian Williams takes over as the host for NBC Nightly News on Thursday, marking a new beginning for the top-rated US newscast.
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Blog: Bloggers report that Google and Yahoo are creating new social networks to try to get back in the game since their existing services haven't gained widespread adoption
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Al Gore's First Podcast
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In a talk with TIME's Eric Pooley, the former Vice President explains why he's been so careful not to rule out a Presidential bid
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Who says they don't get irony? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing six car manufacturers for selling products which contribute to global warming and damage the environment of California.â¦
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'It's time to move on,' Dan Rather reports
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And then the second anchor dropped. CBS News' embattled Dan Rather -- who, along with fellow network anchormen Tom Brokaw of NBC and Peter Jennings of ABC, was part of a veritable Mt.
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Web publishing company Six Apart has released a free version of its Movable Type blogging platform under an open-source license. The move will help Movable Type compete with its main rival, the open-source WordPress platform, which, over the last few years, has largely surpassed it as the platform of choice among bloggers.
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World's Largest Science Gathering Promises New Discoveries, Global Impacts
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Thousands of scientists will spend five days in Boston discussing global climate change, disease and the future of the developing world. It's the world's largest general science conference.
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In a revelation that should give late-night comedians two or three days' worth of snark fodder, the headlines this morning startled us with the news that the world's
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An Editorâs Untimely Departure Is Captured in Just a Flicker
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John Curley, a former deputy managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle, announced he was let go by posting the news on Flickr, the photo-sharing Web site.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After 20 years leading BusinessWeek magazine -- a tenure defined by editorial excellence, circulation growth and global expansion -- Stephen B. Shepard, Editor-in-Chief, will retire effective April 1, 2005.
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Science on the Web: Don't Try This at Home
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Two million YouTube viewers recently sought the answer to the question, "Can water burn?"
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The following comments were posted on the gazette.com Web site in response to recent stories headlined in bold below. The Gazette edited the comments for spelling and shortened some of them, but the paper makes no claim as to their accuracy.
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Television: Talking Politics, Drawing Viewers
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As television viewers paid increasing attention this year to the presidential race, they often sought out more politically opinionated talk, at least on cable.
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At CES 2008 Monday afternoon, Variety Magazine hosted a panel discussion and Q&A session with representatives from some of today's biggest content providers. Their discussion was the future of content delivery, and the big question was this: How will you make money from it?
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Walters says Rosie, Ripa feud is over
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Barbara Walters said Wednesday all is now "well with the world" following a flare-up earlier this week between Rosie O'Donnell and Kelly Ripa on "The View."
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Wall Street's merger-fueled rally may continue next week, so long as Friday's payrolls report and other economic news don't spoil the party.
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BBC revives 1960s satirical show
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The Frost Report, a topical satirical programme from 40 years ago, is returning for a one-off special on BBC Four.
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Police investigate a BNP leaflet posted to homes in Swansea opposing plans for a new mosque.
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World's Scientists Converge on Boston for AAAS
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The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science attracts more than 8,000 scientists for discussions and presentations of all types. Wired Science provides full coverage from Friday through Monday.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Feb. 2--ASHEVILLE -- Today's release of a milestone report on global warming can be traced in part to a modern slab of a building in this funky downtown.
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In his blogs , he stated his support for Barack Obama .
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In his blogs , he openly stated his support for Barack Obama .
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The link between King and his shadow writer was found out after a Washington , D.C. bookstore clerk , Steve Brown , noted things that seemed the same between the writing styles of King and Bachman .
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From 1991 to 1995 , Greste was based in London , Bosnia and South Africa , where he worked for Reuters , CNN , WTN and the BBC .
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From 1991 to 1995 , he was based in the United Kingdom , Bosnia and South Africa . During this time , he worked for Reuters , CNN , WTN and the BBC .
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The Gringo Gazette is a newspaper in English-language founded by Carrie Duncan , published every other week for the Americans expatriate communities in Baja California and Baja California Sur , Mexico .
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The show 's directors , Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko , claim the events are canon .
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The show 's directors , Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko , say the events are canon .
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None of the authors , contributors , sponsors , administrators , vandals , or anyone else connected with Wikipedia , in any way at all , can be responsible for your use of the information in or linked from these web pages .
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The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Spokane in U.S. state of Washington , where it is the city 's only daily publication .
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The Spokesman Review Is a newspaper based in Spokane , Washington , in the United States .
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What originally was a two-hundred-fifty-word photo-caption-job for `` Sports Illustrated '' grew to a novel-length feature story for `` Rolling Stone '' . Thompson said publisher Jann Wenner had `` liked the first 20 or so jangled pages enough to take it seriously on its own terms and tentatively scheduled it for publication -- which gave me the push I needed to keep working on it '' .
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Worrying About the Public Worrying
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Why wonât NASA release the results of a survey of 8,000 commercial pilots that sought to track safety problems and determine if they were worsening?
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Bill Gates made three public appearances during a trip to California late last week. Some of the more interesting moments, as captured in the media coverage: San Francisco Chronicle: "Gates took questions
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Progressive Preaching
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Pastor Joel Osteen of Houston is the new face of Christianity, upbeat and contemporary, media-smart with a heightened sense of entertainment and general appeal.
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Mad magazine enlists the talents of 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists for its upcoming two-page exposé, âWhy George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming.â
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Brokaw Steps Down After 21 Years as NBC Anchor
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Telling his audience "we've been through a lot together," Tom Brokaw bid farewell as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" on Wednesday, becoming the first of the big three stars of U.S. network news for the last 20 years to retire.
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One sign Election 2004 is over: At Barnes & Noble bookstores, tables piled with current-events books have been dismantled, giving way to holiday gift-book displays. In a year teeming with books from the left and the right, only a "non-political" political book remains a top seller -America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, a sendup of a high school civics textbook.
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Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is You
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You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace.
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Kathryn Troutman, president of The Resume Place Inc., discusses trends facing workers in goverment -- and those who'd like to join the federal workforce.
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New York Times and CNBC in Web deal
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New York Times Co and business news channel CNBC will share video and stories from each other's Web sites in an alliance that could bolster them against an expected assault by News Corp .
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Also: Seeking readers via online 'book trailer'. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Dropping off the grid
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After screwing up his travel preparations, CNET News.com's Charles Cooper goes through the electronic equivalent of cold turkey.
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Paparazzi, beware. George Clooney has a plan to put celeb-snapping photographers out of business.
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Could this be the global-warming generation?
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Live Earth concerts in eight countries hope to inspire action. Will it work?
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Sodom and Gomorrah for the information age Mother Nature may be hitting back at the scourge of spam-filled inboxes, according to IE Internet.â¦
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Much more than a Hollywood hit
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Arts & entertainment: Review: Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey make Speed-The-Plow a buddy movie gone brilliantly wrong, writes Michael Billington
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Tsunami News, Search Engines and Blogs Lead Traffic to Humanitarian Sites With relief coming in from all over the world, U.S. citizens are embracing the Internet to support relief efforts for victims of the Asian Tsunami disaster. According to Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence service, the market share of ...
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Al Gore Promotes Warming Movie in Cannes
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The United States is emerging from a "bubble of unreality" about the problem of global warming, former Vice President Al Gore said Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush delivered a sober assessment of the war in Iraq Monday, acknowledging that recent terrorist bombings were proving to be "effective propaganda tools.
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Quoted in the News? Post a Comment, Please
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Google News offers a new feature that allows people quoted in news articles to post a comment that will be paired with that article online.
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Illustrating a point Fancy a thousand dollar bill? You could get one, if you run a blog, and use an internet image.â¦
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Field Burning Ruled Illegal: Court Says It Violates Clean Air Act, Orders EPA to Reconsider Rules
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By Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Jan. 31--Grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie set their fields ablaze every summer, sending plumes of thick smoke into the skies. And the state of Idaho defends the controversial practice.
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days. It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire." The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use. I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree. So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Justicesâ First Brush With Global Warming
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Justices tried to estimate the harm of not regulating greenhouse gases from new vehicles.
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LOS ANGELES - The Producers Guild of America will honor the eco-documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" with the 2007 Stanley Kramer Award, which recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues."
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In Cincinnati, a 126-Year-Old Paper Goes to Press for the Last Time
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The Dec. 31 issues of The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post will be the last for both newspapers, which are part of a dying breed of afternoon dailies.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Feb. 2--ASHEVILLE -- Today's release of a milestone report on global warming can be traced in part to a modern slab of a building in this funky downtown.
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Gore: U.S. Obstructing Climate Talks
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...
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LOS ANGELES - The Producers Guild of America will honor the eco-documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" with the 2007 Stanley Kramer Award, which recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues."
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No Kidding: Miami Herald's Barry to Take Year Off
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Miami Herald humor columnist Dave Barry, who has poked fun at life's more bizarre aspects for 20 years, is giving up his weekly column from next January for at least a year, the paper said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- After 20 years leading BusinessWeek magazine -- a tenure defined by editorial excellence, circulation growth and global expansion -- Stephen B. Shepard, Editor-in-Chief, will retire effective April 1, 2005.
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Herald Tribune Publisher Departs
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Michael Golden, publisher of The International Herald Tribune, said he was leaving the position to focus on his position as vice chairman of The New York Times Company.
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The troupe is freezing pay, cutting positions and canceling tours in a wave of measures that it says are putting the company back on the road to financial health.
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Al Gore documentary honored
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LOS ANGELES - The Producers Guild of America will honor the eco-documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" with the 2007 Stanley Kramer Award, which recognizes "work that dramatically illustrates provocative social issues."
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Who says they don't get irony? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing six car manufacturers for selling products which contribute to global warming and damage the environment of California.â¦
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NEWS ANALYSIS Upstaging Before the Show
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na few dozen blocks of the same slender island, two worlds collided yesterday: the Republican convention's calculated claims to patriotism and the presidency met elaborately planned and heavily
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Radical new plans outlining the future of the BBC will be announced, including including thousands of job cuts. Do you agree with the plans?
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Tread lightly and make a difference
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Science & environment: The Guardian launches a unique website to help readers to reduce carbon footprint.
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He's got social networking pages online. He visits college campuses, where enthusiastic student groups lobby hard to get their peers involved in politics.
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Johnny Carson Kept Americans Up Late for 30 Years
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Johnny Carson, the iconic host of the most enduring U.S. night-time talk show, kept Americans up late for 30 years.
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News programming has proved to be unpopular on network television, even as the writers' strike creates holes in prime time schedules, the Associated Press reports: With the exception of CBS ordering a few more ''48 Hours: Mysteries'' true crime yarns, the networks haven't looked to their news divisions to fill holes expected when viewers' favorite dramas [...].
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( The figure is 38 if Next , Noa , and Nexus are counted as separate entities -- it has been revealed in Nexus that all three are a single being with various modes used by different hosts . )
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( The figure is 38 if Next , Noa , and Nexus are counted as separate ultra 's it has been revealed in Nexus that all three are a single being with many modes used by different hosts . )
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For 30 years , he constructed a puzzle every Sunday for the `` San Francisco Chronicle '' ( originally the `` San Francisco Examiner '' ) , which he syndicated to more than 50 Sunday newspapers , including the `` Washington Post '' , the `` Los Angeles Times '' , the `` Philadelphia Inquirer '' , the `` Seattle Times '' , `` The Plain Dealer '' , the `` Hartford Courant '' , the `` New York Observer '' , and the `` Arizona Daily Star '' .
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He has been a sporadic contributor of longer-form articles to Wired and of op-eds to The New York Times , and has written for The Observer , Addicted to Noise , New York Times Magazine , Rolling Stone , and Details Magazine .
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He has written essays , opinion-editorials , and commentary for publications such as : Wired , The New York Times , The Observer , Addicted to Noise , New York Times Magazine , Rolling Stone , and Details Magazine .
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`` Entertainment Weekly '' put the site on its end-of-the-decade `` best-of '' list . It said , `` How on earth did we stalk our exes , remember our co-workers ' birthdays , bug our friends , and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook ? ''
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He `` has been a regular contributor to progressive magazines like Mother Jones and The Nation for the better part of his writing career '' and has continued to write for those publications , as well as for The American Conservative , CounterPunch , The New York Review of Books , and the Utne Reader .
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He `` has been a regular contributor to progressive magazines like Mother Jones and The Nation for the better part of his writing career , '' and has continued to write for those publications , as well as for The American Conservative , CounterPunch , The New York Review of Books , and the Utne Reader .
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The website was founded in Berkeley , California . The website includes reviews , previews , a gaming download area , cheats , a merchandise store , webcomics , screenshots , and videos .
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In September 2009 , Time magazine named him one of its `` Heroes of the Environment ( 2009 ) '' , calling him `` The Web 's most influential climate-change blogger '' .
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In September 2009 , Time magazine named him one of its `` Heroes of the Environment '' .
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In 1994 , she received the Right Livelihood Award ( also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize ) , '' ... For her commitment to justice , non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature . ''
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Mike Embley ( born 1955 in Surrey , England ) is a broadcast journalist , best known as a presenter for BBC World News , an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC .
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Mike Embley ( born 1955 in Surrey , England ) is a British broadcast journalist , best known as a presenter for BBC World News , an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC .
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Each member uses a nicknames initially given to them : Melanie Chisholm ( `` Sporty Spice '' ) , Emma Bunton ( `` Baby Spice '' ) , Melanie Brown ( `` Scary Spice '' ) , Torbjörn Bardh ( `` Math Spice '' ) , Victoria Beckham ( née Adams ) ( `` Posh Spice '' ) , and Geri Halliwell ( `` Ginger Spice '' ) .
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A taste of their own medicine?
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Media is used to manipulate public opinion to associate global warming with human activity, and Crichton uses his own media fame to manipulate it back towards skepticism. The irony abounds.
What this book really seems to be is a Rorschach test. The folks who review it poorly do so because it challenges their views and comes off preachy. The folks who review it highly do so because it affirms their views and validates their beliefs (or lack thereof).
Personally, I tend towards skepticism, and find myself favoring Crichton's treatment. But that being said, if you're a dyed in the wool believer, you might not want to subject yourself to this kind of intellectual challenge.
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A tiny bit missing yet still a bit over done with the hitman that killed just as easily but was seemingly determined to take the long way to dose with 456...but all in all, so well written! I did indeed read thru lunch and dinner!
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What is the social responsibility of media?
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What social responsibility does media have?
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Anything and Everything: Which is the most ridiculous piece of news you have heard on a news channel?
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Sheril Kirshenbaum: Survey shows many in U.S. lack basic science knowledge .
She says smart people can get science questions wrong and other polls show better results .
But she says science illiteracy is a problem, and funding cuts, junk science have played role .
Writer: Science graduates must bring science back into society in interdisciplinary ways .
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(CNN) -- Every few years, the National Science Foundation releases its new Science and Engineering Indicators, which feature a barrage of seemingly embarrassing statistics that detail just how much Americans don't know about science. The latest such report, out Friday, has caused a stir by revealing that just 74% of Americans know the Earth revolves around the sun. On the surface this figure may seem troubling, but we can take (some) heart: Aside from serving as instant fodder for the news media, quizzing the public tells us little about the state of science literacy in the United States. Science literacy isn't remembering a bunch of facts. It's an appreciation and understanding of the scientific process and the ability to think critically. A lot of smart people get scientific facts wrong, and it doesn't mean they are uneducated. In the 1987 documentary "A Private Universe," Harvard students, faculty and alumni were asked what causes the four seasons. Nearly everyone interviewed incorrectly explained that seasons change when the Earth gets closer or farther from the sun in orbit rather than because of the tilt of its axis. It's also important to remember that in polling, the way a question is phrased can influence the outcome. For example, the National Science Foundation's Indicators report found that fewer than half of Americans agree with the statement, "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals." However, a 2009 Pew poll reported that six in 10 Americans agree that "humans and other living things have evolved over time due to natural processes." The same year, a Harris Poll reported that while just 29% of Americans agree that "human beings evolved from earlier species," 53% of the same pool of respondents "believe Charles Darwin's theory which states that plants, animals and human beings have evolved over time." In other words, language matters. Still, one can't simply dismiss the Indicators data, in light of the very real problem the country faces: The state of science literacy has been in steep decline for a half-century. After World War II, the United States celebrated scientists for developing crucial wartime technologies from radar to the hydrogen bomb. By 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik sparked tremendous growth in scientific funding for research and development. Back then, scientists were heroes and worked closely with Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. Then things changed. The space race faded to memory, and nonmilitary science funding dipped. Science lost its prominence in policy, and today it's treated as a special-interest group rather than central to the policymaking process. The emergence of the religious right beginning in the late 1970s created unnecessary battles pitting religion again "reason," as if we must choose a side. More recently, budgetary constraints and the transforming media environment led to major cuts in science reporting. These days, most "science stories" that make the news are focused on diet and fitness instead of the latest research that will affect our lives and communities. Meanwhile, the Internet allows us to shop for whatever scientific opinion we want as easily as we shop for holiday gifts. The result is a tsunami of dangerous misinformation and pseudoscience online fueling the rise of such things as the anti-vaccination movement and climate change denial. We need to shift course. It doesn't matter whether every American can correctly answer a pop quiz about science topics he or she had to memorize in grade school. Isn't that what turns a lot of us off to science to begin with? What's important is that we work to foster a more engaged American public that will not only support but also prioritize the research and development necessary to meet the 21st century's greatest challenges, from drought to disease pandemics. One way? Enlist today's young scientists entering the workforce as science emissaries -- training them with interdisciplinary skills that can be applied beyond academia. The number of traditional tenure-track jobs for science Ph.D.s is shrinking, even as we have a critical need for scientific expertise beyond the ivory towers. "Renaissance scientists" who pursue policymaking jobs, work as writers or even just speak another language will be best equipped to bridge the gap between science and society, serving as translators and communicators. We need this new generation of scientific heroes to restore science to its rightful place in America. Only then will we cultivate a culture of science literacy. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sheril Kirshenbaum.
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By . Joshua Gardner . and Ap . Just as Arthur Sulzberger Jr. comes out swinging against accusations former executive editor Jill Abramson was paid less than her male predecessor, Abramson is using her free time to throw punches of her own, with a new hobby: boxing. The axed editor's daughter Cornelia posted an Instagram photo Thursday afternoon showing her mom wearing gloves and smirking at a boxing bag with the message, 'Mom's badass new hobby.' With the message were the hashtags '#girls' and '#pushy,' presumably in reference to rumors Abramson was fired for demanding more money after learning the previous, and male, editor made far more. Scroll down for Sulzberger's full statement... #pushy: Recently canned New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson is using her newly discovered free time to take up boxing...and to fuel rumors she was fired for being #pushy with this Instagram photo posted by her daughter . Pushback: NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. has already swung back with a Thursday memo to employees that said not only was Abramson not paid less than her male predecessor, but was compensated more . Meanwhile, Sulzberger said in a Thursday staff memo that those reports are completely untrue. 'It is simply not true that Jill’s compensation was significantly less than her predecessors,' he wrote in the memo, obtained by Politico. 'Her pay is comparable to that of earlier executive editors.' Sulzberger attributed Abramson's termination in his Wednesday announcement to the New York Times newsroom to 'an issue with management in the newsroom.' The publisher said in his memo that he wanted to 'set the record straight' about 'misinformation' regarding Abramson's salary. In fact, Sulzberger claims she made even more than the man she replaced. 'In 2013, her last full year in the role, her total compensation package was more than 10% higher than that of her predecessor, Bill Keller, in his last full year as Executive Editor, which was 2010,' he wrote. 'It was also higher than his total compensation in any previous year.' The Times announced the abrupt management change on Wednesday, but didn't give a reason, which prompted a flurry of speculation in media circles. In a blog post, New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta quoted an anonymous 'close associate' who said Abramson confronted the Times' 'top brass' about her pay after discovering that both her pay and her pension benefits were less than that of her male predecessor, Bill Keller. The confrontation, Auletta wrote, 'may have fed into the management's narrative that she was "pushy."' In Thursday's memo, Sulzberger said that the only reason behind his decision to dismiss Abrams was 'concerns I had about some aspects of Jill's management of our newsroom, which I had previously made clear to her, both face-to-face and in my annual assessment.' Abramson, 60, was the paper's first female executive editor. She joined the newspaper in 1997 after working for nearly a decade at The Wall Street Journal. She was the Times' Washington editor and bureau chief before being named managing editor in 2003. Memo from Arthur Sulzberger Jr. obtained by POLITICO . Dear Colleagues, . I am writing to you because I am concerned about the misinformation that has been widely circulating in the media since I announced Jill Abramson’s departure yesterday. I particularly want to set the record straight about Jill’s pay as Executive Editor of The Times. It is simply not true that Jill’s compensation was significantly less than her predecessors. Her pay is comparable to that of earlier executive editors. In fact, in 2013, her last full year in the role, her total compensation package was more than 10% higher than that of her predecessor, Bill Keller, in his last full year as Executive Editor, which was 2010. It was also higher than his total compensation in any previous year. Comparisons between the pensions of different executive editors are difficult for several reasons. Pensions are based upon years of service with the Company. Jill’s years of service were significantly fewer than those of many of her predecessors. Secondly, as you may know, pension plans for all managers at The New York Times were frozen in 2009. But this and all other pension changes at the Company have been applied without any gender bias and Jill was not singled out or differentially disadvantaged in any way. Compensation played no part whatsoever in my decision that Jill could not remain as executive editor. Nor did any discussion about compensation. The reason — the only reason — for that decision was concerns I had about some aspects of Jill’s management of our newsroom, which I had previously made clear to her, both face-to-face and in my annual assessment. This Company is fully committed to equal treatment of all its employees, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic. We are working hard to live up to that principle in every part of our organization. I am satisfied that we fully lived up to that commitment with regard to Jill. Arthur .
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Pensioner forces BBC to lift veil on 2006 eco-seminar to top executives .
Papers reveal influence of top green campaigners including Greenpeace .
Then-head of news Helen Boaden said it impacted a 'broad range of output'
Yet BBC has spent more than £20,000 in legal fees trying to keep it secret .
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Cover-up: Former head of news Helen Boaden said the 2006 seminar affected a 'broad range of output', but that its attendees should be kept from the public . The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The controversial seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC’s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its ‘line’ on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting. At the event, in 2006, green activists and scientists – one of whom believes climate change is a bigger danger than global nuclear war – lectured 28 of the Corporation’s most senior executives. Then director of television Jana Bennett opened the seminar by telling the executives to ask themselves: ‘How do you plan and run a city that is going to be submerged?’ And she asked them to consider if climate change laboratories might offer material for a thriller. A lobby group with close links to green campaigners, the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), helped to arrange government funding for both the climate seminar and other BBC seminars run by Mr Harrabin – one of which was attended by then Labour Cabinet Minister Hilary Benn. Applying for money from Mr Benn’s Department for International Development (DFID), the IBT promised Ministers the seminars would influence programme content for years to come. The BBC began its long legal battle to keep details of the conference secret after an amateur climate blogger spotted a passing reference to it in an official report. Tony Newbery, 69, from North Wales, asked for further disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The BBC’s resistance to revealing anything about its funding and the names of those present led to a protracted struggle in the Information Tribunal. The BBC has admitted it has spent more than £20,000 on barristers’ fees. However, the full cost of their legal battle is understood to be much higher. In a written statement opposing disclosure in 2012, former BBC news chief and current director of BBC radio Helen Boaden, who attended the event, admitted: ‘In my view, the seminar had an impact on a broad range of BBC output.’ Plea: Part of Helen Boaden's statement opposing disclosure in 2012. She also said the seminar had sought to 'identify where the main areas of debate lie'. She is now the director of BBC radio . She said this included news reports by Mr Harrabin, and a three-part BBC 2 series presented by geologist Iain Stewart, who told viewers global warming was ‘truly scary’. According to Ms Boaden, ‘Editors and executives who attended were inspired to be more ambitious and creative in their editorial coverage of this slow-moving and complex issue.’ She claimed the seminar sought to ‘identify where the main areas of debate lie’. However, there were no expert climate sceptics present. In an internal report, the IBT boasted that the seminars organised with Mr Harrabin had had ‘a significant impact on the BBC’s output’. Blogger: Tony Newbery, who went to an information tribunal, said the seminar was 'propaganda' Mr Newbery, who finally won his battle last month, said: ‘It is very disappointing that the BBC tried so hard to cover this up. It seems clear that this seminar was a means of exposing executives to green propaganda.’ The freshly disclosed documents show that a number of BBC attendees still occupy senior roles at the Corporation. All four scientists present were strong advocates of the dangers posed by global warming. They were led by Lord May, former president of the Royal Society, who, though not a climate expert, has argued that warming is a greater threat than nuclear war. Other non-BBC staff who attended included Blake Lee-Harwood, head of campaigns at Greenpeace, John Ashton from the powerful green lobby group E3G, Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation, who argued there were only 100 months left to save the planet through radical emissions cuts, and Ashok Sinha of Stop Climate Chaos. The BBC contingent included future director-general George Entwistle, Peter Horrocks, head of TV news, Stephen Mitchell, head of radio news, Francesca Unsworth, head of newsgathering, and Peter Rippon, editor of Radio 4’s PM. Mr Harrabin was the seminar’s principal organiser. He ran it through the Cambridge Media Environment Programme, an outfit he set up with Open University lecturer Joe Smith. Mr Harrabin and Mr Smith did not derive personal financial benefit from the seminar. But by teaming up with the IBT, an avowed lobby group trying to influence coverage, and accepting government funds when Labour was advocating radical policies to combat global warming, Mr Harrabin exposed himself to the charge he could be compromising the Corporation’s impartiality. During the legal battle, the BBC tried to airbrush both the IBT and its approach to the Government for funding from the record. Submissions and witness statements made no mention of it. Influence: The seminar was led by Lord May (left), the former president of the Royal Society who has said climate change is worse than nuclear war, and attendees included former chief George Entwistle (right) Mr Harrabin formed a partnership with the IBT in 2004. According to the newly-disclosed funding application to DFID, drawn up by IBT director Mark Galloway, it helped organise two BBC seminars on Third World themes with Mr Harrabin that year. These, Mr Galloway wrote, ‘had clearly influenced editorial staff and resulted in several new commissions’. DFID’s budget is supposed to be devoted to overseas aid projects. But Mr Galloway asked for £115,305 for the two years from March 2005, adding: ‘We have a firm commitment from the BBC to take part in seminars in 2005 and 2006 and to give all the support they can to this project.’ The DFID did not meet the IBT’s full bid. But the documents show it paid £67,404 over two years. A BBC spokesman said yesterday the seminar had ‘no agenda’, and that the organisers recognised BBC rules on impartiality, while the IBT’s funding application was a ‘matter for them’. COMMENT by DAVID ROSE . Last week was a big one for weather news: the storms and floods in Britain, and the end of the bizarre saga which saw the Akademik Shokalskiy, the ship carrying climate scientists, tourists and a BBC reporter to inspect the ravages of global warming, trapped in Antarctic ice. In both cases, the BBC stuck closely to its skewed, climate alarmist agenda. David Cameron fuelled suggestions that the storms might be due to climate change by saying in the Commons he had ‘suspicions’ they were. The Met Office denied this was the case. Swamped: Flooding on the River Thames last week. David Rose said the BBC followed an agenda . But repeatedly, the BBC followed the PM’s line. Slots on the Radio 4 Today programme and Radio 5 repeated the bogus proposition on three separate days – and in none were sceptics allowed to present an alternative view. Yet the facts are clear. Met Office records show that December 2013 was only the 20th wettest since 1910. It had just two-thirds the rainfall of the wettest, 1914. For October to December, 2013 was only the 14th wettest year, and there has been no discernible trend in UK or English rainfall for more than 100 years. But though the BBC was suggesting the storms were ‘climate’ rather than ‘weather’, it took a contradictory view over the icebound ship. Radio 4’s Inside Science told listeners that the ice was a freak, unpredictable event – driven by weather, not climate – and even added it had been falsely ‘used by climate deniers’ to advance their case. Rescue: The crew of the trapped Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy were airlifted from the Antarctic . Nevertheless, it allowed an interviewee to state without challenge that overall, Antarctic sea ice is only one per cent above average. In fact, it is at record levels, 15 per cent (3.5 million square miles) above normal, and has been increasing for years – a trend the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admits it cannot explain.
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By . Ted Thornhill . UPDATED: . 08:19 EST, 8 February 2012 . H5N1 warning: Professor Paul Keim . Details of secret experiments by scientists who have created the most deadly form of bird flu in the lab will inevitably be leaked - potentially into the hands of terrorists - an expert has warned. A furore erupted in December over the decision by the U.S National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) to censor details of the virus being made public, which can be transmitted by coughs and sneezes. But now the head of that board claims they will enter the public domain anyway. Professor Paul Keim has issued a stark warning to governments to begin preparing for an outbreak. ‘We recognise that, in the long term certainly, the information is going to get out, and maybe even in the midterm,’ he told The Independent. ‘But if we can restrict it in the short term and motivate governments to start getting busy in terms of building up the flu-defence infrastructure, then we’ve succeeded at a certain level.’ Chillingly, he added: ‘The infrastructure to stop a pandemic in this area is not there. We just don’t have the capabilities. Even if we spotted it early on, I don’t think we have enough vaccines. The vaccines aren’t good enough, and the drugs are not good enough to stop this emerging and being a pandemic.’ When H5N1 bird flu erupted over seven years ago, out of the 584 people known to have caught it, 335 died. What stopped it from becoming a world-wide killer was its inability to jump from birds to humans easily. However, a mutation of the virus was made by Ron Fouchier and his team at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam in Holland, which was just as deadly and passed easily between ferrets, the animal that best indicates whether humans will catch it. In December, the NSABB asked the journals Nature and Science to censor publication of the study, and similar research conducted by American scientists, setting off a furious debate in the scientific and public health communities. The move followed a voluntary 60-day suspension of a study into the virus by the researchers themselves, who became worried that their work could lead to a pandemic. Fears were raised that the engineered . viruses may escape from the laboratories - not unlike the frightful . scenario in the 1971 science fiction movie The Andromeda Strain - or . possibly be used to create a bioterror weapon. In a letter published in Nature and Science, 39 scientists defended the research as crucial to public health efforts. Deadly: The new H5N1 virus can be transmitted by coughs and sneezes . Among the scientists who signed the letter were leaders of the two teams that have spearheaded the research, at Erasmus Medical College in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, as well as influenza experts at institutions ranging from the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the University of Hong Kong. The letter in full can be read here. The researchers, however, were critical of the NSABB's decision to partially censor their work.
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Survey of 2,000 families show children did not link Jesus with Christmas .
Half population considers Jesus’s birth irrelevant to festive celebrations .
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A third of children in the UK aged between ten and 13 do not know that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, according to a survey. What’s more, half the population considers Jesus’s birth irrelevant to their festive celebrations, while only one adult in ten can correctly state four facts about the Nativity. Critics claim the research shows schools are becoming too politically correct and are not putting on Nativity plays for fear of offending people of different religions. Scroll down for video . A third of children in the UK aged between ten and 13 do not know that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus, according to a survey . Francis Goodwin, of campaign group Christmas Starts With Christ, which commissioned the survey, said: ‘Britain is fast becoming one of the world’s most secular countries. As nations get richer, they think they no longer need God and may only come back to him in a crisis.’ He added: ‘There is a problem with political correctness in schools. They think they should not focus on the Christian roots of Christmas because of inclusivity. 'But it is misguided. People of other faiths are not offended. Critics claim the research shows schools are becoming too politically correct and are not putting on Nativity plays for fear of offending people of different religions . 'In a multi-faith, inclusive society, children can learn about the Muslim festival Eid, for example, as well as Christmas.’ Christmas Starts With Christ surveyed 2,000 families. Their campaign is supported by the Bible Society, Church of England and Methodist Church.
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The BBC's Editorial Compliance unit has blasted its flagship Today programme over its failure to provide balance on a debate on climate change. The show's editorial team was found to have given minority views and opinions 'equal footing' to those of the scientific consensus. The programme, broadcast in February during the major flooding crisis featured climate change scientist Sir Brian Hoskins from Imperial College London who was debating the issue with a founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is sceptical as to its impact. The interview by Justin Webb, pictured, was criticised for giving an 'equal footing' to minority views on climate change during the Today programme broadcast in February during the major flood crisis . The main complaint for made by former Green Party councillor and low-energy specialist Chit Chong who said the BBC acted irresponsibly in allowing the debate to consider the existence of climate change. Speaking today Mr Chong said: 'Dismissing climate change today is the same as trying to argue that smoking is not harmful. The science has proved the existence of climate change. 'By broadcasting programmes that question the existence of climate change, the BBC is confusing people, allowing them to deny what is actually happening. It is not responsible journalism. 'Politicians look at the public mood when considering policy and if sections of the population are sceptical to climate change, the government's policy decisions will reflect that.' A BBC . spokesperson said: 'The BBC is committed to impartial and balanced . coverage of climate change. We accept that there is broad scientific . agreement on the issue and reflect this accordingly. 'Across . our programmes the number of scientists and academics who support the . mainstream view far outweighs those who disagree with it.' Ceri Thomas, the then editor of the Today programme admitted they should have 'clarified in the audience's minds the ideological background to the arguments' Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson appeared on the show as a founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation. During . the show, Lord Lawson claimed that 2013 was 'unusually quiet' for . tropical storms and that 'nobody knows' about the true extent of climate . change. Lord Lawson said that investing in green energy was a waste of money and those resources should be focused on improving defences against bad weather. Several listeners complained to the BBC's Editorial Compliance unit who, according to The Independent, will criticise the show's approach in a report due to be released later today. According to Fraser Steel, head of the unit: 'Minority opinions and sceptical views should not be treated as if it were on an equal footing with the scientific consensus. 'Lord Lawson's views are not supported by the evidence from computer modelling and scientific research and I don't believe this was made sufficiently clear to the audience. 'I do not believe it was made sufficiently clear that Lord Lawson's views on climate change are not supported by the majority of climate scientists, and should not be regarded as carrying equal weight to those of experts such as Sir Brian Hopkins.' Today's then editor Ceri Thomas said: 'Whilst there may be a scientific consensus about global warming - that it is happening and largely man-made - there is no similar agreement about what should be done to tackle it; whether money should be spent, for example, on cutting carbon emissions or would be better used adapting our defences to the changing climate. 'Lord Lawson is not a scientist, but as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer is well qualified to comment on the economic arguments, which are a legitimate area for debate. 'We believe there has to be space in the BBC's coverage where scientific consensus meets reasonable argument about the policy implications of that consensus view. That said we do accept that we could have offered a clearer description of the sceptical position taken by Lord Lawson and the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the introduction. That would have clarified in the audience's minds the ideological background to the arguments.'
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In my first political science course at Temple, an introduction to American political structure, I was slightly taken aback by how openly my professor shared her liberal viewpoints when we discussed America’s political climate.
I was learning a lot, but I couldn’t help noticing that certain perspectives dominated class discussions, especially regarding the 2016 Presidential Election.
Students who agreed with my professor’s views had an easier time contributing to class discussions, while I could tell conservative students were biting their tongues. Even some liberal students seemed hesitant to share their thoughts for fear of clashing with our professor.
At first, I thought this one-sided classroom atmosphere was a normal part of political science courses, but this same scenario has happened in other discussion-based classes I’ve taken, too.
Professors are human beings with their own biases, and I understand that. But whether they’re teaching political science, English, philosophy or any other subject that ignites discussion, they can set the tone for the entire course by sharing personal commentary. It’s important that professors are conscious of their influence, limit sharing their personal views and respect opinions that differ from their own.
Andrew Ervin, an adjunct English instructor, said when addressing current political events or controversial issues, he pretends he hasn’t formed any opinions about them yet.
“I personally try to avoid thinking in narrow terms like that, left and right, but it’s sort of ingrained in our culture,” Ervin said. “And so I have found that students who identify more conservatively, even though that’s not my particular value system, traditionally feel very at home and very comfortable in my classes.”
By doing this, Ervin said he hopes to create a safe space where students feel free to share opinions that may be unpopular.
I remember when I took Mosaic I, we often discussed race and culture. My professor offered a variety of viewpoints with fairness, which I think is important for students to experience.
Of course, expecting professors to avoid sharing any form of personal expression is unreasonable and even harmful. But it is equally dangerous when professors let their personal opinions shut down the perspectives of whole groups of students.
David Mindich, the chair of the journalism department, said he’s observed classes where students with conservative perspectives might feel uncomfortable expressing their opinions, and he hopes to avoid such situations in his own classrooms.
“One of the mottos of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” Mindich said. “I try to encourage people from a wide spectrum of political views to express themselves.”
Mindich said that while his own perspectives swing to the left, he tries his best to create a forum contrasting views.
Zoe Dubin, a senior psychology major, said she has noticed classmates stand up for their beliefs, even when they may differ from the professor’s.
“Even the people that are kind of quiet will say something if they feel like they need to say something,” Dubin said. “I’m not the most outgoing student, but when I feel like there’s something I need to say, I’ll say it.”
I’m glad to know that students stand up for what they believe in, but they shouldn’t feel like it’s a big deal to simply contribute to the discussion.
Classrooms shouldn’t operate as platforms for only a narrow branch of opinions. Professors should focus on providing a forum for a broad range of perspectives. Finding the balance between competing viewpoints can be difficult, but doing so is essential to achieving a healthy classroom environment for all.
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BOSTON (AP) - The host of one of NPR's most successful programs has been suspended while the network investigates sexual misconduct allegations.
The allegations against "On Point" host Tom Ashbrook include that he engaged in "creepy" sex talks and gave unwanted hugs, neck and back rubs to 11 mostly young women and men who worked on the show. They were contained in a document and confirmed in multiple interviews by WBUR-FM, the Boston station that produces the show.
Ashbrook was put on leave last week.
In a text to the station, Ashbrook said: "I am sure that once the facts come out that people will see me for who I am - flawed but caring and decent in all my dealings with others."
"On Point" is carried by more than 290 NPR stations. Ashbrook has hosted for 16 years.
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