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Tuesday's Headlines
WP: 100 Days Allows Media to Talk About Something Other Than Recession, Their Decline in Paper Form TIME: Can Alabama Spark Democratic Revival in South? Eh…Sure Why Not? Reuters: Obama’s Many Challenges May Overshadow Africa; Besides, It’s Africa So… GC: Why Africa’s Moment is Now HP: Toward Real Criminal Justice Reform NYT: Test Results: Persistent…
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Monday's Headlines
USAT: Obama: Swine Flu ‘Not Cause for Alarm’; Vegas Takes the Under on That NYDN: Century Marks: 100 Events that Helped Shape President’s First 100 Days NYT: Putting a Pen to the Inkwell: Colson Whitehead’s ‘Sag Harbor’ CNN: Three Wounded in Hampton University Shooting AJE: Yemeni Forces Re-Take Seized Tanker WP: Bond and Jealou: NAACP, Like…
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Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review
A Buzz world premiere: The Buzzku. It’s like a haiku, but topical. Waterboarding’s bad Pulitzer’s good for the Post Earth Day Makes Black Green MONDAY USAT: +10: Columbine Survivors Remember Madness a Decade Later NYT: Prisoner Waterboarded 183 Times; CIA: “If at First You Don’t Succeed…” HP: Some Give Prez a FAIL Over CIA Treatment;…
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Friday's Headlines
HP: Still Very Real in the Field: 60 Dead Today in Iraq GDN: US Will Set Up Facebook Page, Tag Themselves in Prison Abuse Photos AJE: According to UN, Nearly 6,500 Killed in Sri Lankan Civil in Three Months WP: Ford Burns Less Cash, Only Posts $1.4B Loss (Take That, Recession!) AP: Myrtle Beach Wildfires…
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Flying Solo
These days, as the newspaper industry continues to tank, Hollywood, after years of a love (All the President’s Men) and hate (Absence of Malice) relationship with the press, is now serving up a new romantic hero: the print journalist. We saw Russell Crowe take on the mantle in State of Play, and now, in The…
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No Evidence of Torture
Let me be clear: We all oppose torture. However, to blindly oppose and broadcast lawful interrogation techniques which were used to successfully protect the American people and to extract valuable information to prevent further harm to us is dangerous at best. I’d like to respectfully remind everyone to think back to what life was like…
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Thursday's Headlines
CNN: Bombings Kill More Than 70 in Iraq WP: Obama to Host Credit Card CEO, Lay Smack Down BB: US to BofA: ‘You Will Take This Merrill Or We Will Have a Problem’ VOA: Supreme Court to Hears Reverse Discrimination Case Against CT Fire Dept. BET: Don’t Pass the Collection Plate! Pastor’s $600K Salary Causes…
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Earth Day Headlines
TR: The Root: Proof Positive Blacks Besides Majora Carter and Van Jones Care about Earth* SPI: Company to Power Office with Bikes; If Productive, Expect Doping Accusations WGBH: African-Americans and the Environment: A Panel Discussion NYT: Green Begets Green: Making Money Will Green the Planet LAT: Totally Biting the DeLorean’s Steez, Engineer Tries to Make Fuel from Trash CT: Obama…
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Yee Haw! The Rise of Black Country
I’d like to dedicate this record Right here to my main man Johnny Cash, a real American gangsta… Grand Ole Opry, here we come —Snoop Dogg, “My Medicine” There’s long been an assumption that black folks and country music just don’t mix—even though that assumption completely erases from history the music and success of Charley…
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