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Possible NYT layoffs rattle media
Politico, by Dylan Byers
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Posted By:PageTurner, 1/11/2013 10:02:53 PM
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| In the news business, no one is safe - not even senior editors at The New York Times. The media business was shaken on Friday when it was reported, first in New York Magazine and confirmed by POLITICO, that managing editor John Geddes, assistant managing editors Jim Roberts and Susan Edgerly, former Washington editor Rick Berke, and former Times Magazine editor Jerry Mazorati could all be casualties of the Times’ effort to cut costs. “It is hard to imagine there are too many sacred cows left in any newsroom, given the general state of our industry,”
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Comments: What doing the water-carrying for The One gets you. Are they proud of their Obama endorsement? Their Obama donations? Their oozing love for Obama in their coverage?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 1/11/2013 10:14:57 PM (No. 9111824)
Maybe Aljazeera would be interested.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
avikingman, 1/11/2013 10:15:11 PM (No. 9111826)
Not a dry eye in the room. /s
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 1/11/2013 10:15:41 PM (No. 9111827)
I think that the word I´m looking for is "Hallelujah"!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LittleHoodedMonk, 1/11/2013 10:15:50 PM (No. 9111829)
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/major-shakeout-looms-for-top-times-editors.html
I totally agree with the OP. 0bama is the ultimate prez dispenser.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ranger Applejack Dawson, 1/11/2013 10:26:11 PM (No. 9111838)
Dismantling the Old Gray Lady?
Such a shame.
Only about a hundred years too late
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Objectivity, 1/11/2013 10:44:22 PM (No. 9111852)
inquiring minds want to know .... Carlos Slim ...was this a true ´financial´ investment?
Same to you Warren Buffett ...did you become a Graham family backer for the ´news coverage/networking´ versus a real investment?
Thought so .... the risk/rewards criteria looked obviously skewed for any true investment ...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
john56, 1/11/2013 10:44:51 PM (No. 9111853)
No liberals will be affected.
The poor slops in the press room are toast, though.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ribicon, 1/11/2013 10:53:43 PM (No. 9111859)
"Expectedly."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 1/11/2013 11:17:53 PM (No. 9111877)
Good. They deserve it. .
MM
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/11/2013 11:22:27 PM (No. 9111880)
"“Isn’t fat usually at top and middle?” one newspaper industry veteran said."
Same is true at the White House that the Times is so willing to worship under an Obama or Clinton and to vilify if Bush or Reagan.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Father of Internet, 1/11/2013 11:27:37 PM (No. 9111883)
They need to clean out the refuse in the editorial room.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Muncsdad, 1/12/2013 12:29:31 AM (No. 9111937)
I normally don´t relish other people´s miseries, but in THIS case...
The NYT and other liberal publications and their editors/reporters have done horrible damage to many businesses. They have caused countless job losses and economic damage. They destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives--and they did it knowingly, willingly and with glee.
So, to the NYT staff, what comes around goes around. You got what you deserved.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/12/2013 12:40:21 AM (No. 9111945)
The opening paragraph suggests that the layoff were due to the financial straits of industry. Not so, its due to terrible returns of the investment in the NY Times. When "the masses" won´t buy your rag, you eventually have to cut the staff. Hopefully that will include Nobel prize winning economists.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jkcinsalem, 1/12/2013 1:01:02 AM (No. 9111959)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
doctorfixit, 1/12/2013 1:18:05 AM (No. 9111973)
Great news.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Japanorama, 1/12/2013 1:26:00 AM (No. 9111978)
Cheered me right up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
chance_232, 1/12/2013 1:26:38 AM (No. 9111979)
Its not like they are "reporting" the news or exercising journalism. All they need is a photocopier re re-print the democrat talking points. And for local news, just reprint the Bloomberg talking points.
Besides.....there are how many leftist new organizations reporting the exact same thing?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
harper, 1/12/2013 1:33:36 AM (No. 9111984)
too bad so sad.
I hear Pravda and Algorejazeera is hiring.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/12/2013 2:35:08 AM (No. 9112014)
When they became stenographers for the DNC they lost their virtue and their value. Good reporting still has value and sells, political rants, not so much.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/12/2013 6:44:51 AM (No. 9112102)
Good. It couldn´t have happened any better to arse licking demonrat supporters. The Slimes practice of reporting all the lies fit to print and having the WH approve those stories has finally come home to roost.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
knarfski, 1/12/2013 7:34:25 AM (No. 9112148)
NYT: Good writing tainted by too much partisanship...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/12/2013 7:43:54 AM (No. 9112160)
The NYT is laying people off? That´s news that´s fit to print!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 1/12/2013 7:45:25 AM (No. 9112162)
Die, NYT, die. Better dead than read.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
amethyst, 1/12/2013 7:47:53 AM (No. 9112166)
Yes to all above and I remember when they gave up (didn´t require a Heimlich) the info that our intelligence was tracking Osama´s and other of his ilk cell phone gps locations and conversations even tho Bush 43 administration pled with them not to ...the NYT rots in local grocery store bins...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LZK, 1/12/2013 7:52:09 AM (No. 9112171)
Drip -- drip -- drip..........
This is a sign of our time!! By that I mean -- those of US who have known about the bamboozler all along have prepared for his "rule"....
The libbie fools that followed and continue to follow him are just now starting to experience his regime.
Wake up.....
LZK
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Sinatra5, 1/12/2013 7:56:22 AM (No. 9112176)
Oh I wouldn´t worry about it all that much. ...In rides the "taupe dope" and tells us they are "too big to fail", and lays our tax monies on them. They live to pollute another day
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
suncitypro, 1/12/2013 8:06:01 AM (No. 9112192)
Another one bites the dust--and this is just one of the many that will die slow deaths over the next 6 months. Good riddance.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Ragenrylie, 1/12/2013 8:08:29 AM (No. 9112195)
#18 - have you seen some of the conservative articles in Pravda recently? They have taken on topics like our debt, entitlements and most recently the 2nd Amendment and global warming BS, all from the pro-conservative prospective. I have read at least a half dozen articles in Pravda that would NEVER appear in the NYT, WAPO, or any other liberal rag. Pretty pathetic that Pravda is more fair and balanced than our MSM
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/12/2013 8:33:53 AM (No. 9112235)
My...my...what a difference one election makes. After the slimes, a good many other rags ought to be heading down the same road. Something about that old supply and demand thing, no? People don´t like a company´s product, company goes away. no rocket science here. Now to see it happen in the television news media which is long overdue.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Echohawk, 1/12/2013 8:40:10 AM (No. 9112244)
#24--I´d forgotten about that! The NYT did print articles about Osama´s gps cell phone locations. How many lives were lost? How much treasure spent because of their treachery? In any other nation, the editors-in-chief would still be in jail. Obama is a job destroyer. The NYT thought they´d bought some cover. Nice to see karma in action.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 1/12/2013 8:44:35 AM (No. 9112249)
Would that the same could happen to TV media, including some of the expensive dinosaur comedians who have so much fun denigrating. As for the newspapers, I take quiet pleasure whenever layoffs are announced. There´s not much of an industry left to absorb some of these galoots. Wonder where they will go?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/12/2013 9:00:40 AM (No. 9112276)
Pravda and Al Jazeera are more accurate and have more integrity than the NYTs. They stab you in the chest not the back.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
strike3, 1/12/2013 9:01:33 AM (No. 9112279)
I´m surprised that the Goebbels arm of the Obama regime has lasted this long. I would bet my bottom dollar that the NYT was a recipient of stimulus money to keep them afloat. It´s never been publicly revealed where the rest of that money went and, as mentioned above, they worshiped ol´ jug ears and his obnoxious, meddling wife for years.
May they not rest in peace for their treachery towards the American people.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Arby, 1/12/2013 9:06:10 AM (No. 9112286)
I´m still waiting for the day when they unload Paul Krugman. He can then work full-time for the DNC and become an honest man.
N.B.: I did not say a perceptive man.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Kazaland, 1/12/2013 9:09:27 AM (No. 9112295)
You can´t fool all the people all the time.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
OperaBuff, 1/12/2013 9:14:05 AM (No. 9112305)
Apparently, Algore has decided to retire and longer requires his support staff at the NYT.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Gretchen, 1/12/2013 9:16:05 AM (No. 9112309)
The Grey Lady has been dead and dessicated in her rocking chair for some time. Now we just have to contend with her psycho spawn.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
federale, 1/12/2013 9:21:02 AM (No. 9112320)
Payback for Walter Durranty.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
tnorling, 1/12/2013 9:22:48 AM (No. 9112324)
NYT is great - as long as they avoid politics. Same with New Yorker and other lib mags/papers. It´s really just their weird left wing bias that is so troubling.
Having said that, Rupert! There might be a paper for sale!!!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 1/12/2013 9:35:30 AM (No. 9112354)
Oh noes. How will Brian Williams fill 30 minutes of his ´news´ show?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 1/12/2013 9:39:47 AM (No. 9112362)
Couldn´t happen to a nicer bunch of lies.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 1/12/2013 9:53:29 AM (No. 9112386)
I´m gonna buy a pair of red shoes and dance in the streets. I may pass out candy.
ULULULULULULULULULULULULLULULULULU...!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
floridagator, 1/12/2013 9:54:21 AM (No. 9112388)
Algorezeera, #1, Algorezeera. Language is important! Please write Algorezeera every time you comment about Algorezeera in other forums. Hang Algorezeera around that SOB´s neck until the day he dies.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Winmag, 1/12/2013 9:54:25 AM (No. 9112389)
I want to see MoDo out on the street with a bottle of vodka in her cold dead hand.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
lancer12, 1/12/2013 10:00:03 AM (No. 9112397)
Last man standing-Paul Krugman.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
lhlande, 1/12/2013 10:19:27 AM (No. 9112435)
Couldn´t happen to a finer bunch, I say lock the doors and go away. Now that they are on the way out we the people should help, by further boycotts of their advertisers! What do you say? Hum?
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
coldoc, 1/12/2013 10:27:35 AM (No. 9112455)
Carlos Slim is is too smart to have invested in this travesty for anything other than first position on the building. Said building should be vacant shortly, I am happy to say.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 1/12/2013 11:16:39 AM (No. 9112553)
#1 is probably more correct than we think
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/12/2013 11:17:11 AM (No. 9112556)
Maybe they`re being laid off for the purpose of replacing them with cheaper labor.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Butch59, 1/12/2013 11:34:53 AM (No. 9112594)
The Slimes could probably become a profitable entity in a short time IF they would become an honest, fact finding, investigating newspaper instead of having become nothing more that a propaganda machine for leftists, socialists, communists, progressives, etc. However, even now, I really don´t think that they perceive the reasons for their downfall.
I´m not got to cry any crocodile tears for them.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
ida Lou Pino, 1/12/2013 12:20:03 PM (No. 9112681)
I refuse to rejoice in this tragedy. I will spend the entire day contemplating the ways in which I can be of help
[WAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA]
to those dedicated newspeople who face the turmoil and angst
[YAHOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOO]
which unemployment inevitably causes. I ask my fellow L-dotters
[BWAAA-WAA-WAA-WAA-WAAAAAAA]
to join me in this effort to provide succor to our fellow human beings in their hours of need.
[YEE-HEE-HOO-HOO-HA-HA-HA-WHEEEEEEEEEEE!]
Thank you.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Hnddog, 1/12/2013 12:24:37 PM (No. 9112692)
If these propaganda machines ever disappear maybe the sheeple will start listing to some fact laden common sense programs like Levin, Limbaugh and Hannity. I admit it will be hard for the goverment workers i mean parasite´s and well fare crowd to not have there vote bought by the liberal goverment. Only then will the votes change
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Carpe Diem, 1/12/2013 12:33:18 PM (No. 9112708)
Die NYT, die!!
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
danshanteal, 1/12/2013 12:40:12 PM (No. 9112732)
Why doesn´t Mr. Slim buy the rest of the paper and move it all to Tijuana?
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/12/2013 12:40:48 PM (No. 9112737)
I´m hearing Stars and Stripes Forever. "Times announces layoffs" Cymbal crash.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Lucky4, 1/12/2013 12:53:58 PM (No. 9112768)
I am still waiting for the day they close their doors.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
Funeral Guy, 1/12/2013 1:40:45 PM (No. 9112835)
"You´d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh." Oscar Wilde
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
eljefe99, 1/12/2013 1:42:56 PM (No. 9112842)
Like unions, "major" newspapers have outlived their usefulness. Local stuff is still uesful and really can´t be adequately distributed on hte Internet
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
rocco49, 1/12/2013 1:49:06 PM (No. 9112853)
Now look what they´ve done! My bird stopped singing because his cage wont be lined anymore and the dog is whining because when he wets the floor I´ve got nothing to put down underneath him! Thanks a lot!
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
f64, 1/12/2013 2:02:16 PM (No. 9112879)
#37 LOL. I immediately pictured Norman Bates´ mother.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 1/12/2013 2:20:21 PM (No. 9112901)
I´m glad our boycotts are putting the squeeze on that lying rag. Carlos Slim will want his loan repaid someday, why not tomorrow?
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
TinCan, 1/12/2013 2:37:56 PM (No. 9112934)
Schaudenfraude.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
mindyourbubble, 1/12/2013 2:58:02 PM (No. 9112965)
#3 Amen to that too. Those who sleep with dogs soon get fleas then soon get deloused or scratch themselves into oblvion.
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Reply 64 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 1/12/2013 3:02:02 PM (No. 9112973)
It´s about time, however they´ll probably just get jobs with the Obama administration, at substantial pay increases. They left always take care of their own.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
O.G.´s Mom, 1/12/2013 3:48:35 PM (No. 9113052)
“Let me attempt to be optimistic: Maybe the scary sense of uncertainty that permeates the place right now will inspire creativity, innovation, risk-taking,” the staffer said.
To the Times´ staffer that said this: Seems there´s been too much creativity and innovation in your newspaper. Why not just start telling the truth, reporting the news and, have some curiosity and good old fashioned skepticism when being fed the White House talking points and press releases. You know, the same curiosity and skepticism you reserve for Republicans.
That said, the demise of this entire corporation cannot come fast enough for me.
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
jetsman, 1/12/2013 4:45:43 PM (No. 9113121)
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
jetsman, 1/12/2013 4:49:18 PM (No. 9113127)
Well, maybe the state controlled media´s lord and savior, lord messiah o´bama, will dictate to congress to bail them out!!
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
peasantnumberthree, 1/12/2013 5:43:05 PM (No. 9113178)
Perhaps the best consequence of the demise of the NYT will be the confusion among their minions. What will the WaPo, LAT, ... do when the NYT stops sending them their daily talking points?
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
PageTurner, 1/12/2013 6:57:53 PM (No. 9113250)
Another case of The Obama Kiss Of Death.
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance: On political scrapheap 4 years ago, ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC: Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, a persistent voice of media skepticism on Benghazi
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/7/2013 11:01:43 PM
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From the start, the Obama administration’s account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn’t quite square for Sharyl Attkisson. So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. (Snip) While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news
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Stephen Hawking backs boycott of Israeli academics
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Associated Press, by Gregory Katz and Aron Heller
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM
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British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott." University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking´s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise by Hawking´s office.
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