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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just…
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Anna Nicole Smith
REUTERS “The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web. Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.”The coverage of Anna Nicole Smith‘s untimely death has some (e.g. Reuters‘ Eric Auchard) snorting. Hard-hearted old swine that…
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Another changing of the guard. This time former BBC man Chris Cramer, of CNN International, has emailed staff to announce he’s stepping down.
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Fox on the run?
According to the Huffington Post, Fox News is losing share against CNN Headline News and MSNBC. The Post ventures that the Democrat wins in the mid-terms took the puff out of FNC’s sails. Certainly on election night CNN won the 25-54 demographic, but Fox remained the winner overall. Don’t start the obituaries quite yet…