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Media Advisory: Coverage on Virginia Tech Shooting Incident FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Janice Lee, 415-346-2051, JaniceL@aaja.org SAN FRANCISCO (April 16, 2007) -- Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today's shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident. As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason. There is no evidence at this early point...

TWIN COPY CATS TWIST IN COURIC FLAP By KEITH J. KELLY and JENNIFER FERMINOApril 16, 2007 -- Katie Couric's plagiarizing producer has an identical twin sister - with an identical poaching problem, The Post has learned.Melissa McNamara, 32, was axed from the tarnished Tiffany network last Monday night after it was discovered she'd ripped off a Wall Street Journal column for the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook."

It was just announced on the "Mike and the Mad Dog Show" on WFAN (Imus's home base): Imus is out of a job on radio as well.He will not even be on the air tomorrow.

RICK KAPLAN IS NAMED EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF THE “CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC” Rick Kaplan, a multiple award-winning news producer and executive spanning a career in broadcast journalism of more than 35 years, has been named Executive Producer, CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC, it was announced by Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports. The appointment is effective immediately. “Few broadcast journalists have a list of accomplishments and the history of success that Rick has had – the list is truly extraordinary,” said McManus. “I’m very much looking forward to working with Rick and having the benefit of...

(AP) The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved AT&T's takeover of BellSouth.

CBS EVENING NEWS RATINGS BRIEF ATTN: LISTING EDITORS December 19, 2006 "CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC" RATINGS BRIEF, WEEK OF DEC. 11-15, 2006 FOR THE WEEK (12/11/06-12/15/06) --CBS is the only network that is up in A25-54 and A18-49 from the previous week. Both NBC and ABC are down. A25-54 A18-49 CBS 1.9 from 1.8, +6% 1.4 from 1.3, +8% NBC 2.2 from 2.4, -8% 1.6 from 1.8, -11% ABC 2.2 from 2.4, -8% 1.5 from 1.7, -12% FOR THE SEASON (through 13 weeks: 9/18/06-12/15/06 vs. 9/19/05-12/09/05) Important note: CBS’ season-to-date numbers do not include the first two weeks...

Dear Close, Personal Friend of Al, In case you haven't heard, Al will once again be taking over the airwaves of VH-1 with his pirate satellite broadcasting transmitter! "AL-TV" will premiere tomorrow (Friday, Dec. 15) at 8 PM Eastern (check your local listings!) on VH-1. Al will be showcasing many of the videos from "Straight Outta Lynwood," as well as "interviewing" some of his "friends" in the "music industry!" Don't even consider the POSSIBILITY of missing it!

December 03, 2006 How To Tell If Your Cell Phone Is Bugged Greetings. A story is making the rounds right now regarding FBI use of cell phones as remote bugs. I originally wrote about this concept in my PRIVACY Forum in 1999 ("Cell Phones Become Instant Bugs!") so the issue is real, but we still need to bring the current saga back down to earth. This discussion doesn't only relate to "legal" bugs but also to the use of such techniques by illegal clandestine operations, and applies to physically unmodified cell phone hardware (not phones that might have had separate,...

Some sick babies must be allowed to die, says Church ? Bishop admits right to life for newborns is not absolute ? Nuffield inquiry to publish guidelines on premature births Amelia Hill and Jo Revill Sunday November 12, 2006 Observer Church of England leaders want doctors to be given the right to withhold treatment from seriously disabled newborn babies in exceptional circumstances. The move is expected to spark massive controversy. The church leaders' call for some children to be allowed to die - overriding the presumption that life should be preserved at any cost - comes in response to an...

I don't have any family members serving, so I have to ask here: Has anyone here been able to contact their loved ones serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today? And if so, how is morale over there in the wake of the election results? Are they taking it all in stride, or are they interpreting it as a repudiation? (I hope it's the former, but I wanted to make sure no damage was done.)

Okay, here's my vanity for the evening. Looking past the (D)s after all the names of tonight's winners, where do you think most of them stand ideologically? I'm trying to see some hope in that many of the true worst of the worst did not succeed (e.g. Ned Lamont, the media darling but not-qualified-enough-yet Harold Ford, Jr., that icky Wetterling person who is just plain incompetent to serve, etc.). From my perusal of the winners, most of the newcomers seem to be closer to the semirational DLC wing of the party than from the wacko Pelosi/MoveOn/DU/Kos moonbat wing of the...

So what have you done to send cool vibes today to our great leader and Grand Overlord, Karl Rove? (And p.o. a Democrat in the process?) Me, I've sacrificed two live chickens in a Santeria ritual! In their dying clucks, I felt the power of eeeeeevil in their blood. Post your support to Darth Rove! The Dark Side of the Force is calling you!SUPPORT YOUR MAGNIFICENT BASTARD! YAA-HOO!

BETTING ON BLOODSPORT Reader Bruce Dayhuff suggested to me that Tradesports ought to list a futures contract on the impeachment of President Bush by a new Democratic congress. I passed the idea onto Tradesports CEO John Delaney, and he tells me that such a contract will be listed the day after the election. I have no idea what structure it will take (separate contracts on impeachment and conviction? time-limited?). Whatever, at least it will be a way to make a buck off what will surely be a sickening and unnecessary spectacle.Posted by Donald L. Luskin at 11:06 AM

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I'm in the White BusinessBy Norman ChadMonday, July 3, 2006; Page E02 This just in: The Associated Press Sports Editors, a group of sports editors from around the nation, commissioned a study to see how diverse newspaper sports staffs are, and, well . . . We're whiter than Newt Gingrich's Fourth of July barbecue. In particular, the sports editors themselves are distinctly men of non-color. In fact, there might not be a less diversified group of paunchy, balding, middle-aged white guys anywhere in America.

So the current buzz is stating that the Democrats are finally waking up to what we've known since 1993: Hillary is a disaster waiting to happen. And who are they increasingly looking to as their savior? Why, Al Gore of course! This leads me to ask a simple question, just for fun: Which is the greater evil: Hillary or Al Gore? Which one would scare you more if they made it to the White House?

CIA Official's Home, Office SearchedBy KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of CIA's outgoing executive director, the FBI said. The agency's third ranking official, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, has been under investigation by the FBI, IRS, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the CIA's inspector general, said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell in San Diego. Under a sealed warrant, officials searched Foggo's Virginia home and his office at the CIA's Langley, Va., campus, Langwell said. She could provide no other details.

May 7 2009 will surely go down in history alongside September 11 2001. "5/7", as it inevitably became known, saw massive suicide bombings in Tel Aviv, London and New York, as well as simultaneous attacks on the remaining western troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Total casualties were estimated at around 10,000 dead and many more wounded. The attacks, which included the explosion of a so-called dirty bomb in London, were orchestrated by a Tehran-based organisation for "martyrdom-seeking operations" established in 2004. "5/7" was the Islamic Republic of Iran's response to the bombing of its nuclear facilities, which President Hillary Clinton...