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MediaProgressive NewsletterGreetings: The New Hampshire Progressive newsletter is back after a couple months of ‘break’ and dealing with computer challenges. Each week or so I will try to send the best of state and national public policy reporting and opinion. In this issue: Item 1: The Governor calls for large cuts in the budget he signed just 7 ½ months ago. The economy has reduced state revenue and increased the number of people in need of state assistance, so something has to give. It won’t be pretty. Item 2: A bill to parole state prisoners sooner, and provide them with monitoring after release, in the hopes of reducing recidivism, and ultimately, saving the State money. Item 3: An op-ed I wrote on the so-called “LLC Tax” Item 4: Warren Rudman writes about 100 years of campaign finance reform, the recent US Supreme Court decision, and his support of public financing of candidates for federal office. Item 5: A bill before Congress to blunt the impact of the US Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. The bill would ban contributions by corporations more than 20% foreign owned, by government contractors, or by bank bailout recipients. Has anyone in the legislature considered doing the same at the state level? Mark Fernald By Mark Fernald at 02/19/2010 - 07:52 | Fiscal responsibility | Media | login or register to post comments | read more
Breitbart lied about ACORN 'pimp' videos when selling story in his own Washington Times columnSOURCE: - The BRAD BLOG - http://www.bradblog.com - Breitbart Lied About ACORN 'Pimp' Videos When Selling Story in His Own Washington Times Column - Falsely asserted O'Keefe 'dressed as pimp' while 'asking for, getting help for illegal activities'; Still stands behind fabricated claim Media Matters details mainstream outlets that took bait, fell for Breitbart/O'Keefe's sensationalized fiction... Posted By Brad Friedman On 17th February 2010 @ 17:46
andrewbreitbart (3) | @TheBradBlog (4) U can lie that i lied until youre blue in face. ive told truth every step of way. U are propagandist. keep repeating the lies. ...in reply to The BRAD BLOG's (5) recent series of articles highlighting, among other things, how he lied, along with his accused federal felon (6) employee (7) James O'Keefe, in order to sell their phony ACORN hit videos to gullible media --- and how the New York Times, and so many others, fell for it hook, line, and not-yet-retracted sinker (8). By admin at 02/18/2010 - 08:48 | Accountability | Fair elections | Media | login or register to post comments | read more
A special evening with Presidential Historian Michael BeschlossTue, 02/09/2010 - 5:00pm NH Institute of Politics, Manchester Feb. 9, 5 p.m.: A Special Evening with Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss Presidential historian and award-winning author, Michael Beschloss, will give a talk on presidential courage and leadership, based on his book Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. The event costs $100 per person. For ticket information, please call (603) 222-4100. Program: 5:00 p.m.: Hors D'oeuvre Reception, Cash Bar 6:00 p.m.: Welcome and Remarks 6:15 p.m.: Presidential Courage ~ Michael Beschloss 7:00 p.m.: Book Sale and Signing http://www.anselm.edu/nhiop Return to 1989 - A Correspondent Looks BackTue, 02/02/2010 - 7:00pm NH Institute of Politics, Manchester Feb. 2, 7 p.m.: Return to 1989 - A Correspondent Looks Back Alan Elsner, author and journalist for Reuters News Service, will give a talk titled Return to 1989 - A Correspondent Looks Back. Elsner will recount his personal experiences of covering the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, as well as his experiences traveling on the Secretary of State's plane. In addition, he will reflect on political lessons from the past that may be of value today. Elsner, a senior editor at Reuters, has reported from more than 40 countries during his 30-year career. He has covered wars, peace negotiations, hijackings, assassinations, elections and the 9/11 attacks. http://www.anselm.edu/nhiop The Changing Face of News – What’s Next?Wed, 01/27/2010 - 7:00pm New Hampshire Institute of Politics The Changing Face of News – What’s Next? Contact: Carolyn Hammer Communications Specialist (603) 222-4115 (315) 243-2333 chammer@anselm.edu January 27, 2010 Time: 7 p.m. NPR’s David Folkenflik and a panel of distinguished journalists will discuss key issues surrounding the future of news. Web-based journalist James Pindell of NHPoliticalReport.com will serve as a moderator. Folkenflik is NPR’s media correspondent based in New York City. His stories are broadcast on NPR’s newsmagazines, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day. In addition, he appears regularly on the “Media Circus” segment on Talk of the Nation, and he’s served as a media analyst for television programs, such as CNN’s Reliable Sources, ABC News’ Nightline, Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Other panelists include: * Charles Perkins, former vice president of new media for the Union Leader Corp.; The news from OpEdNewsObama made it official with an eloquent speech. Did he convince you or change your mind?
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Rob Kall The US in Latin America--News Coverage & Cover-upsWed, 11/18/2009 - 6:00pm Horton Social Science Center, Room 125, UNH, Durham MONDAY, NOV. 16 & WEDNESDAY, NOV 18, 2009: THE US IN LATIN AMERICA--NEWS COVERAGE & COVER-UPS 6-8 pm, Horton Social Science Center, Room 125, UNH, Durham (We may move to a larger room, if needed) Preview videos will begin at about 6:05 pm, and an optional after-class discussion will continue from 8:00 pm until about 8:30 Visitors are welcome to these sessions and are free to join in the discussion. (NO parking permit is required in Faculty/Staff lots after 6PM. Lot B is the closest to Horton.) Why do most U.S. citizens know so little about Latin America and the dominant U.S. role in the region for more than the last century? This coming Monday and Wednesday, my Analysis of News class (CMN 515) will be looking at the news coverage (and covering up) of aspects of United States interventions in Latin America. We will explore these in relation to the contrasting narratives in our news media about the U.S. role in the world (such as those Prof. Daniel Hallin of UC-San Diego calls the Geopolitical worldview, the Fortress America worldview, and the Human Rights worldview). White House proposes changes in bill protecting reporters’ confidentialitySOURCE: NYT October 1, 2009 White House Proposes Changes in Bill Protecting Reporters’ Confidentiality, By CHARLIE SAVAGE WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation that could protect reporters from being imprisoned if they refuse to disclose confidential sources who leak material about national security, according to several people involved with the negotiations. The administration this week sent to Congress sweeping revisions to a “media shield” bill that would significantly weaken its protections against forcing reporters to testify. The bill includes safeguards that would require prosecutors to exhaust other methods for finding the source of the information before subpoenaing a reporter, and would balance investigators’ interests with “the public interest in gathering news and maintaining the free flow of information.” Master of a Lost Art: Interview with Newspaperman Glynn Wilson, Part TwoSOURCE: OpEdNews September 3, 2009 Master of a Lost Art: Interview with Newspaperman Glynn Wilson, Part Two By Joan Brunwasser Welcome back for the second half of my interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal's editor and publisher, Glynn Wilson. So, Glynn, if, according to you, it takes a huge investment of time and energy to understand a story, that explains why the mainstream press has not done its job on many important stories. You, on the other hand,are eminently qualified to discuss the Siegelman/DoJ case. So, if Rip Van Winkle* approached you and said, "Ever since I woke up, I keep hearing the name Siegelman. What's up with this guy?" could you walk him through it so he would grasp why the Siegelman case is so significant?Hmmm. Well, as you know from researching the case yourself, it is a complicated deal. It's hard to boil it down to a sound bite for TV, but this is what I can say. Save the internet! Internet Freedom Act reaches the House
SOURCE: Save the Internet
Internet Freedom in the House Once and for all, a bill to make Net Neutrality the law made its way to Congress on Friday afternoon when Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458). Alastair's Take on American MediaSOURCE: http://www.opednews.com/ Part
One of my interview with Alastair Part
Two of my interview with Alastair
July 16, 2009 Alastair's Take on American Media By Joan Brunwasser Interview with Scoop's Alastair Thompson, part five That's a curly one. Firstly I am a professional journalist in NZ - I started out in newspapers in 1989 and set up my first online news outlet in 1997. The freedom of online journalism is wonderful. As for reporting on a wider level, we are a fast dying profession both here in NZ and, I hear, in the US. As a result, frustration with the media inattention is very understandable and commonplace both here and in the US, albeit for different reasons. News from truthout.org
Exclusive interview with Alistair Thompson, Scoop News - Part ISOURCE: OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Interview-with-Scoop-s-Ala-by-Joan-Brunwasser-090707-183.html July 7, 2009 Interview with Scoop's Alastair Thompson By Joan Brunwasser Welcome to OpEdNews, Alastair. You're an unknown quantity to many of our American readers. Yet your creation, Scoop.co.nz, been around for over ten years. Can you describe what Scoop is and what you do? Joan, it's a pleasure to be answering questions about Scoop here on OpEdNews. We have watched this site grow over several years to occupy a similar place to that which Scoop started to stake out when we launched in 1999. Scoop has two aspects to what it does. We publish raw news (disintermediated press releases and speeches) in our home market of New Zealand NZ. We do this in a spirit of empowering the public by giving them access to the full undigested stream of information which goes into creating the media that they see in their newspapers and on the radio and TV. And, (and this will be the bit that your readers are most interested in) we also publish free and frank commentary and some press releases from around the world. In this area of publication, we concentrate on stories which are either being ignored in the mainstream or which are receiveing insufficient attention. Our US coverage for example has concentrated on subjects like: the lies that started the Iraq war, corporate malfeasance and criminality, impeachment, unanswered questions in the official 911 narrative, and the weaknesses in the US election system - particularly in relation to electronic voting machine vulnerablities. NH--'08 Ice Storm as Covered by New Media
Although many thousands of New Hampshire residents are still without electric power, as they get re-connected they might like to know that there were lots of helping hands.
Bluehampshire's Dean Barker did a Google search and found some on the spot video:
LA Times Suppresses Damaging Obama/Khalidi Video
The latest media outrage is the LA Times’s refusal, a mere week before the election, to show the video of Obama toasting the welfare of and commenting on Yasser Arafat’s media spokesman, Rashid Khalidi, at a party.
Alphabet Soup ala John McCain
John McCain has a fondness for the acronym P.O.W. and can't seem to hold a conversation without bringing it up. M.I.A., on the other hand, seems to have fallen out of favor ever since he decided that making the Vietnamese Communists hand over Americans who'd gone Missing In Action had to take a back seat to American enterprise doing business in Southeast Asia. Some people still hold that decision against him and bring it up every chance they get, as their web presence, VVAJM attests.
One suspects that the veterans are a minor irritation for a man who can claim responsibility for the first volleys of the Fourth World War and directs so many other alphabet organizations.
By monica smith at 10/05/2008 - 15:26 | Corporations | Media | Republicans | War | monica smith's blog | login or register to post comments | read more
News from truthout.orgTop McCain aide has direct ties to mortgage giant Freddie Mac; members of Congress push for help for troubled homeowners as part of bailout; Paul Waldman on the rise of a new progressive era; Democrats lose offshore oil drilling argument; William J. Astore proposes a different kind of economic stimulus: National Service; and more ... ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org t r u t h o u t | 09.24
McCain Aide's Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac Lawmakers Challenge Lack of Help Aimed at US Homeowners Candidate ads invited to the Forum newspaper
Hello Candidate!
My name is Bonnie Winona; I live in Nottingham and I am the new ad rep for the Forum newspaper. The Forum is a weekly online paper available 24/7; it also publishes a print edition three times a year. We have a fall print edition coming out in early October just in time for the elections. THE DEADLINE FOR AD COPY FOR THE PRINT EDITION IS SEPTEMBER 30. The Forum provides an amazing community service to Nottingham, Deerfield, Candia and Northwood, four towns formerly without media coverage. It is a 501-C3 non-profit run by committed volunteers. It has already won a prestigious national award . The online paper averages 30,000 hits a month. The print paper consists of approximately 24 pages of news and photos relevant to the four towns plus candidate information, sports, school news and more. The print edition is mailed to every household in the four towns, over 7800 homes getting your message to every household at a fraction of the cost of a mailed flyer. Both print and online editions of the Forum are free. More fact checks on Palin's speech
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