Murdochs Newsday deal is bad news for New York or does it matter

THIS IS WHY THERE IS NO FREE PRESS ON TV NEWS

WASHINGTON
-- According to numerous press reports, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is close to completing a $580 million deal to purchase the Long Island daily Newsday from Tribune Company. S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, made the following statement:

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The near instant Fox bought metromedia its been all down hill. Thanks GOP Congress and Bushie for also ignoring Our Monolopy Laws

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Yellow Journalism - More HuLu VooDoo

HEADLINE - I Eat My Words - HULU Will Shake Up Video Market

Ok so How do you eat your words ?

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Iwill, of course, reserve judgment until I get to test-drive it for a while, but in concept and tone and aims–that is, more open than I ever expected the service to be–it is off to a good start.

The headline is Eating her words - but says that judgment will be reserved, then goes on to write up almost word for word the NBC-Universal Press Release

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HEADLINE -Zucker says Apple deal rotten
NBC U says iTunes revenues meager

Zucker saying - As A Rich SOB I can Get more money from MY content if I Bully you with big corporations.

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NBC U wanted to explore higher pricing for hit shows such as "Heroes" by raising the price from Apple's standard $1.99 to $2.99 on an experimental basis.

What was and Is free - Apple gave use an added money making channel for our sole owned content so now we want to soak the consumer for all they are worth.

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Kill the Saudis V3.0 the facts Osama WHO?

UPDATE 09-20-07
Via Empty Wheel
And Now the Saudis
Even Bushs BFFs are having second thoughts

Via McClatchy
Studies: Suicide bombers in Iraq are mostly foreigners

Hafez, whose new book is "Suicide Bombers in Iraq," has identified the nationalities of 124 bombers who attacked in Iraq. Of those, the largest number — 53 — were Saudis.

Also
Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis V2.0: "Why my Kill the Saudis meme is a joke.
This is Bush and his BBF Bandar of Saudi Arabia Waaasup wit the Manlove Dude!!"

Stor-E-Tella: Kill the Saudis: "Well ...even though al-Qaeda is not in Iran and more then 20 percent of the Anti-US attacks are from Saudi Arabian terrorists, the senate votes to get angry and cry if Bush decides to attack Iran."

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Roves GOP Defenders

Bushs Brain

Via Froomkin

"Rove's defenders argue that Republicans' current troubles -- sagging presidential approval ratings, loss of the House and Senate, a clamorous fight over who the party will nominate to run for president in 2008 -- all stem from a single cause: the deeply unpopular war in Iraq; not from Rove or his methods."

Is that the Iraq war started with lies and leaks by Cheney-Powell-Rice-Bush and Rove?

The war that allowed privatization of the military had nothing to do with roves hiring of career government fund distributors?

A war on terror that Gonzales-Bush would not need Rove to help pick loyal Bushies to run.

Gee, looks like Rove had his hands in the war pretty deep.

More Rove from around the web

"'I think a number of Democrats never accepted (Bush) as legitimate and instead adopted a strategy of blind obstructionism,' he answered.

"Moreover, some Democrats 'hated' Bush, and they were joined by a group of Democrats who 'for tactical reasons, said that we can never give (Bush) a political victory, and anything that passes any part of his agenda is a political victory for him and we can't tolerate that.' . . .

"Did the Bush administration try hard enough to reach across the aisle?

"'You know, you'd be shocked and surprised to learn how much the president reached out to Democrats,' Rove said.

-Many times Bush reached out to Democrats on Issues that he would later ignore with a signing statement.

Many people inside and outside the White House feared Rove, a number of them truly admired him (professionally and personally), but of very few can it be said that they ever trusted him.

-No one but the Boy King Bush trusted Rove.

"'We live in a poisonous atmosphere in which Democrats . . . are engaged in a wave of investigations and requests for documents that ill-serve the country and serve as an excuse for them to investigate rather than legislate,' Rove said."

-A quest fror documents Rove himself destroyed - Opps

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First God - now its The National Rug of Light

They are not delusional at all -
Via Froomkin cause i cant stand to read these sick folks

He spoke very eloquently about Good vs. Evil and even brought the story back to the rug, which was designed with only this Presidential input -- to let it reflect light so as to influence his decision making. Light as in good vs. darkness as in evil.

Hennen continues: "If every American could have the opportunity I did today -- to sit with the President of the United States and hear him firsthand describe his resolve to win in Iraq and around the world, we would have a very different situation with public opinion.

Well then why were only Republican Wingnuts invited, why not reporters that represent every Americans point of view. _ OH look the president is adding a session who will he ask-

And Hennen notes: "We learned that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would follow us in a separate meeting with the President. They have earned that privilege with their incredible support for our military efforts in the global war on terror."

Oh Never mind.

The President was passionate about our military successes -- he walked us through example after example of real stats and facts that are benchmarks. Many of us asked why he does not share those with the public. He explained the military's reluctance to be seen as taking out the enemy for the benefit of a statistic used to explain our success.

Congress benchmarks bad - Bushs Benchmarks good

The Rug Of Good and Evil
When i wan
to decide
Its in teh oval office
i do hide
and look for answers
to our plight
by consulting
the national rug of light

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Bonus
Stupid Medved Statement - Journamilism at its best
As it happens, I'm proud -- not embarrassed in any way -- to try (in any small way) to help our embattled chief executive in this essential endeavor, which will help to determine the sort of security and prosperity that we pass on to our children.

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GOP 2008 slogan We Dont lie we just DONT RECALL

The party of forgetfulness.

So anyone within six degrees of separation from the president can claim executive privilege.

This according to White House Council Bugs Bunny - I mean Fred Fielding- .

If Karls assistant had a chat with me in a cab on the way to the air port about how secure the cash slide is in the cab... i can claim executive privilege.

What is the point of asking or believing anything a republican says.
I dont recall should be the GOPs 2008 campaign slogan -

We republicans promise to NOT remember any of our promises not recall any of the jobs we might have performed.


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Emails - The Lost Files

White House Email System is funded by congress - congress should have the right to review all white house emails.DOD and NSA should have in place a special secure channel - just for the purpose of super secret inter department data transfers.

The use of a OUTSIDE email system in itself a violation of the hatch act, added to the fact the .com servers were behind the congressional firewall- ie congress - paid for and unknowingly maintained them with OUR TAX DOLLARS should also be a Hatch violation

Now i think that what Karl Did in Deleting his emails was worse then breaking Hatch- he broke the presidential records act. He deleted public records - whether it was emails about firing USA's , emails about voter oppression or just emails about his lunch - he had no right under the act to lose or worse what he did DELETE ON PURPOSE those emails.

Based on FOA any information sent outside secure channels should be available to not just a congressional committee but anyone.

• What does who the winner of a senate race is have to do with national security or a presidents choice of council?
• What does voting rights and caging have to do with the war on terror and national security.

The concept of some conversations being secret from even congress for a time to allow a president free and full council is not the issue.
Breaking laws and removing citizen rights. Thats the Issue.

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Pollack is war critic - he told Bush war is Critical

Update 08-01-07- Reuters that liberal media outlet HOWS THAT SURGE GOING
Seems the acceptable violence for Iraqis is different then acceptable violence for American Soldiers

The Iraqi government said 1,653 civilians were killed in July, a third more than the previous month, despite a fall in the number of deaths among U.S. troops.

Surge Links 07-31-07
TPM Election Central- MSM Spew Administration BS

Salon - The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts O'Hanlon and Pollack

UK - Telegraph - Iraqi leader tells Bush: Get Gen Petraeus out

Reuters - Iraqi parliament adjourns in blow to Bush

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PWND in less then 60 seconds

dyslexia and shakes made going to a PVE server a no brainer. In a game like this a double key tap or mouse click can mean death and a NPC has a pattern I can figure out while another player does not.

As a much hated gnome many have tried to throw a duel flag up at me and for the 2 months I have been playing this game I declined them.

Yesterday during the quest chain for - Rains Cleansing - I was getting frustrated trying to find a path to a shrine to charge the thingy I had gotten. After 10 minutes of wandering around , I went to a web site for some clues and found a good description of the path , soon after finding the shrine.

Now if that was not frustrating enough, I tested the thing , turned into a dog bear and spun around to follow the path back. Well I held the turn right key a little to long and walked forward right into a gully between a tree and 2 hills, with no escape. My little gnome was fully stuck and my hearth stone had 21 minutes left of cool down. Arghhh

22 minutes later - I was a little ticked off as I started my way to the moonwell for the next part of the quest. Stopping right outside of the town for a minute to reread the quest.

Before I could blink - a level 29 blood elf frost mage says something about stupid gnomes as she/he throws up a duel flag. Now this is a game and you really don’t die , so even though I have no idea how to duel , my anger gets the best of me and I accept. DOH

First I had no idea there was a countdown nor when it starts, I got the clue by reading the chat/battle log... 3 ..2...1....Opps!. I got off a COA and she hit me and voidy with ice block, i hit my escape racial and she, caught off guard, ran away and as i turned to face her... all i saw were leaves in my face and i was dead.

So what did i learn,
1. In PVP duels you only have 3 seconds to get ready.
2. It helps to have a potion or health stone ready - my bag was closed and i have not set up all my macros yet - so no health stone hot key.
3. Never use the smart camera feature in a duel. :P

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