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Andrew Breitbart Slams ABC for Dropping Him From Election Coverage
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Maybe Fox News will hire him. On the day that he was supposed to provide commentary about the outcome of the midterm elections, conservative media personality Andrew Breitbart learned from ABC News that his services would no longer be required. Breitbart runs Big Government, the right-leaning website that was responsible for airing an edited clip of USDA official Shirley Sherrod that resulted in her firing. On Tuesday, Andrew Morse, the chief of ABC's political division, sent Breitbart the following letter: Dear Mr. Breitbart, We have spent the past several days trying to make ...
Possible Suicide Cluster Has Cornell on Edge
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 15) -- Steep, picturesque gorges cut their way through the heart of Cornell University's campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Over the years, however, the rocky chasms have proven to be a beacon for students seeking to end their own lives. On Friday, Matthew Zika, 21, became the third student in less than a month to be found at the bottom of Fall Creek Gorge. The body of 19-year-old William Sinclair was recovered in the gorge on Thursday, not far from where Bradley Ginsburg, 18, took his own life on Feb. 17. The deaths of Zika and Sinclair are still being investigated. "The cumulative effect of ...
The Unpaid Intern's Plight: Getting Ahead in a Recession, Labor Laws Aside
By Kase Wickman - Politics DailyAre you currently an unpaid intern, or have you ever been one? Have you felt helpful around the office, actively contributing to the team, seeing your work pay off in a final product? Have you worked independently, without a supervisor breathing down the back of your neck at all times? Have you felt like you could have a shot at a job once your internship ended? I certainly have. As an intern I was told I could easily transition to being a paid staffer, if only I didn't have a year of college left (the company going bankrupt five months later is another story). Here's an excerpt lifted from ...
Whole Foods Boycotted by Liberals for CEO's Anti-Obama Health Care Position
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe grocery store Whole Foods is facing a boycott organized by liberal activists because the CEO opposes President Obama's health care reform proposals. The company's chief executive, John Mackey, wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed on health care that has roiled the liberal blogosphere and prompted calls for a boycott. "While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system," Mackey ...
Obama, Wolverine, and Rising Unemployment: Politics Dailies - June 29
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyMeghan McCain wants you to forgive Mark Sanford. Wasn't Huckleberry Finn a troubled youth? Hardly the image I would invoke to describe "a picture-perfect political family." E.J. Dionne argues which is stronger: stone tablets or an iron will. The Supreme Court may be doing its part to add some extra money into the economy in 2012. Three superhero comic book reviews: Wolverine, Batwoman and Obama. One more unemployed American. Does this mean Jonathan Tobin is hoping the other four justices fall ill? And lastly, watch old media and new media duke it out on CNN: ...
On That Huffington Post Question...
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyA chunk of the Wednesday briefing with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs centered on President Obama's communications team basically inviting Huffington Post editor Nico Pitney to Obama's Tuesday press conference, anticipating he would ask a question from an Iranian. The controversy in media-centric circles is whether this counts as planting a question. ...
HuffPost, the White House and the New Media
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyIn Iran, the freedoms that have been stamped out by unelected, violence-prone clerics run the whole gamut: No freedom of worship, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, no right to a fair trial, no freedom to field candidates of your choice, no right to have your votes actually counted, and, of course, no freedom of the press. ...
Playboy, Tommy Christopher, and the Lessons of Traditional Journalistic Values
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyNo one was more surprised than I was to read last week that I had supposedly bowed to corporate pressure and fired blogger Tommy Christopher for standing up against a particularly misogynistic and vile Playboy.com piece. But my first reaction – to assume that no one could possibly believe such a far-fetched story, wrong on every count – was mistaken. The number of press inquiries I got? Zero. Number of inquiries our parent company, AOL, fielded? Also zero. But though nobody asked, I'll tell you anyway, because this episode illustrates why we feel so passionately about the ...
Hang Out With Oprah for a Good Cause
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe economy may be tight, but when a worthy cause like the nonprofit Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights has a charity auction, you do what you can. Like the Sidwell Friends School auction last month, where one happy donor making a contribution to the private school's scholarship fund was able to score autographed magazine covers of the President and First Lady for under $4000, this auction's items are laden with prestige and star power. Now through May 28, donors can "bid on over 125 one of a kind celebrity experiences to support human rights!" Lot items offer high power ...
Meghan McCain Says Karl Rove and HuffPo are 'Twitter Creeps'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAnd I, apparently, am not. Meghan McCain, the darling of the Twitter set, writes today at The Daily Beast that certain of her Twitter followers creep her out. The first one she mentions is, surprisingly, Karl Rove. The surprise is that it took Twitter to show her that Rove is creepy. From Daily Beast, with a hat tip to The College Politico:Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That's creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. It's allowed me to share the less serious aspects and humorously uncensored moments of ...
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