I recently did an interview with the Canadian Press. Here is an excerpt from the final piece:"But the website's founder, Michael Tippett, says objectivity is less important than ensuring readers have access to...
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Wow, a serious fight is underway between the AP and the blogosphere. Jeff Jarvis posted this on his blog yesterday:"I talked to a reporter this week about the embattled Associated Press and said three times...
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Yon Goicoechea who is a principal opponent of Venezuelan Head of State Chavez will be in the United States this week to receive the Milton Friedman Award for the Advancement of Liberty. In spite of the accusations by...
The controversy generated by the Olympic Flame World Tour has captured many headlines in recent weeks. This morning, Associated Press reported that the flame had arrived in Malaysia ahead of a relay in which it will...
People now in their 20s probably don't know much about Mulder, Scully and their ongoing saga of weird things that Mulder believes in and Scully doesn't. I'm just not sure I want to Believe is the title that'll get...
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According to reports by CNN and Associated Press the Greek government will not allow foreign media to cover the Olympic torch's Acropolis leg. Eager to avoid a repeat of the protest by French journalists during the ceremony to mark the lighting of the flame the Greek...
"“Honestly, I’m just getting paid to hold someone’s seat,” said one person attending the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing in Boston last week (on 2008-02-25). “I don’t even know what’s...
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Trying to get an accurate delegate count for the Obama-Clinton race to the nomination can be difficult for the person relying on published information the media provides. The world's largest news agency, the Associated Press (AP), published and re-published by over...
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What an insult!When you click on the photo accompanying this article, you'll find in the caption that Associated Press misidentified Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), shown at right, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...
I don't know about you, but I plan on keeping a watchful eye toward the heavens, and an ear on the radio over the next few weeks. Coming out of Washington today, Associated Press is reporting that yet another...
A study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project revealed that 47 percent of Americans admitted to Googling themselves, according to an Associated Press report this morning. Counting myself among that group of...
I just got off the phone with NowPublic's very own TheArgus, who brought us some incredible eyewitness photos of the forest fires in New Jersey. While on the way to work, this gentleman found himself in the middle of...
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"To this list of men of great vision Michael Tippett, the founder of NowPublic.com must now be considered. The new information age has bought the world such buzz words as; citizens journalism, social news, participatory media and media democracy. At the heart of any...
September 8, 2007, PowerLine (Excerpt)
"The AP strikes again in this story on the Bush administration's 2005 global warming initiative. The AP provides a brief history of America and the Kyoto Protocol:
Under...
"The Google News site robotically scans hundreds of news sources and provides a faux front page of popular news items, with hundreds, if not thousands, of redundant links to those stories (as they are carried by...
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