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Yisroel Pensack: Feds Planning to Move Loughner Trial to San Diego, Report Says
According to a Washington Post report by Jerry Markon, Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of the alleged gunman in the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson to San Diego because of extensive pretrial publicity in Arizona, federal … Continue reading
Posted in San Diego, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged a matter of time, Arizona, change of venue, Jared Lee Loughner, Jerry Markon, John M. Roll, Judy Clarke, Larry A. Burns, massacre, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Roslyn O. Silver, Tucson, washington post
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Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
I’m reading this new book by Dave Kindred. Here’s what is grabbing my attention: Walter Pincus says the reason he became a news reporter was to “change the world.” (Pg. xx) I don’t want to get my news from people … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism
Tagged dana priest, espionage, heather mac donald, international money transfers, national security threat, news reporter, persecution complex, walter pincus, washington post
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Will The Rubashkins (Agriprocessors) Serve Any Time?
From the Washington Post May 18: POSTVILLE, Iowa — Antonio Escobedo ran to get his wife Monday when he saw a helicopter circling overhead and immigration agents approaching the meatpacking plant where they both work. The couple hid for hours … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors
Tagged antonio escobedo, department of homeland security, guatemalan, hellerstein, hispanic children, illegal immigrant workers, illegal workers, immigration agents, jewish whistleblower, kornreich, libel suit, meat industry, meatpacking plant, mexican families, motion for summary judgement, natural disaster, new york county, new york county clerk, new york new york county, northeast iowa, nycourts, occasional lecturer, pews, polititions, postville iowa, rabbi aaron, rabbi balkany, rabbi milton balkany, rabbi moshe, s 600, schools superintendent, single site, st bridget, summary judgment motion, supreme court of the state of new york, surrounding community, village voice, voice media inc, washington post, zakharov
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Lions For Lambs
What a bad movie. I can’t believe I spent $3 at the video store to rent this. None of it ran true for me. Meryl Streep plays an obnoxious reporter. With such an intrusive and obnoxious interviewing technique, she’d never … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood
Tagged affairs of state, airborne troops, bill murray, good interviewer, gop senator, hilltop, interviewing technique, lions for lambs, malley, media circus, meryl streep, minor holiday, newscaster, persian gulf region, political equivalent, punxsutawney pa, scene changes, value judgments, video store, war in afghanistan, washington post
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Memo To Mainstream Media
If you want to constantly attack payday loans, then abandon any pretense to journalistic objectivity. The articles recently published about this matter, all of them vilifying the practice of payday lending, fail even the most basic standards of decent reporting. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Journalism
Tagged crazy idea, economic backgrounds, financial institutions, incomes, journalistic objectivity, mainstream media, narratives, New York Times, newspapers, payday loans, pretense, profession, short term loans, suggestion, testimonies, washington post
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