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  • A damaging poll confirms the obvious … 8 out of 10 don’t want taxpayers bailing out newspapers

    09/24/2009 10:24:47 AM PDT · by Corky Boyd · 7 replies · 1,525+ views
    Island Turtle ^ | September 24, 2009 | Corky Boyd
    A damaging poll confirms the obvious … 8 out of 10 don’t want taxpayers bailing out newspapers. Editor and Publisher reported on a study conducted by Sacred Heart University that came to that conclusion. Nearly 8 out of 10 Americans would oppose any plan to spend tax dollars to aid failing newspapers, according to a poll on news media trustworthiness released Wednesday. "That reluctance might have something to do with the fact that 38.1% of respondents to the poll by Sacred Heart University said they are reading newspapers less often than five years ago. Or the fact that nearly half,...
  • Radio program holds rare gem of fun, religious conversation

    04/01/2002 4:01:16 PM PST · by MoJoWork_n · 193+ views
    Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (reprint) ^ | April 1, 2002 | Ray Waddle
    By RAY WADDLE New York Times News Service Garrison Keillor has a pretty good thing going on "A Prairie Home Companion." All he has to do is say "Lutheran," and he gets a laugh. He says "Unitarian" and gets a bigger laugh. These words are not in themselves laughable. But over the national airwaves, it's different. Keillor knows that in the congregational setting of his secular radio show, the lingo of church life has a strange charm. Comic memories accrue and detonate with each new reference to "Corinthians" or "Episcopalians" in the tales of the show's stoic, church-going Minnesota characters....