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22456 [lbo-talk] Miller: "who bothers to read New York anymore?" -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - June 2, 2004 Off the Record by Tom Scocca Habits of mind can be tough to break. Judith Miller, for instance, can still cling to an assertion in the face of contrary evidence. "Who bothers to read New York anymore?" Ms. Miller asked on Tuesday afternoon. The day before, New York magazine had posted the contents of its latest issue on the Web. And the likely answer, at the moment, would have been: Just about everybody. At least, just about everybody who knows Ms. Mill ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 2 09:04:35 PDT 2004

22457 [lbo-talk] "torture" vs. "abuse" -- rank: 1000

[I recently emailed NYT ombudsman/public editor Daniel Okrent to ask why the paper described U.S. treatment of prisoners in Iraq as "abuse" rather than "torture." Evidently I wasn't the only one. Here's his response.] <http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/thepubliceditor/danielokrent/index.html?offset=31> dokrent - 3:09 PM ET June 1, 2004 (#30 of 30) 'Torture' vs. 'Abuse' In The Times's Coverage of Iraq Prisons As aggressive as Times reporting ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 21:36:32 PDT 2004

22458 [lbo-talk] Bush's torrent of negative ads -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] SCHOLARS FIND BUSH ATTACKS ON KERRY UNPRECEDENTED; PRESIDENT LEADS IN UNTRUTHS THIS YEAR http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3222-2004May30?language=printer DANA MILBANK AND JIM VANDEHEI WASHINGTON POST - Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. Thou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:26:04 PDT 2004

22459 [lbo-talk] News from The NewStandard -- rank: 1000

From: "The NewStandard" <postmistress at newstandardnews.net> Subject: [NewStandard Updates] News from The NewStandard Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 16:18:14 -0400 In the less than 5 weeks since we re-launched The NewStandard, we've posted over 250 news stories on our website at http://newstandardnews.net That's 250 hard news stories written exclusively for The NewStandard by TNS staff and a number of our freelancers, stringers and correspondents. Many of these were stories that no comme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 15:25:31 PDT 2004

22460 [lbo-talk] Judith Miller gossip -- rank: 1000

[As I remember these Spy columns, they reported that Miller was nicknamed "EC" -for "egregious cunt" - by her colleagues, who also said she took her notes on bedsheets. There's a lot of more substantial stuff in the piece too.] <http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index3.html> Where Miller exhibited so much hostility to other reporters, she would be fawning and generous to her sources. "Judy treats her sources well, with a sense of loyalty. She ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 14:25:53 PDT 2004

22461 [lbo-talk] the loving care of the U.S. military -- rank: 1000

USA Today - June 1, 2004 3rd of detainees who died were assaulted Shot, strangled, beaten, certificates show By Tom Squitieri and Dave Moniz WASHINGTON -- More than a third of the prisoners who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were shot, strangled or beaten by U.S. personnel before they died, according to death certificates and a high-ranking U.S. military official. The military official, who has direct knowledge of ongoing Pentagon investigations of the deaths, said that 15 of 37 pr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 14:17:46 PDT 2004

22462 [lbo-talk] Britain's Michael Moore conservatives -- rank: 1000

Weekly Standard - May 31, 2004 The Michael Moore Conservatives: Meet Britain's anti-American Tories by Adrian Wooldridge THERE ARE MANY THINGS that can be said against Michael Moore. An odd combination of Howard Stern and Paul Krugman, Moore is the king of all left-wing media, from films to books, who specializes in trashing everything that conservative America holds dear. For Moore, businessmen are always trampling on the faces of the poor, Republicans are always the tools of sinister vested in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 12:55:17 PDT 2004

22463 [lbo-talk] Gallup poll of Iraq: what role should the clergy play? -- rank: 1000

June 01, 2004 Gallup Poll of Iraq: Should Clerics Govern? by Richard Burkholder, International Bureau Chief Results from Gallup's recent nationwide poll of Iraq* indicate a clear desire among Iraqis for a government directly accountable to popular will. As reported earlier (see "Iraqis Consider Their Nation's Future" in Related Items), a multiparty parliamentary democracy is the most widely preferred form of government among the seven models tested -- 40% of Iraqis would prefer such a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 12:26:32 PDT 2004

22464 [lbo-talk] McLemee's Zizek Watch 3 -- rank: 1000

[I saw a 10-minute teaser, put together for Sundance, of Astra's film - it's really great. She's editing it this summer. For more cultural production by the Taylor family, see Astra's sister's Sunny's piece in MR <http://www.monthlyreview.org/0304taylor.htm>.] Chronicle of Higher Education - June 4, 2004 Zizek Watch Third in a series tracking a seemingly ubiquitous thinker. By SCOTT McLEMEE One source of Slavoj Zizek's lasting appeal as a cultural theorist is that he provides a really good ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 12:00:23 PDT 2004

22465 [lbo-talk] Race Fans & War -- rank: 1000

These are the "NASCAR Dads," (and presumably some of their wives), no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 11:55:51 PDT 2004

22466 [lbo-talk] the case against KBR -- rank: 1000

Seth L. Sanders wrote: >Question: given that a lot of big government contractors (c.f. Ross >Perot's "self-made" success) made their fortunes by greasing >connections, are there specific reasons why KBR (if they can be >described as even having an identity separate from Halliburton--can >they?) is worse than e.g. Bechtel? I assume Nomi Prins goes into >this in her forthcoming work... Nomi writes: >The main reasons Halliburton could be considered worse than Bechtel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 11:36:32 PDT 2004

22467 [lbo-talk] you're fired! now here are three Barbies! -- rank: 1000

[no date available...] By DAVE BARRY Houston Chronicle Every now and then, on this crazy planet we call Earth, you come across a story so darned heartwarming that you need to take a prescription antacid. This is such a story. I found out about it from alert reader David Rankin, who sent me the Jan. 3 front page of the Sevier County, Tenn., Mountain Press ("Sevier County's Daily Newspaper"). On it is an article by J.J. Kindred about a Danville, Va.-based textile company, Dan River, whic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 11:28:25 PDT 2004

22468 [lbo-talk] the interrogation machine -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - June 1, 2004 At Abu Ghraib, Soldiers Faced Pressure to Produce Intelligence Analysts, Interrogators Say Many Were Ill-Prepared; Quotas, Unsafe Conditions In a Tent, as the Shells Flew By CHRISTOPHER COOPER and GREG JAFFE Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Last fall, military-intelligence interrogators at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison found themselves in a bind. With attacks on both civilians and American troops occurring almost daily, and demands building from ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 1 07:16:20 PDT 2004

22469 [lbo-talk] An Analysis of the Post-Convention Zogby Poll -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >He really gets away with this? Yup. He made a few good calls, so he has some cred on that basis. He's made some bad ones too, but that doesn't seem to have an effect. He's also got a knack for self-promotion, which never hurts. By the way, it seems that Fox does funny things with their weighting formulas too, like using party ID rather than demographic formulas. Curiously, Bush always does better in Fox polls. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 31 11:53:24 PDT 2004

22470 [lbo-talk] Vatican channels 14th century -- rank: 1000

Vatican Says Modern Feminism Dangerous for Family By Shasta Darlington VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Modern feminism's fight for power and gender equality is undermining the traditional concept of family and creating a climate where gay marriages are seen as acceptable, the Vatican (news - web sites) said Saturday. In a 37-page document "On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World," the Vatican said women should be respected and have equal rights in the workplace, b ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 31 11:30:27 PDT 2004