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Howard Dean: I think electability's a real issue for him. He appears to change his mind so often. '[Y]ou saw it with No Child Left Behind, you saw it with the war, you see it with special interests, which I think is terribly damaging. It appears that his word is no good.' (Adam Nagourney, For Kerry And Edwards, Sharp Exchanges Reflect A Crucial Day Of Voting,) The New York Times, 2/3/04

A succession of well-publicized missteps by the news media in recent years -- from misrepresentation of facts and questionable reporting methods to outright fabrication and plagiarism -- has understandably shaken public trust in the media. The Washington Post, like several other large news organizations, has responded by reviewing our policies on accuracy, fairness and our relationships with news sources and readers. We have spent several months on this effort and recently produced a restatement of our policies covering, among other things, reporting techniques, use of direct quotations, attribution of information, use of confidential sources and corrections of our mistakes. We...

The British government is now thinking the unthinkable, according to news reports: It is considering proposals to break up the BBC and revoke its hallowed independent status. This possible assault on one of the world’s leading news organizations is arising in the wake of an independent judicial inquiry’s condemnation of the Beeb’s shoddy news practices. Needless to say, such an independent analysis and investigation of a news organization is highly unusual; they, of course, are the ones who like to do the investigating. The startling conclusions of the judge, Lord Hutton, a retired lord of appeal (equivalent to a U.S....

From three and a half years ago.....modified and updated MIDI - SOUNDS OF SILENCE Hello patriots, my friends…I have some bad news once again You won't believe what they've been doing...our great nation they've been screwing There’s a lesson…we cannot trust Democrats…sewer rats We hear the sounds of treason They all would sell their country out…of that, you should have no doubt They would abdicate our freedom…it’s in their writing, you should read ‘em There’s a lesson that we cannot trust the Democrats…they're sewer rats We hear the sounds of treason Hatred of the USA…they've been showing everyday They disdain...

Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Wednesday that he was forced to limit the activities of the Senate Intelligence Committee because he no longer believes Democrat members who sanctioned the partisan misuse of committee resources can be trusted with foreign intelligence secrets. Noting that committee Democrats have yet to identify the author of a controversial memo urging that intelligence data be used as a political weapon against President Bush, Frist told radio host Sean Hannity, "If those people are still in the room handling intelligence given to us by other nations so that they can undermine our Commander-in-Chief, that...

Home Schooling Spokesman: CBS Pre-Planned Negative Slant There is more fallout from a controversial two-part report on home schooling, produced by the CBS Evening News. During Monday's "Eye on America" segment, CBS reporter Vince Gonzales cited a murder-suicide involving three teenagers in rural North Carolina as proof of what the network refers to as a "dark side" to home schooling. In that tragic case, the children's parents had been under investigation for abuse and neglect and were not abiding by the state's home school law. But Hal Young, president of North Carolinians for Home Education (nche.com), says CBS News overlooked...

ASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — An Islamic chaplain in the United States Army who ministered to detainees at the camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the military holds captured militants and suspected terrorists is now himself under arrest while the Army investigates his activities, military and law enforcement officials said today. The chaplain, Capt. James J. Yee, also known as Youssef Yee, has not been charged either by the military or by civilian authorities, the officials said. His case is being investigated by the Army and if he is charged, it would most likely be under the military justice code, they...

Author ArchiveSend to a Friend Print Version July 9, 2002 11:55 a.m.The Fourth MysteryWas the LAX murderer a terrorist? he case of Hesham Mohamed Hadayat, my dear Watson, is one of those detective stories whose solution is obvious to any newspaper reader but which baffles the authorities by its mysterious complexity. Let us simply list the clues:1. He attacked the El Al line at Los Angeles airport and killed two Jews. There are at least 20 airlines using LAX. So if this was a random attack — an enraged response, say, to bad airline food over the years —...