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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/media-matters-by-jamison-foser-20080761325.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/media-matters-by-jamison-foser-20080761325.htm Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:15:37 GMT Even while carrying McCain's water, media worry they aren't doing enough for him John McCain complaining about media coverage is a little like an oil company complaining about profit margins: hard to believe, and even harder to feel much sympathy. This is, after all, a politician who has referred to the press as his "base," and a politician about whom MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has said "every last one of them [reporters] would move to Massachusetts and marry John McCain if they could." As Eric Alterman and George Zornick recently explained in The Nation, "no candidate since John F. Kennedy, and perhaps none since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has enjoyed such cozy relations with the press." But the coziness of that relationship has become increasingly one-sided in recent months, as McCain and his campaign lash out at the media, who then redouble their efforts to please the Arizona senator. In early May, McCain senior adviser Mark Salter released a memo accusing the media of "form[ing] a protective barrier around [Obama], declaring serious limits to the questions, discussion and debate in this race," adding: Senator Obama has good reason to think this plan will succeed, as serious journalists have written of the need for 'de-tox' to cure 'swooning' over Senator Obama, and others have admitted to losing their objectivity while with him on the campaign trail. Later that month, McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt claimed MSNBC is "a partisan advocacy organization that exists for the purpose of attacking John McCain." The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz dutifully typed up Schmidt's charge without offering a contrary point of view. Nor did Kurtz note that McCain is subject of regular and effusive praise from MSNBC employees such as Chris Matthews, who has a habit of saying that McCain "deserves" to be president and says he "loves" McCain. In June, Salter announced that seats on the comfy sofa next to McCain's captain's chair on his new plane were available only to "the good reporters," who would "have to earn it." Kurtz responded, "I think Mark Salter ... was joking and we should all lighten up. Can you imagine the uproar if the McCain campaign actually had a policy of rewarding favorable reporters with access to the candidate on the plane and shutting out those who dared to be critical? There would be a media revolt." But there was no "media revolt" when Salter reportedly threatened to throw Newsweek off the campaign bus just a month earlier, or when an Arizona reporter was kicked off the McCain bus. Rather than leading a "revolt" over such tactics, Kurtz covered them up, asserting it was all a big joke. This week, the McCain campaign against the media went into overdrive. First, McCain allies began complaining that Obama's trip abroad was garnering a great deal of media attention. Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, for example, said: "The question really needs to be posed: Is this type of coverage fair? ... This is nothing but a political stunt." McCain spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker complained that "it certainly hasn't escaped us that the three network newscasts will originate from stops on Obama's trip." Today, the Republican National Committee sniffed about Obama's "overwhelming advantage in attention paid by the media." And, as they often do when Republicans complain about the media, the media paid close attention. The Associated Press ran an article headlined, "Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?" The article was built around Republican complaints and contained not a word of criticism that the media has been excessively kind to McCain rather than Obama. The New York Times reported that coverage of Obama's trip abroad "feeds into concerns in Mr. McCain's campaign, and among Republicans in general, that the news media are imbalanced in their coverage of the candidates." Unlike much of the media's navel-gazing in response to the McCain complaints, the Times article hinted at one of the basic flaws with criticism that the media is paying too much attention to Obama's trip: McCain and the Republicans just spent months building up the perceived importance of such a trip: "If this were John McCain's first trip to the war zone, that would be a story and we would cover it big time," said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News. "This is Senator Obama's first trip -- his positions and the public's perception of him on national security issues are important." Mr. Friedman said Mr. McCain and the Republicans had helped make the visit a bigger story because they had repeatedly questioned Mr. Obama's credentials, keeping a running count of the number of days that have passed since Mr. Obama last visited Iraq, in 2006. For months, the Republicans have argued that it was of utmost importance for Obama to visit Iraq. Then, when Obama did so, the media behaved as though the visit was important. But Obama didn't commit whatever mistake the Republicans were hoping for during his trip, so the Republicans decided the trip shouldn't get so much coverage -- and many reporters, ever responsive to GOP complaints, rushed to agree. More broadly, the problem with using the apparent fact that Obama is the subject of more media coverage to argue that he is receiving more favorable coverage is that it completely ignores the content of news reports. Take, for example, the week of April 28-May 4. Obama was either the "main newsmaker" or a "significant presence" in 69 percent of campaign stories, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, drawing significantly more media attention that week than John McCain and Hillary Clinton combined. Ah, but the bulk of that coverage was about Obama's relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- 42 percent of the campaign news coverage that week. Anybody want to argue that the media's obsessive focus on Obama and Wright was good for Obama and bad for McCain? All throughout the spring, as the media were obsessively focusing on every controversy, real or imagined, involving Obama or Clinton while giving McCain a pass, journalists kept promising that they'd scrutinize McCain just as soon as the Democratic primaries were over. Insisting that they couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time, reporters argued that the free ride McCain was getting was simply a result of the media's inability to cover both the Democratic candidates and John McCain. But they'd get around to the Republican nominee eventually. That was their excuse for devoting far more attention to Obama and Wright than to McCain and Rev. John Hagee. That was their excuse for obsessively demanding Hillary Clinton release her taxes, but not saying a word about John McCain's -- even after Clinton released hers and McCain still had not done so. They'd get around to McCain someday, they kept telling us. Well, they still aren't scrutinizing John McCain. And now, perversely, that lack of scrutiny is in effect being used to argue that the media are treating McCain poorly by not paying more attention to him. In fact, some media are going further than merely failing to scrutinize McCain. CBS this week actively covered up a McCain blunder by deceptively editing an interview that Evening News anchor Katie Couric conducted with McCain. When Couric asked McCain for his response to a statement by Barack Obama that, in Couric's words, "there might have been improved security even without the surge," McCain responded by falsely claiming that the surge "began the Anbar awakening." In fact, the Anbar awakening began before the surge. But rather than air McCain's factually incorrect response, and tell viewers that McCain was wrong, CBS replaced his answer to Couric's question with three separate statements made by McCain spliced together, one of which was an answer to a different question -- with no indication that they had spliced the interview. (CBS also omitted another false claim McCain made during the interview: his description of the Iraq war as "the first major conflict since 9/11," something that would come as a surprise to the families of the 554 Americans who have lost their lives as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.) In explaining the deceptive editing of the McCain interview, CBS News senior vice president Paul Friedman claimed the editing "did not in any way distort what Senator McCain was saying." CBS had earlier claimed it made the edit in order to "give viewers a fair expression of the candidates' major differences." That's nonsense. CBS showed viewers Katie Couric asking John McCain a question, edited out McCain's actual answer, which contained a falsehood, and replaced it with three separate statements spliced together, including an entirely different answer to a different question, without giving any indication of what they had done. That isn't a "fair expression" of anything. It is a gross distortion of reality, and the suppression of a false claim by John McCain on a topic that the media keep telling us is his area of expertise. That is nothing short of fraudulent "reporting" by CBS, and it should be a major scandal. But instead, the media spent the week wringing their hands over the possibility that they are mistreating McCain. Incredible. And in between discussions of how unfair they were being to McCain, the media cheerfully repeated McCain's nonsensical attacks on Barack Obama. When a McCain spokesperson and the RNC chided Obama for reportedly having people begin to plan for a possible transition, should he be elected president, the media obligingly repeated that criticism. One MSNBC host read it on-air; another agreed with the GOP that it is "premature" for Obama to begin to make such plans. A Fox host called it "unprecedented"; U.S. News & World Report's Kenneth Walsh called it "very early" and said "it plays into this notion that the Republicans are talking about, about Obama being too arrogant." A New Republic writer called it "The Earliest Transition Team Ever." Newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle reported the charge. Only one problem: this may have been the dumbest attack any major presidential campaign has ever made. The McCain camp is criticizing Obama for preparing to govern effectively should he win. Doesn't that seem like a good thing? Clay Johnson apparently thinks so: He's the guy George W. Bush put in charge of precisely the same kind of planning in 1999 and 2000. See, Bush agreed with Johnson's assessment that it would be "irresponsible not to be doing this." Ronald Reagan began making transition plans early, too -- Ed Meese began asking people to help with the planning in 1979, the year before Reagan was elected president. Carter began his transition planning in May 1976, six months before Election Day. So, whatever transition planning the Obama campaign is doing isn't "unprecedented" or "premature" or "The Earliest Transition Team Ever," as the media claimed on McCain's behalf. It is, instead, completely standard. And, when you think of the enormous responsibility of running the federal government, it seems -- as Clay Johnson says -- irresponsible not to do so. The question the media should be pursuing is not whether it is "arrogant" to undertake such planning -- it plainly is not -- but why on earth the McCain campaign would criticize it. Instead, they made false claims in support of the McCain team's self-evidently absurd attacks on Obama. Then they went back to chattering about whether their coverage favors Obama. Mediamatters.Org "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - Even while carrying McCain's water, media worry they aren't doing enough for him John McCain complaining about media coverage is a little like an oil company complaining about profit margins: hard to believe, and even harder to feel much sympathy. This is, after all, a politician who has referred to the press as his "base," and a politician about whom MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has said "every last one of them [reporters] would move to Massachusetts and marry John McCain if they could." As Eric Alterman and George Zornick recently explained in The Nation, "no candidate since John F. Kennedy, and perhaps none since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has enjoyed such cozy relations with the press." But the coziness of that relationship has become increasingly one-sided in recent months, as McCain and his campaign lash out at the media, who then redouble their efforts to please the Arizona senator. In early May, McCain senior adviser Mark Salter released a memo accusing the media of "form[ing] a protective barrier around [Obama], declaring serious limits to the questions, discussion and debate in this race," adding: Senator Obama has good reason to think this plan will succeed, as serious journalists have written of the need for 'de-tox' to cure 'swooning' over Senator Obama, and others have admitted to losing their objectivity while with him on the campaign trail. Later that month, McCain campaign strategist Steve Schmidt claimed MSNBC is "a partisan advocacy organization that exists for the purpose of attacking John McCain." The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz dutifully typed up Schmidt's charge without offering a contrary point of view. Nor did Kurtz note that McCain is subject of regular and effusive praise from MSNBC employees such as Chris Matthews, who has a habit of saying that McCain "deserves" to be president and says he "loves" McCain. In June, Salter announced that seats on the comfy sofa next to McCain's captain's chair on his new plane were available only to "the good reporters," who would "have to earn it." Kurtz responded, "I think Mark Salter ... was joking and we should all lighten up. Can you imagine the uproar if the McCain campaign actually had a policy of rewarding favorable reporters with access to the candidate on the plane and shutting out those who dared to be critical? There would be a media revolt." But there was no "media revolt" when Salter reportedly threatened to throw Newsweek off the campaign bus just a month earlier, or when an Arizona reporter was kicked off the McCain bus. Rather than leading a "revolt" over such tactics, Kurtz covered them up, asserting it was all a big joke. This week, the McCain campaign against the media went into overdrive. First, McCain allies began complaining that Obama's trip abroad was garnering a great deal of media attention. Republican Rep. Eric Cantor, for example, said: "The question really needs to be posed: Is this type of coverage fair? ... This is nothing but a political stunt." McCain spokesperson Jill Hazelbaker complained that "it certainly hasn't escaped us that the three network newscasts will originate from stops on Obama's trip." Today, the Republican National Committee sniffed about Obama's "overwhelming advantage in attention paid by the media." And, as they often do when Republicans complain about the media, the media paid close attention. The Associated Press ran an article headlined, "Is media playing fair in campaign coverage?" The article was built around Republican complaints and contained not a word of criticism that the media has been excessively kind to McCain rather than Obama. The New York Times reported that coverage of Obama's trip abroad "feeds into concerns in Mr. McCain's campaign, and among Republicans in general, that the news media are imbalanced in their coverage of the candidates." Unlike much of the media's navel-gazing in response to the McCain complaints, the Times article hinted at one of the basic flaws with criticism that the media is paying too much attention to Obama's trip: McCain and the Republicans just spent months building up the perceived importance of such a trip: "If this were John McCain's first trip to the war zone, that would be a story and we would cover it big time," said Paul Friedman, senior vice president of CBS News. "This is Senator Obama's first trip -- his positions and the public's perception of him on national security issues are important." Mr. Friedman said Mr. McCain and the Republicans had helped make the visit a bigger story because they had repeatedly questioned Mr. Obama's credentials, keeping a running count of the number of days that have passed since Mr. Obama last visited Iraq, in 2006. For months, the Republicans have argued that it was of utmost importance for Obama to visit Iraq. Then, when Obama did so, the media behaved as though the visit was important. But Obama didn't commit whatever mistake the Republicans were hoping for during his trip, so the Republicans decided the trip shouldn't get so much coverage -- and many reporters, ever responsive to GOP complaints, rushed to agree. More broadly, the problem with using the apparent fact that Obama is the subject of more media coverage to argue that he is receiving more favorable coverage is that it completely ignores the content of news reports. Take, for example, the week of April 28-May 4. Obama was either the "main newsmaker" or a "significant presence" in 69 percent of campaign stories, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, drawing significantly more media attention that week than John McCain and Hillary Clinton combined. Ah, but the bulk of that coverage was about Obama's relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- 42 percent of the campaign news coverage that week. Anybody want to argue that the media's obsessive focus on Obama and Wright was good for Obama and bad for McCain? All throughout the spring, as the media were obsessively focusing on every controversy, real or imagined, involving Obama or Clinton while giving McCain a pass, journalists kept promising that they'd scrutinize McCain just as soon as the Democratic primaries were over. Insisting that they couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time, reporters argued that the free ride McCain was getting was simply a result of the media's inability to cover both the Democratic candidates and John McCain. But they'd get around to the Republican nominee eventually. That was their excuse for devoting far more attention to Obama and Wright than to McCain and Rev. John Hagee. That was their excuse for obsessively demanding Hillary Clinton release her taxes, but not saying a word about John McCain's -- even after Clinton released hers and McCain still had not done so. They'd get around to McCain someday, they kept telling us. Well, they still aren't scrutinizing John McCain. And now, perversely, that lack of scrutiny is in effect being used to argue that the media are treating McCain poorly by not paying more attention to him. In fact, some media are going further than merely failing to scrutinize McCain. CBS this week actively covered up a McCain blunder by deceptively editing an interview that Evening News anchor Katie Couric conducted with McCain. When Couric asked McCain for his response to a statement by Barack Obama that, in Couric's words, "there might have been improved security even without the surge," McCain responded by falsely claiming that the surge "began the Anbar awakening." In fact, the Anbar awakening began before the surge. But rather than air McCain's factually incorrect response, and tell viewers that McCain was wrong, CBS replaced his answer to Couric's question with three separate statements made by McCain spliced together, one of which was an answer to a different question -- with no indication that they had spliced the interview. (CBS also omitted another false claim McCain made during the interview: his description of the Iraq war as "the first major conflict since 9/11," something that would come as a surprise to the families of the 554 Americans who have lost their lives as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.) In explaining the deceptive editing of the McCain interview, CBS News senior vice president Paul Friedman claimed the editing "did not in any way distort what Senator McCain was saying." CBS had earlier claimed it made the edit in order to "give viewers a fair expression of the candidates' major differences." That's nonsense. CBS showed viewers Katie Couric asking John McCain a question, edited out McCain's actual answer, which contained a falsehood, and replaced it with three separate statements spliced together, including an entirely different answer to a different question, without giving any indication of what they had done. That isn't a "fair expression" of anything. It is a gross distortion of reality, and the suppression of a false claim by John McCain on a topic that the media keep telling us is his area of expertise. That is nothing short of fraudulent "reporting" by CBS, and it should be a major scandal. But instead, the media spent the week wringing their hands over the possibility that they are mistreating McCain. Incredible. And in between discussions of how unfair they were being to McCain, the media cheerfully repeated McCain's nonsensical attacks on Barack Obama. When a McCain spokesperson and the RNC chided Obama for reportedly having people begin to plan for a possible transition, should he be elected president, the media obligingly repeated that criticism. One MSNBC host read it on-air; another agreed with the GOP that it is "premature" for Obama to begin to make such plans. A Fox host called it "unprecedented"; U.S. News & World Report's Kenneth Walsh called it "very early" and said "it plays into this notion that the Republicans are talking about, about Obama being too arrogant." A New Republic writer called it "The Earliest Transition Team Ever." Newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle reported the charge. Only one problem: this may have been the dumbest attack any major presidential campaign has ever made. The McCain camp is criticizing Obama for preparing to govern effectively should he win. Doesn't that seem like a good thing? Clay Johnson apparently thinks so: He's the guy George W. Bush put in charge of precisely the same kind of planning in 1999 and 2000. See, Bush agreed with Johnson's assessment that it would be "irresponsible not to be doing this." Ronald Reagan began making transition plans early, too -- Ed Meese began asking people to help with the planning in 1979, the year before Reagan was elected president. Carter began his transition planning in May 1976, six months before Election Day. So, whatever transition planning the Obama campaign is doing isn't "unprecedented" or "premature" or "The Earliest Transition Team Ever," as the media claimed on McCain's behalf. It is, instead, completely standard. And, when you think of the enormous responsibility of running the federal government, it seems -- as Clay Johnson says -- irresponsible not to do so. The question the media should be pursuing is not whether it is "arrogant" to undertake such planning -- it plainly is not -- but why on earth the McCain campaign would criticize it. Instead, they made false claims in support of the McCain team's self-evidently absurd attacks on Obama. Then they went back to chattering about whether their coverage favors Obama.
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {NORTH AMERICA > RENTALS} - Gorgeous one-bedroom at The Palms with private patio! (SOMA / south beach) $2499 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/gorgeous-one-bedroom-at-the-palms-with-private-patio-20080633829.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/rentals/gorgeous-one-bedroom-at-the-palms-with-private-patio-20080633829.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:25:55 GMT The Palms555 4th Street , Unit 436San Francisco, CA 94107 View Full Listing Floor Plan View More Images View Map Imagine yourself minutes from retail conveniences like Whole Foods, Safeway, Starbucks, and Borders. Think of fabulous restaurants on your block and the charms of a location just a few feet from the Financial District and San Franciso's Farmers' Market. Find all this and more at the Palms. Easy access to Cal Train, the Bay Bridge and the 280. Unit 436 is a fully-furnished and spacious junior one-bedroom. It extends to the outdoors with a private patio. Parking for one car is available upon request. Unit Facts Property Type: Condominium Bedroom(s): 1 Bathroom(s): 1 Size: 580+/- sq ft Floor Plan Neighborhood: South Beach Price: $2,499/month Contact Eric Johnson to schedule a viewing. Have a Realtor Call Me Unit 436 Features: Bosch stainless steel kitchen appliances Hardwood floors Designer paint Granite counter tops Furnished outdoor patioBuilding Features: 24 hour, seven-day-a-week security and concierge service State of the art fitness center & yoga room Business center Screening roomNeighborhood Description - South Beach: Welcome to one of San Francisco's most exciting and fastest growing neighborhoods! With its central location, extraordinary weather, and easy transit access, it is hardly a surprise that this once-industrial area is at the epicenter of the City on the Bay's condominium boom. What's more, this bustling neighborhood is right next door to some of the region's biggest job centers in Mission Bay, SOMA,... Read More Offered at $2,499/month Contact me to book an appointment for a viewing of this gorgeous property or for any other real estate needs. Eric Johnson Realtor Cell: 415.518.5513 eric@afirealestate.com Afi + Associates Portfolio Real Estate 200 Brannan Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107 Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or the purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer's own investigation. Office 415.495.1114 Take a Closer Look Fax 415.495.1117 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org Gorgeous one-bedroom at The Palms with private patio! (SOMA / south beach) $2499 1bd {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - The Palms555 4th Street , Unit 436San Francisco, CA 94107 View Full Listing Floor Plan View More Images View Map Imagine yourself minutes from retail conveniences like Whole Foods, Safeway, Starbucks, and Borders. Think of fabulous restaurants on your block and the charms of a location just a few feet from the Financial District and San Franciso's Farmers' Market. Find all this and more at the Palms. Easy access to Cal Train, the Bay Bridge and the 280. Unit 436 is a fully-furnished and spacious junior one-bedroom. It extends to the outdoors with a private patio. Parking for one car is available upon request. Unit Facts Property Type: Condominium Bedroom(s): 1 Bathroom(s): 1 Size: 580+/- sq ft Floor Plan Neighborhood: South Beach Price: $2,499/month Contact Eric Johnson to schedule a viewing. Have a Realtor Call Me Unit 436 Features: Bosch stainless steel kitchen appliances Hardwood floors Designer paint Granite counter tops Furnished outdoor patioBuilding Features: 24 hour, seven-day-a-week security and concierge service State of the art fitness center & yoga room Business center Screening roomNeighborhood Description - South Beach: Welcome to one of San Francisco's most exciting and fastest growing neighborhoods! With its central location, extraordinary weather, and easy transit access, it is hardly a surprise that this once-industrial area is at the epicenter of the City on the Bay's condominium boom. What's more, this bustling neighborhood is right next door to some of the region's biggest job centers in Mission Bay, SOMA,... Read More Offered at $2,499/month Contact me to book an appointment for a viewing of this gorgeous property or for any other real estate needs. Eric Johnson Realtor Cell: 415.518.5513 eric@afirealestate.com Afi + Associates Portfolio Real Estate 200 Brannan Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107 Square footage and/or acreage information contained herein has been received from seller, existing reports, appraisals, public records and/or other sources deemed reliable. However, neither seller nor listing agent has verified this information. If this information is important to buyer in determining whether to buy or the purchase price, buyer should conduct buyer's own investigation. Office 415.495.1114 Take a Closer Look Fax 415.495.1117
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate > Rentals {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - Dick Morris: "[T]he question that plagues Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/dick-morris-t-he-question-that-plagues-obama-is-is-20080623115.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/dick-morris-t-he-question-that-plagues-obama-is-is-20080623115.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:25:09 GMT Hours after Fox News host E.D. Hill apologized for including "terrorist fist jab" among possible interpretations of Sen. Barack Obama's on-stage "fist bump" with wife Michelle, Fox News contributor Dick Morris said, "[T]he question that plagues Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" Morris made his comment on the June 10 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ while discussing his latest syndicated column, "How Obama Can Win." After host Bill Hemmer commented, "[T]he point you were trying to make, Dick, in this latest column, is that Barack Obama can win in November, but to do it, he has to first show America why this country means so much to him," Morris asserted: MORRIS: And the question that plagues Obama is not issues or his record or positions, it's whether he believes that or not. Is he pro-American? How does he feel about white people? How does he feel about American history? He needs to look America in the eye and say, "You know, America, you are a great country. We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima not without batting an eye, as Reverend Wright said, we bombed them to save five million Japanese and one million Americans from dying if we had to invade Japan." That's the kind of statement he needs to make. Morris previously stated on the May 7 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor: "[T]he determinant in the election will be whether we believe that Barack Obama is what he appears to be, or is he somebody who's sort of a sleeper agent who really doesn't believe in our system and is more in line with [Reverend Jeremiah] Wright's views?" Fox News personalities and guests have frequently questioned Obama's patriotism or asserted that Obama has a "patriotism problem[]," as Media Matters for America has documented (here, here, here, here, here, and here). From the June 10 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ: HEMMER: Dick Morris is here to comment now. You can read his column for free at dickmorris.com. Dick, good evening to you. MORRIS: Hi, how we doing? HEMMER: This news, by way of -- let's call it Columbus, Ohio -- that he will absolutely not seek the vice presidency or accept it if it's offered. What do you make of this? Ted Strickland -- MORRIS: Well - HEMMER: -- supported Hillary Clinton. She won that state quite handily back in the primary season. MORRIS: I don't think that has much to do with it. I think it probably relates to his domestic ambitions in Ohio and maybe his pessimism about the ticket, although I don't know. But the point is that the old model for choosing a VP was choose somebody that can deliver a state, and it didn't work. You know, John Edwards was from North Carolina, and Kerry didn't come close to carrying that state. I think that, fundamentally, what Obama needs is a national security type. He needs somebody like a Biden, a sort of Democratic Dick Cheney who's immersed in Washington, conversant with national security and can give people some level of assurance that he knows what he's doing in that area. HEMMER: Well, there are rumors today that he's talking to a lot of people with military background and military experience -- MORRIS: Yeah. HEMMER: -- which could be the angle he goes. You wrote a piece today about how Obama can win. MORRIS: Right. HEMMER: And the point you were trying to make, Dick, in this latest column, is that Barack Obama can win in November, but to do it, he has to first show America why this country means so much to him. MORRIS: Exactly. HEMMER: Has he not done that? MORRIS: The president to the United States is the priest of our secular religion. He's the keeper of the flame. He's like the pontiff of our secularism. He's the one that tells us we're an exceptional nation, between two oceans put there by God to protect liberty, to give people another chance in life to fight for values around the globe. And that's the opposite of what Reverend Wright said. And the question that plagues Obama is not issues or his record or positions, it's whether he believes that or not. Is he pro-American? How does he feel about white people? How does he feel about American history? He needs to look America in the eye and say, "You know, America, you are a great country. We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima not without batting an eye, as Reverend Wright said, we bombed them to save five million Japanese and one million Americans from dying if we had to invade Japan." That's the kind of statement he needs to make. HEMMER: Your suggestion in that statement is that we're still getting to know Barack Obama -- MORRIS: Yeah, we -- HEMMER: -- and I guess in a lot of ways America is. MORRIS: That's right. And Obama's a guy who has no immune system, you know? You build up an immune system in politics by people knowing you for a long time, adjusting to you. Like if we hear something nasty about McCain, we know he went through the Keating Five; we know that he ran against Bush; we know that he was a maverick; we know all of that stuff about him. Obama, we don't know anything. And therefore, the first negatives we hear really shake us. That's why that Jim Johnson story has legs. The first guy he reaches out for is somebody who's hopelessly in bed -- HEMMER: Jim Johnson is the guy he's assigned to his what -- his trio of -- MORRIS: -- VP screening committee. First guy he reaches out to is hopelessly in bed with probably the most corrupt financial institution in the United States, Countrywide Mortgages. And the other guy he appoints, Eric Holder, is the guy who vetted Marc Rich and recommended to the president that he be pardoned. So when he starts doing stuff like that, there are no antibodies in his system to resist that infection and it ends up hurting him more than it would hurt somebody who's more experienced. HEMMER: Obama's response to that was, I can't vet the vetters that are going to vet the vetters. MORRIS: That's ridiculous. Of course -- HEMMER: And it went around and around like that. Dick, I gotta run. MORRIS: Of course you have to vet the vetters. HEMMER: Thank you. We're early on here. Dick Morris, thanks. Check out his column for free, dickmorris.com. Megyn? Mediamatters.Org Dick Morris: "[T]he question that plagues Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - Hours after Fox News host E.D. Hill apologized for including "terrorist fist jab" among possible interpretations of Sen. Barack Obama's on-stage "fist bump" with wife Michelle, Fox News contributor Dick Morris said, "[T]he question that plagues Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" Morris made his comment on the June 10 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ while discussing his latest syndicated column, "How Obama Can Win." After host Bill Hemmer commented, "[T]he point you were trying to make, Dick, in this latest column, is that Barack Obama can win in November, but to do it, he has to first show America why this country means so much to him," Morris asserted: MORRIS: And the question that plagues Obama is not issues or his record or positions, it's whether he believes that or not. Is he pro-American? How does he feel about white people? How does he feel about American history? He needs to look America in the eye and say, "You know, America, you are a great country. We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima not without batting an eye, as Reverend Wright said, we bombed them to save five million Japanese and one million Americans from dying if we had to invade Japan." That's the kind of statement he needs to make. Morris previously stated on the May 7 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor: "[T]he determinant in the election will be whether we believe that Barack Obama is what he appears to be, or is he somebody who's sort of a sleeper agent who really doesn't believe in our system and is more in line with [Reverend Jeremiah] Wright's views?" Fox News personalities and guests have frequently questioned Obama's patriotism or asserted that Obama has a "patriotism problem[]," as Media Matters for America has documented (here, here, here, here, here, and here). From the June 10 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ: HEMMER: Dick Morris is here to comment now. You can read his column for free at dickmorris.com. Dick, good evening to you. MORRIS: Hi, how we doing? HEMMER: This news, by way of -- let's call it Columbus, Ohio -- that he will absolutely not seek the vice presidency or accept it if it's offered. What do you make of this? Ted Strickland -- MORRIS: Well - HEMMER: -- supported Hillary Clinton. She won that state quite handily back in the primary season. MORRIS: I don't think that has much to do with it. I think it probably relates to his domestic ambitions in Ohio and maybe his pessimism about the ticket, although I don't know. But the point is that the old model for choosing a VP was choose somebody that can deliver a state, and it didn't work. You know, John Edwards was from North Carolina, and Kerry didn't come close to carrying that state. I think that, fundamentally, what Obama needs is a national security type. He needs somebody like a Biden, a sort of Democratic Dick Cheney who's immersed in Washington, conversant with national security and can give people some level of assurance that he knows what he's doing in that area. HEMMER: Well, there are rumors today that he's talking to a lot of people with military background and military experience -- MORRIS: Yeah. HEMMER: -- which could be the angle he goes. You wrote a piece today about how Obama can win. MORRIS: Right. HEMMER: And the point you were trying to make, Dick, in this latest column, is that Barack Obama can win in November, but to do it, he has to first show America why this country means so much to him. MORRIS: Exactly. HEMMER: Has he not done that? MORRIS: The president to the United States is the priest of our secular religion. He's the keeper of the flame. He's like the pontiff of our secularism. He's the one that tells us we're an exceptional nation, between two oceans put there by God to protect liberty, to give people another chance in life to fight for values around the globe. And that's the opposite of what Reverend Wright said. And the question that plagues Obama is not issues or his record or positions, it's whether he believes that or not. Is he pro-American? How does he feel about white people? How does he feel about American history? He needs to look America in the eye and say, "You know, America, you are a great country. We bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima not without batting an eye, as Reverend Wright said, we bombed them to save five million Japanese and one million Americans from dying if we had to invade Japan." That's the kind of statement he needs to make. HEMMER: Your suggestion in that statement is that we're still getting to know Barack Obama -- MORRIS: Yeah, we -- HEMMER: -- and I guess in a lot of ways America is. MORRIS: That's right. And Obama's a guy who has no immune system, you know? You build up an immune system in politics by people knowing you for a long time, adjusting to you. Like if we hear something nasty about McCain, we know he went through the Keating Five; we know that he ran against Bush; we know that he was a maverick; we know all of that stuff about him. Obama, we don't know anything. And therefore, the first negatives we hear really shake us. That's why that Jim Johnson story has legs. The first guy he reaches out for is somebody who's hopelessly in bed -- HEMMER: Jim Johnson is the guy he's assigned to his what -- his trio of -- MORRIS: -- VP screening committee. First guy he reaches out to is hopelessly in bed with probably the most corrupt financial institution in the United States, Countrywide Mortgages. And the other guy he appoints, Eric Holder, is the guy who vetted Marc Rich and recommended to the president that he be pardoned. So when he starts doing stuff like that, there are no antibodies in his system to resist that infection and it ends up hurting him more than it would hurt somebody who's more experienced. HEMMER: Obama's response to that was, I can't vet the vetters that are going to vet the vetters. MORRIS: That's ridiculous. Of course -- HEMMER: And it went around and around like that. Dick, I gotta run. MORRIS: Of course you have to vet the vetters. HEMMER: Thank you. We're early on here. Dick Morris, thanks. Check out his column for free, dickmorris.com. Megyn?
Media Matters - Dick Morris: "[T]he question that plagues Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" {...} While discussing his latest syndicated column on Fox News' America's Election HQ , Dick Morris asserted: "[T]he question that plagues [Sen. Barack] Obama is ... Is he pro-American?" Morris has previously stated that "the determinant in the election will be whether we believe that Barack Obama is what he appears to be, or is he somebody who's sort of a sleeper agent who really doesn't believe in our system." {...}
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]]> Society > Issues > Business > Media > Bias and Balance {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Technology Review's innovators under 35: Instructables' Eric Wilhelm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/technology-review-s-innovators-under-35-instructables-20080875929.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/technology-review-s-innovators-under-35-instructables-20080875929.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:16:52 GMT Technology Review magazine has published its annual TR35 list of "technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35" whose work "is changing our world." As usual, it's quite a collection of supersmart folks from a variety of disciplines, some of whose important work will be familiar to Boing Boing readers and others who seem to operate more below the radar. I was especially thrilled to see BB pal Eric Wilhelm, founder of Instructables, on this year's list. Eric is brilliant, kind, and humble. He's helping invent a future made better through open source innovation. Congratulations to Eric and all of the TR35 2008 winners! TR35 (Technology Review)... Boingboing.Net Technology Review's innovators under 35: Instructables' Eric Wilhelm {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Technology Review magazine has published its annual TR35 list of "technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35" whose work "is changing our world." As usual, it's quite a collection of supersmart folks from a variety of disciplines, some of whose important work will be familiar to Boing Boing readers and others who seem to operate more below the radar. I was especially thrilled to see BB pal Eric Wilhelm, founder of Instructables, on this year's list. Eric is brilliant, kind, and humble. He's helping invent a future made better through open source innovation. Congratulations to Eric and all of the TR35 2008 winners! TR35 (Technology Review)...
Technology Review's innovators under 35: Instructables' Eric Wilhelm - Boing Boing {...}
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk {COMPUTERS > HARDWARE} - Is Google leaving billions of dollars on the table? http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/hardware/is-google-leaving-billions-of-dollars-on-the-table-20080861713.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/hardware/is-google-leaving-billions-of-dollars-on-the-table-20080861713.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:34:00 GMT Eric Schmidt tells Mad Money host Jim Cramer that he wouldn't allow ads on the home page, even though it could generate billions of dollars. Is the home page that sacred? News.Cnet.Com Is Google leaving billions of dollars on the table? {new window}   News.Cnet.Com - Eric Schmidt tells Mad Money host Jim Cramer that he wouldn't allow ads on the home page, even though it could generate billions of dollars. Is the home page that sacred?
Is Google leaving billions of dollars on the table? | Outside the Lines - CNET News.com {...} Eric Schmidt tells Mad Money host Jim Cramer that he wouldn't allow ads on the home page, even though it could generate billions of dollars. Is the home page that sacred? Read this blog post by Dan Farber on Outside the Lines. {...}
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Category: Computers > Hardware

]]> Computers > Hardware {FOOD > BEER} - Warner Resigns as Top Dog http://articles.world-of-newave.info/recreation/food/drink/beer/warner-resigns-as-top-dog-2008081095.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/recreation/food/drink/beer/warner-resigns-as-top-dog-2008081095.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:27:24 GMT July 09, 2008 - Eric Warner, CEO of Flying Dog Brewery for the past eight years is moving on. He's being replaced by the brewery's chairman, Jim Caruso Brew-monkey.Com Warner Resigns as Top Dog {new window}   Www.Brew-monkey.Com - July 09, 2008 - Eric Warner, CEO of Flying Dog Brewery for the past eight years is moving on. He's being replaced by the brewery's chairman, Jim Caruso
Beer and Brewing News - Brew-Monkey.Com {...} brew-monkey.com Beer news, events, reviews, recipes, forums, and more {...}
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]]> Recreation > Food > Drink > Beer {LIBRARIES > WEBLOGS} - Critical Thinking: Promoting It in the Classroom http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/critical-thinking-promoting-it-in-the-classroom-2008087644.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/critical-thinking-promoting-it-in-the-classroom-2008087644.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:26 GMT The ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills published an ERIC Digest in 1989. It was titled Critical Thinking: Promoting It in the Classroom. It was written by M. Carrol Tama. Although a bit dated, it still seems relevent today for K-12 and higher education teachers.From the site:The NCTE Committee on Critical Thinking and the Language Arts defines critical thinking as "a process which stresses an attitude of suspended judgment, incorporates logical inquiry and problem solving, and leads to an evaluative decision or action." In a new monograph copublished by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Siegel and Carey (1989) emphasize the roles of signs, reflection, and skepticism in this process.Ennis (1987) suggests that "critical thinking is reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do." However defined, critical thinking refers to a way of reasoning that demands adequate support for one's beliefs and an unwillingness to be persuaded unless the support is forthcoming.Why should we be concerned about critical thinking in our classrooms? Obviously, we want to educate citizens whose decisions and choices will be based on careful, critical thinking. Maintaining the right of free choice itself may depend on the ability to think clearly. Yet, we have been bombarded with a series of national reports which claim that "Johnny can't think" (Mullis, 1983; Gardner, 1983; Action for Excellence, 1983). All of them call for schools to guide students in developing the higher level thinking skills necessary for an informed society. Information-literacy.Net Critical Thinking: Promoting It in the Classroom {new window}   Www.Information-literacy.Net - The ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills published an ERIC Digest in 1989. It was titled Critical Thinking: Promoting It in the Classroom. It was written by M. Carrol Tama. Although a bit dated, it still seems relevent today for K-12 and higher education teachers.From the site:The NCTE Committee on Critical Thinking and the Language Arts defines critical thinking as "a process which stresses an attitude of suspended judgment, incorporates logical inquiry and problem solving, and leads to an evaluative decision or action." In a new monograph copublished by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Siegel and Carey (1989) emphasize the roles of signs, reflection, and skepticism in this process.Ennis (1987) suggests that "critical thinking is reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do." However defined, critical thinking refers to a way of reasoning that demands adequate support for one's beliefs and an unwillingness to be persuaded unless the support is forthcoming.Why should we be concerned about critical thinking in our classrooms? Obviously, we want to educate citizens whose decisions and choices will be based on careful, critical thinking. Maintaining the right of free choice itself may depend on the ability to think clearly. Yet, we have been bombarded with a series of national reports which claim that "Johnny can't think" (Mullis, 1983; Gardner, 1983; Action for Excellence, 1983). All of them call for schools to guide students in developing the higher level thinking skills necessary for an informed society.
The Information Literacy Land of Confusion: Critical Thinking: Promoting It in the Classroom {...}
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]]> Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Weblogs {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Real-life Forger of Great Escape dies http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/real-life-forger-of-great-escape-dies-2008083102.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/real-life-forger-of-great-escape-dies-2008083102.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:39:38 GMT Second world war airman Eric 'Digger' Dowling helped plan PoW breakout immortalised in classic film Guardian.Co.Uk Real-life Forger of Great Escape dies {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Second world war airman Eric 'Digger' Dowling helped plan PoW breakout immortalised in classic film
Real-life Forger of Great Escape Eric Dowling dies | World news | guardian.co.uk {...} Second world war airman helped plan PoW breakout immortalised in classic film {...}
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]]> Regional > Europe > United Kingdom > News and Media {NORTH AMERICA > NEWSPAPERS} - [Sports] Football notebook: Decker ready after missing spring practice http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/minnesota/regions/twin-cities/news-and-media/newspapers/sports-football-notebook-decker-ready-after-missing-2008083833.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/minnesota/regions/twin-cities/news-and-media/newspapers/sports-football-notebook-decker-ready-after-missing-2008083833.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:27:06 GMT Eric Decker is by far the most experienced player in this year's receiving core - sophomore Ralph Spry and junior Ben Kuznia are the only other receivers with game experience - and will likely be thrown to much more in Minnesota's pass-heavy spread offense. Mndaily.Com [Sports] Football notebook: Decker ready after missing spring practice {new window}   Www.Mndaily.Com - Eric Decker is by far the most experienced player in this year's receiving core - sophomore Ralph Spry and junior Ben Kuznia are the only other receivers with game experience - and will likely be thrown to much more in Minnesota's pass-heavy spread offense.
Football notebook: Decker ready after missing spring practice - Minnesota Daily {...}
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Category: Regional > North America > United States > Minnesota > Regions > Twin Cities > News and Media > Newspapers

]]> Regional > North America > United States > Minnesota > Regions > Twin Cities > News and Media > Newspapers