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Apples and Arnetts By Greg Buete Remember Afghanistan? Just one week after the U.S. began fighting the Taliban New York Times reporter R.W. Johnny Apple compared the situation to Vietnam, just as he did during the 1991 Gulf War, and warned of a quagmire to come. The blind leading the blind, the majority of the media followed. But history is not kind to the media's Vietnam in Afghanistan premonition - within weeks the Taliban had fallen and "brutal Afghan winter" became a punch line. As noted in Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back, by the end of October 2001 the media...

I am cubicle bound and cannot get a radio signal in my building either. Would appreciate any suggestions for internet links to the best non-lib audio coverage of war events. Thanks!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With hours to go before bombs could begin falling, CBS pulled its news team out of Iraq early on Wednesday for safety reasons, leaving CNN as the only American television network with its own team in Baghdad. To minimize the risk of becoming inadvertent victims of a bombardment, CNN's team has moved out of Iraq's Ministry of Information building, considered a potential target of a U.S.-led assault, and began transmitting on Wednesday from a secret location in Baghdad, network spokeswoman Megan Mahoney told Reuters. "We've left the Ministry of Information. We left due to safety concerns,"...

US microwave bomb to make debut in most hi-tech battlefield campaign ever Claims that smart device wipes out circuitry of tanks and missile systems without harming troops Stuart Millar Wednesday March 19, 2003 The Guardian In the opening hours of the assault on Iraq, the US is likely to unleash a new and devastatingly effective breed of weapon against Saddam Hussein's forces. Launched in a cruise missile, it will fire a massive pulse of microwave energy. This lightning surge of power will last only a fraction of a second, but, travelling at the speed of light, it will wipe out...

Ground Rules for War Coverage Katherine Jean LopezThe Pentagon releases rules for journalistsLink http://editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1817934

A public policy group has issued two new studies warning that one million people currently covered by health insurance might lose all coverage because of the looming state budget deficits. The group is calling on the federal government to intervene and offer fiscal relief to the states. But a critic of the reports calls them a "premature call to action." The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a left of center public policy organization, issued two separate reports warning that one million people currently covered by federal Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program "will be forced into...

Thank you for that kind introduction. It's a pleasure to be here this evening to address the Commonwealth Club about an issue that profoundly affects all of us. You know, it's not easy being a health plan CEO these days. If you watched many commercials from the recent political campaign, you would think HMO's are responsible for every problem in California except Winona Ryder's shoplifting. Given the way many people feel about HMO's, you might conclude that embracing universal health care is part of a clever public relations campaign to spruce up our image. But Blue Shield of California has...

<p>Employers increasingly are offering health insurance for Fido and Fluffy to help workers cover the rising cost of pet care.</p> <p>"Many employees here view their pets like their children," said Agnus Stevens, spokeswoman for Amerix Corp., a nonprofit credit counseling agency in Columbia, Md. that began offering insurance for workers' pets in January. "They want a way to safeguard their pets against accidents or illnesses."</p>

<p>"Power struggle."</p> <p>That's how FOX News Sunday's Tony Snow summed up this year's mid-term election.</p> <p>Plus, is this election a referendum on President Bush's handling of the War on Terror, his plans for Iraq and his management of the economy?</p>

Hi Freepers. I will be producing online Election Coverage for StopDemocrats.com (on the website and a live 8 hour long radio program) on November 5th starting at 8 pm EST. I need help. I am looking for common voters around the country that want to be on the program (you must have yahoo messenger and a microphone). I am also looking for Republican candidates running for office (and even incumbents) as well as Republican National and State party officials that are willing to give us a short telephone interview about the election and results in their state. We already have...

Baghdad revisited By MATT KEMPNER Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer CNN news-gathering chief Eason Jordan is pointing to a recent satellite image of downtown Baghdad and the faint outline of the Al Rashid Hotel, where his reporters may again be broadcasting news of war. It's been 11 years since CNN's "Baghdad Boys" huddled in the hotel by candlelight, holding a microphone out a window to pick up the sounds of U.S. bombs and Iraqi anti-aircraft guns. The trio of Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman made the Atlanta-based network the media star of the Gulf War and an icon of...

Stinking Coverage of Pew Poll Reed Irvine Aug. 12, 2002 On Aug. 4, the Pew Research Center released the results of a survey of 1,365 adults conducted during the last two weeks of July. It found that the public's opinion of the news media has fallen sharply from the levels attained in November in the wake of the media's excellent coverage of 9/11. The Center's press release said, "As the media's focus has shifted away from terrorism, Americans regard news organizations with the same degree of skepticism as they did in the 1990s." For anyone interested in accuracy, the...

WHITE HOUSE Goodbye To Goodwill By Carl M. Cannon, National Journal© National Journal Group Inc.Friday, July 12, 2002It was the White House press pool duty from hell -- one of many in this administration -- and the pool report said it all: Kananaskis -- It was only a matter of time, perhaps, but what passes for White House coverage these days has finally devolved into a Lewis Carroll absurdity in which White House correspondents can travel on a three-day foreign trip and never once lay eyes on the president -- not even if they draw a 12-hour pool assignment. That...