Are Dems ingoring public's growing Obama care concerns?

GOP sources in Washington say that Democrats on Captiol Hill are ignoring public desire for a bi-partisan approach to health care reform.   Many Americans are concerned with upcoming changes and pending...

Julie Jacobson Photo: Scandal Over Released Shot of Dying Marine

The shocking death photo released by AP and taken by staff photographer Julie Jacobson is growing into a scandal and precipitating some heated debate about the people's right to know verses a family's right to...

Lance Cpl Joshua Bernard AP Photo: Photo of Dying Marine

US marine Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was wounded in Afghanistan, and died on the operating table. Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson shot a photo of the dying soldier, and the AP released the image. The Department of Defense immediately protested the publication...

AP (Associated Press) Charges $2.50 Per Word to Quote Stories

Lately, the Associated Press (AP) has truly been going out of their way to show that traditional journalists really do understand social media.Open-source, cross-linking, going viral? They're down with that. The AP is with it. Fo' shizzle.For instance, the AP understands that...

Crowdfunded journalism - what will readers fund?

An interesting observation from David Cohn, who's been doing some very important work at Spot.Us. "David Cohn of Spot.Us says: “We have begun to see a pattern among the pitches that do and do not get funded… The...

3 UK television journalists arrested by Sri lanka

Three journalists of Channel-4, a London-based television news network have been arrested in Sri lanka on charges of tarnishing the image of the government security forces. The trio, Nick Paton...

AP PROPAGANDA VS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS CENSORSHIP

This is my comment on the increasing irrelevant AP's desperate last ditch effort to prevent it from going the way of the many bankrupt newspapers that have went before it. [See AP IS DESPARATE TO OUTLAW SEARCH ENGINE LINKING] For the last 30 years or so the AP self censored...

AP Apology: YouTube Cease-and-Desist to WTNQ-FM Tennessee Mistake

AP has reached out to affiliate radio station WTNQ-FM in Tennessee to say sorry after a misunderstanding over some YouTube video footage.  AP was rumored to have sent WTNQ-FM a cease-and-desist letter after the radio station embedded footage from the AP YouTube channel...

Associated Press vs. Internet Aggregators — And Then The World!

Guess who's got their back up against the wall and their copyright-clad knickers in a twist again? You guessed it, the Associated Press, that bastion of the newsiest news the news biz has ever produced is about to...

AP IMPACT: For troops in Iraq, shower may be fatal

Some U.S soldiers have suffered from shocks when  showering and using electrical appliances in Iraq. There have been at least three deaths and one was of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth.Army investigators claimed "Maseth's death" was because of "negligent homicide caused by KBR...

Wounded Sri Lankans describe chaos

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Key Fact Omitted From AP Article About Ali's Salute to Obama

While reading an Associated Press report this morning about events that took place at the Bluegrass Ball Monday night, I found one important detail omitted from the report were as telling as the ones included. The...

Paulson Among Buyers of Failed IndyMac Bank

The FDIC issued a news release Friday to let the world known the agency’s board had approved a letter of intent to sell IndyMac Bank to a thrift holding company controlled by IMB Management Holdings LP. ...

2008: Chicago Murders Total Tops U.S. Soldier Deaths in Iraq

Few Americans realize the number of people murdered in Chicago during 2008 was larger than the number of U.S. soldier deaths in Iraq during the same period.In a Sept. 4 post, I noted an effort by Chicago’s CBS...

Fear, shortages for civilians caught in Gaza fight

.MY pictures show two Gaza casualties, a dead soldier and an injured child.-------------------We are beginning to see the extentof civilian suffering in the Gaza warand the worst may still be ahead. Yet so called...

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