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| UPDATED: Bashing middle class: Why newspapers die |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 2:27 pm |
| Tags: Culture |
| the rank-and-file, many big newspapers are already focusing on what they call "niche" publications, but what they really mean is something that, to paraphrase Barbara Bush, almost rhymes with "niche," and that's "rich." And so when a huge pool of middle-class workers in your large community walk off the job and throws up a picket line, do |
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| Dozens die in car bombings as Iraqi violence surges (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 5:56 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Car bombs and other attacks killed at least 56 people in Iraq on Wednesday and wounded another 103 in a day of mayhem that heralds an annual surge in violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. |
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| Pentagon probes security contractors in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 7:43 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it's sent a team of investigators to Iraq to look into how the U.S. military monitors private security contractors in the wake of a Sept. 16 incident in which security guards working for the State Department killed at least 11 Iraqi civilians. |
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| Pennsylvania Newspapers Pretend There is No Direction to Mecca |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 8:02 am |
| Tags: Culture Society, Daniel Griffith, Tom Burnett Sr, Pennsylvania, Government Amp Amp Press |
| and Pittsburgh's two major newspapers are both backing up this transparent falsehood. Professor Daniel Griffith, who is serving as a consultant to the Memorial Project, told the Post Gazette that: "anything can point toward Mecca, because the earth is round." He made similar statements to the Pittsburg Tribune Review and the Johnstown |
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| Major newspapers, network news still silent on Romney-Blackwater connection |
| Published: September 26, 2007, 8:37 pm |
| Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, The Early Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Today Show, Usa Today, Wall Street Journal, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Mitt Romney |
| reports by the five major newspapers and the three networks on the Iraqi Interior Ministry revoking Blackwater USA's license, none of those outlets has reported on Romney's connection to Blackwater or his refusal to comment on the matter. Reports that the Iraqi Interior Ministry had ousted Blackwater were on the front page of the |
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| Report: Blackwater skimped on security before Fallujah ambush (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 6:42 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - Democrats in Congress released a scathing report Thursday on the 2004 massacre of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, charging that the company rushed unprepared into a sloppy mission, skimped on security to save money and stonewalled when Congress tried to investigate. |
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| As U.S. officials touted progress, Blackwater guards killed 16 (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— On Sept. 9, the day before Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Congress that things were getting better, Batoul Mohammed Ali Hussein came to Baghdad for the day. |
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| Blackwater blamed for deaths of reporter, 3 guards (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 5:47 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— The Blackwater incidents cited by Iraq's Interior Ministry as reason for the security firm to be barred from operating in Iraq include the deaths of four people with ties to Iraq's government-funded television network. |
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| Partial list of the dead in Blackwater incidents (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Iraqi officials have yet to release a comprehensive list of the people they say have been killed by Blackwater USA security contractors in the past year. McClatchy Newspapers, however, compiled the following list from morgue logs and interviews with friends, colleagues and the security department of a Baghdad |
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| U.S. officials criticize Hunt Oil's Iraq deal (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 27, 2007, 5:45 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— A controversial deal by the Hunt Oil Co. with an Iraqi regional government faces "significant legal uncertainty" and undermines American efforts to strengthen Iraq's national unity, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Thursday. |
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| Newspapers and Blogs |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 9:17 am |
| They still don't have much of a clue, do they? Did you know that the New York Times now has 40 active blogs. Me neither. I guess it's a step forward that they're not charging you to read them. |
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| Blackwater cancels planned expansion (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 28, 2007, 6:32 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - RALEIGH, N.C.— In more fallout from the Sept. 16 shooting in Baghdad that left 11 Iraqis dead, Blackwater USA apparently has stopped its expansion projects. |
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| Forget Google Supporting Newspapers; Now Some Think The Gov't Should Prop Up Newspapers |
| Published: September 29, 2007, 4:05 am |
| Tags: Google Publishing |
| the government prop up newspapers. " Read the full story on TechDirt Read Allen Harkleroad's Confidential SEO Secrets Book |
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| Blackwater guards killed 16 in week of violence (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: September 29, 2007, 3:06 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— On Sept. 9, the day before Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Congress that things were getting better, Batoul Mohammed Ali Hussein came to Baghdad on business for the day. |
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| Steve Gochenaur maps it all out, at work and at home - Lancaster Newspapers |
| Published: September 30, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Asia |
| work and at home - Lancaster Newspapers Steve Gochenaur maps it all out, at work and at homeLancaster Newspapers, PA - 11 hours agoHe designs maps the county uses for voter registration, hazard mitigation, land-use updates and provides to first responders and emergency personnel. … A Himalayan Blunder: How our maps ceded |
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