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Japan's Own Erin Brockovich Laments: 'I Wish I Could Have Done More'
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsHitomi Kamanaka remembers the reaction she got six months ago when she confronted a top official in the city of Fukushima with her fears about the local nuclear power plant. "I told him the reactors were too old, that they were dangerous, and he didn't say a word," said Kamanaka, 52, a filmmaker who has been on a 13-year crusade to educate Japan about the potential hazards of the country's 54 nuclear reactors. "He was silent. He couldn't answer. And I know why. I know the tremendous pressure he was under and how powerless he was." One of Kamanaka's worries that day in Fukushima concerned the ...
Gadhafi's Grip on Military and Media Gives Cover to Atrocities
By Andrew Bossone - AOL NewsANALYSIS Moammar Gadhafi's totalitarian control over the military and media has made Libya's revolution the most violent so far in a region beset by uprisings. Hussein Malla, AP Libyan citizens stand over a destroyed tank at Al-Katiba military base after it fell to anti-regime protesters. Until the protests began, Gadhafi wielded an unmatched amount of control over both the military and communications. The dictator has gone to extreme lengths in an attempt to beat down the protest movement, bringing in mercenaries to slaughter people on the streets and ordering aircraft and boats ...
Jay Carney's Debut as White House Press Secretary: No News, No Hits, No Errors
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyNew White House Press Secretary Jay Carney held his first briefing on Wednesday, drawing a standing-room-only crowd who sized up the man replacing Robert Gibbs, President Obama's longtime confidant, adviser and sidekick. Carney, brought into the Obama fold two years ago from Time Magazine, was seasoned as Vice President Joe Biden's spokesman. He did fine on the first day, mainly because he made no mistakes (watch video below). He was measured, affable, serious, and committed little news. He seemed a bit nervous. Carney was adroit in turning aside a hypothetical question about debt, but got ...
Another Midterm Winner -- the Mainstream Media
By Steve Friess - Politics DailyLAS VEGAS -- The big winners of the 2010 midterm elections were, in this order: the House Republicans, the unsinkable Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the media. Huh? The media? That "lamestream" crowd? Really? Well, yeah. In a group of high-profile Senate races involving tea party favorites, the strategy was to vilify and freeze out the press, to speak selectively and only when absolutely necessary for the sake of fundraising to the local Sean Hannity wannabe or the real Sean Hannity if he'd have them. Not only did it fail, but the campaigns of Sharron Angle in Nevada, Joe Miller in ...
The White House vs. the Media: The War Continues
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThe dance, if you will, was not a pas de deux -- or even a nice polka. What has transpired between the White House and the press corps lately is more like an eighth grade bump n' grind: one partner freaking the other, limbs flailing, with no particular rhythm. For an increasingly disenchanted public, it was kind of awkward to watch. The most recent round began several weeks ago in The Hill newspaper. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs spewed forth his simmering frustration with the "professional left," members of the liberal cable cabal who would only "be satisfied when we have Canadian health care ...
Cops: Man Holds Mom Hostage When She Refuses to Iron
By David Moye - AOL News(July 12) -- A man in Villa Rica, Ga., is behind iron bars after allegedly holding his mother hostage because she would not iron his clothes. Robert Edward Tyrrell Jr., 29, has been charged with aggravated assault and false imprisonment in connection with the June 29 incident and may be ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Sgt. Marc Griffith of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Tyrrell became upset when his mother would not iron his clothes, so he held her at gunpoint and insisted the task was a "woman's job." Carroll County Sheriff's ...
Al Gore, Sex Poodle: It's Not Only Scandal That Sells, but Stick Figures
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThis week, Alex Wagner, Patricia Murphy, Bonnie Erbe' and I discuss a story I wrote about what bothers me about the media's handling of allegations that former Vice President Al Gore behaved like a "crazed sex poodle" with a massage therapist in his Portland hotel room four years ago: Follow Melinda Henneberger on Twitter. ...
Rules Are Strict for Journalists Covering Gitmo
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba (July 1) -- The Pentagon last month barred four reporters from Guantanamo Bay for revealing the name of a witness against the orders of the military judge. The incident sparked renewed attention to the balance between security and transparency at a place that houses what U.S. officials have called the "worst of the worst." Journalists chaff at the restrictions placed on them here, but the military insists the rules are needed to ensure security. Some restrictions are straightforward: All pictures and video must be reviewed to ensure they don't violate ...
Sharron Angle and the Second Amendment: You Two Get a Room
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Obama, Social Media, and Presidential Advances in Communication Technology
By Mari Fagel - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama is more in tune with technology and social media than any president before him. He's participated in Q&As with YouTube users. He has nearly four million followers on Twitter and more than eight million fans on Facebook, the site that helped get him elected in the first place. "This president is such an electronics geek," said April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Network. "He's even got his own BlackBerry." Nonetheless, Obama's tenure in the White House so far has underscored a very different kind of lesson: that even sophisticated ...
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