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• Primate Playmate: Smile, It's Friday

  Published: July 27, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: Primate Playmate

  [Elmo, a 4-day-old orphaned orangutan. Indonesia, July 26. Image via AP] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Steiger: Murdoch’s ownership won’t affect WSJ’s China coverage

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:12 am

  Tags: Ethics, Company Coverage, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Amp Co

  Jones & Co., the newspaper’s parent company. “Earlier this year, a handful of reporters from The Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau urged Dow Jones in an open letter to reject Murdoch’s takeover bid over concerns he would meddle in the newspaper’s China coverage. The Journal has won two Pulitzer Prizes over

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• Jesse Jackson's Anti-Gun Claims Unchallenged by the AP

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Guns, Media Bias Debate, Jesse Jackson, Chicago, Journalistic Issues

  for trespassing. As the AP reports on Jackson's first appearance in court to face these charges, they made all efforts to make Jackson seem the righteous actor, unruffled and heroic. AP even decided he was "relaxed-looking" is his appearance. MARKHAM, Ill. - It's familiar territory for the Rev. Jesse Jackson: Facing legal trouble for his

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• AP: All Bush Has Left are White, Church-Going Men

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:14 am

  Tags: Iraq, Polling, President Bush

  for secrecy, or if the flap over the firing of U.S. prosecutors knocks Attorney General Alberto Gonzales out of his job. "That might warrant those strong supporters leaving him, but that hasn't happened," Shapiro said. "These are the people who have really stuck by him. We don't know if he's hit rock bottom." Frankly,

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• Giuliani on the pile

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:27 pm

  Tags: Ground Zero, Giuliani, Republican, Wapo, Bullshit

  ... but it's not a pile of rubble. The giant, narcissistic jerk says:"This is not a mayor or a governor or a president who's sitting in an ivory tower," he said. "I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of the workers. ... I was there working with them. I was exposed to exactly the same things they were exposed to. So in that sense,

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• Token Democratic quote

  Published: August 10, 2007, 9:54 pm

  Tags: Immigrant, Republican, Cnn, Democrat, Media

  AP via CNN quotes every Republican in sight, but the only Democrat it can find to quote is Ted Kennedy, and even he gets sandwiched between massive slices of white-bread Republicans. Here's the quote (or paraphrase) sequence:Chertoff (R-Jafar)Gutierrez (R-who?)The White House (R-bunker)Duhbya (R-blithering)Perino (R-flack)Chertoff again (R)My

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• First clue

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:17 am

  Tags: La Times, Murray, Media

  be full of it. The media lapped it up in their usual haste, but at least in this case the AP followed up.So did the LA Times, which found that the Murray mine uses a dangerous technique called room and pillar:The final column to be slashed is known among miners as the "suicide pillar."We may never know what in all likelihood took the lives of

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• Until CNN Or AP Confirms Castro's Death, We'll Just Run Comments From Perez Hilton's Site: “Oh fuck you! castro was a great man ...

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Fidel Castro, Quicklinks, Until Cnn Ap Confirms Castro S Death We Ll Just Run Comments From Perez Hilton S Site

  “Oh fuck you! castro was a great man who fed his people, educated them, and provided medical care for them… how DARE you speak such hogwash you fucking moron!!! what a suckup you are to your tribe of submoronic displaced mafiosi who undermined the revolution… you think bush is so fucking great????? go suck his dick — your

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• Choking on doughnut coverage

  Published: August 27, 2007, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Commentary, Reuters

  for this typically vapid quote buried down at the bottom, a fittingly modest gesture: ‘These changes will result in a more responsive, leaner and focused field structure that we expect will help us drive same-store sales, improve unit economics and reduce system costs.’ “And then what happens? May I choke to a violent

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• Did IQs just drop while I was away?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: News Sentinel, Tennessee, Fred, Bullshit, 2008

  should be canned, too.The AP knows that the faded red pickup is bullshit, that it's just a campaign prop, that it is only marketing not related to reality, like the Iraq war. But that doesn't matter. The AP wants to print bullshit. There's just no other plausible explanation.The weird thing is that Thompson has political advisers who

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• Sources

  Published: August 28, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Ted Olson, Alexandra Mooney, Florida, Chertoff, Time, Republican, Cnn, Gop, Gonzo, Democrat, Bullshit

  Chertoff embarrassment, the AP finds its best Time above-it-all shrugging tone, but Mooney is still willing to transcribe what any unnamed Republican source says. Really, the rule should be: You want to float a name? You have to go on record. Otherwise, the reporter is just collecting guesses and bullshit and feeding it to us.One particular

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• Everything about AP Media

  Published: August 30, 2007, 7:36 pm

  Tags: Andhrapradesh Media, Media In Ap

  Intresting blog about media in AP. Check it out

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• UN-diana Jones

  Published: August 31, 2007, 8:42 am

  Tags: Globe, Saddam, Spielberg, Phosgene

  containing the deadly ark disappeared into a secure government warehouse, ever ready to renew its mischief in case Spielberg couldn't think of any better sequel scenario (not to worry). Now that a can of Saddam's old phosgene has been discovered at the UN in New York, the comic foreboding seems a lot less comic. That stuff might not melt your

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• Centrino users recieve compatibilty program for wireless N

  Published: January 24, 2007, 6:44 pm

  with leading access point (AP) vendors including Asus, Belkin, Buffalo, D-Link and Netgear to better ensure compatibility and performance. Intel's wireless-N product is certified to work with multiple APs and as these AP's successfully pass Intel's rigorous real-world testing certification criteria, they will display a "Connect with

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• Iowa Gay Marriage Ruling Stirs 2008 Race

  Published: August 31, 2007, 11:38 am

  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa county judge's ruling knocking down the state's same-sex marriage ban stirred up the presidential race Friday as Republicans jostled to stake out a position with the state's conservative voters in mind....

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