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Turns Out Last Week's Sun Valley Media Retreat Was One Big Obama Trash-Talking Session Joe Pompeo Jul. 13, 2010, 9:28 AM Not much of the chatter being exchanged among moguls at last week's annual big-media gathering in Sun Valley, Idaho made its way into the press. But it turns out that much of what the moguls talked about, while they boozed and golfed and white water rafted and stuffed their faces during the all-expeneses-paid retreat, was President Obama and his attitude toward the business community, according to The Daily Beast's Peter Lauria, who spent the week collecting on- and off-the-record...

In light of recent revelations of possible media manipulation in Qana, Lebanon, as reported by NewsBusters Monday, a 2005 video has been circulating throughout the Internet (hat tip to Ms. Underestimated with extraordinary video link to follow). In reality, this is an almost unbelievable look at how film footage from Israel that made national news after the Second Intifada began in September 2000 (including CBS’s “60 Minutes”) appears to have been staged, choreographed, and produced rather than real events that transpired in front of video cameras. The film's producer, Dr. Richard Landes, teaches history at Boston University, and is the...

There's no shortage of historic and gripping Supreme Court stories for journalists to report on these days. Why, then, does ABC News' "Nightline" care where Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was the night Chief Justice John Roberts was sworn in? It cares because it mistakenly thinks it has caught him in a "judicial junket." Last Monday, ABC News ran an "investigative" story centering on the fact that Justice Scalia was absent the night of the Sept. 29 Roberts ceremony, the only justice to miss it. Where was he? Turns out -- horror of horrors -- that the former law professor had...

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Local girl takes second place in 9/11 art contest Advocacy group gives her $100 prize for artwork with a statement By Tara Ramroop, STAFF WRITER SAN MATEO — Hannah Stutz, 11, turned her love of art into a heavy political statement that earned her second place in a peace organization's art contest. The soon-to-be Borel Middle School student recently beat out a handful of youth applicants in the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance's "9/11 Truth for Peace and Justice" art contest, picking up a $100 prize. The group believes that the U.S. government isn't telling the whole truth or giving...

Although they are not advertising it on their site it appears Nightline was with John Kerry and chronicled his rise and fall on election day. Looks to be an interesting behind the scenes look at what happened on Election day when the lerry campaign went from jubilation that theyhad won the race at 4 PM, to the realization that they had lost it at 4 AM. Thet are running an off the schedule special on it tonight I guess they decided they were going to be there to celebrate with him doesn't it?