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By ELLEN SIMON, AP Technology Writer GREENSBORO, N.C. - It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders. At the News & Record, a 93,000-daily circulation newspaper in Greensboro, reporters and editors are asking tough questions about the paper itself. The biggest questions: If the paper needs to change to survive, what changes should be made? What can it do, especially online, to make itself the electronic equivalent of a town square? Seeking the answers, the paper has launched an audacious online experiment. The News & Record's Web site features 11 staff-written Web journals, or blogs,...

As a conservative blogger, I must take exception to Tamara Baker's assertion that the conservative blogosphere and the liberal blogosphere have different agendas (Counterpoint, March 19). Baker's take appears to be that liberal bloggers like Kos (Markos Moulitsas Zúniga) are honest and trustworthy heroes while conservative bloggers like Charles Johnson are vicious villains. Baker goes so far as to use quotes that suggest conservatives attack free and independent press and aim for the destruction of all objective reporting. Baker herself refers to Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler in describing the conservative blogosphere's attempt to discredit independent journalism. I will be...

3/24/05 0626 The Terri Schiavo case The case of Terri Schiavo is both one of the strangest and most troubling cases in quite sometime. I teach Critical thinking and Decision making, and thus this case has come up in class from time to time. Based on the news reports, my view was that this was not really a case about passive euthanasia (i.e., withholding treatment so that a patient dies), as that issue had pretty much been decided decades ago. While I have always been troubled by the inclusion of food and water as “medical treatment” I can understand the...

DENVER - Conservative Internet blogger Hugh Hewitt says he would like the opportunity to be the next President of the University of Colorado. Hewitt says CU needs a president who can do a good PR job for the school. "I've been a professor for 10 years at Chapman University Law School so I know about faculties, but I think the most important thing is that you listen to the public," Hewitt said. "You be aware of what they expect out of the university and you communicate that to the people who make up the faculty and you take care of...

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Trying to Extract a Drama From the Blog of an Iraqi By JASON ZINOMAN "Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq" is not a very good play, but it's worth your attention for two reasons. It's the only political drama in New York written from the point of view of an Iraqi who lived through the American invasion, and, for better or worse, it inaugurates an entirely new (and seemingly inevitable) theatrical genre - the blog play. Melding two chic cultural forms, the documentary drama and the blog, the Six Figures Theater Company has turned the online writings of Riverbend, the...

Tomorrow I will be broadcasting from a "blogfest" at Borders at the Colorado Mills Mall. Many of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Blogs will be on hand to introduce the interested to the platform, and to help flog Blog. Come by and say hello. It would be especially great if any lefty bloggers dropped in to add to the fesitivities. I guarantee a link blizzard for the adventurous lefties. http://www.coloradomills.com/

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How to prop up a senile Senator, by Chris Matthews While clearing off Tivo this morning, I ran across last Friday's edition of Hardball on MSNBC. Since we do movies on the show with Emmett of the Unblinking Eye right around the same time, it's rare that I get to see if Chris did something stupid until after the weekend is over. This is one of those occurrances. Here's the transcript between Chris, Republican strategist Charlie Black, and Democratic strategist Steve McMahon...with my two cents thrown in along the way. CM: I saw that picture, gentlemen, and I saw a...

LaGuardia Community College, City U. of New York, is a scandal waiting to explode. You are invited to visit http://www.Laguardiacorruption.com to see the effect of administrative corruption on education and, in particular, how political cronyism and anti-Semitism destroyed the Mathematics Department. With more than 65,000 visits to date, the website aims to inform all colleges, education associations, interested taxpayers, elected officials and news media in the NYC vicinity.

When: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Where: Minneapolis Marriott City Center 30 South 7th Street, Downtown Cost: $30 if received by Friday March 4. Add $5 afterwards. Please join us for a Special Dinner Forum at which John H. Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson of "Power Line" - Time magazine's "Blog of the Year" - discuss the role they played in exposing the fraudulent "60 Minutes II" report last September on President Bush's Air National Guard service. It will NOT be a coincidence that dinner will begin a half-hour before a large-screen showing of Dan Rather's...

Dear US Political Bloggers and any other civic minded folks. As you likely have heard already, Federal Election Commission seeks to stifle free speech on the Internet under the guise of Campaign Finance Reform . I am one of many folks who are fighting back this idiotic and amoral measure. I already emailed my representative and I urge you to do the same. Feel free to use my email below if you like. You can find and write to your representative or senator using www.house.gov and www.senate.gov. However, if (Heaven Forbid !) this McCain-Feingold restrictions will spread to the Internet,...

Political Bloggers--Beware ! Everyone in the US Political blogging community and in fact, anyone who cares about Political Freedom in America needs to be aware of what Federal Election Commission is up to.

THE FEC VS. BLOGS By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 03, 2005 02:20 PM CNET reporter Declan McCullagh has an important piece warning of the "coming crackdown on blogging." Joshua Claybourn of In the Agora analyzes the campaign finance law absurdities and First Amendment infringements on bloggers here. Winfield Myers is on the same wavelength. He writes: The possibilities that [FEC commissioner Bradley] Smith lays out are chilling and, if enacted, could spell the end of blogging as we know it. Indeed, it could turn much of what is published on the Net into a samizdat-style activity. Sound alarmist? Read on....

First they came for the soft money - I didn't care because I didn't even know what 'soft money' really was. Then they came for the big donors of hard money - I didn't care 'cause screw those millionaires. Then they came for the corporations and unions that wanted to run ads during the 60 days before an election - I didn't care because corporations are evil and unions are evil-er. Now they're coming after me - Oh shit!

Bradley Smith says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over. In just a few months, he warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign's Web site. Even forwarding a political candidate's press release to a mailing list, depending on the details, could be punished by fines. Smith should know. He's one of the six commissioners at the Federal Election Commission, which is beginning the perilous process of extending a controversial 2002 campaign finance law to the Internet. In 2002, the FEC exempted the...

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Here's a piece that might irritate our fellow bloggers--especially the folks who uncovered (so to speak) Jeff Gannon's secrets. I just posted it in my "Capital Games column at www.thenation.com. (If you've already seen it, scroll down to other original items on this blog, including a posting on Howard Dean's latest dumb remark.) In brief, I'm being a worrywart about the journalistic implications of the Gannon affair, and I note that two key aspects of the story--that Gannon is a gay GOP hypocrite and that Gannon was handed classified information regarding the Wilson leak investigation--are not fully supported by the...

RFE/RL Interview Sources at Risk in Iran (Prague, Czech Republic--February 24, 2005) Being interviewed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty can place journalists in peril. Iranian weblogger and journalist Arash Sigarchi, who has been interviewed by--but has never worked for--Radio Farda, a U.S.-financed radio station broadcasting in Persian to Iran, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on February 22 by a revolutionary tribunal in Gilan, northern Iran. International press in Canada and France reported on February 23 that Reporters Without Borders issued a statement expressing outrage at the sentence and calling on Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to intervene. The RWP...