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NPR CEO Ken Stern Forced Out

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - By David Folkenflik, Frank Langfitt - Mar. 07 (Statement) - NPR is considered a leader in news and music podcasts. And under Stern it has also struck deals to deliver its content new ways, such as through cell phones. But that push has aggravated anxiety among local stations about their relationship to the network. NPR member stations rely heavily on popular shows, particularly Morning Edition, to generate donations. But if people can listen to them through NPR's Web site or even their own cell phones, why would they stay loyal to stations still reliant on pledge drives?

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Gossip sites push Web 'anonymity' to fore

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Tom Regan - Mar. 05 (Opinion) - From Wikileaks to JuicyCampus, new outlets for unattributed comments affect the way we view information.

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Should Newspapers Still Be Taking Sides?

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Rick Stengel - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - I confess that I've never quite understood why newspapers endorse presidential candidates. Sure, I know the history and the tradition, the fact that newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries were often affiliated with political parties, but why do they do it now? Why do it at a time when the credibility and viability of the press are at all-time lows? More important, why do it at a time when readers, especially young readers, question the objectivity of newspapers in particular and the media in general? Young news consumers are suspicious about traditional authority. They prize objectivity, straightforwardness and transparency. I doubt there's a reader under 30 who gets why newspapers endorse presidential candidates -- and most of the ones I talk to ask the following: How can a newspaper be objective on the front page when it endorses a candidate on the editorial page?

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Through the Looking Glass

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:01:12 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Garreau - Sep. 07 (Interview) - By Joel Garreau Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 6, 2007; Page C01 Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul. It is weird finding William Gibson here, even given his acute sense of irony.

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GOP Steps Up Web Presence With Veteran of Yahoo, MSN

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:26:38 -0700

Washington Post - By Jose Antonio Vargas - Aug. 29 (Interview) - Republicans are trying to catch up with Democrats online. And Cyrus Krohn, a veteran of the high-tech industry, is helping them do it. A few weeks ago, Krohn, 36, left a job with Yahoo in Santa Monica, Calif., to become director of the Republican National Committee's eCampaign department.

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Wikiscanner: The DLC edits itself

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:04:47 -0700

The Politico - By Ben Smith - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - More from Wikiscanner, this one courtesy of a New York reader: Somebody over at the Democratic Leadership Council took it upon him or herself last November to moderate some of the criticism of the group in its Wikipedia entry. (This wasn't a full-scale, Scientology-style purge of negative information, just a few tweaks here and there.)

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