political nonsense

Scientists concluded that smoking is the only thing worse than violence on television.
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It was reported that UK newspapers report on climate change 3 times as much as the US, and they did it more accurately.
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Hollywood screenwriters went on strike. “I’m really scared,” said Oren Ashkenazi, a dry cleaner who caters to Warner Brothers.
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FEMA apologized for holding a fake press conference.
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The Chair of the Federal Communications Commission proposed doing away with media ownership rules that bar companies from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city.
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The US military banned soldiers from accessing thinkprogress.org after an Aug. 22 column in which Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste posted an op-ed that was strongly critical of the President’s policies and advocated a “responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq.”

China ordered the media only to report on positive developments.
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More than half of Americans think that US media is politically biased, inaccurate, and doesn’t care about the people they report on.
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Rupert Murdoch won his bid to take over the Wall Street Journal.
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The New York Times called on Congress to impeach Alberto Gonzales.
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A federal judge ordered Capitol Records to pay nearly $70,000 to cover the attorney fees and litigation costs of a woman the company unsuccessfully sued for illegal downloading.
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The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush’s plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Fox refused to air a Trojan commercial, saying it objected to the message that condoms can prevent pregnancy.

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Rupert Murdoch’s New Corp has reached a tentative agreement to purchase Dow Jones & Company and the Wall Street Journal.
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The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying he learned the term from television and rap music.

“I apologized for that,” Ralph Papitto said in an interview on WPRO-AM. “What else can I do? Kill myself?”
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A Sunday New York Times editorial called for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, calling the war a lost cause.
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BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity.
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Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, where you will be able to purchase Buzz Cola, KrustyO’s cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.

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A Marine Corps memo, circulated after the 2005 Haditha massacre, was made public. “’Fighting terrorists associated with Al Qaida’ is stronger language than ’serving’,” read the memo. “The American people will side more with someone actively fighting a terrorist organization that is tied to 9/11 than with someone who is idly ’serving,’ like in a way one ’serves’ a casserole.”
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CNN canceled it’s interview with Michael Moore to make room for Paris Hilton.
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