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22396 [lbo-talk] Pew report on news sources -- rank: 1000

Online News Audience Larger, More Diverse News Audiences Increasingly Politicized Despite tumultuous events abroad, the public's news habits have been relatively stable over the past two years. Yet modest growth has continued in two important areas - online news and cable news. Regarding the latter, the expanding audience for the Fox News Channel stands out. Since 2000, the number of Americans who regularly watch Fox News has increased by nearly half - from 17% to 25% - while audiences for other ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 10:11:42 PDT 2004

22397 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >My understanding has been that the funding for the reconstruction >would come from the sale of Iraqi oil. Perhaps the $19b was intended >for accounting costs. Do you understand how federal budgeting works? Money is authorized, appropriated, spent. There's many a slip...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 10:09:02 PDT 2004

22398 [lbo-talk] nation's obit writers were conferencing when Ronnie went -- rank: 1000

The New York Sun - June 8, 2004 When Reagan Died, the Nation's Obituary Writers Were in the Desert - and Out in the Cold By STEPHEN MILLER Staff Reporter of the Sun There is an old newspaper joke about two reporters and an editor who discover a magic lamp. When the genie grants them each a wish, the reporters ask to be transported to lush tropical vacation spots. The editor's wish is to get the reporters back to the office on the double. At 5:02 p.m. on Saturday, when the news of President Reag ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 10:00:03 PDT 2004

22399 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >And don't forget that the number of people who simply hate the man >continues to increase. They will be very motivated to show up at the >polls in November. This is true. Pollsters are having trouble with their likely voter models because Bush's enemies may well be more passionate than Bush's supporters, and he may draw out first-time voters to vote against him.

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 09:45:12 PDT 2004

22400 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >The evidence is experiential - the cost of 1/2" CDX at Home Depot, >the apparent increase in the shipping of basic components of >reconstruction. None of this would be considered 'evidence' in the >sense that you would find useful, although it forms a conceptual >picture of economic activity for me and when it coincides with your >statistical 'evidence' I'll feel more confident wrt it's accuracy. > >I used 'reconstruction economy' to contrast to R.'s u ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 8 09:43:48 PDT 2004

22401 [lbo-talk] lost in translation...not translating? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I guess that does not sail very well with most of the >US-ers who love morality plays. Good point. It would also explain why so many lefties didn't like it - they like morality plays too. And PC types don't like it because the Americans were alienated by the Japanese landscape; as Liza just said over my shoulder, a lot of PC types find it immoral to be alienated by a foreign setting, even though it's a real feeling that has to be dealt with. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 08:09:22 PDT 2004

22402 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >It should be made abundantly clear that this is not only a 'war' >economy but an economy driven by the reconstruction of Iraq's >infrastructure, including power, water and industrial base >(petroleum). Huh? Could you offer some evidence for this? I've got some coming in the next LBO, but I'm not giving it away for free. The war has raised the price of oil, which is a drag on economic activity. Is that what you mean by a war economy?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 8 07:56:25 PDT 2004

22403 [lbo-talk] jobs -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >the fact huge layoffs and outsourcing are followed by small gains in jobs There weren't "huge layoffs" in this recession. Job loss was smaller than the average post-WWII downturn - appx 1.6% vs. an average of 2.2%. What was unusual was the slowness to recover. And outsourcing, as I'm now saying for the 101st time, was only a small culprit; the CWA/WashTech count <http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/> is 228,679 over four years - or the equivalent of one month's normal ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 07:51:24 PDT 2004

22404 [lbo-talk] prayer, pregnancy, and fraud -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 8, 2004 Author of Disputed Columbia U. Study on Pregnancy and Prayer Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges By LILA GUTERMAN Doctors were shocked in 2001 to read a study from Columbia University that found that praying for women seeking to become pregnant could double their chances of success using in vitro fertilization. Some doctors were even more shocked that the study, which they considered highly flawed, had been published in a peer-reviewed journal. ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 07:39:30 PDT 2004

22405 [lbo-talk] popularity -- rank: 1000

Average Gallup two-term presidential approval/disapproval ratings (gaps computed from unrounded numbers, so these may not add): Eisenhower 65/21 (gap: 44) Reagan 54/36 (gap: 17) Clinton 55/37 (gap: 18) But Ronnie was "beloved." Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 07:26:41 PDT 2004

22406 [lbo-talk] fair trade shenanigans -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 8, 2004 What Price Virtue? At Some Retailers, 'Fair Trade' Carries A Very High Cost Stores Charge Big Markups On Goods Intended to Help Farmers in Poor Countries Bananas at $2.74 a Bunch By STEVE STECKLOW and ERIN WHITE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL June 8, 2004; Page A1 At a Whole Foods Market in suburban Boston, the coffee aisle recently was lined with leaflets promising to donate 5% of sales to growers. Labels proclaimed that beans were "purch ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 06:42:33 PDT 2004

22407 [lbo-talk] Reagan's conservatism -- rank: 1000

[People on the left often don't take right-wing thought seriously enough. Yeah, Reagan was an airhead, but he was onto something, something that those who are discouting his importance, or find him the continuation of Jimmy Carter, miss. Sometimes it seems like the left has taken up the pessimism that Reagan excised from Burkean conservatism.] Wall Street Journal - June 8, 2004 Reaganism American Conservatism By JOHN MICKLETHWAIT and ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE There is one thing that virtually every obit ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 06:46:52 PDT 2004

22408 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 6, Issue 56 -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >and yet it's okay to gloat over reagan's death, even though he is >infinitely more popular than bush? and especially with the working >class types who are called things like "redneck" and "stupid" by >elitist..um... radicals ? What's your point? The working class - and "rednecks" - always believe(s) sensible and enlightened things? We must be closer to Utopia than I'd realized. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 21:46:19 PDT 2004

22409 [lbo-talk] Re: Queering Palestinian Solidarity Activism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > As surely as the Sun rises every day, one can count on lnp3.exe to >be a Putz. We don't really need this here. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 19:35:53 PDT 2004

22410 [lbo-talk] bad taste -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/> Ronald Reagan, Still Dead: Party Like It's 1988? We've heard rumors that an East Village bar is planning a party to celebrate the death of former President Ronald Reagan. Now, that's just in bad taste, people! How could you? And why haven't we gotten an invite yet? Please inform. Since celebrity death comes in threes, maybe they'll hold off on the party until the "ailing" Margaret Thatcher and the apparently still-living Pope John Paul II meet up with Ron ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 7 16:26:50 PDT 2004