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Newly Formed Colorado Sun Has Rising Ambitions
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Newspapers have hit hard times, and the downturn has sparked new publications in an international experiment to reinvent journalism. Rae Ellen Bichell (@raelnb) from KUNC reports the birth of The Colorado Sun starts with the tribulations of a century-old newspaper.
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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement and an adviser to Joe Biden's climate task force, about the impact of climate policy on this year's election.
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NPR's Environment Coverage: What's Next
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In my first post on this topic, I highlighted some of the concerns that NPR audience members have raised about the network's on-air and online coverage of climate change and the environment. This follow-up post gives my own views and talks about a couple potentially very positive new NPR initiatives. Over the months that I reported this, one conclusion jumped out. If the topic is as important as I—and many, many listeners—believe it is, there simply has to be a better way to make NPR's good work both visible and heard after it initially appears. I am not a digital expert and I need to acknowledge that NPR's digital team has many competing priorities, but it seems to me that the format of the environmental page at the moment fails to highlight NPR's most important work. The same is true of many other topics. Even dedicated researchers can have a tough time finding NPR's stories that are more than a few days old. Secondly, while I found many strong reports in the archives, I would agree that in recent years the coverage has been driven more by the news cycle—oil spills and similar tragic news events and official government reports, for example— when it would have benefited from a more concerted focus. Yes, NPR is a news organization and it needs to cover the news when it happens. But NPR always has claimed to go beyond covering the daily news; its own marketing emphasizes its capacity to "track complex issues over the long-term." NPR did just that in 2008 when it undertook an initiative called Climate Connections, a joint venture with National Geographic (and the web landing page for that series, once you know to look for it, is similar to The Guardian's environment page, with rich archived material.) Some of that intensity seems to have faded, even though the urgency of the topic has not. Initially, I thought a strong argument could be made that NPR should shift budget priorities and set up an entity such as Planet Money, or its education desk, NPR Ed, that would focus attention on the topic. But a couple unexpected developments over the summer changed my mind—and I think they will sway many critics, too. In one of my first meetings with news chief Michael Oreskes, he acknowledged to me the importance that NPR listeners place on NPR's coverage of environmental issues. He has also made it a priority as he starts his tenure to set up ways for NPR to work much more closely with NPR's member stations. That relationship has not always been a smooth one over the years, but combining the reporting power from NPR's national operation with the local station reporters who are deeply knowledgeable about the issues in their communities offers a tantalizing prospect. That prospect became a reality in July when NPR announced that its latest collaborative effort with the stations would be focused on energy and environmental coverage. This week, a handpicked team of reporters from 12 member stations will meet in Chicago for training and the official launch with the NPR reporters and editors on the project. Those NPR employees are longtime environmental reporter Chris Joyce, who will report and edit, and Alison Richards, the deputy supervising senior editor for NPR's science desk, who will also edit. Jeff Brady of the National Desk and John Ydstie of the Business Desk will contribute as well. The lead editor is Nishant Dahiya, the current Asia editor. The station partners are Alaska Public Radio, Allegheny Front, Colorado Public Radio, EarthFix, Inside Energy, KQED, KUT, Michigan Radio, StateImpact Oklahoma, StateImpact Pennsylvania, WABE and WWNO. Bruce Auster, NPR's senior editor for collaborative coverage, said the goal is to "marshal national expertise with local" knowledge, which will lead to more coverage overall and national exposure for some of the very good work that is being done at the local stations and simply not getting enough attention. This was a point made by scientist and critic Stan Cox in his April piece. The project, Auster said, "springs up out of the recognition that climate change is a major issue, and it will revamp the way NPR and member stations work together." Oreskes said the collaboration project "takes advantage of the power of the network and taps into great journalistic strengths all over the country." Other collaborations around other topics are also planned. When news breaks, Auster said, there will now be an established procedure, so NPR will be more prepared to jump quickly. Weekly planning calls will focus the work when news isn't breaking. Overall, if the project works as planned, the coverage should be less haphazard, or "scattershot," to use one critic's description. Is this a blog or a section of the web site that will bring focus to the issue, as some people have requested? No. But I think this project could go a long way to answering listener concerns. It comes at a crucial time, too, as the world gears up for the 2015 United Nations Climate Summit in Paris in December. NPR has alr
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Last Sunday, we talked with NPR's Yuki Noguchi about the grim job prospects for new and recent graduates. We also received a number of comments on our story about the future for NASA astronauts once the space shuttle program ends. Host Liane Hansen reads listener e-mails and online comments about jobless college graduates and her interview with Commander Cody.
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N.Y. Blackout History
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Jon Nielsen joins Michele Norris to talk about previous blackouts in New York. The last two outages of this magnitude occurred in 1965 and 1977.
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NPR's Jacki Lyden explores how cultures across the globe and in the past have marked New Year's Day.
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Yellowstone Preview: The Dynamics Of Fire
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Robert Smith checks in with <em>Weekend Edition Sunday</em> regular host Liane Hansen, who is on assignment in Yellowstone National Park. In a preview of her September series, Hansen talks about the evolving dynamics of fire protection in the park, and reveals what "a good Elk day" is.
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Alex Chadwick talks with NPR science correspondent Richard Harris about questions raised and conclusions offered in a <EM>New Yorker</EM> magazine series on global warming.
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Jeff Cohen: "Cable News Confidential"
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Jeff Cohen: "Cable News Confidential" -- Michael Krasny delves into the world of cable television news with media critic Jeff Cohen. Guest: Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR). He was a senior producer of the "Donahue" show on MSNBC and is the author of several books, most recently "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media."
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As Martha Stewart awaits her day in court, we refocus on Wall Street and the practice of insider trading. What can get you into trouble, how can you avoid it and what should the penalty be? Join host Neal Conan for a guide to keeping your trading clean. We'll also have an update on the domestic diva.<BR><BR> Guests: <BR><BR> <STRONG>Andy Serwer </STRONG><br /> *Editor-at-large at <EM>Fortune</EM> magazine <br /><br /> <STRONG>Joel Seligman</STRONG><br /> *Dean, Washington University School of Law<BR><BR> *Author of <EM>The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance</EM> (Aspen Publishers, 2003) <BR><BR>
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Frank Rich on 'The Decline and Fall of Truth'
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New York Times columnist Frank Rich's new book is The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina. Rich has been with the Times since 1980, when he was named chief theater critic. With reviews that could be devastating, Rich earned the nickname The Butcher of Broadway. In 1994, Rich became an op-ed columnist for the paper, turning his focus to politics and culture. Slate recently re-dubbed him The Butcher of the Beltway.
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Retiring baby boomers are taking with them years of institutional memory in many fields. It's an issue raised by David DeLong, author of <EM>Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce</EM>. Hear DeLong and NPR's Steve Inskeep.
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In Their Own Words: Linda Greenhouse
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Steve Goldstein interviews New York Times writer Linda Greenhouse about her coverage of the Supreme Court, primarily Arizonan and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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NPR's John Burnett in New Iberia, La., reports how major hurricanes such as Lili this week are destroying the fragile wetlands ecology along the Gulf coast. Biologists warn the wetlands being lost to storms and global warming are twice the size of the Everglades.
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Science News Wrap-Up
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Guests: Laura Garwin <LEM>North American Editor Nature, Washington, DC</LEM> Paul Raeburn <LEM>Senior Editor, <EM>Science and Technology Business Week</EM>, New York, New York</LEM> John Rennie <LEM>Editor Scientific American, New York, New York</LEM> In 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, golfer Tiger Woods won the Masters, and millions tuned into Diana''s funeral. In the world of science, the Pathfinder landed on Mars, and the world''s first cloned mammal was born. In this hour, we''ll take a look back at the biggest science stories of 1997, and ahead to science in 1998.
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Friday marked the final day of the U.N. climate talks in Cancun. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Richard Harris about what the talks accomplished and where the U.N.-sponsored process goes from here.
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Commentary: Celebrating the Western New Year
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<EM>Day to Day</EM> commentator Vincent Hsia discusses his celebration of the Western New Year with fellow Chinese Americans.
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett talks to Farai Chideya about the stories making the rounds on our blog, "News & Views," offers some online travel tips, and explains the Web's version of Black Friday.
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Blog Buzz: Black CEOs, Writers Strike
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett talks with Farai Chideya about the stories making the rounds on the show's blog, "News & Views," including reaction to the recent ouster of two black CEOs, the TV writers strike, and the launch of the new Web site, NPR Music.
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UCLA law professor Richard Sander talks about his new study on affirmative action in law schools. Sander says many African-American students at the nation's top law schools are struggling academically. Many drop out, resulting in fewer minority lawyers, not more. Harvard law professor David Wilkins disagrees. Sander and Wilkins talk with NPR's Renee Montagne.
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'Shakespeare in Love' and In Trouble — With Style
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Movie critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new romantic comedy called Shakespeare In Love, which features a script written by playwright Tom Stoppard. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, and it follows the young William Shakespeare, who is having writer's block with his comedy Romeo & Ethel — because he's fallen in love. Mondello says the movie is witty, sophisticated, and a definite candidate for one of the year's ten best.
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Agree with it or not, the cover story in last week's Newsweek magazine, "The Religious Case for Gay Marriage," by Lisa Miller, was provocative. On the Newsweek website, there were comments galore. (Many hundreds.) On talk radio, and in the blogosphere, there were plenty of critics. What does all that translate to? Sales, Newsweek's editors and owners must hope. And that's not a bad thing for a company that announced it was cutting costs -- and personnel -- last week. Central to many rebuttals of the Newsweek article was a sense of bewilderment, that the weekly magazine has started down a new path, trod by The Economist and others before it, with more opinion pieces and more provocation. Jeff Bercovici, who follows the media for Portfolio, wonders what Meacham has planned for the magazine: "He'll talk about how Newsweek is focusing on being "provocative," on leading the discussion instead of following it with excessively high-concept cover packages." (A bible, with a rainbow-striped bookmark seems higher-concept-than-usual for Newsweek. Agree?) Should magazines like Newsweek reinvent themselves? If so, what would you like to see? Analysis? Harder news? More pictures?
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Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman
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Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman's work exposing the tobacco industry became the hit film <EM>The Insider</EM>. He was portrayed by Al Pacino. Bergman is a contributor to the <EM>New York Times</EM>. He has just completed a PBS <EM>Frontline</EM> documentary called <EM>Blackout</EM>. It airs this Tuesday, June 5. Its the story behind Californias energy crisis and rolling blackouts. It examines the soaring profits of big corporate energy players amid a deregulation process that has produced the shortages and rate hikes for consumers. The show is a co-production of <EM>Frontline</EM> and the <EM>New York Times</EM>. THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.
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Guests:<br /><br /> <STRONG>Denise Faustman</STRONG> <br /> Associate Professor of Medicine<br /> Harvard Medical Schoo<br />l Director, Immunobiology Laboratories<br /> Massachusetts General Hospital<br /> Boston, Massachusetts
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Anti-Environmental Radio
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)NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on a Montana man, John Stokes, who bought his own radio station in order to warn surrounding citizens of the ills of modern culture — everything from country music, to the United Nations. But Stokes' greatest anger is reserved for environmentalists.
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David Greene speaks with NPR's Joe Palca about <em>Morning Edition</em>'s upcoming series, "Summer Science."
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Crisis Communication Requires 'Common Sense'
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Patrick Kinney of Gaffney Bennet Public Relations talks to Lynn Neary about BP's public response to the Gulf oil spill. Kinney worked for Ogilvy Public Relations when it helped BP rebrand itself as "Beyond Petroleum." BP's early response to the oil spill fell short of what experts suggest be done early in a crisis.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Clint Watts of the Foreign Policy Institute about how the Islamic State is using social media to gain power and attention.
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Simulmatics As Simulacrum? A Conversation With Historian Jill Lepore
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We keep learning more about the effect of Cambridge Analytica, a small political consulting company, on the 2016 election. Britain’s Channel 4 News published recent reporting which revealed that “3.5 million Black Americans were categorised by Donald Trump’s campaign as ‘Deterrence’ – voters they wanted to stay home on election day.” But the ideas behind Cambridge Analytica’s tactics weren’t new, according to historian Jill Lepore. Where a 1960s’-era company called Simulmatics failed, the firm succeeded in “[modeling] and [manipulating] American voters,” as Lepore writes in The New Yorker. More from that article: Decades before Facebook and Google and Cambridge Analytica and every app on your phone, Simulmatics’ founders thought of it all: they had the idea that, if they could collect enough data about enough people and write enough good code, everything, one day, might be predicted—every human mind simulated and then directed by targeted messages as unerring as missiles. For its first mission, Simulmatics aimed to win the White House back for the Democratic Party. That piece is excerpted from Lepore’s new book, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, From The New York Times review of If Then: Lepore’s frustrations — with how what was once thought of as propaganda or psychological warfare was subsumed and legitimized by behavioral scientists, who rechristened the field with the anodyne label of “mass communication”; with the billions of dollars of Cold War funding that strangled the humanities and transformed American research universities into military-academic outposts dependent on federal grants; with the conservative opponents of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society who killed a proposal for a government agency to set up “ethical guidelines, safeguards and rules” for the use of the massive amount of personal data held by the federal government; with the fact that the Privacy Act of 1974 recognized that the aggregation of this data, “while essential to the efficient operations of the government, has greatly magnified the harm to individual privacy that can occur” but failed to protect that same data from private corporations; with the generations of mostly white, overwhelmingly male tech evangelists who lacked the imagination and the curiosity to consider the ways their simplistic libertarian fantasies might affect people who weren’t as privileged or as lucky as they were; with the billionaire leaders of Google and Facebook, whose “swaggering, devil-may-care ethical ambition” begins and ends with meaningless mottoes like “don’t be evil” because “doing good did not come into it”; with America in 2020, where “the only knowledge that counts is prediction, and … corporations extract wealth by way of the collection of data and the manipulation of attention and the profit of prophecy” — should be our frustrations as well. We talk to Jill Lepore about If Then, and what Simulmatics and their mission tells us about today.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Katie Roiphe about her essay on the #MeToo movement in this month's <em>Harper's Magazine.</em> It's called "The Other Whisper Network."
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How Janice Min Transformed 'The Hollywood Reporter' Into A Glamorous Weekly
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And they said print is dead. Janice Min turned around Us Weekly and now The Hollywood Reporter — transforming an ailing trade daily into a glossy magazine with new relevance for advertisers, the entertainment community and readers beyond.
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As part of NPR's year-long "Housing First" project, <EM>Morning Edition</EM> airs three reports on the economics of housing for some of the neediest Americans. In the second of three reports, NPR's Ina Jaffe reports from the once-gritty neighborhood of Venice Beach, Calif., now a hip destination for more affluent renters. Low-cost housing is drying up, and the elderly and poor are being pushed out.
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Environment Report Story of the Week 04/30/2007
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Story of the Week from The Environment Report. Hosted by Mark Brush.
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I don't know about you, but I always check the New York Times most emailed list -- there's always something I'll like on it. I've never been able to put my finger on why -- until today, when I spied this article in, of course, the Times' most emailed section: Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. So, what's the defining factor? It's not a salacious one, surprisingly. It turns out, inspiration is what makes people want to send a story to their friends. People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics. Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list. In general, they found, 20 percent of articles that appeared on the Times home page made the list, but the rate rose to 30 percent for science articles, including ones with headlines like "The Promise and Power of RNA." I have to say -- I understand why the article with these findings would become most emailed itself: it's inspiring, to say the least, that our first impulse is to share good news, and stories that open our world.
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Columnist and commentator MURRAY KEMPTON
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2: Columnist and commentator MURRAY KEMPTON. The New Yorker says he's "surely among the greatest of all living newspapermen" . . . "the one true original in the business." For years he wrote a column for the old New York Post. Now he writes for New York Newsday and The New York Review of Books. At 76, he bicycles around Manhatten in his elegant attire to gather material for his columns on the City's "rebels, losers and rascals." His latest book is a collection of his newspaper pieces. It's called "Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events" (Times Books/Random House).
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A few days ago, Rupert Murdoch began posting comments on the microblog service. Twitter and News Corp. have both confirmed the comments are Murdoch's.
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Protesters Bring Character(s) to FCC Hearing
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Protesters turned up in costume for the Halloween hearing by the FCC on whether it should relax ownership rules to allow national media conglomerates to own more local stations.
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This conversation is part III of our three-part series called “Silencing Science.” Host Robin Young talks to Michael Halpern, the deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, about the stifling of science he sees at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump administration. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Diary Of An Oil Worker Fighting To Keep His Job
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Oil is a tough business, and when oil prices fall, like they’ve done over the last six months, one of the first things oil companies do is cut back on workers and on the number of drilling rigs. There were about half as many rigs in March as there were last September, and fewer rigs means more competition for jobs on drill sites. Former journalist Neil LaRubbio is one of those oil workers fighting to keep his place. LaRubbio kept a journal of his life in the oil fields for Here & Now contributor Inside Energy.
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Neil LaRubbio, a journalist and filmmaker currently working the oil fields of Colorado. He tweets @NLaRubbio.
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NPR's Audie Cornish chats with attorney and indigenous rights activist Tara Houska about protests against Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota.
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Listeners Speak Out On Antoine Dodson, Child Discipline
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Listeners and blog readers dish up love for Antoine Dodson, offer thoughts about child discipline.
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Christian Daughton, a scientist for the Environmental Protection Agency, talks to Tony Cox about the EPA's changing response to new classes of environmental contamination.
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'Murdoch's World': Inside One Of The Last Old Media Empires
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People used to say the sun never sets on the British empire. These days, says NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik, it would be more accurate to say the sun never sets on Rupert Murdoch's empire. In a new book, Murdoch's World, Folkenflik writes about the Australian newspaper owner whose company now stretches to India, Great Britain and the United States. He describes a powerful media insider who wants to be seen as an outsider. "He very much cultivated this notion that the people who worked for him were swashbuckling buccaneers fighting against these elites at the BBC and The New York Times and places like that," Folkenflik tells Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep. Folkenflik explains how newspapers and TV channels run by Murdoch's News Corp. have taken a strong conservative line, even though Murdoch himself is considered less conservative. Interview Highlights On News Corp.'s treatment of climate change His publications and outlets — you know, particularly if you think, in this country, of Fox News — have conveyed some of the most skeptical coverage of the idea that global warming is occurring and that humanity has contributed significantly to that and that there really is some obligation to address that. All the same, in 2007, convinced by presentations involving Al Gore ... and [British] Prime Minister Tony Blair, Murdoch himself became convinced that it was important for News Corp. to take a stand on this. And indeed the News Corp. company took a stand and said, "We are going to become carbon neutral within five years." On how to reconcile the differences between Murdoch's own views and those of his publications I think it's a confluence of political conviction and canny business sense. I think that Fox News has found it to its advantage to play up doubts that it plays to a certain very loyal, large part of its core audience. I would say the same for the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, although I would point out that I think it was doing that independently of the Murdochs, well before the purchase in 2007, and has maintained a consistent conservative tone that is to the right of Mr. Murdoch. He would argue that he actually offers his publications great autonomy, and it's true. He doesn't send out a daily email to all of his outlets saying, "This is the uniform line you should take." But he certainly has antipathy to government involvement in regulating commerce and in taxation. And you see that play out. You see that breadth in so many of his publications and outlets. On the News Corp. hacking scandal The hacking scandal involved revelations that journalists for his newspapers in Britain had been involved in hacking into the phone mail messages of hundreds, even thousands, of people — some of them celebrities, some of them just private citizens. And concomitantly, there was the revelation that there had been widespread bribing of public officials to gain information that should have been kept private by law in a way that seemed like a second, and in some ways greater, betrayal, if you look at it from the legal standpoint of the promise to uphold the public good that journalists profess so often. On how The Wall Street Journal covered the scandal People at the Journal were so cognizant of the fact that this was the first true test. You know, [Murdoch] had bought the paper in 2007. ... And journalists were actually aggressively pursuing a story in which they felt they could show that, actually, knowledge of the kinds of hacking that was going on was known within the newspaper — not by a single reporter, as has been claimed for so many years, but as far back as 2002 by senior figures at the paper. They were onto a story they thought would show this, and Robert Thomson — then the managing editor, or the top news executive, for The Wall Street Journal, now the CEO for the new News Corp. — Robert Thomson personally intervened again and again to try to forestall publication of that story. The reporters who I talked to — and I talked to reporters and editors on both sides of the Atlantic about this — said that his objections were so insistent, that he was trying to set the bar so high, that that story would never see the light of day. But to the credit of the Journal, its journalists insisted on that story being published. So News Corp. can say, "Hey, look, the story was published — what's the issue?" What's the issue, to my mind and to the journalists that I spoke to, was that the integrity of the Journal was put in doubt, and it was very clear that Robert Thomson would have been happier to protect Rupert Murdoch. ... I went to Robert Thomson and the Journal, I believe, five times and said to them, "I think we need to talk about Robert Thomson and particularly his leadership at the top of the hacking scandal." And they just said that they would not participate in this book whatsoever. On the experience of reporting the company's story On the one hand, it was a fascinating journey. This was an opportu
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Dominic Waghorn, diplomatic editor for Sky News, about President Trump's upcoming visit to the U.K.
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National Press Club: Rev. Pat Robertson
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In his speech to the National Press Club, the Rev. Pat Robertson argued that the Supreme Court is out of step with Americans who "feel outraged and helpless as they watch unelected judges methodically crafting a Constitution unknown to the founders." Added Robertson: "People of faith want the Congress to take back the power given it under the Constitution."
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Which charities have spent money effectively in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast? Where have mistakes been made? Katrina survivor Randy Adams and Trent Stamp — executive director of the watchdog group Charity Navigator — weigh in.
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1 Year Later: TVA Still Cleaning UP Coal Ash Spill
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It was just before Christmas last year when a massive coal ash retention pond gave way near Kingston, Tenn. An estimated one billion gallons of the gray material spilled into a river and inundated acres of sparsely-populated land. One year later, clean-up is going slower than expected and it's more expensive too.
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This week, NPR and ProPublica have been reporting on the Red Cross response in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Isaac and other major storms. Multiple internal documents obtained by NPR and ProPublica along with interviews with top Red Cross officials reveal an organization that struggled to meet the basic needs of victims in the first weeks after the storm. The documents and interviews also depict an organization so consumed with public relations that it hindered the charity's ability to provide disaster services. But PBS NewsHour's Gwen Ifill reports that the Red Cross says the investigation is "distorted and inaccurate." In an on-air interview, Suzy DeFrancis, the Red Cross' chief public affairs officer, says: "We know that a disaster, by definition, something is going wrong. And you're pulling together a whole bunch of volunteers who may not have always worked together. But you're trying to get food and relief to people. And, of course, there are going to be problems. But the reason that you look at it is so you can find them and fix them and make sure they don't occur again." Watch the full interview here or read the transcript on PBS.org. Alicia Cypress is the digital editor for NPR's Investigations team.
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Youth to Leaders National Summit
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NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with three students participating in the Youth to Leaders National Summit, hosted by Smiley in Washington, D.C. Throughout the coming week, Smiley will have other young people attending the conference talk about a range of issues central to today's youth, and about their ambitions to join the ranks of future leaders.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Paul Josie, a member of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, about how climate change in Canada's Yukon territory is affecting his community.
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Philosophy Of Science
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David F. Noble Author <EM>The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention.</EM> (Knopf) Professor of History York University Toronto, Canada Hixon-Riggs Professor Harvey Mudd College Claremont, California Adolf Grunbaum Andrew Mellon Professor of Philosophy of Science Chairman, The Center for the Philosophy of Science Research Professor of Psychiatry University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Scientists aren't the only people studying science. Philosophers and historians are also interested in what scientists are up to--and why they're up to it. On this hour of Science Friday, we are joined by a philosopher of science and a historian who will help us examine the nature of scientific thought, and the role of religion in scientific inquiry.
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During this campaign season, why is it that we have to hear so much reporting about politicians' lifestyles? Wouldn't it be more useful to hear about something a little more substantive, such as what they plan to do while in office? <em>Commentator Lester Spence teaches political science at Johns Hopkins University</em>.
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Missing The Mark: The Criticism Of NPR's Climate March Coverage
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As hundreds of emails poured in complaining that NPR was ignoring the People's Climate March in New York Sept. 21, I wondered whether editors were trying to prove their conservative critics wrong about NPR being too liberal. But what I found instead was at most of the writers seemed to have missed the stories that NPR did do, and that many were misguided in jumping to mistaken conclusions about corporate sponsors. This is not to say that NPR couldn't have done more about the march, especially online, but see what you think after understanding the trade-offs that editors faced in picking stories that Sunday afternoon, and after reviewing the related coverage of the United Nations climate summit that week. Driving the email barrage was an open letter to me in the liberal Daily Kos by one of its bloggers, Assaf Oron. He wrote that, "I have long suspected - with good evidence - that NPR news does little more than shill for the same interest that dominate our politics and mainstream media, albeit with a high-brow veneer. I think the final proof has arrived today." Oron, who according to his Kos profile lives in Seattle, said that he tuned in at 5 p.m. Pacific time to listen to the hourly NPR newscast for information on the march in New York. There was none. Other listeners complained that there also was no news about the march on NPR's one-hour Sunday afternoon magazine show, Weekends On All Things Considered. "When was the last time there was such a large gathering of citizens in an effort to affect the policies and priorities of our government and the other governments of the world who are meeting at the U.N. Climate Summit?" admonished Ellen Posel of Bellingham, Wash. "The participation of so many groups was a demonstration of the understanding we have of the effects of climate change on us all, especially the poor and powerless. One is left to conclude that editorial decisions at NPR are being made by the powerful, not the thoughtful." I live partly in New York and knew firsthand that the march turnout was large and newsworthy. It seems correct to say, as the organizers did, that it surpassed expectations and was the largest climate march in history. The emailers were right to consider it and a smaller companion marches around the world a major success. The actual number of New York marchers claimed by the organizers and reported by NPR was questionable, however. NPR's main online story said that organizers, with remarkable but unexplained precision, estimated that "around 310,000 people" participated. A press release from the organizers said that their number was based on a "crowd density analysis formula developed by a professor of game theory and complex systems at Carnegie Mellon University." The data analysis blog, FiveThirtyEight, which analyst Nate Silver recently moved to ESPN from The New York Times and covers more than sports, found the professor, Russell Golman. The blog quoted him as saying that all he did was look up online some counting techniques and voluntarily send the links to the organizers. "I've never done crowd counting before," he told the blog. At the end of the day, the organizers estimated that more than 400,000 people had marched. NPR did not report this. But numbers aside, what is more important is that the critics are right about the central importance of climate change as an issue of our times. Truth in advertising: I dedicated a week to it in a Columbia Journalism School course I taught on global issues that every foreign correspondent will need to understand. What Oron missed was that if he would have tuned in to the hourly newscast an hour earlier or an hour later, he would have heard the report that he was seeking. And while the afternoon Weekends On All Things Considered did not have a report about the march, the day's morning program, Weekend Edition Sunday, ran a four-minute story by New York bureau reporter Joel Rose, who was with the marchers. The Two Way blog, which follows major breaking events, had the aforementioned online story. More significantly, in the six days from the Friday before the Sept. 23 summit at the United Nations to the Thursday after it, NPR averaged more than one major radio story a day related to the climate conference or climate issues. The marches, after all, were designed to draw just this sort of attention. The following headlines from Morning Edition, All Things Considered and their weekend versions, reflect what the stories were about: Sat. 9/20: Organizers Hope U.N. Climate March Will Be Largest in History Sun. 9.21: Climate Marcher Try To Build Momentum For 2015 Mon. 9/22: All Eyes on Obama, World Leaders At Climate Change Summit Rockefeller Brothers Fund Forsakes Its Legacy Climate Activists Looks For Solutions From Business, Diplomats Calderon: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Create Carbon Tax Tues. 9/23: At U.N., Attention Divided Between Air Strikes And Climate Change Wed. 9/24: Can Climate Legislation Pass In Washington's Political Enviro
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Rachel Martin talks to Margo Oge, who helped develop the Environmental Protection Agency's emission standards, about the Trump administration's decision to weaken efficiency requirements.
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In Houston, Hurricane Harvey Aid Has Been First Responders, 'Texans Helping Texans'
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Michael Walter of the city of Houston's Office of Emergency Management provides an update on the city's efforts to cope with Tropical Storm Harvey.
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Are newsrooms doing enough to cover climate change? That’s the question that Florida newsrooms have decided to tackle head on. News organizations across the Sunshine State have teamed up to report on climate change as a collaborative effort. The network — including The Palm Beach Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel, Miami Herald and WLRN public radio, among others — will share resources and stories that dive deep into the issues presented by climate change. Miami Herald climate reporter Alex Harris (@harrisalexc) says climate change in Florida “touches every facet of our lives down here.” Residents see how rising sea levels and flooding is impacting their families, homes and wallets, she says. Tampa Bay Times executive editor Mark Katches (@markkatches) agrees, saying climate change is top of mind for many Floridians. “The fact is, this is ground zero for the impacts of climate change in the state, in the country, [and] in the world.” The newsrooms’ collaborative aims to bring comprehensive coverage to something that the state “is going to be reckoning with” for the “foreseeable future,” Katches says. “We see this as the most pressing and biggest issue of our lives and of our children’s lives,” he says. “And we want to bring rigor and collaboration to how we cover it here in the state.” Interview Highlights On how Miami residents are being conscious of climate change Alex Harris: When most people think about climate change, they think about, you know, a polar bear on a shrinking ice float. But in South Florida and Miami particularly, it looks more like roads flooded so you can’t get to work. It’s the change in property values of inland, higher elevation buildings and how that can ripple out to your insurance costs. … We have a unique political atmosphere down here, as well as that everyone kind of agrees this is happening and we’re already on the next part of the debate, which is: what do we do about it? On how their climate coverage is being received Harris: I get the occasional email or mostly Twitter reply from people who think that my coverage is not based on scientific facts [or] it’s liberal. And I would say I get a lot more of that from national readers. From the local level — yes, I do get a couple of those emails but generally, people aren’t really concerned about fighting the science. They know it’s real. They know their streets are flooding and they’re more interested in how much of their taxes are going to pay to install a flood pump at the end of their street. It’s really all about solutions and focused on things that are actually happening in real life. On hearing from people outside of Florida who want to take climate action Mark Katches: Well, actually, you had said that there are six partners involved in this and that was exactly right when we founded this. [Now,] we’re up to 17. We have partners from around the country. Most are in Florida, but we just added InsideClimate News [and] Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has joined our network. But mostly, it is newsrooms inside the state. We’re also hearing from people honestly who want to give money to us to cover this issue. Individual donors who are really excited about the fact that we’re bringing attention to this huge issue. And just to explain that a little bit about how this works — so right now, it’s mostly a content-sharing relationship, where all the partners are sort of required as being partners in this group to contribute stories that everybody else can run. So if the Tampa Bay Times writes two stories and the Miami Herald does two stories and South Florida Sun-Sentinel does two stories a month on this topic and Alex is actually writing more because she’s a beat reporter covering this, we all contribute to this ‘bank of stories’ that we can draw from. But yes, we’re hearing from partners all over. … We’re looking for other partnerships as well to add to this because we’re very pragmatic about how we can serve our readers the best way. We know we can’t all do this by ourselves anymore. On the content they provide readers with Katches: Well, I believe and I’ve always subscribed to the belief that you show people, you don’t tell them. We’re focusing on showing people the impacts. The fact is if we can show people how climate change is impacting them in their community, then it becomes a lot more real and a lot more meaningful. So I understand the issue of tone. I think if you’re as neutral as possible but just like, lay the facts out there. We are not legislating in any way. We’re not a legislative body here. We’re 17 members that are sharing content. Every one of us has our own policies and our own best practices and guidelines that we use. I know in our newsroom and I’m pretty sure in Alex’s newsroom, we’re focused on just laying
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Surprise At Ernest Withers Revelations
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Ernest Withers is known as the official photographer of the Civil Rights movement, but a new investigation by the Memphis <em>Commercial Appeal </em>newspaper reveals he was also a spy for the FBI -- informing on the thoughts and movements of Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Earl Caldwell,who knew Withers, offers his insight. Caldwell is a professor at the Hampton University's Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications in Hampton, Va.
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WorldCom former chief executive Bernard Ebbers takes the stand for the second day to defend himself against charges of accounting fraud. John Dimsdale of <EM>Marketplace</EM> reports.
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Letters: Earthquake Coverage
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Michele Norris reads from listeners' e-mails. We've been inundated with responses to our coverage of the earthquake in China's Sichuan province.
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A "newspaper war" has broken out between the <EM>Dallas Morning News</EM> and another publishing company over attracting the city's commuters. Within days of each other, two free morning dailies, <EM>Quick</EM> and the <EM>AM Journal</EM>, debuted. Both papers are aimed at 18-to-34-year-old readers. Catherine Cuellar of member station KERA reports.
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New Site Chronicles Greatest Investigative Reporting
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Robert Siegel talks to Charles Lewis, a professor at the American University School of Communication, about an online multimedia project called "Investigating Power." The project documents the careers of notable journalists since the 1950s. The goal is to make sure the techniques, sensibilities and editorial standards of the craft don't become hieroglyphics.
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Stories: 1) Mississippi Meditation: A Poet Looks 'Beyond Katrina' 2) Giving 'Charlie Chan' A Second Chance
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Social Networking Site for NOLA/Gustav
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Gustav and New(s) Orleans on Ning: Sent by one of our bloggers' roundtable participants Chris Rabb, of Afronetizen. Worth checking out. A portal to citizen journalism about the storm, etc.
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Dueling tech-savvy political conventions are zipping along this weekend in Minneapolis. The left has gathered at the Netroots conference, while conservatives are meeting up at RightOnline. NPR's Ina Jaffe has been bouncing between them both and discusses the competition with guest host Laura Sullivan.
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Micro-Blogging Moves Into Mainstream
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett and Tony Cox talk about the growing trend of micro-blogging, Facebook's about-face on user privacy, and response to the week's news on our blog.
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What's going on with the airline industry? We talk to journalist Scott McCartney, who follows the airline industry and writes the weekly column "The Middle Seat" for <EM>The Wall Street Journal</EM>.
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Using Wyoming-Made Standards To Teach Climate Change
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In states where the economy relies on fossil fuels, teaching children that humans are in part to blame for climate change can be a touchy subject. But this year, for the first time, Wyoming kids learned about climate change using science standards specially adapted to Wyoming’s energy friendly realities. Wyoming Public Radio’s Melodie Edwards (@MelodieEdwards3) reports.
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Melissa Block speaks with Chairman Marshall McKay of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. His tribe purchased TV space for an ad criticizing the Washington Redskins name, set to run during the NBA finals.
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Letters to 'News and Notes'
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Tony Cox and editor Sasa Woodruff read listeners' e-mails.
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School's back in session, which means KPLU food commentator Nancy Leson has yet another job on her plate: preparing her son for a big day of reading, writing, and rithmetic.
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Readers Lament 'International Herald Tribune' Name Change
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Starting Tuesday, American expats throughout Europe will pick up their <em>The International Herald Tribune</em> to discover it has been renamed, <em>The International New York Times</em>. Many longtime readers say they'll feel a great loss.
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Michele Norris talks with David Hampton, editorial director for the <EM>Clarion-Ledger</EM> in Jackson, Miss., about how the Trent Lott controversy is playing out in his home state. Hampton says the <EM>Clarion-Ledger</EM> has been deluged with mail, both condemning and supporting Lott.
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Bloomberg Spends Big Out West, Luring Staff To His Campaign
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Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign is opening offices across the Mountain West in places where Democrats have rarely competed. The hiring has sucked up talent away from rival campaigns.
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Investigative reporter Lowell Bergman's work exposing the tobacco industry became the hit film <EM>The Insider</EM>. He was portrayed by Al Pacino. Bergman is a contributor to the <EM>New York Times</EM>. He has just completed a PBS <EM>Frontline</EM> documentary called <EM>Blackout</EM>. It airs this Tuesday, June 5. Its the story behind Californias energy crisis and rolling blackouts. It examines the soaring profits of big corporate energy players amid a deregulation process that has produced the shortages and rate hikes for consumers. The show is a co-production of <EM>Frontline</EM> and the <EM>New York Times</EM>. THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.
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No Plan B: Youth Leading The Charge On Climate
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On Friday, activists around the world gathered for what's being called the largest climate rally in history. An estimated 4 million people participated. And at the center of the global strikes is one key figure: 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. The strikes are only one milestone in the international fight against climate change that Thunberg and so many other young activists have championed. This episode is part of our series: No Plan B. We spoke with 1A's Kathryn Fink who spent some time at an institute for educators about teaching climate change in the classroom. We also heard from Carl Smith, a 17-year-old environmental activist in Alaska; Aneesa Khan, a 23-year-old climate activist and the executive director of Sustain Us — a non-profit youth-led advocacy group focusing on justice and sustainability; and Madeline Graham, a 16-year-old environmental activist that participants with Fridays for Future — an international movement of students striking during the school day to demand action against climate change. Like what you hear? Find more of our programs online.
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Thousands of children from around the world are gathered - in person or on-line - at MIT's Media Lab at a Junior Summit, where the idea is to use technology to change the world. Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR reports from Boston.
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Local TV News Coverage
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GUESTS: HANK PRICE General Manager, WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL GARY WORDLAW General Manager and President WTVH, Syracuse, NY CARL GOTTLIEB Deputy Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism "If it bleeds, it leads." Stories about fires and crime are staples of local TV news. But some stations are now trying something different. In an effort to boost ratings, some stations are replacing sensational stories with what they consider to be more thoughtful and "responsible" coverage. Join Juan Williams and guests for a discussion about local TV news coverage.
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There is a lot that can go wrong during a live broadcast. Meteorologist Jennifer McDermed started multiplying across the screen. Her image grew and lagged behind her, creating a trippy time warp look.
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The California Report
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Global Warming Solutions Act. San Joaquin Episcopal Split. End Music.
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Nina Totenberg reports on today's expected delivery of the Independent Counsel's report into Congressional hands. Once the House votes to authorize public release, the information will be posted on the Internet. Millions of people worldwide can sit at their computer screens and read the information some of it sexually graphic.
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Canada's Newspaper Tycoon
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James Murray reports from Toronto on Canadian publishing tycoon Conrad Black, who's been called the Rupert Murdoch of Canada. Black has just started Canada's second national newspaper. He already owns hundreds of newspaper worldwide, including half of Canada's dailies. Critics say he has too much power and uses it to move Canada's political agenda to the right.
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<EM>Adweek</EM> magazine ranks the 10 most successful magazines, based on such factors as ad page and revenue gains, increased circulation and performance against direct competition. <EM>O, The Oprah Magazine</EM> tops the Hot List for 2003. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Sid Holt, editor-in-chief of <EM>Adweek</EM>.
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Experts: NASA Faces Challenges in Changing Culture
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An independent investigation board determines the Feb. 1 Columbia disaster was caused in part by mismanagement within NASA, and recommends changes the space agency should make before resuming shuttle flights. Some analysts say fixing NASA's culture will be the most difficult of space agency changes. Hear NPR's Richard Harris and Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI).
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Recently the players, coaches and staff from the NBA have been politically and socially outspoken. Dave Zirin, sports editor of<em> The Nation, </em>talks about the activist culture of national sports leagues.
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Reporters Give Voice to Post-Katrina Desperation
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You don't have to listen very closely to the news to register the striking tone coming from many of the journalists involved in covering the floods along the Gulf Coast. They're passing along public anger.
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This week, producer Anne Hawke has been in New Orleans. Shes shares one small anecdote, about a family she met in the Superdome yesterday. To her this story is representative of what she has seen this week all over New Orleans: chaos and misplaced priorities.
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VIDEO: The National Center For Science Education Keeps Evolving
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Last week Eugenie C. Scott announced that she plans to retire from her role as executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), an Oakland-based not-for-profit that supports education concerning evolution and climate science, especially in public schools. Scott has been a major figure in debates about evolution and creationism. She moved the NCSE decisively into climate science with the 2012 launch of a major initiative to "defend and support the teaching of climate change." Here's a short video in which Scott explains some parallels between the rejection of evolution and the rejection of climate science: Thanks for everything you've done, Eugenie! You can keep up with more of what Tania Lombrozo is thinking on Twitter: @TaniaLombrozo
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Neal Mohan, chief product officer for YouTube, about how the tech company responded when a video of last week's deadly shootings in New Zealand went viral.
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Meeting Up to Bowl Off Political Steam
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With little more than three weeks before the presidential election, tensions are rising among political activists. But some are crossing party lines to blow off steam in a friendly bowling competition. Joshua Levs has an audio postcard.
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-- N-P-R's David Baron reports world leaders are gathering this week in New York to review progress five years after the Earth Summit. But there's widespread pessimism about the prospects for what can be achieved on many issues, including global warming.
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News Brief: Wildfires, Florida Recount, Michelle Obama's Memoir
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Wildfires tear through northern and southern California. Florida recounts ballots in the races for governor and U.S. senator. And former first lady Michelle Obama's book,<em> Becoming</em>, is out Tuesday.
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NPR's Madeleine Brand and Slate political blogger Mickey Kaus talk about major topics circulating in the world of Web logs, including how some presidential candidates are beginning to publish their own Internet journals.
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'Village Voice' Changes with the New Times
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<em>The Village Voice</em> is the grandfather, and bellwether, of the nation's alternative press. In the 1960s, the <em>Voice</em> was a clear presence on the political left. Now the paper has been bought by a competitor -- the non-ideological New Times newspaper chain.
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Renovations on the town hall in Charlotte, Vt., unearthed two secret listening devices hidden in the office of the town clerk and in a conference room. Now, this town of just under 4,000 people has a cold case on its hands. For more, NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Stephen Brooks, publisher of the <em>Charlotte Spectator</em>, who first broke this story.
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A Look at the Group Sharing the Peace Prize
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Al Gore may be the big name getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but half of the award is going to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — or IPCC. The once obscure body is having its moment in the spotlight. Its thousands of scientists from around the globe can now say they got a piece of a Nobel Prize. ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Okay, that was the Peace Prize winner we've all heard of. Now, the other one. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created in 1988. It's a creature of the United Nations. It works mostly out of public view. Its job is to pull together the latest research on climate change and help politicians decide what to do about it. Here's NPR's Christopher Joyce. CHRISTOPHER JOYCE: When you call up someone who's sharing a Nobel Prize with about 1,999 other people, there's one question that comes immediately to mind. How are you going to split up the money? PETER FRUMHOFF: I'm - that's really not my judgment. I think there's something in the order of 2,000 scientists involved. All of us volunteered our time; we're not in this for the money. JOYCE: That diplomatic reply comes from Peter Frumhoff, an ecologist with the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Frumhoff helped write parts of the four big reports that the IPCC has published over the past 17 years. Those reports boiled down just about all of the climate studies that have appeared in peer-reviewed scientific journals over the last two decades. Frumhoff describes the IPCC's job as a massive collating task, pulling together everything known about climate change from oceanography to plant biology to atmospheric chemistry and delivering it to government policymakers in the way they can understand. FRUMHOFF: If we simply had a body of literature that wasn't synthesized and wasn't called for by the government, I'd suspect we'd be even further behind in handling this problem than we are today. JOYCE: There has been controversy, though, over what the IPCC has written. For one thing, IPCC scientists work together with government bureaucrats from member nations to write the reports. That means the kind of compromise that many scientists aren't comfortable with. Martin Parry is head of a team that writes IPCC reports on how climate change affects people in the environment. MARTIN PARRY: Sometimes it does mean boiling the knowledge down to the lowest common denominator, what we all agree on. And the IPCC is being criticized for that sometime. But the powerful part of the IPCC is this: It's a body of knowledge upon which the political community build on. JOYCE: Actually, it's the act of throwing scientists in with political functionary that gives the IPCC its influence, at least according to Robert Watson, a former director of the panel. ROBERT WATSON: While there is a criticism by some, it dilutes the document, the fact that governments are part of the process means they have ownership. They can't easily set it to one side. JOYCE: Some governments have tried to. Another IPCC author, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, says the political scientific wrangling got especially tough in 1995. That was when scientists wanted to declare that industrial activities were, indeed, affecting the earth climate in a discernable way. MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER: Some governments weren't happy with the notion that a scientific consensus was growing around the understanding that humans were affecting the climate. JOYCE: The scientists won that fight. In the 1995 report, the second one delivered by the IPCC, included groundbreaking language putting the blame on human activity. Since then, the panel has stated the same thing with greater certainty. The IPCC scientists say they've been swapping e-mails all over the world today celebrating their elevation to Nobel status. But Parry may be typical of the rest of his colleagues in worrying about what comes next, adapting to the inevitability of climate change. PARRY: We don't really have a good clear that grasp of how much climate change we can adapt to. That's the question, which I'm afraid we haven't given an amount of (unintelligible) yet. JOYCE: The IPCC issued its most recent report this year focusing on regional effects and how a warmer Earth may change everything from agriculture to flooding of coastal cities. The report ran over a thousand pages. Scientists say now they are Nobel winners, they hope more people will read their work. Christopher Joyce, NPR News.
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NPR's Melissa Block and Robert Siegel correct an error in an earlier piece that said the <em>Charleston Post-Gazette </em>won the 2015 Public Service Pulitzer. It was actually <em>The Post and Courier</em>.
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Pew Study On Understanding The Participatory News Consumer
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According to a recently released Pew Internet and American Life Project study, "six in ten Americans (59%) get news from a combination of online and offline sources on a typical day, and the Internet is now the third most popular news platform, behind local television news and national television news." This trend remains consistent with what we've found in our research in that the majority (70%) of NPR News station listeners obtains the latest news/current events via the Internet. (Source: MRI Fall 2009) The research defined the new multi-platform media environment as portable, personalized and participatory. We've certainly seen evidence of this at NPR. Portable The Pew study showed that 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones. Data from research provider MRI shows that NPR station listeners own mobile devices that have web/Internet access (33%), e-mail (28%), and receive text message alerts (12%). Further, nine percent of listeners have used their mobile device to visit a website for news. The study also mentioned that 18% of all mobile users use a news application to retrieve news content. In July 2009, NPR released the NPR News iPhone App — now one of the top 5 free news apps available in the iTunes store — in order to capture these news-thirsty app users. The app features NPR and station audio and content, and reaches more than 500,000 visitors a month. (Source: Omniture, March 2010) Personalized The Pew study highlighted that Internet users also like to customize their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them. "Some 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commentary about it, or dissemination of news via social media." Listeners are keen on the use of social media for news dissemination, as well: *NPR has more than 730,000 fans on Facebook *NPR has more than 3,350 subscribers on YouTube, with more than 66,500 channel views *NPR's most popular twitter account is @nprpolitics with more than 1.8 million followers (Source: Based on counts publicly available on mentioned sites as of March 31, 2010). Participatory The study further showed that, "some 72% of American news consumers say they follow the news because they enjoy talking with others about what is happening in the world." Similarly, in the past month, 63% of listeners have discussed an NPR story with friends, family or colleagues; of these, three in five discuss what they hear with others at least once a week. (Source: NPR Impact Study conducted by Lightspeed Research, July 2009) Meredith Heard is the Data Analyst for Corporate Sponsorship and Development in NPR's Audience Insight & Research group.
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Nielsen Media Research, the company that provides TV ratings, launched its rating tool, Local People Meters (LPMs), three years ago. But broadcasters insist the figures are not measuring minority viewers accurately. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
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Al Gore Investigation
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-- Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about Attorney General Janet Reno's expected announcement today that she will extend the Justice Department investigation into Vice President Al Gore's fundraising activities during the 1996 election campaign.
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With the Copenhagen global climate change conference as the backdrop, The Two-Way will host a live chat Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 at 1 pm ET with two U.S. scientists who are presently conducting field work in Antarctica. We'll discuss global warming from the perspective of Alex Kahl of Rutgers University in New Jersey and Chris Neill of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole in Massachusetts. Kahl studies, among other topics, the processes by which atmospheric carbon dioxide winds up in the sediment on the ocean floor. Neill studies the impact of human activities on ecosystems. They can both talk about changes they're seeing that they believe are linked to global warming. They can also discuss what it's like to work in Antarctica. When I talked with them Wednesday, for instance, it was after what should have been a five-minute trip back by small boat back to their Palmer Station quarters took the better part of an hour after "glacier crumbles," pushed by wind and currents, moved in to block their way. Please join us with your questions or comments. It should be an interesting session.
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Commentary: The Cost of Energy
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Rising gas prices have hurt many household budgets in recent months. But it's had an even greater effect in commentator Nancy Aronie's family. She is the author of <EM>Writing from the Heart</EM>.
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Young people from around the nation are gathering in Washington, D.C., for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever conference for American college students dedicated to fight global warming. Anya Kamenetz, author of the column "Generation Debt" for Yahoo Finance, reports on day two of the confab.
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What profession utilizes videoconferencing technology to conduct online sessions?
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Typical use of the various technologies described above include calling or conferencing on a one-on-one, one-to-many or many-to-many basis for personal, business, educational, deaf Video Relay Service and tele-medical, diagnostic and rehabilitative use or services. New services utilizing videocalling and videoconferencing, such as teachers and psychologists conducting online sessions, personal videocalls to inmates incarcerated in penitentiaries, and videoconferencing to resolve airline engineering issues at maintenance facilities, are being created or evolving on an ongoing basis.
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Seattle in this period attracted widespread attention as home to these many companies, but also by hosting the 1990 Goodwill Games and the APEC leaders conference in 1993, as well as through the worldwide popularity of grunge, a sound that had developed in Seattle's independent music scene. Another bid for worldwide attention—hosting the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999—garnered visibility, but not in the way its sponsors desired, as related protest activity and police reactions to those protests overshadowed the conference itself. The city was further shaken by the Mardi Gras Riots in 2001, and then literally shaken the following day by the Nisqually earthquake.
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What is the most popular current affairs magazine in Namibia?
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Other mentionable newspapers are the tabloid Informanté owned by TrustCo, the weekly Windhoek Observer, the weekly Namibia Economist, as well as the regional Namib Times. Current affairs magazines include Insight Namibia, Vision2030 Focus magazine[citation needed] and Prime FOCUS. Sister Namibia Magazine stands out as the longest running NGO magazine in Namibia, while Namibia Sport is the only national sport magazine. Furthermore, the print market is complemented with party publications, student newspapers and PR publications.
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In The Wombles, Uncle Bulgaria read The Times and asked for the other Wombles to bring him any copies that they found amongst the litter. The newspaper played a central role in the episode Very Behind the Times (Series 2, Episode 12).
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When did Murdoch begin expanding into the U.S?
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The editor, Larry Lamb, was originally from a Labour background, with a socialist upbringing while his temporary replacement Bernard Shrimsley (1972–75) was a middle-class uncommitted Conservative. An extensive advertising campaign on the ITV network in this period, voiced by actor Christopher Timothy, may have helped The Sun to overtake the Daily Mirror's circulation in 1978. Despite the industrial relations of the 1970s – the so-called "Spanish practices" of the print unions – The Sun was very profitable, enabling Murdoch to expand his operations to the United States from 1973.
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Though traditionally a moderate newspaper and sometimes a supporter of the Conservative Party, it supported the Labour Party in the 2001 and 2005 general elections. In 2004, according to MORI, the voting intentions of its readership were 40% for the Conservative Party, 29% for the Liberal Democrats, and 26% for Labour. The Times had an average daily circulation of 394,448 in March 2014; in the same period, The Sunday Times had an average daily circulation of 839,077. An American edition of The Times has been published since 6 June 2006. It has been heavily used by scholars and researchers because of its widespread availability in libraries and its detailed index. A complete historical file of the digitized paper is online from Gage Cengage publisher.
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Top 15 U.S. Newspapers by Circulation - MediaMiser The Wall Street Journal is America's largest newspaper by paid circulation with ... leading source of business and financial news, the Journal has expanded its core ... million on Sunday, more than 22 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a ... The Boston Globe is the leading newspaper in New England, with news,...
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7 Stories The National Enquirer Actually Got Right | Mental Floss Mar 25, 2010 ... Some in the media have argued that The National Enquirer ... grocery store line, the weekly rag has actually broken some pretty big stories. ... Carol Burnett was not drunk in public with Henry Kissinger in 1976, ... million libel suit against American Media, The Enquirer's publisher, for an undisclosed amount.
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Which newspapers were highly critical of The Sun's war reporting?
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After HMS Sheffield was wrecked by an Argentinian attack, The Sun was heavily criticised and even mocked for its coverage of the war in The Daily Mirror and The Guardian, and the wider media queried the veracity of official information and worried about the number of casualties, The Sun gave its response. "There are traitors in our midst", wrote leader writer Ronald Spark on 7 May, accusing commentators on Daily Mirror and The Guardian, plus the BBC's defence correspondent Peter Snow, of "treason" for aspects of their coverage.
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In the James Bond series by Ian Fleming, James Bond, reads The Times. As described by Fleming in From Russia, with Love: "The Times was the only paper that Bond ever read."
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What is the name of Northwestern's main student newspaper?
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The Daily Northwestern is the main student newspaper. Established in 1881, and published on weekdays during the academic year, it is directed entirely by undergraduates. Although it serves the Northwestern community, the Daily has no business ties to the university, being supported wholly by advertisers. It is owned by the Students Publishing Company. North by Northwestern is an online undergraduate magazine, having been established in September 2006 by students at the Medill School of Journalism. Published on weekdays, it consists of updates on news stories and special events inserted throughout the day and on weekends. North by Northwestern also publishes a quarterly print magazine. Syllabus is the undergraduate yearbook. First published in 1885, the yearbook is an epitome of that year's events at Northwestern. Published by Students Publishing Company and edited by Northwestern students, it is distributed in late May. Northwestern Flipside is an undergraduate satirical magazine. Founded in 2009, The Flipside publishes a weekly issue both in print and online. Helicon is the university's undergraduate literary magazine. Started in 1979, it is published twice a year, a web issue in the Winter, and a print issue with a web complement in the Spring. The Protest is Northwestern's quarterly social justice magazine. The Northwestern division of Student Multicultural Affairs also supports publications such as NUAsian, a magazine and blog about Asian and Asian-American culture and the issues facing Asians and Asian-Americans, Ahora, a magazine about Hispanic and Latino/a culture and campus life, BlackBoard Magazine about African-American life, and Al Bayan published by the Northwestern Muslim-cultural Student Association.
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On 1 May, The Sun claimed to have 'sponsored' a British missile. Under the headline "Stick This Up Your Junta: A Sun missile for Galtieri’s gauchos", the newspaper published a photograph of a missile, (actually a Polaris missile stock shot from the Ministry of Defence) which had a large Sun logo printed on its side with the caption "Here It Comes, Senors..." underneath. The paper explained that it was 'sponsoring' the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on HMS Invincible when the war ended. In copy written by Wendy Henry, the paper said that the missile would shortly be used against Argentinian forces. Despite this, it was not well received by the troops and copies of The Sun were soon burnt. Tony Snow, The Sun journalist on HMS Invincible who had 'signed' the missile, reported a few days later that it had hit an Argentinian target.
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What is the Seattle newspaper as of 2010?
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As of 2010[update], Seattle has one major daily newspaper, The Seattle Times. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, known as the P-I, published a daily newspaper from 1863 to March 17, 2009, before switching to a strictly on-line publication. There is also the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, and the University of Washington publishes The Daily, a student-run publication, when school is in session. The most prominent weeklies are the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger; both consider themselves "alternative" papers. The weekly LGBT newspaper is the Seattle Gay News. Real Change is a weekly street newspaper that is sold mainly by homeless persons as an alternative to panhandling. There are also several ethnic newspapers, including the The Facts, Northwest Asian Weekly and the International Examiner, and numerous neighborhood newspapers.
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On 26 July 2012, to coincide with the official start of the London 2012 Olympics and the issuing of a series of souvenir front covers, The Times added the suffix "of London" to its masthead.
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Who kept a blog about the school deaths?
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Details of school casualties had been under non-governmental investigation since December 2008 by volunteers including artist and architect Ai Weiwei, who had been constantly posting updates on his blog since March 2009. The official tally of students killed in the earthquake was not released until May 7, 2009, almost a year after the earthquake. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the earthquake killed 5,335 students and left another 546 children disabled. In the aftermath of the earthquake, the Chinese government declared that parents who had lost their only children would get free treatment from fertility clinics to reverse vasectomies and tubal ligations conducted by family planning authorities.
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On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
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What is the full name of KU's journalism school?
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The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is recognized for its ability to prepare students to work in a variety of media when they graduate. The school offers two tracts of study: News and Information and Strategic Communication. This professional school teaches its students reporting for print, online and broadcast, strategic campaigning for PR and advertising, photojournalism and video reporting and editing. The J-School's students maintain various publications on campus, including The University Daily Kansan, Jayplay magazine, KUJH TV and KJHK radio. In 2008, the Fiske Guide to Colleges praised the KU J-School for its strength. In 2010, the School of Journalism and Mass Communications finished second at the prestigious Hearst Foundation national writing competition.
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Under a front page headline "The Truth", the paper printed allegations provided to them that some fans picked the pockets of crushed victims, that others urinated on members of the emergency services as they tried to help and that some even assaulted a police constable "whilst he was administering the kiss of life to a patient." Despite the headline, written by Kelvin MacKenzie, the story was based on allegations either by unnamed and unattributable sources, or hearsay accounts of what named individuals had said – a fact made clear to MacKenzie by Harry Arnold, the reporter who wrote the story.
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Which newspaper overtook The Sun as largest Saturday UK newspaper?
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The Sun had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, but in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail. It had an average daily circulation of 2.2 million copies in March 2014. Between July and December 2013 the paper had an average daily readership of approximately 5.5 million, with approximately 31% of those falling into the ABC1 demographic and 68% in the C2DE demographic. Approximately 41% of readers are women. The Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Regional editions of the newspaper for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are published in Glasgow (The Scottish Sun), Belfast (The Sun) and Dublin (The Irish Sun) respectively.
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Under a front page headline "The Truth", the paper printed allegations provided to them that some fans picked the pockets of crushed victims, that others urinated on members of the emergency services as they tried to help and that some even assaulted a police constable "whilst he was administering the kiss of life to a patient." Despite the headline, written by Kelvin MacKenzie, the story was based on allegations either by unnamed and unattributable sources, or hearsay accounts of what named individuals had said – a fact made clear to MacKenzie by Harry Arnold, the reporter who wrote the story.
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What position did Lamb formerly hold at the Mirror?
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Murdoch found he had such a rapport with Larry Lamb over lunch that other potential recruits as editor were not interviewed and Lamb was appointed as the first editor of the new Sun. He was scathing in his opinion of the Mirror, where he had recently been employed as a senior sub-editor, and shared Murdoch's view that a paper's quality was best measured by its sales, and he regarded the Mirror as overstaffed, and primarily aimed at an ageing readership. Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were mostly selected for their availability rather than their ability.
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On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
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What did The Sun state that had it taken sponsorship of?
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On 1 May, The Sun claimed to have 'sponsored' a British missile. Under the headline "Stick This Up Your Junta: A Sun missile for Galtieri’s gauchos", the newspaper published a photograph of a missile, (actually a Polaris missile stock shot from the Ministry of Defence) which had a large Sun logo printed on its side with the caption "Here It Comes, Senors..." underneath. The paper explained that it was 'sponsoring' the missile by contributing to the eventual victory party on HMS Invincible when the war ended. In copy written by Wendy Henry, the paper said that the missile would shortly be used against Argentinian forces. Despite this, it was not well received by the troops and copies of The Sun were soon burnt. Tony Snow, The Sun journalist on HMS Invincible who had 'signed' the missile, reported a few days later that it had hit an Argentinian target.
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Various LGBT publications serve the city's large LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community such as The Rainbow Times, the only minority and lesbian-owned LGBT newsmagazine. Founded in 2006, The Rainbow Times is now based out of Boston, but serves all of New England.
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Which torchbearer sent a letter of protest to the president of the International Olympic Committee?
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Prior to the rally, seven anti-China protestors were arrested in Hanoi after unfurling a banner and shouting "Boycott the Beijing Olympics" through a loudhailer at a market. A Vietnamese American was deported for planning protests against the torch, while a prominent blogger, Điếu Cày (real name Nguyễn Văn Hải), who blogged about protests around the world and who called for demonstrations in Vietnam, was arrested on charges of tax evasion. Outside Vietnam, there were protests by overseas Vietnamese in Paris, San Francisco and Canberra. Lê Minh Phiếu, a torchbearer who is a Vietnamese law student studying in France, wrote a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee protesting China's "politicisation of the Olympics", citing maps of the torch relay at the official Beijing Olympic website depicting the disputed islands as Chinese territory and posted it on his blog. One day before the relay was to start, the official website appeared to have been updated to remove the disputed islands and dotted lines marking China's maritime claims in the South China Sea.
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On 6 June 2005, The Times redesigned its Letters page, dropping the practice of printing correspondents' full postal addresses. Published letters were long regarded as one of the paper's key constituents. Author/solicitor David Green of Castle Morris Pembrokeshire has had more letters published on the main letters page than any other known contributor – 158 by 31 January 2008. According to its leading article, "From Our Own Correspondents", removal of full postal addresses was in order to fit more letters onto the page.
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To what type of theater is Seattle second to New York?
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The 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, stages Broadway-style musical shows featuring both local talent and international stars. Seattle has "around 100" theatrical production companies and over two dozen live theatre venues, many of them associated with fringe theatre; Seattle is probably second only to New York for number of equity theaters (28 Seattle theater companies have some sort of Actors' Equity contract). In addition, the 900-seat Romanesque Revival Town Hall on First Hill hosts numerous cultural events, especially lectures and recitals.
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As of 2010[update], Seattle has one major daily newspaper, The Seattle Times. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, known as the P-I, published a daily newspaper from 1863 to March 17, 2009, before switching to a strictly on-line publication. There is also the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, and the University of Washington publishes The Daily, a student-run publication, when school is in session. The most prominent weeklies are the Seattle Weekly and The Stranger; both consider themselves "alternative" papers. The weekly LGBT newspaper is the Seattle Gay News. Real Change is a weekly street newspaper that is sold mainly by homeless persons as an alternative to panhandling. There are also several ethnic newspapers, including the The Facts, Northwest Asian Weekly and the International Examiner, and numerous neighborhood newspapers.
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Do you want to know about current events, but don't like reading newspapers? The art of reading newspapers seems to be dying out as more potential readers turn to other sources for information, particularly Internet publications like blogs and opinion sites.
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Did you know that Yelp now has a feed that explains the activity for your account? Well, they do. This article will tell you how to browse/navigate through it, so you can get the most out of it, as possible.
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hear hear! I'm canadian and believe it is an intentional choice, so as to marginalize any other americans, we must be sub-categorized as if we north americans are less important. (also south, central, latin, african, etc, etc.)
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Each newspaper had its own slant on the facts. If you want a credible view of whats going on you should read more than one newspaper. In reality most US news is filtered, kind of like telling the news to a toddler. If you want to see what is really going on in other areas of the world you should read news from other parts of the world as well.You can get translations of almost any newspaper in the world online. Just do a search.
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Vogue magazine has endorsed Hillary Clinton ahead of the US presidential election next month.
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The Democratic candidate will face Republican rival Donald Trump when Americans go to the polls on 8 November.
In an editorial, the magazine said: "Vogue has no history of political endorsements.
"Given the profound stakes of this one, and the history that stands to be made, we feel that should change."
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The article reminds readers the magazine has previously profiled Clinton six times.
Vogue, which has been led by editor-in-chief Anna Wintour since 1988, added Clinton "knows the challenges working women face".
"We understand that Clinton has not always been a perfect candidate, yet her fierce intelligence and considerable experience are reflected in policies and positions that are clear, sound, and hopeful," the editorial said.
But the magazine criticised "the chaos and unpredictability and the sometimes appalling spectacle of this election season".
On Wednesday evening, Clinton and Trump will go head to head in the final televised debate of the campaign season.
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It launched a Canadian version in May, but the UK edition will be the first one outside North America.
The Huffington Post was set up by Arianna Huffington in 2005 and bought by AOL earlier this year for $315m (£222m).
Ms Huffington remains the president and editor-in-chief of Huffington Post Media Group.
The Huffington Post features a combination of its own journalism, articles aggregated from other news sites, blogs and user-generated content.
When AOL bought the site, Ms Huffington said that one of the most exciting things about the sale was that it would allow them to launch international sites much more quickly.
She is expected to address a launch event on Wednesday, which will also feature former Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie, spin doctor Alastair Campbell and civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti.
The Huffington Post is also planning to launch a French edition.
AOL recently cut 900 jobs as it attempted to integrate the Huffington Post with its existing workforce.
It is expected that the UK edition will mainly be staffed by the employees who previously produced AOL's UK news pages.
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Come back each week to see our selection of the best news photographs.
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Our selection of some of the best news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Facebook has defended itself over claims its Trending Topics intentionally suppressed stories supporting conservative political viewpoints.
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A report by technology news site Gizmodo said staff responsible for what was shown to Facebook's 1.6bn users frequently chose to bury articles they did not agree with.
Responding to the allegations, the network's head of search Tom Stocky wrote that the site "found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true".
The claims come weeks after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg publicly denounced the policies of likely US presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
"I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as 'others.'," the 31-year-old said at his firm's recent developers conference.
However, Facebook insisted Mr Zuckerberg's view did not influence what stories are given added visibility on the network.
The Trending Topics column appears in the top right corner of a typical Facebook page. It is designed to highlight what subjects are being discussed heavily by Facebook users around the world.
Facebook explained in a statement that this list was edited by humans so as to avoid regularly recurring popular topics - such as "lunch".
Facebook's Mr Stocky explained: "Popular topics are first surfaced by an algorithm, then audited by review team members to confirm that the topics are in fact trending news in the real world and not, for example, similar-sounding topics or misnomers."
The Gizmodo story, which quoted a person it said they had been one of the editors, alleged Facebook staff were routinely tampering with Trending Topic stories.
Gizmodo's source added that staff were told to seek out stories published on the BBC, CNN and other mainstream sites ahead of publications with a clearly stated political bias - even if the stories originated on those smaller outlets.
Also, if several mainstream media sites were covering the same story, Facebook would - according to the source - artificially place it in the Trending Topic column, even if it was not being discussed heavily by users.
Breitbart, one of the leading conservative news sources in the US, said the reports confirmed what they had "long suspected", that "Facebook's trending news artificially mutes conservatives and amplifies progressives".
The anonymous source also claimed that stories staff favoured - such as the Black Lives Matter movement - were given artificially greater prominence. Facebook said that this was "untrue".
After a day of growing reports across social media and in conservative-leaning publications, Facebook's Mr Stocky posted a response on his profile.
"We have in place strict guidelines for our trending topic reviewers as they audit topics surfaced algorithmically," he wrote.
"Reviewers are required to accept topics that reflect real world events, and are instructed to disregard junk or duplicate topics, hoaxes, or subjects with insufficient sources.
"Facebook does not allow or advise our reviewers to systematically discriminate against sources of any ideological origin and we've designed our tools to make that technically not feasible.
"At the same time, our reviewers' actions are logged and reviewed, and violating our guidelines is a fireable offense."
On Monday, Gizmodo's story about Facebook's Trending Topics section being biased was featured prominently in Facebook's Trending Topics section.
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In all national elections, the BBC is legally required both by its own charter and electoral law to adopt a code of practice.
The basic principle behind this is the need for due impartiality of political coverage, as set out in the agreement accompanying the BBC Charter.
This requires the BBC over time to "give due weight and prominence to all the main strands of argument and to all the main parties."
So, on polling day specifically, the BBC (like other broadcasters, though they are covered by the Ofcom code rather than a charter) doesn't report on any of the election campaigns from 00.30 until polls close at 22.00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk.
However, online sites will not have to remove archived reports.
Coverage will be restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations or the weather.
Subjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day, so the BBC's output cannot be seen as influencing the ballot while the polls are open.
No opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.
Whilst the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.
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These columnists have to get their story straight. Globe & Mail News on Dec. 2. Housing prices up 23 % year over year in November.
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This is why old media G&M is dying. Anyone with a few brain cells can see this is a Re/Max propaganda dressed up as news. In other words, this is fake news.
More honest headline: "Bubble to grow more toxic in 2017 if real estate shills get their wish."
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Mr. Keller's article is misleading. For example, he omits to mention that the small-business tax reforms will end "income sprinkling." So his analysis is not accurate. Is this inaccuracy the result of bias or carelessness? And the Globe wants to have it both ways. It has crusaded against the earlier proposed tax reforms. Now that it has what it wants and the government has backed off some of them, it is now attacking the government for thus listening and backing off. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Is that reasonable or fair-minded journalism? The Globe officially endorsed Stephen Harper in the last election and in several before that. It is basically a mouthpiece for the Conservative party, and everything in it needs to be filtered by its readers accordingly.
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New York Daily News, morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City, once the newspaper with the largest circulation in the United States. The New York Daily News was the first successful tabloid newspaper in the United States. It was founded in 1919 as the Illustrated Daily News by Joseph Medill Patterson and was a subsidiary of the Tribune Company of Chicago. After a few months the paper changed its name to the Daily News.
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At the age of 25, Jared Kushner became the owner and publisher of The New York Observer, a weekly, salmon-colored newspaper that boasts a readership comprised of New York City's social, political and media elite.
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones (September 10, 1949 â August 20, 2008)[1][2][3] was a Democratic politician and member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Stephanie Abrams. Stephanie Abrams (born October 27, 1978) is an American television meteorologist, currently working for The Weather Channel (TWC). She currently co-hosts AMHQ with Jen Carfagno and Jim Cantore from 6AM to 9AM weekdays. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei left The Washington Post to become Politico' s editor-in-chief and executive editor, respectively, launching the newspaper on January 23, 2007. Frederick J. Ryan Jr. was its first president and chief executive officer. Robert L. Allbritton is founder and publisher.
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Politico Editor Says Trump Jr. Was a Cussing Psychopath Toddler⦠Nichole Cooper Thursday December 14 2017 Todayâs journalists couldnât find a good scoop if one hit them between their lard thighs.
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William Charles Bill Ayers (born December 26, 1944)[1] is an American elementary education theorist and a former leader in the counterculture movement who opposed US involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his 1960s radical activism and his current work in education reform, curriculum and instruction.
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John Coleman is co-founder of The Weather Channel. John Coleman, the co-founder, and David Kenny, the current CEO of The Weather Company, both spoke on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday after Coleman published an open letter and appeared on a prime time Fox News program voicing his opinion.
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So what do these... 1079 Words | 3 Pages. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore Global Warming Essay ...An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore, is a documentary that tells us about Global Warming. As he tells us, Global Warming involves solar radiation, in the form of light waves, passing through the atmosphere.
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1 The 15 Funniest Celeb Quotes of the 2000s In 2007, rocker Melissa Etheridge won an Academy Award for Best Song after writing I Need to Wake Up, the theme song for Al Gore's global warming documentary, An Inconveâ¦.
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According to the survey respondents, The Economist is the most trustworthy news source in media. On the far opposite side of the spectrum? Itâs Occupy Democrats, an extreme left advocacy group that claims to be the ânew counterbalance to the Republican Tea Partyâ.
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With more than 42 branches across the country, Sun News is one of the most widely read newspapers in Nigeria. This good reputation is also translated online where it comes in as one of the top 10 most popular Newspapers in Nigeria. Sun News Online is available on the internet at this link. 4. Sahara Reporters
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Global warming storm at Weather Channel. A co-founder of The Weather Channel tells CNN climate change is baloney.. Weather Channel CEO David Kenny responds.
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ByCaitlin MacNealPublishedNovember 2, 2014, 5:34 PM EST 6584 views. Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman on Sunday reiterated his belief that climate change is not real. Coleman, who is no longer associated with the Weather Channel, appeared on Fox News on Monday to express his long-held views.
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Ms. Cori Ann Starkweather, FNP, is a Nurse Practitioner specialist in Carbondale, Illinois. She graduated in 2015, having over 3 years of diverse experience, especially in Nurse Practitioner. She is affiliated with many hospitals including Herrin Hospital, Memorial Hospital Of Carbondale. Ms. Cori Ann Starkweather also cooperates with other doctors and physicians in medical groups including Southern Illinois Medical Services, Nfp. Ms. Cori Ann Starkweather accepts Medicare-approved amount as payment in full.
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Ann Curry is an American television personality, journalist, and photojournalist. Curry has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Syria, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powe
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On his Twitter account, President Obama tweets: âNinety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.â Not only does Obama sloppily equate âscientistsâ with âclimate scientists,â but more importantly he added âdangerousâ to the 97% claim, which is not there in the literature.
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Surely the most suspicious â97 percentâ study was conducted in 2013 by Australian scientist John Cook â author of the 2011 book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand and creator of the blog Skeptical Science (subtitle: âGetting skeptical about global warming skepticism.â).
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The Washington Press is an advertising-supported news aggregator in the political field and news from around the world provided and operated by The Washington Press. Note from the editor The Washington Press is an advertising-supported news aggregator in the political field and news from around the world provided and operated by The Washington Press. Read more about The Washington Press. The Washington Press is an advertising-supported news aggregator in the political field and news from around the world provided and operated by The Washington Press.
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The Hill is a non-partisan American political newspaper published in Washington, D.C. since 1994. It is owned by News Communications, Inc., which is owned by Capitol Hill Publishing, Chairman James A. Finkelstein. Focusing on the intersection of politics, policy, business and international relations, The Hill coverage includes Congress, the White House and federal campaigns.
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The Hill is a conservative newspaper and website founded in 1994. They are located in Washington D.C. and are a subsidiary of News Communications. At one time they were a weekly publication but have since expanded to a daily format while lawmakers are in session. News for and about Congress with a special focus on business and lobbying, political campaigns and the goings on in the Washington, D.C. beltway. The Hill has the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill periodical.
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The newspaper has the largest circulation of any Capitol Hill publication, with more than 24,000 print readers. It also operates a news website which features six blogs dedicated to specific political and policy issues: Ballot Box, Blog Briefing Room, Congress Blog, Floor Action, In the Know, and Twitter Room.
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why their are more men articls in chicago tribune than women?
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Because all newspapers (the Tribune included) are in business to make money ... and as there are more fans of men's sports than women's sports, that's where the bulk of the coverage is going to go.
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It takes longer to train leaders.\n\nBTW--NBC is the only one calling it a civil war.
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'The Journalist's Vice'
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Journalism often uses a device to explain major events. It consists of telling the stories of individuals and their struggles as a way of getting to the "big picture." To make reporting more meaningful to listeners, the craft of radio involves storytelling. A report might try to show how one person's condition is the result of large and complex forces and ideas. The premise is that reporting is really effective only when listeners, viewers or readers can sympathize with and understand the circumstances that touch the individual. Radio employs a number of reportorial and production devices designed to give listeners a sense of "being there" alongside the person caught up in large, abstract events such as war, a faltering economy or the AIDS epidemic. Do We Help or Hinder Understanding? But some listeners such as David Alexander wonder whether this device actually obscures, rather than illuminates, the larger issues: I have noticed that there are persistent habits that are probably considered as pluses by the editorial management at NPR. That is, every time there is coverage "in the field," the sound effects seem amplified beyond the natural level. As people walk through a forest, it seems someone is pointing the microphone toward the walkers' feet, just to prove that this really was done on-site; if there is a stream in the story, the microphone appears to be held inches above the rushing waters to emphasize those sounds. The result, for myself and probably for any listener that is awake, is a feeling that NPR is condescending in order to prove that, yes, you are there. It also takes away from the focus of the stories. Nothing is wrong with picking up the natural sounds -- they are wonderful -- but please stop over-emphasizing them in such an obvious way. Alexander's letter took me aback, since it implies that storytelling, as a device, may be seen by some as a tired journalistic cliché. Many journalists assume that a story of enormous complexity and consequence, such as the war in Iraq, is best told by looking at how the event affects individuals, whether the family of a soldier serving in Iraq or a family struggling to survive in Baghdad. The Personal Story These are often the most wrenching and compelling stories. They are also the stories that listeners feel moved by -- they either praise NPR for its humanity or, occasionally, condemn it as manipulative. Journalism is at its most effective when it tells human stories by looking at the "micro," or the personal, view of events. But some listeners, such as Alexander, think that NPR (like most news organizations) actually avoids the "macro" when it reports on the micro. 'The Journalist's Vice' Adam Gopnik, in his remarkable book Paris to the Moon, writes that it is the journalist's vice to use this particular method. "It is," Gopnik writes, "the journalist's vice to believe that all history can instantly be reduced to experience..." It is a vice, Gopnik says, because the journalist can never know for sure whether the subject of a story truly represents anything other than him or herself. But journalists believe that the personal approach is an effective way of reporting on complicated or theoretical topics. There are some good reasons to employ the "journalist's vice." First, in radio, the personalization of a story is made even more vivid by the use of sound. Complicit in the Act of Imagining The most affecting element of a story is often the simplest, and in the case of radio it is the human voice. Whether the voice is that of the host who introduces the story; of the reporter whose voice places listeners inside the situation; or of the story's subject, who can explain his or her situation best, the voice is always the most powerful agent of storytelling as reporting. Next comes the use of ambient sound, or "actuality." A radio reporter "gathers" sound on a recorder -- interviews, the sounds around the event -- and "mixes" the story together, blending the voices of the interviewees and the reporter's narration. Also, throughout the report are snippets of on-site sound that allow the listener to be complicit -- with the journalist -- in the act of imagining the story. This is the power of radio. In my experience, radio -- when done properly -- is the most intense of all news media because of this quality. 'Straight Up. No Chaser...' Alexander speaks, I think, for those listeners who want NPR to address the big issues head-on, and not by approaching the stories from the micro view. These listeners want their news straight up, no chaser. They'll take the discussion of ideas without the individuals that reporters use as journalistic metaphors. This may point out the limits of radio storytelling as a journalistic device. At a time when the issues are so huge, and the stakes so important, some listeners just want NPR to get to the point, save the art of radio for later and ideally, turn the journalist's vice into a virtue. Listeners can contact me at 202-513-
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Just posted by cyberjournalism guru Jeff Jarvis: About to record a Skype vid interview with Al Jazeera English re Twitter & Iran. Simple message: Despots, you are doomed.
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Arianna Huffington, Founder Of The Huffington Post
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Host Jessica Harris speaks with Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post. Harris also speaks with Dan Yates, the co-founder of Opower
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Happy Labor Day! Here are our current stories: -- Syria Resolution Could Be A Hard Sell On Capitol Hill. -- Egypt Charges Former President Mohammed Morsi, Others. And here are more early headlines: Report: U.S. Marines' Website Apparently Hacked By Assad Backers. (CNN) American Endurance Swimmer Poised To Set Record. (Time) Yosemite Fire Now California's Fourth Largest. (AP) Report: Vodafone Ready To Sell Wireless Unit For Billions. (Bloomberg) Mandela, Still Critical, Goes Home From Hospital. (Globe and Mail) Former Nazi Soldier On Trial For Slaying Of Dutch Resistance Fighter. (BBC) Remembering British Journalist David Frost. (Guardian) Reminder: Book News is on vacation today. But Annalisa Quinn is keeping an eye on her Twitter messages. She asks that "hot tips, scurrilous attacks and existential questions" be directed to @annalisa_quinn.
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Reporter's Notebook: NPR Afghanistan Bureau Chief
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Soraya Sarhhadi Nelson, NPR’s bureau chief in Afghanistan, has covered the war-torn country for years and may be best known for her work covering the struggles of women in Afghan society. Nelson was awarded a Peabody, broadcasting’s highest honor, for her work in Afghanistan. Guest host Audie Cornish speaks with Nelson about the latest news from Afghanistan and her experiences working there.
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<em>News & Notes</em> Web producer Geoffrey Bennett talks with Farai Chideya about the stories making the rounds on the show's blog, "News & Views," including reaction to the recent ouster of two black CEOs, the TV writers strike, and the launch of the new Web site, NPR Music.
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Lefty Bloggers Assemble in Las Vegas
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A first-ever convention of left-leaning bloggers is under way in Las Vegas. It's called "The Yearly Kos," a nod to a popular progressive blog called <em>The Daily Kos</em>. Politicians are part of the crowd.
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<em>Slate</em> chief political correspondent John Dickerson talks with Madeleine Brand about the top political stories of the week, including the primary victory of anti-war candidate Ned Lamont in Connecticut, and how the uncovering of an alleged terror plot targeting airlines has made the so-called war on terror a political issue again.
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Will Elizabeth Warren's Populist Message Shape 2016?
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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is an unusual rookie politician. The freshman senator has a seat at the leadership table and a loudspeaker many veteran politicians would envy. Her fans are hoping she’ll run for president in 2016, but Warren insists she’s not. So what is Senator Warren’s emerging role in the Democratic Party? From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Asma Khalid of WBUR reports. Read more on this story via WBUR Reporter Asma Khalid, reporter for WBUR in Boston. She tweets @asmamk.
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Pew Research released a poll three weeks after the 2008 Iowa caucuses indicating that just one percent of Americans ranked climate change as the most pressing problem facing the country. Today, that is not the case. With people seeing the effects of climate change on their daily lives, rising temperatures is on the minds of many voters. Wildfires, flooding and more severe hurricanes are affecting public safety, public health, property values and American businesses worldwide. How will climate coverage influence the 2020 election? How do the candidates differ in their approach to the issue? We sit down with two experts to find answers. Produced by Amanda Williams. GUESTS Anthony Leiserowitz, Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication; host, Climate Connections radio program; @ecotone2 Justin Worland, Energy and environment correspondent, Time magazine; @justinworland For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2019 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.
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Fresh Air Weekend: Alan Cumming, 'Godzilla' And Matthew Weiner
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Cumming is starring in Cabaret for a third time, critic John Powers considers the movie monster and Mad Men's creator reflects on the end of Don Draper's journey.
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Conflict between the U.S. and Iran intensifies, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls Iran’s aerial strikes on Saudi Arabian oil facilities an “act of war.” With an election too close to call in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to change course and share power with his rival Benny Gantz. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issues an apology for a photo he took in brownface in 2001. Could this affect his reelection campaign? Did Boris Johnson unlawfully suspend Parliament? The UK Supreme Court will vote. Following several deadly blasts in Afghanistan, the death toll rises, with more unrest expected. The Global Climate Strike kicks off today. Millions will protest, calling for an end to the use of fossil fuels. We’ll discuss this and more. GUESTS Nathan Guttman, Washington correspondent, Israeli Public TV; @nathanguttman Rosiland Jordan, State Department/specials correspondent, Al Jazeera English Television; @RosJordanAJE Peter Bergen, CNN national security analyst; vice president and director of the international security program at New America; author of “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists”; @peterbergencnn For more, visit https://the1a.org. © 2019 WAMU 88.5 – American University Radio.
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David Carr: The News Diet Of A Media Omnivore
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David Carr has a cold. On Sunday night, the media columnist for The New York Times tweeted to his more than 335,000 followers that he realized he probably had a variation of the common cold — because his drugstore was out of his favorite cold remedy. "Sometimes you want to grab what is in the air, so to speak, and just put it out there," he says. "One time after [the Winter Olympics ended], I just said, 'I miss the Olympics.' That got re-tweeted almost more than anything I've ever written about ... it's just something that's in the air." Carr joins Terry Gross on Fresh Air to discuss his Twitter usage, the future of newspapers, error correction, his own media consumption, religion and the accountability of social media. He says that he thinks of Twitter as a personalized "human-enabled RSS [feed]" that allows him to follow what his friends are reading and thinking about at any given moment. "It serves to edit what's going on in the world, and it puts a human curation on this huge fire hose of data that's washing over us all," he says. "The question becomes where to look, and it's nice to have some other people pointing the way." Initially, Carr says, he wasn't a Twitter fan. But now he tweets on average 8-10 times a day, and often re-tweets things of interest from the 600 or so accounts he regularly follows. "As a reporter, it was an important listening tool, and that's how I first used it — less as a megaphone and more [as a listener]," he says. "But then I realized that back when I was an editor of a newspaper, I was a decent headline writer — and that links would carry a lot more information, and annotating those links would have significant value to the people who follow me." 'What Do You Think Is Going On?' Carr was one of four journalists recently profiled in Andrew Rossi's documentary Page One, which provides an extended look at the Times newsroom through its media desk. At the beginning of the film, Carr tells one of his sources that the story he's working on is likely to be big. "What do you think the story is that I should tell?" he asks. Carr says that's a question that he rarely used to ask. But during the book tour for his memoir The Night of the Gun, he was interviewed by two types of people: those who told him what his story was about, and those who asked him simple, direct questions. "Historically, I had been a reporter who was very fond of making speeches and very fond of telling people what their stories were about," he says. "[As journalists], we're people who just show up and declare ourselves instant experts on all manner of stories. And we often are only taking a very blunt-force guess about what's going on, and I think it always behooves us to ask the people, especially if you're aspiring to do something good, 'What do you think is going on? What do you think this is about?' " Carr tells his sources that they shouldn't expect a fluff piece; he doesn't want anyone to be genuinely surprised by what they find in his stories. "I don't want to sit up in the middle of the night and wonder whether I was unfair to the person — that I didn't communicate to them what is coming," he says. "I don't want anybody to open up one of my stories and have their nose broken by what they read — although I do have to say, at the beginning of the week, I wrote a really mean column, and I didn't tell anybody involved, so I guess that's not always true." That piece — "Why Not Occupy Newsrooms?" — asked why there wasn't an Occupy movement in media, because some newspaper executives were guilty of "bonus excess despite miserable operations." Carr says he didn't call Gannett this time around because he had called them for a previous column on bonuses in June — and they didn't call him back. "I spent four days [in June] trying to get comments on Gannett [executive] bonuses, and on Sunday night they said, 'We're not going to comment on these bonuses.' And I just said, 'Really? You're a newspaper company. You're a publicly held company. These bonuses are a matter of public record, and you have nothing to say about them?' And I just found that appalling, and I think some of that was reflected in the piece [this week]." Carr's Media Diet Carr checks his Twitter feed every morning and has The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Star-Ledger and The New York Times delivered to his house. "The day before, all this stuff has gone whizzing past me, and I seem to know a lot, but I don't really know which part of it is important," he says. "I came to want that resting place ... There's both real-time news ... and a way to look back at what has happened." All of that content can be overwhelming. Carr says his nightstand is filled with books he'd like to read, his iPad is filled with stories from his RSS feed, and he's constantly inundated with information wherever he goes. "My persistent concern is that I'll become so busy producing media that I won't consume enough of it," he says. "So that what I produce becomes les
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NPR's Daniel Schorr, senior news analyst, breaks down voting patterns across the country, and says the outcome does not deliver a mandate to President Bush.
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Tallying America's Tweeters--The Feathered Ones
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Every year, volunteers throughout the Americas grab their notepads and binoculars to take an inventory of local birds for the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count. Greg Butcher, Audubon's director of bird conservation, talks about this year's tallies and species to look for.
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Conservatives who claim they’ve been secretly censored online will meet with President Trump on Thursday for what the White House has dubbed a social media summit. Representatives from major social media sites like Facebook, Google and Twitter were not invited. Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Ina Fried (@inafried), Axios’ chief technology correspondent. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Editors Weigh in on the News
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NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with newspaper editors around the country about the news of the week. She's joined by Pat Yack, editor of <EM>The Florida Times-Union</EM> in Jacksonville; Carole Leigh Hutton, managing editor of the <EM>Detroit Free Press</EM>; and Robert Kittle, editorial page editor of <EM>The San Diego Union-Tribune</EM>.
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What new information could lead 16 intelligence agencies to change their conclusions on Iran? <em>New York Times</em> reporter Mark Mazzetti talks with Melissa Block about how the NIE came together — and what the new estimate says about changes in the intelligence community.
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'Hello, Mom? What Makes a Source Reliable?'
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"How do your journalists know who to trust?" was the question posed by listener Evan Bergelt. Mr. Bergelt went on: I was inquiring as to where your news sources come from. Do (you) get the information from the Associated Press, etc... or do you do your own sleuthing? Does it depend on the station and region? Or is it a universal output of the same top stories at the same time? Mr. Bergelt's question is timely. In light of the recent stories about how this country went to war in Iraq, and whether journalists were led (or misled) by their sources, the question is of utmost importance because it speaks directly to the very credibility of news reporting in the United States. By implication, it also asks if the public can still rely on journalists to tell the truth or have reporters simply become informational conveyor-belts for politicians and for pundits? Journalism in Perilous Times Mr. Bergelt goes, I think, to the heart and the soul of what journalism is and how the craft is practiced -- especially in these perilous times when information (or the lack of it) is used to advocate going to war. The core of a democracy is predicated on the need for a well-informed public, and never more so than now. My answer to Mr. Bergelt was this: NPR relies on a number of sources for its reporting. NPR takes its wire service from the Associated Press and Reuters. Newsrooms usually have one of the cable news channels on (CNN, MSNBC or Fox) and those channels often act as a visual version of the old wire service machines giving the first but not always verifiable indication of a breaking story. NPR News also hears from many of the public radio stations. Their strong and important local newsrooms are often where stories first surface. The Internet has also become a place where stories first break. But the Internet and the blogs who live there may not always be a reliable source. Editors who work in the NPR newsroom say they find that the Net and services like Yahoo and Google can also be sources for breaking news stories. Reporters and editors also have their own sources, many of whom have been cultivated over the years. In political journalism, these sources can be politicians or their aides or partisans. Stories that emanate from those sources are often of varying reliability since the goal of some of these sources is to make their policies and the politicians who advocate them, look good. Instincts play an important role. An experienced journalist can sense when he or she is being manipulated and it's important that the journalist stops to ask him or herself the tough questions about credibility, motivation and reliability as soon as there is a scintilla of doubt. 'Verify, Verify and Verify Some More' Raul Ramirez is the news director at NPR member station KQED in San Francisco. I asked him about how he sees the dangers of relying on sources: Until we figure a way to look into people's hearts, journalists would be ill advised to believe absolutely what any source says at all times. Until that unlikely day, the best we can do is verify, verify and verify some more. Everything else is a kind of educated trial and error -- coupled with clear attribution as to who says what and under what circumstances. Over time, journalists learn to ask questions of their sources that fill in blanks and, frequently enough, tease out inconsistencies. We cross reference. We use multiple sources. Still, many of us come to trust and sometimes depend on sources (that) prove to be reliable time and again. Mostly, over time, we get to know what blinders our sources wear, and find ways to fill in the part of the picture that -- intentionally or not -- they leave out. The problem with spin masters is not that they fool us, but that so many journalists are so willing to be knowingly spun. Dornfeld's Maxim There is an old journalistic maxim, attributed to Arnold Dornfeld: "When your mother says she loves you, check it out." Dornfeld was one of the crusty but curmudgeonly editors at the storied Chicago City News Bureau. The Bureau finally closed in 1999 after more than a century of covering Chicago. The Bureau was known as a model for the classic, if stereotyped newsroom ("a nose for news and a taste for booze") type of reporting. Its famous alumni included playwright Charles MacArthur, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh and editorial cartoonist Herblock (See Web Resources, below). That kind of "men-only" newsroom has disappeared, but along with some of its journalistic practices. But there are a few of those old qualities that may need brushing off these days, especially Dornfeld's maxim. I'm not sure if anyone's mother would appreciate Dornfeld's level of scrutiny from their own offspring, but as journalistic maxims go, it still applies. Who Can You Trust These Days? Print and broadcast media used to play fast and loose with the quoting of unnamed sources. Part of the decline in media credibility was due, according to some academics,
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Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst and host of “Jill on Money,” about how to teach kids smart investing strategies. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Politics In The News: Candidates And The Orlando Mass Shooting
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How are the presidential candidates handling what happened in Orlando? Steve Inskeep and David Greene talk to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts and Denise McAllister of <em>The Federalist</em>.
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NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Christopher Caldwell, senior editor of <EM>The Weekly Standard</EM>, about how the issue of past military service is affecting the race for the presidency.
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