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<p>ITHACA -- Outrage, frustration and a desire for justice united those at an emergency meeting held Friday, to discuss a racially charged assault reported earlier this week.</p> <p>About 75 local residents gathered at the Southside Community Center to learn how they could support the victim and get their questions about the handling of the case addressed. Several city and county officials were in attendance.</p>

Assignment America:Tales from the newsroom By John Bloom From the Life & Mind Desk Published 7/8/2002 11:16 AM NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- This new book "Coloring the News: How Crusading for Diversity Has Corrupted American Journalism" (Encounter Books, 278 pages, $25.95) will break your heart. I've worked in journalism all my life, and I had no idea any of this was going on. All through the 1990s, every time Rush Limbaugh would accuse the media of a liberal bias, I would just chuckle it away as the usual sort of right-wing paranoia we've been dealing with since...

<p>Disappointing speech to Wall Street, wasn't it? Here we all sat, glued to the tube, 401 (K) quarterly reports clutched in our sweaty hands, waiting to hear President Bush reassure us that he wasn't going to let the stock markets and all our life's savings sink into a miasma of runaway greed, crooked accountancy and betrayal of fiduciary trust.</p>

Closure looms for 'best newspaper on the internet' By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor 28 June 2002 Salon.com, which describes itself as the "Web's best newspaper", faces closure unless it can attract new funding. The site's owners have been forced to admit that their outspoken stance on political issues is alienating users and potential advertisers.Salon.com's founder, David Talbot, has lodged an annual formal document, an "SEC 10-K", with the US Securities and Exchange Commission explaining its financial plight.The pioneering, left-leaning website – which refused to comment on the move yesterday – recently claimed to have revealed the identity of "Deep Throat"...

Recent graduates be prepared-not for the life ahead of you; we know you have that figured out. No, be prepared for plenty of old people asking you boring questions about your future: what job are you taking, what college are you going to, where are you travelling, will you break up with your sweetheart? You're best memorizing a little monologue that you can recite every time someone asks. The truth is, they're curious because they're somewhat envious. They wish that, when they were 18 and had their whole lives ahead of them, they knew what they know now. By now,...

Article exposes the machinations of America's most active traitor and anthrax hoaxer, Dr. Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, aka Dr. Strangelove, who has just begun yet another of her periodic agitprop campaigns.

TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: Today's violence happened in Jerusalem. But all over the world, tens of thousands of people are living through the trauma of violence and disruption. How can there not be long-term effects? Will these people be able to rebuild their lives, or are we losing whole generations? ---- There was an old expression about the aftermath of nuclear war that dates from the Cold War. "The living would envy the dead." I never thought that could be true. But it is true that tens of thousands, actually hundreds of thousands, of lives have been destroyed. We've all seen the...

"In the five years since the Oakland debacle, with the help of a media white-out, so-called ebonics may have faded from the public's consciousness. But during the same time, the Afrocentric warlords dominating inner-city schools have continued their campaign to enslave poor, urban black children through teaching them racism, while refusing to teach them English."

MSNBC TO LAUNCH NEW PRIMETIME LINEUP BEGINNING MONDAY, JULY 15Published: June 10, 2002 "DONAHUE" AT 8:00 PM, ET, “NACHMAN” AT 7:00 PM JOIN CHRIS MATTHEWS, ASHLEIGH BANFIELD – IN NEW TIME SLOTSMULTIMILLION DOLLAR MARKETING CAMPAIGN HERALDS "DONAHUE" AND NEW PRIMETIME LINEUPSECAUCUS, N.J. -- June 10, 2002 -- MSNBC, America’s NewsChannel, which is rebranding itself as the cable news network that goes beyond the day’s headlines to provide fiercely independent analysis of the news, will premiere a new primetime lineup on Monday, July 15, it was announced today by Erik Sorenson, President and General Manager, MSNBC.“On July 15, MSNBC will have...

Former Minnesota Rep. Tim Penny has long been an outspoken opponent of pork barrel spending because he says so many projects don't merit federal aid. In "Pig Tales," an article which Penny contributed to in the most recent edition of Reader's Digest, he held up Cayuga County's Merry-Go-Round Playhouse's receipt of $150,000 in discretionary funds from Rep. James Walsh to help pay for renovations as "Beltway Robbery." "One reason so many pork projects pass is that few people know about them," Penny wrote. "They're slipped into bills without debate or a committee vote. If Congress openly debated their merits, how...

<p>ITHACA -- Former presidential press secretary Joe Lockhart remembers a particular Washington morning after he'd stayed up all night dealing with a breaking TV news story.</p> <p>"I was in the shower, and the next thing I knew, someone's shaking my arm," he said. "It was my wife. I had fallen asleep standing up."</p>

The Green Party State Convention did not feel like a state convention. The May 25 affair was held in the large but somewhat drab third floor of the Community School of Music and Arts. There were no entourages. There were no neck ties. There was just a guy, scribbling names and numbers on a dirty chalk board before a group of chairs, many of which were filled by bearded men from all over New York State. This convention was just pure politics, with a whiff of down-home, stripped-o'-the-frills democracy. No, the state convention did not feel like a state convention....

<p>ITHACA -- Dozens of Ithacans scoured The Commons early Wednesday morning, pulling up bricks in an effort to find the Ithaca Festival grand prize medallion.</p> <p>The treasure hunt takes place during the Ithaca Festival, with a prize of up to $1,000 for the person who finds the medallion. Clues have been published each day in The Journal classified section since May 30, and will continue through June 8.</p>

<p>ITHACA -- The stench of decaying flesh hung heavy in the air as soldiers passed blown-up bunkers and caves.</p> <p>As they moved down an L-shaped corridor, the stiffened limbs of a Taliban soldier jutted from beneath piles of rock and dust in the sweltering afternoon air.</p>

Please check out Charlie Rice's program with Peter Jennings. It is playing right now where I am. UGHCharlie and Jennings are talking about the Drug companies and why they don't pursue new drugs (Jennings did a show on this topic) and Rice asks why companies are not pursuing new drugs.Jennings replies, (paraphrasing) "it is partly the fault of the Congress, and I am not going to say the President dropped the ball on this, but he should pick the ball up."Okay, like GW hasn't had anything on his agenda.

ABCNEWS will air a one-hour special report on America's billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry that asks: "What are we getting for our money?" "Peter Jennings Reporting — Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health," will air Wednesday, May 29 from 10-11 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network.   More money is spent on prescription drugs in America than in any other country in the world. Most of the current debate surrounding this billion-dollar industry focuses on questions about their high cost and how to pay for them. But in an hourlong primetime ABCNEWS special, Peter Jennings asks the crucial...

May 27, 2002 Satire on Patsy Cline Trips Up ColumnistBy FELICITY BARRINGER f ever a news item cried out for attention, it was the one that appeared on April 9 on the Web site of the Cybercast News Service. Entitled "Patsy Cline Music Deemed `Dangerous' to Women," the article reported the latest findings of social science: "A top researcher says a new study strongly suggests the music of country singer Patsy Cline contributes to depression, suicide and violent behavior by women." Ten days ago, the work of Dover Smeed found that larger audience. Lawrence Hall, a columnist for The Star-Ledger...

<p>ITHACA -- Green Party representatives from across New York selected candidates Saturday to represent the party in the November gubernatorial election.</p> <p>During the five-hour-long meeting at the Community School of Music & Arts, more than 300 party members selected college professor and union leader Stanley Aronowitz of New York City to represent the Green line for the Governor's race.</p>

May 23, 2002 Some U.S. Backers of Israel Boycott Dailies Over Mideast CoverageBy FELICITY BARRINGER ntense public reaction to coverage of the violence of the Middle East conflict has prompted unusually harsh attacks on several news media outlets and has led to boycotts of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Broadcast news operations, including CNN and National Public Radio, have also been criticized. The general manager of one public radio station, WBUR-FM in Boston, said it had lost more than $1 million in underwriting and pledges this year — nearly 4 percent of its...

If a political drama in Ithaca was to get national attention, is it possible that some locals might not even notice? That's what happened when Ithaca College senior Shelley Facente faced off against Bay Buchanan on the editorial talk show The O'Reilly Factor, which aired last week on the Fox News Network. The dispute which sparked the televised point-counterpoint editorial arose a few weeks ago when Ithaca College Republicans put up advertisements for a college speech by Buchanan, a well-known conservative and sister of Pat Buchanan, reading, "Feminazis: Your Nuremburg Has Come." Following a public forum about the posters, the...