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Opinion: The Sherrod Saga's Lessons for Journalists
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(July 22) -- The 24-hour fall and rise of Shirley Sherrod should be a teaching moment for the U.S. media as well as the Obama administration. It used to be -- back in the dinosaur age when I started at United Press International in the 1970s -- that reporters picked up the phone and actually called people alleged to have said controversial things before going public with a story. It was called the right of fair comment. I never went to journalism school -- UPI was my J-school – but I assume someone still teaches this dusty principle to those quixotic enough to want to join this ...
Washington Post Blogger David Weigel Resigns, Chronicles Scandal on Twitter
By Mara Gay - Politics DailyLike any good blogger, former Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel is covering the scandal. Except this time, it's his own. Weigel resigned today when a slew of his crude remarks about conservatives on a private e-mail list became public. The Post, which hired him last year as a conservative writer to write a blog about the conservative movement, was embarrassed. Some of the comments were immature and others were vicious. One, for example, included the hope that big-time conservative blogger Matt Drudge would light himself on fire. "This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt ...
Bill Clinton: Unlikely Hero of the Liberal Netroots
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyHow times have changed. In his own era, the 1990s, Bill Clinton was hardly the flag-bearer for the nation's fledgling liberal "netroots" -- the grassroots blogosphere -- let alone the darling of the Democratic left. For starters, the man didn't even know how to use a computer. And during the 1992 presidential campaign, then-Gov. Clinton signed off on the execution of a brain-damaged African-American inmate, baited Jesse Jackson, and promised to "end welfare as we know it" – all while vowing to be a "different kind of Democrat." As president, he refused to end discrimination against gays ...
Sidney Crosby: Internet Star or Cyber Punk?
By Greg Wyshynski - AOL NewsCanadian Press writer Dean Bennett makes the case for Sidney Crosby as "hockey's first superstar of the cyber age":He's the subject of hundreds of Internet discussion groups that compare him to Jesus Christ, ask for his hand in marriage or seek to know him better in language as subtle as spiked heels and a leather bustier. There are more than 1,700 memorabilia items - pictures, pucks, posters - bearing his image on EBay alone. Books, blogspots and websites dissect the numerological implications of his fascination with No. 87. You can click to find photos of him as a toddler, or see art of the ...
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