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21391 [lbo-talk] NPR - leaning right -- rank: 1000

<http://www.fair.org/extra/0405/npr-study.html> Extra!, June 2004 How Public is Public Radio? A study of NPR's guest list By Steve Rendall & Daniel Butterworth When National Public Radio was launched in 1971, it promised to be an alternative to commercial media that would "promote personal growth rather than corporate gain" and "speak with many voices, many dialects." In 1993, when FAIR published a study of NPR's guestlist that challenged the network's alternative c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:29:07 PDT 2004

21392 [lbo-talk] E&P on the NYT mea culpa -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher Online - May 26, 2004 'The New York Times,' in Editors' Note, Finds Much to Fault in its Iraq WMD Coverage By Greg Mitchell NEW YORK After months of criticism of The New York Times' coverage of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -- mainly directed at star reporter Judith Miller -- the paper's editors, in an extraordinary note to readers this morning, finally tackled the subject, acknowledging it was "past time" they do so. Following the sudden fall last week of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:24:39 PDT 2004

21393 [lbo-talk] breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >You may have inadvertently committed some Leninism here and there, as in >your concrete analyses of concrete situations, empiricism, practice, dogged >atheism, focus on finance capital, but all in all, we can get you an >official clearance that your are not a committed Leninist. Thanks, but I'm still keeping the Lenin portrait up in the kitchen. I think a lot of anarchists have a hard time distinguishing between Marx and Leninism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:21:47 PDT 2004

21394 [lbo-talk] Times begins to grapple w/ Judith Miller's awful reporting -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields noted: ><http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/international/middleeast/26FTE_NOTE.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=print&position=> And isn't this bit lovely? "Complicating matters for journalists, the accounts of these exiles were often eagerly confirmed by United States officials convinced of the need to intervene in Iraq." Uh, right, journalists should always trust governments when they "confirm" the reports of interested parties. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 09:17:40 PDT 2004

21395 [lbo-talk] Robert Reich media blitz -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Within the last 24 hours, I have encountered Robert Reich on KPFA, >KALW, KQED and, as I write this, on C-Span. Not bad, especially >considering that he is bearing 'good tidings' of a return to the >halcyon days of 'liberalism', against the present scourge of the >'right-wing'. It's looking like elite opinion may be turning against Bush. The instant analyses of his Monday night speech were fairly hostile. The Council on Foreign Relations was more than polite ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 26 06:41:58 PDT 2004

21396 [lbo-talk] animal spirits, meet animal desire -- rank: 1000

Investment fund hopes Japanese 'love' bears profits Tuesday May 25, 9:29 pm ET By Chawadee Nualkhair, Asia private equity correspondent TOKYO, May 26 (Reuters) - They wake up, grab their binoculars and head for a shady spot to watch people unobserved. Settling in, they count the number of couples visiting one of Japan's ubiquitous "love hotels" for secret assignations and afternoon trysts. For due diligence contractors hired by offshore private equity firm MHS Capital Partners, it's ju ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 20:30:30 PDT 2004

21397 [lbo-talk] breaking news: I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 1000

Some members of this list might be amused to learn, in this incredibly boneheadded review <http://www.newformulation.org/4evren.htm>, that I'm a "committed Leninist," even though the collection under review includes the talk I gave on Lenin at Zizek's conference in Essen in Feb 2001 <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2001/2001-February/002373.html>, which many people have taken to be anti-Leninist. Takes all kinds. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 18:41:47 PDT 2004

21398 [lbo-talk] Dave Dellinger dies -- rank: 1000

Word is that Dave Dellinger, long-time peace activist and member of the Chicago Seven, has just died, age 88. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 16:33:32 PDT 2004

21399 [lbo-talk] DC gossip -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Wasn't Ana Marie Cox one of the editors of Suck.com? Yup, that's her. After Suck collapsed, she spent a few months at Mother Jones. Then a few months at The American Prospect. Then a few months at the Chronicle of Higher Edcuation. And now Wonkette.com. When asked once what comes after irony, she answered "Iroquois." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 15:49:57 PDT 2004

21400 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I am not arguing that there not great numbers of people sympathetic to >Left/liberal positions in this country - but even if those numbers were >in tens of millions - we are talking about 5-6% of the population, a >statistical margin of error if you will (it is a figure of speech, of >course, since we are not dealing with statistical samples here). Far more than 5% of the U.S. pop would be classified as "liberal." Probably about 5% would be clas ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 14:33:46 PDT 2004

21401 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >I don't see why you can't buy the LBO. Physical format. Newsstands and such don't like selling newsletters, and distributors don't like distributing them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 14:00:40 PDT 2004

21402 [lbo-talk] A 'Progressive Conference' -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >The US is a very conservative country >- meaning that a rather sizeable part of the population believes in >conservative ideas - from religious fundamentalism, to sucking up to >powers that be, to the hatred of unpopular minority groups. Yes, but... The U.S. is hardly monolithic. Yeah, 30-40% of the electorate may be right-leaning evangelical Christian, but that still means that 60-70% isn't. Your time in this country has largely - entirely? - been during a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 13:58:22 PDT 2004

21403 [lbo-talk] names named -- rank: 1000

Oh, the decoding of Washingtonienne is at <http://ilovejennabush.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_ilovejennabush_archive.html#108518528973790442>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 13:27:04 PDT 2004

21404 [lbo-talk] DC gossip -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenationaldebate.com/blogger/archive/2004_05_01_TND-ARCHIVE.htm#108549271232358222> AS WASHINGTONIENNE SCANDAL CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS PLAYBOY COMES CALLLING Wonkette is cutting a bi-partisan swath through DC these days costing one Senate staffer her job with others likely to follow from the offices of Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio and Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. It also appears that at least one marriage may be through after a high ranking Senate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 13:24:28 PDT 2004

21405 [lbo-talk] political opinions of American Jews -- rank: 1000

May 25, 2004 Partisanship and Presidential Approval Among the Jewish Population by Joseph Carroll, Senior Staff Writer [The Gallup Poll] In September 2002, Gallup analyzed the political attitudes of the Jewish population in the United States. According to the results at the time, U.S. Jews were much more likely to be Democrats than Protestants, Catholics, and those with no religious affiliation were. President George W. Bush's approval ratings among Jews also were much lower than his ratings amo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 25 12:52:01 PDT 2004