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29371 pundits on the take -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 30, 2002 . . . And the Enron Pundits by Howard Kurtz The debate about campaign finance reform can be boiled down to one question: What exactly are corporations buying when they give millions of dollars to politicians? Now, there's some heated talk about journalistic finance reform -- that is, what are corporations buying when they lard their payrolls with prominent media folks? And should columnists and commentators be taking cash from companies such as Enron, about whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 07:03:07 PST 2002

29372 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Were Cooper's ratings significantly higher than other shows at the LA >station? Dunno about ratings, which would be complicated by daypart issues (Cooper's show is at drive time). But he brings in about a third of KPFK's income. >So what kind of packaging of left radio will make it entertaining enough to >bring in a larger audience? I don't know, I wish I did. It would help to make it smarter and funnier. For a start. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:58:32 PST 2002

29373 Signorile on Sullivan -- rank: 1000

New York Press - January 30, 2002 The Gist Michelangelo Signorile A Pundit's Glass Houses Once again, Andrew Sullivan has whirled himself into a self-righteous little tizzy that even has some of the self-righteous scratching their heads-and which, yet again, exposes a hypocrisy on his part that is more conspicuous than a bearded pundit on too much testosterone. n He's railing about how unethical it is for certain columnists and editors to have taken money from Enron in the past, and appears to b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:55:18 PST 2002

29374 NYU deal -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - January 30, 2002 NYU Agrees to Contract With TA's, Setting Minimum Stipend and Health Benefits By SCOTT SMALLWOOD New York University and the union representing teaching assistants there have reached a proposed contract settlement, the first ever at a private university. The two sides reached the four-year deal Monday night and announced details Tuesday. The university will raise stipends to a minimum of $15,000 a year and pay 100 percent of the health ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:50:44 PST 2002

29375 Negri on PA -- rank: 1000

[via nettime] From: geert <geert at xs4all.nl> To: nettime-l <nettime-l at bbs.thing.net> Subject: <nettime> Interview with Toni Negri about Porto Alegre Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:58:51 +1100 (fwd. from the generation-online and posted to nettime with the permission of arianna) Hi, this is an interview that first appeared in Le Monde and then in La Stampa. I have quickly translated it into English. See what you think. The original french and the italian translation with links t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:39:22 PST 2002

29376 slogans -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Lenin says somewhere that anarchism is the penalty the working class >pays for its sins of opportunism. So Lenin said that. That makes it true? You have a habit of quoting him and Mao as if they were scripture. In the U.S., anarchism comes out of a very different historical and cultural context from what it did in Russia. And a lot of today's anarchists are anarchists because they find the secrecy and discipline of a Leninist party to contradict everything the revolution ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:33:42 PST 2002

29377 Fwd: [cultstud-l] CFP: Essays on Bjork. -- rank: 1000

[I guess Madonna studies are pretty well played out.] Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:24:06 +1030 From: Greg Hainge <greg.hainge at adelaide.edu.au> To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> Apologies for cross postings. Please pass on to interested colleagues. CALL FOR PAPERS _A Pretty Rush Down My Spine: Essays on Björk_ Edited by Greg Hainge and Paul Attinello Abstracts are invited for a new collection on Björk intended to bri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:15:18 PST 2002

29378 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >as i've said before, doug, i believe you're letting your friendship >with cooper cloud your judgement. Besides, since the real question is, as Jeff Greenfield might say, where do we go from here?, I think the fact that Cooper does the kind of radio that Pacifica should be doing more of counts for something, doesn't it? Point kind of gets lost in all the assignment of black hats and white. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:10:32 PST 2002

29379 Cooper on KPFK -- rank: 1000

rhisiart at earthlink.net wrote: >doug: do you believe you are informed enough about the troubles at >Pacifica to run an entire article by Cooper without comment? you >may have been talking to him for four years but have you talked to >anyone else? Hey, I only know what I hear from having been around WBAI for over 10 years; having talked extensively with the late program director, Samori Marksman; from having talked with WBAI colleagues; from reading nearly everything of signific ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 30 06:05:08 PST 2002

29380 DLC on protest -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> DLC = Democratic Leadership Council. Center-right Dems. Hellspawn. > >Oh gawd, not even mainstream Democrats. Clintonoid neoliberals. Except they thought Clinton was too liberal. And Gore lost because he ran too far to the left. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 15:17:01 PST 2002

29381 Fwd: WEF projects attack, protect dhenwood at panix.com -- rank: 1000

Jan. 28, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Release and Annual Report NEW PROJECTS COMBAT CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT In response to The World Economic Forum Meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City (January 30 to February 3), RTMark investors have sponsored several new projects to fight the corporate takeover of public space and expression: * The "reaming" of the WEF's website with automatic parody software * "Ready-to-revolt" smart clothing * Tear-gas tennis * A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 14:07:16 PST 2002

29382 Bush family values -- rank: 1000

Gov. Jeb Bush's Daughter Charged Tue Jan 29, 1:36 PM ET By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter was charged with prescription fraud Tuesday after she was arrested at a pharmacy drive-thru window while allegedly trying to buy the sedative Xanax. Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba, issued a statement saying they were "deeply saddened" by the incident involving their only daughter, 24-year-old Noelle. "This is a very serious proble ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 12:36:55 PST 2002

29383 DLC on protest -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> ================================== >> NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE >> -- NEW DEM DAILY -- >> Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. >> ================================== >> >> [ http://www.ndol.org ] >> >> 29-JAN-02 >> >> "Another World" Could Be A Lot Worse >> >> Anti-globalization demonstrators are attempting to reconstitute >> their crumblin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 12:14:31 PST 2002

29384 DLC on protest -- rank: 1000

================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 29-JAN-02 "Another World" Could Be A Lot Worse Anti-globalization demonstrators are attempting to reconstitute their crumbling movement this week in New York during the World Economic Forum meeting. Recognizing, perhaps, that the harsh anti-capitalist and sometimes anti-American rhetoric of past demonstrations w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 29 10:37:10 PST 2002

29385 One, two, many Enrons -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Check out this week's Barron's. One of the bearish financial gurus, >who apparently built a case against Enron six months ago, published >a list of who's next. Ah, Jim Chanos, pro short, veteran permabear, part of the Grant's circle. Here's his list: Bally Total Fitness Capital One Household Intl Metris Tyco Intl Short away! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 29 10:35:58 PST 2002