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Freelance Journalism’s
Downside Perfectly Captured
Mediabistro, by Chris O´Shea
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Posted By:PageTurner, 3/5/2013 2:49:49 PM
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| Nate Thayer, a veteran journalist, posted on his blog an email exchange between The Atlantic’s global editor — Olga Khazan — and himself, that is guaranteed to frustrate you if you’ve ever freelanced. Thankfully, Thayer deals with the emails in the best way possible. It began with Khazan emailing Thayer to ask about republishing something he had written on The Atlantic. This part is great. Any freelancer would be ecstatic to have such a respected publication (or any publication, really) contact them. Typically freelancers are the ones doing the asking.
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Comments:
The left doesn´t see the need to pay for things. It has just learned a valuable lesson from Nate Thayer.
Nate Thayer is sort of the Navy Seal of journalists - having been the only reporter to ever interview Pol Pot on the run. He´s not to be messed with.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kono, 3/5/2013 3:11:53 PM (No. 9209783)
The story seems to have lost cohesion somewhere along the writing/editing process. First they´re talking about RE-publishing a piece Thayer had already written.
But quoted from Thayer´s response: 1200 words by the end of the week would be fine, and I can assure you it would be well received, but not for free.
That implies a NEW piece to be written, not one already written (and probably already under unambiguous copyright rules that govern rights and limits when either writer or publisher re-publishes them).
Sounds to me like there are two (or more) things going on between Thayer and The Atlantic, and that this article might be blending them in a confusing manner.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mackrand, 3/5/2013 5:28:35 PM (No. 9210020)
Thayer did seem to leave out something but the end result is still the same. The Atlantic says they asked him if he would ok posting for free a condensed version of that original piece which essentially meant a re-write. And that does mean time spent assembling the piece.
Good on him for insisting on being paid for his effort. Freelance or not, his writing has value as he has made his living for some time doing it.
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Nigerian president declares
state of emergency
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Fox News*, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/14/2013 6:42:46 PM
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Nigeria´s president declared a state of emergency Tuesday across the country´s troubled northeast, promising to send more troops to fight an increasingly violent Islamic insurgency. Islamist sect Boko Haram -- whose name means "Western education is sacrilege" in the Hausa language of Nigeria´s north -- has intensified its attacks on security forces and government targets in its northeast stronghold this month, prompting President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in certain states. Last week, dozens of Boko Haram fighters in buses and machine gun-mounted trucks
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U.K. Prime Minister David
Cameron Should Trumpet
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/14/2013 10:10:48 AM
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Tax Policy: Speaking with President Obama Monday, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron talked up tax enforcement, no doubt to please his host. Left unsaid was that the real example Britain offers for feeble economies is tax cuts. Fact is, Britain has slashed its corporate tax rate to the lowest level in the Group of 20, cutting its level to a mere 21%. And it has plans to take it to 20% by 2015. The result has been spectacular: According to Ernst & Young U.K. Chairman Steve Varley, more than 40 multinationals have inquired about moving back to Britain,
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Venezuela´s ´Carlos the
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/14/2013 9:09:45 AM
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- A lawyer representing the convicted terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" is urging Venezuela´s government to demand that France return her Venezuelan-born client to his homeland. Attorney Isabelle Coutant-Peyre says Venezuela should press for the repatriation of Illich Ramirez Sanchez on the grounds that he was illegally detained in Sudan in 1994 before he was convicted in 2011 for instigating four bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140 others.
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EPA waives fee requests
for friendly groups, denies
conservative groups
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Washington Examiner, by Michal Conger
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/14/2013 9:05:43 AM
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Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute. CEI reviewed requests for information sent between January 2012 and this spring from several environmental groups friendly to the EPA’s mission, and several conservative groups, to see how equally the agency applies its fee waiver policy for media and watchdog groups. Government agencies are supposed to waive fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit.
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Maduro thinks that Obama
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/13/2013 9:20:26 PM
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro feels that his US counterpart Barack Obama has made "a serious mistake" for his failure to acknowledge the results of the Venezuelan presidential election. "I think that they are making a serious mistake, another one in their Latin American policy. I think that they (Maduro´s dissenters) convinced Obama of their adventure intended to disregard the election and promised him that I would be toppled (...) They let Obama down in an adventure and a defeat, and right now he is trapped for good," Maduro told multi-state network Telesur, DPA cited.
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Chinese Communist Party
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Venezuela and China on Monday agreed to extend their political alliance through a pact under which Chinese Communist Party will train Venezuelan ruling party leaders. The agreement was reached during a meeting between Venezuelan parliament speaker, ruling party legislator Diosdado Cabello, and Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao, who started Monday a four-day visit to Venezuela to strengthen bilateral cooperation. "We have made some decisions for the fellow members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to receive political and social training from the Chinese Communist Party,"
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China to the rescue of
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MercoPress [Montevideo, Uruguay], by Staff
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Argentina is negotiating with China a new 10 billon dollars equivalent swap of international reserves support based on the experience of 2009 when the global financial crisis. The new accord should theoretically help Argentina strengthen its international position vis-à-vis the run on the dollar (or the flight from the Peso) and which has cost the Central bank 4 billion dollars so far this year.According to Buenos Aires financial media the issue was addressed and advanced last Friday when President Cristina Fernandez met visiting Vice-president Li Yuanchao
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Child birth calls ring in from border
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San Diego Union Tribune, by Trent Seibert
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/11/2013 10:57:59 AM
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San Diego Fire and Rescue crews were called to the San Ysidro border crossing for nearly 160 childbirth emergencies in 2012 — one almost every other day. Such calls continued in 2013, with 15 childbirth emergency calls to the gateway into Tijuana in January, eight in February and 17 in March, according to city records obtained by U-T Watchdog. There are no statistics on how many of the moms being rushed by emergency crews to local hospitals are U.S. citizens, as federal laws prohibit emergency crews and hospital teams from asking. Babies born under the circumstances are U.S. citizens as a birthright.
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Obama Used Moonshot
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PJ Media, by Bryan Preston
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/9/2013 3:40:10 PM
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Christian Adams has a story that’s so outrageous it makes my teeth hurt. For the low-information liberals who may be reading this, the moon is that large gray orb that dominates our night sky most nights. Buzz Aldrin was the second human to walk on the moon. Yes, humans going to the moon and walking around on it actually happened. America used to do big things like putting humans in space and achieving things that appeared to be impossible. Now we have a celebrity president who kills human space flight, when he isn’t leaving Americans to die
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Boston Suspects’ Parents on the Run
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Daily Beast, by Anna Nemtsova
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The message to the parents of the Boston bombing suspects was clear and unmistakable: “pack and go.” And soon after the phone call from the Chechen authorities Tuesday, a car carrying government officials arrived to accompany the couple out of the republic. The deportation followed a speech by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, in which he referred to the Tsarnaev brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar as “the worst devils.” “I will never defend them, never say a word in their support,” Kadyrov told a local television station Monday.
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Bethany Hamilton Is Engaged
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People, by Rennie Dyball
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/9/2013 3:50:29 AM
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Bethany Hamilton is getting married! The championship surfer, who lost her arm at age 13 in a shark attack, shared the happy news on her blog Wednesday. In a post titled "In Love," Hamilton, 23, describes her fiancé Adam. "The first thing we did was jump off a cliff together!" she writes, adding their first meeting last spring was something of a blind date. On April 9, Adam proposed. Hamilton does not provide her fiancé´s last name on her blog, though the Christian Today identifies him Adam Dirks. "I know Adam and I are right for each other
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Biden plans trip to Brazil,
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Politico, by Jennifer Epstein
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Posted By: PageTurner- 5/8/2013 3:25:44 PM
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Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he´s headed to Brazil and Colombia as the Obama administration ramps up its engagement with Latin America. Biden told the State Department´s Washington Conference on the Americas that he´s taking the trip "in the coming weeks." The trip had not yet been announced by Biden´s office, but his aides have since released more details on the travel, which will begin on May 26. He also mentioned that leaders from Peru and Chile will visit Washington in June, and that even more leaders plan trips for this fall.
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McCain Defends Obama Against
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/12/2013 8:07:37 PM
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Senator John McCain, who famously defended his then presidential opponent Barack Obama against an islamaphobic supporter during a 2008 campaign rally, defended President Obama once again on ABC’s This Week Sunday, cautioning his Republicans colleagues to cool it with talk of impeaching the President over the Benghazi attacks and its aftermath. In response to Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) invoking the “I word,” McCain called for caution: “With all due respect, I think this is a serious issue,” McCain told guest host Martha Raddatz. “I will even give the president the benefit of the doubt
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IRS Scandal About
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To no one’s surprise, it is already evident that the Obama administration has been lying about the scope of the IRS’s harassment of conservative-leaning non-profits. The Washington Post has obtained documents that show the anti-conservative effort was directed from Washington, D.C., and was not a rogue operation out of the agency’s Cincinnati office, as the administration has claimed: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the
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IRS targeted groups critical
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At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their name but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with knowledge of the findings, show that the IRS field office in charge of evaluating applications for tax-exempt status decided to focus on groups making statements that “criticize
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Watch out for Petraeus
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Washington Times, by Joseph Curl
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/12/2013 7:35:15 PM
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Call it “Oval Office Couch Syndrome.” By the second term “inside the bubble,” presidents have completely lost touch with reality: Aides and confidants conspire to keep the chief executive insulated from the real world — the bad news, the worse press coverage. They think it’s their job, and lounging on the Oval Office couches, they nod along with the president’s every musing. But this presidency has taken OOCS to new heights — Mr. Obama has only a few trusted aides, and occasional leaks from the West Wing show a paranoid president suspicious of nearly everyone around him.
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Under sweeping subpoenas,
Justice Department obtained
AP phone records
in leak investigation
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Washington Post, by Sari Horwitz
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/13/2013 10:44:29 PM
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In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaeda plot last year. The AP’s president said Monday that federal authorities obtained cell, office and home telephone records of individual reporters and an editor, AP general office numbers in Washington, New York and Hartford, and the main number for AP reporters covering Congress in what he called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion”
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Benghazi´s smoking guns
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Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/14/2013 12:03:29 AM
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President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died in Benghazi, the president said, "We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus." He added that "the whole issue of talking points, throughout this process, frankly, has been a sideshow.… There´s no there there." He´s half right. The talking points drafted by the State Department, the CIA and the White House and given to congressional Republicans and, most famously, to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice
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My Medical Choice
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New York Times, by Angelina Jolie
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/14/2013 7:07:23 AM
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MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,”(Snip)the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer(Snip)I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.
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Soledad O´Brien: ´OK, white
person, this is a conversation you
clearly are uncomfortable with´
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Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/13/2013 2:14:38 PM
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Soledad O´Brien, recently yanked from her morning show "Starting Point" on CNN, plans to continue her focus on racial issues and is charging that whites are afraid of dealing with the nation´s black-white division. O´Brien, just named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard´s Graduate School of Education, told the school´s Institute of Politics that she´s often confronted by whites who want to take issue with her documentaries on race in America. "People would sometimes, when I give speeches, stand up and say, ´You know I think your black America documentaries (are) divisive.
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Gore: ´Our Very Way
of Life´ Is at Stake
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Cybercast News Service, by Elizabeth Harrington
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/14/2013 10:16:26 AM
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Former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore said “our very way of life” is at stake because of “our recklessness” on climate change. Gore blogged on Friday that concentrations of carbon dioxide hit 400 parts per million in the Earth’s atmosphere, a warning that if Americans don’t change there will be dire consequences. “Now more than ever before, we are reaping the consequences of our recklessness,” Gore wrote. “From Superstorm Sandy, which crippled New York City and large areas of New Jersey, to a drought, which parched more than half of our nation;
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Sanford victory shows adultery,
lies can´t trump party loyalty
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Los Angeles Times, by Robin Abcarian
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Posted By: SoCalGal- 5/13/2013 12:01:45 AM
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It would be too easy to make fun of the good Christian voters of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District who saw fit to return their disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford to the office he once held. I won’t do it. Well, maybe just a little. Sanford, whose political rise was fueled by his conservative principles and focus on family values, did not stay true to his wife. But in the end, the voters in South Carolina’s 1st stayed true to him.(Snip)“Obviously, there´s a vulnerability to me now that people respond to," Sanford told
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House Republicans prefer
sabotage to real solutions
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The Hill [Washington, DC], by Juan Williams
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/13/2013 11:11:35 AM
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The GOP majority in the House is reaching for new heights of political absurdity this week with its 37th vote to kill all or part of the Affordable Care Act. Let us briefly turn to political reality. There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House. Reality also compels some mention of the fact that the GOP has never held a vote on any alternative plan for dealing with the nation’s out-of-control healthcare spending. But reality is a nuisance to Congressional Republicans
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Is Rush Limbaugh still relevant?
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CNN, by Dean Obeidallah
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Posted By: SpinMaster- 5/14/2013 1:25:13 PM
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New York -- Is Rush Limbaugh becoming a relic, a human version of "Mad Men," except without the style or cool clothes? Has Limbaugh become as dated as Jazzercise or "Macarena?" All you need to do is look at the bottom line to see that Limbaugh is in trouble. Limbaugh once raked in the big bucks for his radio syndicator, Cumulus. But last week, Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey made it clear those days are over. Dickey reported that Cumulus had lost millions of dollars in ad sales because many advertisers no longer want to be associated with Limbaugh.
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