It was sold and the deal has been cloaked in secrecy. It stopped publishing in mid September. It boasted a membership of college news services that spanned the country and had members over seas. Should anyone care about the demise of a national student news organization?
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UWIRE.com Dead
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Hey-Hey, Ho-Ho! CNN’s Nativist Has to Go! — Update
Saturday, October 24th, 2009“We won’t allow the network to court us as viewers while, at the same time, they allow Dobbs to spread lies and misinformation about us each night,†Roberto Lovato, a founding member of Presente.org, was quoted in the New York Times as saying about CNN’s Lou Dobbs. Also wrote the NY Times reporter: “The hypocrisy, critics say, lies in CNN’s decision to woo Hispanic viewers with a prime-time documentary while still giving Mr. Dobbs a nightly forum.”
Hey-Hey, Ho-Ho! CNN’s Nativist Has to Go!
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
On Eve of CNN’s ‘Latino in America’ Series, Demands Grow for CNN to Dump Lou Dobbs
Events planned in more than 20 cities represent growing backlash to the network’s October 21-22 special in light of CNN’s continued support of Lou Dobbs. New Yorkers to gather in front of Time Warner/CNN Headquarter, 4 p.m. tomorrow.
The Fifth Circle of Hell: Resistance Is Futile
Sunday, October 18th, 2009Prescient signs: The smack, smack, smacking of students smacking the wall.
Bloomberg Vs. Thompson, October 13, 2009: Who Won the First Mayoral Debate?
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Thompson, post debate, at the Chimney, 105 Street & Second Avenue
William C. Thompson and several heavyweight City and State Democratic pols showed up at this hip East Harlem bar after the debate. The answer (actually a response) to the Who Won? should be forthcoming. This writer wants to see what the big dailies will be splashing tomorrow.
Also, who will answer the big question?
It’s Hard to Get Excited About Old News, That Is, That Fox News Is a Scribe of the Republican Party
Monday, October 12th, 2009New York Daily News headline: White House: Fox News ‘a wing of the Republican Party’. Why is the New York Daily News so excited about the Obama administration’s dated communique about Fox? Don’t the editors/reporters there keep an eye on Robert Greenwald and Media Matters for America?
D:F/M Faculty Meeting, October 7: Tower of Babble
Monday, October 12th, 2009If institutions of higher learning desire academic honesty, they must be institutions of obvious integrity, places where students, faculty, and administrators seek truth and wisdom and technical expertise in an environment marked by trust, honesty, respect, fairness, responsibility, and courage. — Peg Hogan, Former President, The Center for Academic Integrity.
Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize And They Yowl in Peoria!
Saturday, October 10th, 2009Paraphrasing NY Times Editorial, October 9, 2009: The left yowled that the Nobel committee gave the prize to a wartime president. The right yowled that Obama sold out the country with his diplomacy. The band of George W. Bush loyalists, dwindling, of course, yowled that Obama has not  ended the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
Yowling. Yowling. Yowling in Peoria.
Thompson Claims Victory in Last Mayoral Debate
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009(more…)
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