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THE CYBER FUTURE OF JOURNALISM (Georgie Anne Geyer)
Georgie Anne Geyer - VIENNA -- Journalism has always been a puzzling craft/profession/business/vocation/love, or any of the other names it goes by. But if you'd listened in to a recent high-level meeting of the international media in this glorious old imperial capital, you would be even more puzzled about the problems facing all of us.
Frankenfish -- genetically modified salmon -- take food and ecology to a new level (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Today, the “frankenfish” – a genetically modified salmon. Tomorrow, a “frankenpig”?
Israel's 'cockamamie' spy-swap offer (The Week)
The Week - Would trading spy Jonathan Pollard for an extension of Israel's West Bank settlement freeze increase the chances of Mideast peace?
Newt Gingrich is right: Obama shares anticolonial values -- American values (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama was influenced by anticolonialism. So were you, if you’re a child of the civil rights era. The battles for independence in the Third World profoundly affected the black struggle for freedom in the United States, and vice versa. And that’s what Gingrich doesn’t want you to know.
How Is Cuomo Not Killing Paladino in NY Governor Race? (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - Startling New York's Democratic establishment. a new Quinnipiac poll
places Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino a mere six points
behind Democrat Andrew Cuomo. For a candidate as strong as Cuomo—and a
state as liberal as New York—it's surprising that his lead has
diminished so rapidly. Here's what political observers are saying:
Who deserves blame for the bad economy? We do. (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Let me get this right. We are in a painfully stubborn recession that began in the last years of George W. Bush’s presidency. And, if polls are right, President Obama, in office less than 21 months, is soon to be punished by voters who want to saddle him with a new, vindictive Republican Congress in November, committed to obstructing and blocking every White House initiative.
Who's Behind the Terrorist Attack in Iran? (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - A bomb detonated near a military parade in the small Iranian city of
Mahabad, killing 12 spectators and wounding 75. Reports indicate the
bomb was placed in a tree near the seating area for high-ranking
military officials. Mahabad, located
in Iran's mountainous northwest, is predominantly Kurdish. Iranian
authorities have blamed Kurdish terrorists for the attack. Here's what
the reports have to say.
Mapping the Segregation of U.S. Cities (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - Many people have an anecdotal sense of what areas in a particular city are predominately black, white, or other ethnicity. Eric Fischer has a more precise sense, creating maps that visually represent segregation in urban areas. Using Census Bureau information and the methodology of cartographer Bill Rankin, who produced a racial map of Chicago, Fischer created maps for each of the forty largest cities in the U.S. Here, for example, is the one for Detroit, one of the most obviously segregated urban areas. White areas are pink, Black ones are blue, Hispanic orange, and Asian green.
Irony alert: Write-in candidate spells own name wrong (The Week)
The Week - As a write-in candidate, Sen. Lisa Murkowski is depending on voters to spell her name correctly in November. In the meantime, maybe her campaign staff could use a lesson...
Who should replace Larry Summers? (The Week)
The Week - The White House economic adviser has announced he will step down at the end of the year, prompting speculation as to who will succeed him
Can We Really 'Absorb' a Terrorist Attack? (The Atlantic Wire)
The Atlantic Wire - As many of the more salacious details from Bob Woodward's book on President Barack Obama's foreign policy appear in newspapers, everything from White House squabbles to Afghanistan counterterrorism efforts are being dissected by commentators.
But one piece of the book has drawn special attention: Obama's comment to
Woodward in July that, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do
everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest
attack ever ... we absorbed it and we are stronger." Is Obama right?
What does this comment reveal about his views on national security, on
the nature of U.S. counterterrorism policy, and the legacy of Sept. 11,
2001?
Will the Stewart/Colbert rallies hurt the Democrats? (The Week)
The Week - Some Dems fear that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Washington events are distracting young liberals who might otherwise drive "get out the vote" volunteer efforts
Still More Carter-Coddling (Brent Bozell III)
Brent Bozell III - Jimmy Carter is out with his 26th book, so that means he is on his 26th round of slavish liberal-media interviews hailing him as a genius and a peacemaker. No wonder we're so tired of him.
The Un-recession (Susan Estrich)
Susan Estrich - Good news. The folks in charge of such things announced this week that the recession is over. Actually, it's been over for some time. It officially ended in June 2009, according to the Business-Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is responsible for making such determinations. As of then, our national output stopped declining and started increasing, along with a number of other key indicators.
LAUGHING AT DEMOCRACY AT THE MALL (Richard Reeves)
Richard Reeves - LOS ANGELES -- Marty Kaplan is one smart guy.
THICKER THAN WATER (Maggie Gallagher)
Maggie Gallagher - The story I'm about to tell you is about a man, two women and a baby.
THE CYBER FUTURE OF JOURNALISM (Georgie Anne Geyer)
Georgie Anne Geyer - VIENNA -- Journalism has always been a puzzling craft/profession/business/vocation/love, or any of the other names it goes by. But if you'd listened in to a recent high-level meeting of the international media in this glorious old imperial capital, you would be even more puzzled about the problems facing all of us.
Happy Birthday Clean(er) Air: We Still Have a Long Way to Go (Huffington Post)
Huffington Post - Read Van Jones's other articles on HuffingtonPost.com
Fisherman's arrest in Asia: China and Japan must not trawl for trouble (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Half of humanity lives in Asia, which makes it troubling when an incident triggers tensions over which nation will dominate the region in the 21st century.
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