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N.C. Ethics Board To Consider Complaint Against Easley POSTED: 3:25 pm EDT June 2, 2006 UPDATED: 5:52 pm EDT June 2, 2006 RALEIGH, N.C. -- A community group has accused Gov. Mike Easley in an ethics complaint of giving favorable treatment in a marina lease deal to a pair of developers with business ties to one of his campaign donors. Perry Newson, executive director of the State Board of Ethics, said Friday that the board will consider the complaint at its meeting Wednesday. He declined additional comment. Through a spokeswoman, Easley denied the allegations. . . .

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blasted NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert on Sunday for selectively editing an exchange he had in December with a National Guardsman who complained that his unit's vehicles weren't armored. "That was unfair and it was selectively taking out two sentences from a long exchange," the Pentagon chief complained. "And when you suggested that that's how I answered that question, that is factually wrong." Russert had just aired a clip of the now infamous exchange between his guest and National Guardsman Specialist Thomas Wilson, where Wilson asked during a town hall meeting in Kuwait...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lamenting the lack of depth in television news, the man considered the most trusted person on TV, Walter Cronkite, ends his current job this coming Tuesday right back where he started, as a newspaperman. In his final column in a year-long stint writing for the King Features Syndicate, Cronkite, 87, calls his decades as the nightly news anchor for broadcast network CBS "rewarding," but "not entirely satisfactory" due to time limitations that prevented deep reporting of any one story. "We're talking about covering one of the most complicated and important nations of the world ... and...

The New York Times, owner of the Boston Globe, has not provided an impartial view of gay marriage that is required in “balanced journalism,” according to the paper’s new ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, who wrote last Sunday. Agreeing with the opinion of J. Edward Pawlick in his book, “Libel by New York Times,” Okrent said that the “news” in the paper on homosexuality amounts to “cheerleading.” Although the Publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. was mentioned in the story, along with the fact that the paper changed its course when he became Chairman and took control in the late 1990s, the ombudsman...

NEW YORK They like Mike. While the country as a whole appears split, along political lines, over the controversial Michael Moore documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11," movie reviewers at U.S. daily newspapers are not. An E & P survey of 54 daily papers that ran reviews, in "red" and "blue" states alike, finds that 48 gave the film a positive nod, with only 6 abstaining, a 90% favorable rating. The six in the "anti" camp were: Detroit Free Press, Denver Rocky Mountain News, San Jose Mercury-News, New York Post, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Charlotte Observer. Among the "pro" crowd were reviewers...

Days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist atacks, the major TV networks decided to stop airing images of the planes striking the World Trade Center towers and of the towers collapsing. On Sept. 11, 2001 itself, a decision was made not to broadcast images of the 200 or so people forced to jump to their deaths. These images, the networks judged, were too disturbing, the American psyche too fragile, the fear of retribution against innocent Muslim Americans and calls for revenge against the terrorists' enablers too great for us to see the visual evidence of that fateful day. Compare this...

Through Turmoil and Tragedy, a Peppy News Pro Wakes Us with a Smile Premieres: Jan. 4, 9 p.m. Encores: Jan. 5, 12 a.m.; Jan. 6, 8 p.m. She hates the P-word, but you can hardly describe Katie Couric without saying "perky." For millions of Americans, she and Today cohost Matt Lauer represent a human jolt of caffeine. Yet for all her cheeriness, she has been lauded as one of the best in the business, slipping easily between serious topics and infotainment. Catch this E! True Hollywood Story, when it premieres Sun., Jan. 4, at 9 p.m., and see how Couric...

Gov. Bush Makes Gaffe While on Business Trip to SpainThe Associated PressPublished: Feb 17, 2003MADRID, Spain (AP) - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, on a business trip to Spain, made at least one big gaffe when he met local businessmen: calling Spain a republic when it is a constitutional monarchy with King Juan Carlos as the head of state. "I want to thank the president of the Republic of Spain for his friendship with the United States. I know this is a difficult situation in the short term," Bush said in Spanish about Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. Spain has not...

Vol. 10, No. 16August 8, 1994 More on Education In Loco Parentis by William Norman GriggG.K. Chesterton wrote, "The ideal for which the family stands is liberty. It is the only institution that is at once necessary and voluntary. It is the only check on the state that is bound to renew itself as eternally as the state, and more naturally than the state." For this reason, dictators and despots of all varieties have sought throughout history to corrupt the conventional family, appropriate its functions, and remove the individual from the shelter of the home. Accordingly, those concerned about...

Brainwashing in Dade County Before assuming the office of Attorney General, Janet Reno was District Attorney in Miami's Dade County. During her tenure in office she launched a case to help children she alleged were victims of sexual abuse. She brought in so-called "experts" who tend to use typical brainwashing techniques to convince children they are victims of abuse. In such cases the children typically invent fanciful tales of abuse and in this case the same scenario played itself out. Reno's victim, however, wasn't some adult pedophile but a young boy who Reno insisted, be tried as an adult....