May 7th, 2010

Ashley Carpenter. Seen here reporting at the campaign headquarters of William C. Thompson, who went down swinging in the 2009 New York City Mayoral Race.
Carpenter – AKA the WORD’s AC 360 for stories, pictures and minidocs – will be appearing in ABC’s What Would You Do? tonight, Friday, May 7 at 9 p.m. EST.
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Tags: ABC, AC 360, Ashley Carpenter, student journalist, What Would You Do?
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May 6th, 2010
… but New Yorkers Not People of Color love the head-bangers soooo that the City’s paramilitary force can get away with – literally and figuratively – mayhem and murder. New York Civil Liberties Racial Justice Project: Hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers of Color stopped and frisked.
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Tags: NYPD, NYPD interrogates blacks and hispanics unfairly, police brutality
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May 5th, 2010
Via facebook [to HM yesterday evening]
BBC America, 15 minutes ago [about 6 p.m., EST], said that the Red Shirts were mulling over an offer but were not enthusiastic about the November elections that the Prime Minister pitched to them.
Monath Replies today:
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May 5th, 2010

This latest thread started with HM posting this picture and writing, "Somewhere Bucky is smiling." - Picture by Howard Monath
Who’s Bucky?
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Tags: crisis in Bangkok, crisis in Thailand, Howard Monath, University of Wisconsin
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May 4th, 2010
Via facebook
2 minutes ago [12:25 EST]
Funny, it seems counter intuitive, but the closer you are to a story and the more access you have , like here with the Thai Red Shirts, the more you rely on outside sources for information ( or at least corroboration )
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May 4th, 2010

Picture by Howard Monath
Via facebook
“I’m going to spend wednesday talking to Reds…
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May 3rd, 2010
Howard Monath, Former D:F/M Film Instructor, in the Heart of the Crisis
Via facebook
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May 2nd, 2010
NY Daily News said two female cops were heroes for discovering a man fumbling with something in the back of a Nissan in Times Square and stopped the car bomb from detonating. The NY Times said “explosive materials were discovered by a mounted police officer who saw a “box with smoke pouring from it in the back of the Pathfinder” and called for backup.
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May 1st, 2010
FAIR, the national media watch group offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. since 1986.
Someone Has to Defend Goldman Sachs
4/26/2010 by Peter Hart
And that someone is Fareed Zakaria, in columns published in the Washington Post (“Cool the Goldman Rage”) and in the Post-owned Newsweek. Zakaria is unimpressed by the SEC’s fraud case against Goldman Sachs; he likens the firm’s mortgage securities bonds to someone placing a bet against the New York Yankees.
Click here for article.
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Tags: DOJ, FAIR blog, Fareed Zakaria, Goldman Sachs, Newsweek, Obama, Thomas Drake, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington Post
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