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Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By LA Times Staff - Feb. 07 (Breaking News) - A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.

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APNewsBreak: Komen official quits breast cancer charity over Planned Parenthood dispute

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Associated Press - Feb. 07 (News Report) - A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press. Karen Handel, the charity’s vice president for public policy, told Komen officials that she supported the move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. She said the discussion started before she arrived at the organization and was approved at the highest levels of the charity.

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How the Daily Mail stormed the US

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Brian Wheeler - Jan. 27 (News Report) - The Daily Mail has overtaken the New York Times as the world's most popular newspaper website. How did it do it?

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Assange takes chat-show job with state-funded Russian TV

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Shaun Walker - Jan. 26 (News Report) - A TV channel funded by Kremlin will air a chat show hosted by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an unlikely collaboration announced yesterday. Russia Today, which broadcasts from Moscow in English, said that the programme will be written and hoste

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Social media sets off firestorm of false reports that Joe Paterno died

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Jan. 22 (News Report) - The erroneous accounts about the former Penn State football coach's demise traveled far and wide within minutes, whipped into a firestorm by social media.

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Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jonathan Weisman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, quickly followed suit.

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Web Piracy Bills Invite a Protracted Battle

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jenna Wortham, Somini Sengupta - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Obama administration’s statement of opposition to antipiracy legislation let the technology industry claim a victory, but few in Silicon Valley or Hollywood consider the battle over.

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Google's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of pushing aside competing social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

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@MentionMachine tracks the presidential candidates: Who’s up, who’s down on Twitter?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Cory Haik, Amanda Zamora, Natalie Jennings - Jan. 03 (Special Report) - When Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination Aug. 13, the same day as the Ames Straw Poll, those watching social streams could have rightfully assumed he had won the Iowa contest. Twitter exploded with Perry mentions, even though he didn’t participate in the straw poll, while the winner, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.), drew far less attention. Social media was the writing on the wall. Perry would soon trend up in polls, surpassing Bachmann and the rest of the field. Twitter was the early — scratch that — Twitter was the real-time warning ...

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Tucson's ethnic-studies program violates Arizona law, judge rules

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Stephen Ceasar - Dec. 28 (News Report) - The ruling affirms a decision by the state schools superintendent and could end classes on Mexican American heritage.

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Plenty to question in GOP debate

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Dec. 14 (Fact Check) - When Michele Bachmann accused Newt Gingrich in the latest Republican debate of once supporting a cap-and-trade program to curb global warming, he huffily denied it and told her she should get her facts straight. Actually, she did. As recently as 2007, Gingrich "strongly supported" the idea. Viewers did not always get the straight goods Saturday night from other presidential hopefuls, either. Mitt Romney erred in saying Barack Obama was the only president to cut Medicare. If Rick Perry had been a betting man, he probably would have lost the $10,000 wager Romney wanted to make with him to settle competing assertions. A look at how some of the claims from the Saturday night debate and Sunday talk show aftermath compare with the facts:

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Lowe's pulls ads from TV show about U.S. Muslims

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Associated Press - Dec. 12 (News Report) - A decision by retail giant Lowe's Cos. to pull ads from a reality show about American Muslims after protests from an evangelical Christian group has sparked criticism and calls for a boycott against the chain of home-improvement stores.

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Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech on GOP Turf

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By A. G. Sulzberger - Dec. 07 (News Report) - Laying out a populist argument for his re-election next year, President Obama ventured into the conservative heartland on Tuesday to deliver his most pointed appeal yet for a strong governmental role through tax and regulation to level the economic playing field.

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Obama orders U.S. diplomats to increase efforts to fight LGBT discrimination abroad

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Dec. 06 (News Report) - President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.

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Building a Better Mitt Romney-Bot

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert Draper - Nov. 30 (Special Report) - His camp doesn’t need to turn their guy into someone you’d have a beer with. They just need to eliminate the bugs in the machine.

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Gingrich Gave Push to Clients, Not Just Ideas

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By MIKE McINTIRE, JIM RUTENBERG - Nov. 30 (News Report) - Newt Gingrich is adamant that he is not a lobbyist, but in the eight years since he started his health care consultancy, he has made millions of dollars while helping companies promote their services.

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The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Liz Gannes - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely, and

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Fact checking the CNN national security debate

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Nov. 23 (Fact Check) - Hello, “Steve Gates.” While Rep. Michele Bachmann may have trouble living that blooper down, here are some of the more dubious assertions and facts we heard at the fascinating CNN debate Tuesday night, organized with the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. We examine 15 statements in all, and as is our practice, may come back to do a deeper look in the coming days.

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Murdoch's News Corp accused of trying to bribe Australian senator

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Federal police investigate Bill O'Chee's claim he was offered favourable coverage if he voted against digital TV laws Australian police are investigating a former senator's allegations that an executive from Rupert Murdoch's News Limited offered him favourable newspaper coverage and "a special relationship" in return for voting against government legislation. Bill O'Chee made the allegations in a nine-page statement to police and they were published Wednesday by Fairfax Media newspapers, rivals of News Corp's Australian subsidiary. The newspapers reported that an unnamed executive of News Ltd asked O'Chee during a lunch on 13 June 1998 to vote against his conservative government's legislation on the creation of digital TV in Australia. The News group stood to profit from the legislation failing. The Australian federal police said in a statement on Wednesday that O'Chee's allegations had been under investigation since 4 November. "As this matter is ongoing it would not be appropriate to ...

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Senate Set to Vote on Neutering Net Neutrality

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:53:00 -0800

Wired - By David Kravets - Nov. 07 (News) - WASHINGTON, D.C — The Senate is likely to vote within days on a measure that would undo net-neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2010, even though they’ve yet to go into effect. One of the lead sponsor’s of Senate Journal

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The Media Primary

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - Rick Perry received the most favorable coverage of any candidate for president during the first five months of the race, but now Herman Cain is enjoying that distinction. Meanwhile Barack Obama has had the roughest treatment, according to a new survey which combines traditional research methods and computer algorithmic technology to code the level and tone of news coverage.

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Long ties to Koch brothers key to Cain’s campaign

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 16 (News) - Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation’s capital. But Cain’s economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.

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Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Nick Davies - Oct. 12 (News) - One of Rupert Murdoch's most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries about a circulation scam at News Corporation's flagship newspaper, the Wall Street Journal. The Guardian found evidence that the Journal had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate, misleading readers and advertisers about the Journal's true circulation.

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FACT CHECK: In foreign policy address, Romney stretches on Obama’s record

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Oct. 08 (News) - Telegraph.co.ukFACT CHECK: In foreign policy address, Romney stretches on Obama's recordWashington PostA closer look at some of his statements, and how they compare to the facts: ROMNEY: “As President, on day one, I will focus on rebuilding America's economy and I will reverse President Obama's massive defense cuts. Time and again, we have seen that ...FACT CHECK: Romney misfires on defenseBoston Globeall 621 news articles »

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