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Americans are generous people, and they prove it every time a disaster strikes like last week's earthquake in Haiti. They have donated more than $275 million to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation in the week since the quake. Nearly one-third of that money came from U.S. companies, a point rarely mentioned on the broadcast news. According to the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC), 203 companies donated a total of $83 million to Haitian relief so far. Such positive actions should warrant media coverage, but the networks are inclined to practically ignore corporate charity in favor of attacking the current...

Caption for picture in Day in Pictures: "A woman in the Afghan capital, Kabul, receives bags of wheat from the World Food Programme sent by Japan."

One of France's leading TV news executives has admitted censoring his coverage of the riots in the country for fear of encouraging support for far-right politicians. Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, said the prominence given to the rioters on international news networks had been "excessive" and could even be fanning the flames of the violence.

The hurricane must be over On The Record has returned tonight with wall to wall coverage of missing person's. Virginia college coed's mother was just interviewed and next up is Natalee Holloway's mother.

When stories as big as London's first break, it's obvious you'll cover nothing else. The topic picks you, rather than the usual other way around. Yesterday, I asked WRKO/Boston morning hosts Peter Blute and Scott Allen Miller whether they'd even considered discussing another issue on Friday's show. Their answer: a definite no. But what about this weekend? That's where it gets trickier, not just for talk radio, but for the blogosphere as well. It seems appropriate to cover other stories today, with an eye on the latest London developments, but the financial and other specialty programs on talk radio today...

The headline-from Agence France Presse-says it all !

"Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity." EZEKIEL 9:5 What would I do? In a mosque. In Fallujah. With the battle still ringing in my ears. With my face still stinging from yesterday's wound when that booby-trapped body of a dead enemy fighter blew up, killing one of my fellow Marines. When the body by the wall in that rubble-strewn room moved. What would I do? How many million times in the long annals of war has the blurred moment in some small corner of a battlefield brought death...

The candidate shifts back and forth nervously behind the impressive lectern. He scowls. He grimaces. He appears smug and condescending. He licks his lips and anxiously opens and closes his mouth, like a guppy gasping for oxygen. And why not? This televised debate is for all the marbles: the presidency of the United States. But the cutaway shots described here are not of George W. Bush. They're cutaway shots of John Kerry. (More.) http://www.whatsinthenews.com

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2004 — A shipment of television equipment is on its way to Iraq to help Iraqi broadcasters offer more balanced news coverage than what is currently available in the region. Members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq's Anbar province expressed concerned that extremely negative news coverage by the local media was stoking resentment toward the U.S. military and encouraging conflict. They turned to Spirit of America, a nonprofit group committed to helping Americans serving abroad improve people's lives, to request television equipment to be used to offer more balanced news. On April 29 — just...

Only the Moderates [Conservatives] want president Bush to be reelected accoring to an opinion poll by Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). All members of Parliament were asked the question who would you like to have elected as the president of the United States in November? A total of 75% of the MPs took part in the poll. Result: Bush 10.2%, Kerry 80.3%, Don’t know: 9.5% Moderats (Conservatives): Bush 58.8%, Kerry 8.8%, Don’t know: 32.4% (Total answers: 62%) Christian Democrats: Bush 29.2%, Kerry 37.5%, Don’t know: 33.3% (Total answers: 73%) Centre Party: Bush 0%, Kerry 90%, Don’t know: 10% (Total answers: 91%) The...

HAVANA (AFP) - Amid an international outcry over its crackdown on dissidents, Cuba sent a clear message to anyone who would destabilize the regime from within, summarily executing three men who tried to hijack a ferry to get to the United States. An official statement said the men were tried "with full respect for their ... basic rights," convicted Tuesday and shot dead at dawn Friday. Another four of the men involved in the hijacking of the ferry with some 40 people aboard were sentenced to life in jail, and one man to 30 years in prison. The three women...

"News Alert" screen banners obscure what cameras are trying to show, leave viewers frustrated. Wow, this one is so true. I can not stand that darn banner that Fox puts up on the bottom of the screen. I guess I am not the only one. Yesterday it was so idiotic. The anchor was saying, here is our exclusive footage and the only thing they were showing was the tops of palm trees, a little smoke and sky. Whatever was so exclusive was behind the banner. Is anyone at Fox watching their own coverage? The anchors must not see the same...

Last update - 01:48 24/03/2003'It's more than exciting, Christiane' Most TV correspondents reporting from Iraq are attached to combat units and adopt the military viewpoint, so who is giving us the other side of the war? By Orna Coussin Gregg Gursky, a cameraman for the American Fox news network, was arrested last Friday and handcuffed. The security people forcibly took away his camera, and removed the videotape. It didn't happen in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, but in Washington, DC, the capital of the United States. The cameraman had only filmed members of the Viriginia State Police arresting a man "of Iranian...

Tuesday, October 15, 2002 O'REILLY 2.6 HANNITY/COLMES 2.0 LARRY KING 1.7 SHEP SMITH 1.7 GRETA 1.6 AARON BROWN 1.5 BRIT HUME 1.3 CROSSFIRE .9 DONAHUE .6 HARDBALL .4