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The Glory Days
Foreign Policy, by Jonathan Alter
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/20/2012 4:47:39 AM
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| Tina Brown, the founder of the Daily Beast and editor of Newsweek, announced this week that the print magazine was headed to the morgue file, dead after nearly 80 years. A digital offering called Newsweek Global will take its place. Those of us who worked at Newsweek through the turn of the century wish the new venture well, but we can't escape the feeling that there's been a death in the family. Until the Washington Post Co. sold the magazine in 2010, I qualified as a "lifer," a concept that no longer exists in the American workplace.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/20/2012 4:52:36 AM (No. 8947226)
Don't let the door bump you.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
miceal, 10/20/2012 5:57:29 AM (No. 8947246)
It ended up as a poor cat box/bird cage liner. Much like the New York Times....
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BcdErick, 10/20/2012 6:00:49 AM (No. 8947249)
Conservatives totally disagreed with the far left Alter from day one. They did so because he was a compulsive liar. Almost everyone agrees that "Newsweek" is going bankrupt for a few obvious reasons. The MSM is distrusted by more than 60% of the population. Add to that the internet removes the stifling liberal filter/monoppoly on news. There are more choices on TV than ever before. We're better off. Other once prominent magazines (Time) and newspapers (NYT, WaPo) will follow "Newsweek" in the near future.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
tren9, 10/20/2012 6:04:15 AM (No. 8947254)
Newsweak is a good example of a media company killed by its writers. Jonathan, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/20/2012 6:11:56 AM (No. 8947260)
I'll never forget Alter melting down live on NBCNews late on election night 2000, as Florida slipped toward GWBush. NBCNews showed themselves to be bereft of judgment by ever booking him again after that bitter partisan display.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/20/2012 6:51:24 AM (No. 8947289)
Speaking of alter, where is that other piece of dreck, frankrich?
Has he moved to france to be with the rest of the socialists?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
srhcb, 10/20/2012 6:53:17 AM (No. 8947296)
The concept of a "lifer" still exists for government employees, although it's a stretch to consider that a "work"place.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
eoddad, 10/20/2012 7:43:48 AM (No. 8947400)
#4 You beat me to it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/20/2012 7:51:36 AM (No. 8947407)
What he STILL does not address is why such a powerful, well placed and unquestionably accepted media vehicle came to such a sorry state. Lying, distorting, suppressing, abusing journalistic privilege brazenly to promote then defend and shield a disgraced, disproven and thoroughly discredited ideology, foreign to the American psyche and civilization.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u, 10/20/2012 7:53:16 AM (No. 8947410)
On another thread, in an article by Ron Ross, he states that when given a choice between fantasy and reality, a lib will choose fantasy every time. Jonathan Alter, case in point.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
plumnellie, 10/20/2012 8:01:47 AM (No. 8947429)
#10..I agree that Alder demonstrates the Ross article perfectly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
yo-yo, 10/20/2012 8:32:07 AM (No. 8947493)
Translation:
Alter, "Please have pity on me! I murdered my parents, and now I'm an orphan."
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/20/2012 8:42:23 AM (No. 8947515)
Hey Jonnie! You're gonna want to sleep in your good clothes if you consider the much delayed demise of Newsweak to be 'like a death in the family'. You're going to attending a lot media funerals , soon.
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Stay calm, all is hell!
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New York Post, by Michael Goodwin
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After every terror plot since 9/11, officials rushed to calm the public by saying the plotters were not directly working for al Qaeda or another known organization. They used phrases like “one off,” an “isolated extremist” or, in the Boston case, “self-radicalized” to downplay the threat. Even when they were wrong — the underwear bomber had training in Yemen — the aim was to assure Americans there was no imminent danger of another large- scale horror like 9/11. The emphasis on individuals working alone was meant to suggest that even if they had succeeded, there would not have been mass casualties.
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PJ Media, by Ron Radosh
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/5/2013 5:02:08 AM
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Yesterday, the AP reported that the FBI put Joanne Chesimard — a.k.a. Assata Shakur — on its Most Wanted Terrorists list, and announced a reward of $2 million for anyone whose information leads to her capture. After being found guilty, along with two other members of the violent Black Liberation Army, of murdering a New Jersey state trooper forty years ago to the day, Chesimard fled to Cuba. The revolutionary regime of Fidel Castro granted her asylum, and honored her not as a murderer and thug but as a fellow revolutionary freedom fighter. “She continues to flaunt her freedom
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Funeral director asks
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Boston Herald, by Erin Smith
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/5/2013 4:48:05 AM
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A Worcester funeral home director is pleading for government officials to use their influence to convince a cemetery to bury Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but so far no state or federal authorities have stepped forward to help out. “We have a body for burial that has caused a lot of controversy and we can’t continue to play this game,” said Peter Stefan, owner of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors. “Under normal circumstances, the government would say it’s (the funeral parlor’s) responsibility to find a place for burial, but this is not normal circumstances. This is a nightmare.”
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Soccer referee punched
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/5/2013 4:42:22 AM
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MURRAY, Utah -- A 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma has died, police said. Ricardo Portillo of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following the assault last weekend, Unified police spokesman Justin Hoyal said Saturday night. Police have accused a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league of punching Portillo after the man called a foul on him and issued him a yellow card. "The suspect was close to Portillo and punched him once in the face
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Obama Expects States
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Townhall, by Kevin Glass
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 9:34:13 AM
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The Only Question That Matters
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National Review Online, by Michael Walsh
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Arias´ fate in jurors´ hands
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:49:13 AM
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The Benghazi Talking Points
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Weekly Standard, by Stephen F. Hayes
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Los Angeles Times, by Kathleen Hennessey & Tracy Wilkinson
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/3/2013 10:13:38 PM
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MEXICO CITY — President Obama on Friday painted a sunny picture of a modern Mexico emerging from its past troubles, an attempt at rebranding that serves the political aims of both governments but clashes with the realities of a country beset by violence and poverty. On his second day of a swing through Latin America, Obama emphasized optimism about Mexico´s economic future and offered a broad endorsement of President Enrique Peña Nieto´s reform agenda. Speaking to a crowd largely made up of high school and college students, Obama pushed the next generation of Mexicans to continue to demand change.
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Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/4/2013 4:43:04 PM
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Americans Are Ready for a
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Daily Beast, by Eleanor Clift
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/4/2013 9:35:41 PM
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A new poll from Emily’s List shows an overwhelming number of voters now support the idea. It’s a movement the group hopes someone in the sisterhood is about to inherit. With polls showing Hillary Clinton holding a formidable lead over all other potential candidates for president in 2016, a press conference to promote the idea of a woman president seems a little behind the news, a treasured dream catching up with a new reality, or perhaps a stalking horse for Clinton.
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Court OKs Barring
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ABC News, by Staff
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Posted By: US veteran- 5/3/2013 8:16:12 AM
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A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. “This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control
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Rep. Paul Ryan Now Backs Adoption
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Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/3/2013 10:54:53 AM
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate, used to oppose adoption of children by homosexuals but now says it is okay for gays to adopt kids and that he would vote to support such a policy. The Catholic faith, which Ryan professes, teaches that such adoptions “are contrary to the divine plan” of God and Pope Francis has said that gay adoption is a form of discrimination against children. At a meeting with some of his constituents in Janesville, Wisc., on Apr. 29, Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was asked about
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Will Barack Obama ever stop
apologising for America?
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Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/4/2013 1:21:19 AM
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I’ve just watched this extraordinary clip of Barack Obama’s speech in Mexico City earlier today, where the president blames the United States for the out of control gun violence in Mexico, a frankly ludicrous assertion. RealClear Politics has a partial transcript: "Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States," President Obama said during a speech at Mexico´s Anthropology Museum. "I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always
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Funeral director struggles to find
graveyard to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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New York Daily News, by Bev Ford & Larry McShane
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/4/2013 5:45:55 AM
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He´s a body without a burial plot. Four cemeteries in three states have refused to accept the battered corpse of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, said the Massachusetts funeral director tasked with finding his final resting place. Peter Stefan, funeral director and owner of Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., tried to find a plot for Tsarnaev in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts — but nobody wants to bury the Russian-born terrorist on their land, he said. If nothing comes up, “we have to go to the federal government
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Obama: ´My top priority as President:
Creating good, middle-class jobs´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: SurferLad- 5/4/2013 9:47:49 AM
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Hi, everybody. Today, I’m speaking to you from the road — a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica. I’m here because Latin America represents an incredible opportunity for the United States, especially when it comes to my top priority as President: creating good, middle-class jobs. On Friday, we learned that our businesses created another 176,000 jobs last month. That’s 2.2 million new jobs over the past year, and 6.8 million new jobs over the past 38 months. But as I´ve said before, I won’t be satisfied until everyone who wants a job can find one.
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The Immigration Reform Opportunity
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Wall Street Journal, by Marco Rubio
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Posted By: tocsin- 5/3/2013 5:45:32 AM
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Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America´s broken immigration system and end today´s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can work when leaders listen to the American people and invoke their wisdom in debates and legislative work. In January, I outlined my principles for conservative immigration reform in these pages—principles that guided the drafting of this legislation.
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