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Thursday, March 17th, 2011
Goes to Utah Legislature and the Utah Governor “for plunging their state into an abyss of secrecy through the most regressive piece of freedom of information legislation in recent history.”
Read entire article here.
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Sunday, March 6th, 2011
By Peter Hart, March 1, 2011
The New York Times reports its new poll (3/1/11):
As labor battles erupt in state capitals around the nation, a majority of Americans say they oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions and are also against cutting the pay or benefits of public workers to reduce state budget deficits, according to the latestNew York Times/CBS News poll.
That’s big enough news, and once again cuts against the People-Don’t-Support-These-Overpaid-Union-Workers trope.
But there’s more. When the poll asked about fixing the deficit, people had a message rarely heard in the media: Read entire FAIR blog here.
Tags:collective bargaining, Labor unions, public unions
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo’s speech on Sunday night to the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators was interrupted with chants of “Tax the rich!” led by City Councilman Charles Barron. — Glenn Blain, NY Daily News
Barron is a baron. Word! Makes one think of Bill Thompson’s “Term Limits” in the 2009 Mayoral Election. Thompson could have won if voters hadn’t been convinced by the mainstream news media that Bloomberg was strutting on the path to victor. Thompson lost by 4 percent.
Full story here.
Tags:2009 NYC Mayoral Election, Bill C. Thompson, Charles Barron, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, Term Limits
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Posted because I’m teaching a J-ethics/news responsibility class this semester.
Public Policy Polling released its second annual News Trust Poll yesterday, and what little coverage it received emphasized that Fox News is now America’s most distrusted TV news source and PBS the most trusted. — From boston.com.
Click here for more info.
Tags:Fox News, journalism ethics
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Friday, December 24th, 2010
The pardon was well within the purview of a sitting Governor, lame or otherwise, especially for an inmate – a law biding citizen who had never been in trouble with the law – who, ambushed by fate, erred in a fatal decision and ended up serving a 2-to-4 year term for manslaughter and weapons possession. Nothing wrong here.
But one has to wonder how no one on Patterson’s staff thought of contacting the Cicciaros.
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Tags:racial epithets, racial violence, racial violence on Long Island
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Ed Kent is a former Brooklyn College philosophy professor who seems to read everything and then disseminates the information. I sort through his choice tidbits for material to post on the WORD Blog.
One of his latest:
I feel some sympathy for Obama trying to figure how to cope what almost seems to be a new major problem each day.
To run down the list:
The rest is here.
Tags:Afghanistan war, great recession, Iraqi war, middle east imbroglio, Obama
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The SPJ Black Hole Award
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Goes to Utah Legislature and the Utah Governor “for plunging their state into an abyss of secrecy through the most regressive piece of freedom of information legislation in recent history.”
Read entire article here.
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