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Man this ticked me off so bad last night. I've avoided news of the evening's events by limited Drudge viewing and avoiding TV News and news websites so that I can enjoy the TAPE DELAYED Olympics. I was really looking forward to last night's women's team final. I stopped by NBCOlympics.com late yesterday afternoon to check on archery events for my son and dang if they don't SPOIL THEIR OWN BROADCASTS!!! On the right side was a list of what was coming up on TV and on the left was a slide show of pictures and headlines REVEALING THE RESULTS...

Concerned for safety, 5 American television networks take unusual step of pooling resources to cover fighting in Iraq (AP)

Since it started at 2PM Eastern that was 1 1/2 hrs ago, Did anyone cover it live? I am sure there would be at least 2,000 people in attendance. Should be 10,000 or more. I thought it was interesting on C-Span's call in show a guy from Ohio said Steve Scully was a Registered Democrat. C-Span has went way down since the 1994, they have Dems call on the support Bush line, they have an others line the Dems use, and an international line which of course is socialist.

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/news/campaigndiary.html Justin Walker follows the democratic primaries and gives an insightful and young perspective of the potential challengers to President Bush.

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryDecember 13, 2003 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week I was honored to sign the Medicare Act of 2003, the greatest advance in health coverage for America's seniors since Medicare was founded nearly four decades ago. This new law will give seniors better choices and more control over their health care, and provide a prescription drug benefit. Beginning in 2006, most seniors now without prescription coverage can expect to see their current drug bills cut roughly in half, in exchange for a monthly premium of about $35. And for the...

For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryNovember 15, 2003 President Urges Congress to "Finish the Job" on Medicare in Radio Address      In Focus: Medicare     Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This week I traveled to Florida to visit with seniors about an important goal for my administration and this nation. After years of debate and deadlock, the Congress is finishing work on the biggest improvements in senior health care coverage in nearly 40 years. Some important details of the Medicare legislation have to be worked out, but leaders in both the House and the Senate have already agreed to four clear-cut improvements...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a fight over patients' legal rights when their HMOs refuse to pay for recommended medical treatment. The case involves an issue that has stymied Congress, which has tried and failed to pass national patients' rights legislation. Some states have their own laws, but the question of where patients can sue and what they can ask for in court still is unresolved. The court's answer could determine whether patients can win large amounts of money if insurers refuse to pay for beneficial or even lifesaving treatment. If the court...

I'm sure another live thread will be created later for the premiere presentation of the Nine Stooges. However, my local PBS station isn't carrying it. Does anyone have a link to a stream?

A senior French health official resigned Monday after the health minister acknowledged that as many as 5,000 people might have died in a blistering heat wave. Lucien Abenhaim, director general of health, sent a letter to Health Minister Jean-Francois Mattei saying he would resign because of intense criticism leveled at the government over its handling of the heat wave earlier this month. Mattei accepted the resignation. Abenhaim suggested that the criticism faced by the government was unfair. "We faced a heat wave catastrophe the likes of which had not been seen for more than 100 years," he said on France-Info...

On 07-19-03 I posted an article about how I was concerned about Foxnews. Then on 07-30-03 I posted another article about how great it was to see Bob Sellers, Neil Cavuto, and David Hunt tell it like it is! On 08-02-03 I posted an article wishing Bob Sellers Brother in Law good luck fighting and searching for weapons in Iraq Then on 08-05-03 I posted a transcript of Ann Coulters appearance on Hannity and Colmes along with The Asman Observeror and Davids debate with a woman who supported gay leaders in the church. Lets start off with the Asman Observor...

Let's stipulate from the outset that not everything about Fox News is appalling. Brit Hume is an able journalist. Neil Cavuto is watchable. I like some of their political commentators, Fred Barnes most of all. The rest of it is bunk. Talk-show host Bill O'Reilly is a self-righteous bully. Anchor John Gibson gives the impression of being not very bright, although that may have to do with his hairdo. Political commentator Monica Crowley was caught plagiarizing by the Wall Street Journal. News items are treated as if they were offerings on Fox's line-up of action shows debuting this fall: "We...

<p>California has at least 35 million human beings residing inside its borders, nearly two-thirds of them potential voters.</p> <p>Gray Davis has been a California politician for three decades and the state's governor for the last 4 1/2 years, but has engaged in personal conversation with, at most, a few thousand of his constituents.</p>

<p>If we could harness the power behind political passions in this area, California would never have another energy crisis.</p> <p>What I especially find offensive about The Bee is all the slanted news and editorializing that goes on in "news stories" and on the front page .... The Bee would have a lot more readers if they kept their editorializing on the editorial pages.</p>

The Scotsman takes a more radical stance on Israel than Gazan Palestinians do themselves. The IDF pulled out of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Wednesday, completing a five-day mission to clear out positions from which Hamas launched rockets against southern Israeli towns. The action was necessary to protect Israeli citizens, but in the process the IDF uprooted orchards in Beit Hanoun, affecting some Palestinians' livelihoods. Given these complex circumstances, where did the media direct blame? a) Associated Press reported that a spontaneous street demonstration erupted upon the IDF exit, but this time Palestinians focused their fury upon the original source...

The media's new term for Israeli terror victims -- "bystanders" -- masks the true, civilian target of Palestinian terror. The past two days have been among the most brutal in the Palestinian campaign of terror against Israel — five suicide bombs in a mere forty-eight hours have left 14 dead and scores wounded. The latest attack, just hours ago in Afula, was apparently perpetrated by a female terrorist who, halted by a security guard, detonated herself at the entrance to a crowded shopping mall. While Israelis mourn the deceased and pray for the wounded, the media have begun in tandem...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - California newspapers devoted considerable resources to the war in Iraq, sending reporters and photographers into harm's way and trying to provide balanced, accurate and comprehensive coverage of battlefield and homefront developments. But even some of the largest newspapers struggled to make sense of rapidly changing events and conflicting information, their editors acknowledged Saturday during the Associated Press News Executives Council's annual meeting. "I don't think any of us were prepared to handle the deluge of fragmentary images that dominated the first two days," said David Yarnold, editor of the San Jose Mercury News. Yarnold also...

U.S. broadcasters' coverage of the Iraq war was so unquestioningly patriotic and so lacking in impartiality that it threatened the credibility of America's electronic media, the head of the BBC says. BBC Director General Greg Dyke singled out for criticism the fast growing News Corp's Fox News Channel, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Clear Channel Communications, the largest operator of radio stations in the United States, with over 1,200 stations, for special criticism. "Personally, I was shocked while in the United States by how unquestioning the broadcast news media was during this war," Dyke said in a speech...

When monitoring The New York Times’ coverage on the progression of the war, I found it suggested marginal objectivity in its reporting and particular patterns in the placement of articles. The breadth of The New York Times’ coverage has ranged from recent key arrests, Pakistani - American intelligence cooperation, the structure of al-Qaeda terrorist camps and networks and, of course, speculation of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. The New York Times initial coverage had placed great attention to the war on terrorism, despite its age of two years and the forthcoming war with Iraq. Relatively unnoticed issues, such as...

New Class Crackup By Glenn Harlan Reynolds TCS A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that a lot of people seemed to be pretty unhappy with the BBC's coverage of the war, and I linked the BBC's attitudes - odd, I thought, for the national network of a nation at war - to the shared prejudices of the "New Class" of state-supported bureaucrats and their ilk. Since then, things have only gotten worse for the Beeb. Andrew Sullivan has kept up the pressure. The BBC has even been forced to respond, taking the absurd position that: The BBC is not...

If you point one of these (combat camera)... . . . at 1/2 mile you might look like one of these in a thermal sight (shoulder fired anti-tank rocket). If you assume the risk, you must assume the consequences. The tank crew didn't target a Cameraman. They saw a percieved threat and killed it. Damn good shot if you ask me.