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The ascendant blogosphere has rattled the news media with its tough critiques and nonstop scrutiny of their reporting. But the relationship between the two is more complex than it might seem. In fact, if they stay out of the defensive crouch, the battered mainstream media may profit from the often vexing encounters.
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Greensboro News & Record Editor John Robinson, announcing a new "open source journalism" initiative at the paper
Journalists are in the hot seat, their feet held to the flames by citizen bloggers who believe mainstream media are no more trustworthy than the politicians and corporations they cover, that journalists themselves have become too lazy, too cloistered, too self-righteous to be the watchdogs they once were. Or even to recognize what's news.
Some track the trend back to late 2002, when bloggers latched onto U.S. Sen. Trent Lott's bigoted birthday salute to Strom Thurmond while mainstream media dozed at the wheel (see "The Expanding Blogosphere," June/July 2004). Or even early 1998, when Matt Drudge jumped Newsweek's Monica Lewinsky scoop. But if Lott and Lewinsky were end-runs around mainstream media, this has been the year of the frontal assault.
The power of political bloggers to push mainstream media matured during the 2004 presidential campaign. That summer, blogs were credited with sustaining buzz about the Swift Boat Veterans' challenges to John Kerry's war record for several weeks, until the Kerry campaign and mainstream media responded. In the fall, bloggers won their defining victory by swarming over memos cited in CBS News' investigation of President Bush's National Guard service. Bloggers also badgered a senior news executive at CNN into resigning, forced the Associated Press to tell the back story of a Pulitzer Prize-winning picture and accused ABC News and the Washington Post of misreporting the source of a Republican talking points memo on Terri Schiavo. While bloggers were not the first to challenge Newsweek's report of Quran abuse at Guantánamo, they amplified the blast of blame that followed. In each case mainstream media bore a brutal lashing--and the more they stonewalled, the worse it got.
Bloggers' charges against journalism begin with gross negligence: omission, laziness, herd-think. (How else could the U.S. press have been so collectively lackadaisical in covering the Downing Street memos that suggested the Bush administration massaged evidence to make its case for the war in Iraq?) But it goes farther than that. The intensity of disdain from some quarters of the blogosphere "suggests a kind of underlying suspicion, anger, resentment that a lot of people hold for the media," says Bill Mitchell, director of publishing and online editor at the Poynter Institute and a former newspaper reporter and editor. "This question of bad journalism suddenly becomes biased journalism."
The media's credibility problems are well established. The most frequently cited of several studies is a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released in June 2004, which found that 53 percent of American adults often don't trust what news organizations are telling them. And a new First Amendment Center/AJR poll has found that just 33 percent think that "the news media tries to report the news without bias." Of the 64 percent who disagreed with that statement, 42 percent strongly disagreed. (See "A Source of Encouragement.")
It's tempting to compare the heyday of investigative journalism with political blogging today. But the scenario is hardly as simple as "journalists wrong, bloggers right." Bloggers do more than skewer journalists; journalists have come to depend on them as diggers and aggregators of information, conduits of public opinion and even media and policy pundits. At the same time, bloggers are wrong at least as often as mainstream media and prone to the same lapses of conduct--which explains why many professionals are less than gracious in receiving their jabs.
The state of the blogosphere is also fluid and fast-developing. The first line of blog swarms pounded the national press, but bloggers are already growing more enmeshed in political causes and becoming more active at the local level. How bloggers are moderated in these activities--by an implicit and self-imposed code of conduct, government regulation or nothing at all--will influence their role in tomorrow's mass communication landscape. How the mainstream media react to bloggers and other challenging voices--by ignoring them, engaging them or attempting to co-opt them--will do the same.
To understand the behavior of journalism's backseat drivers, it's important to know who they are. And that's not always so easy--many bloggers defy classification. One post might contain lucid analysis of a news report, the next a wild accusation, the next a photo of the blogger's poodle. "There's no sorting of journalism blogs from academic blogs from partisan blogs from blogs that are one thing one day and another thing another," says Michael Cornfield, senior research consultant for the Pew Internet & American Life Project. There's also a sea of blogs that have nothing to do with media or politics--technology blogs, celebrity blogs, pop culture blogs, hobby blogs and a depressing number of vapid personal blogs.
That said, certain bloggers have earned reputations for being consistently good at deftly filtering the Internet and providing sharp analysis of current events. The so-called "A-list" of political bloggers generally falls into two categories: partisans and pundits.
Each end of the political spectrum is represented by a cadre of bloggers. On the conservative side, the most read blogs, according to tracking sites Technorati and The Truth Laid Bare, include Instapundit (run by University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds); Power Line (run by a collective of three attorneys); and Michelle Malkin (run by the conservative columnist). Top liberal blogs include Daily Kos (run by communication technology consultant Markos Moulitsas Zúniga); Eschaton (run by Duncan Black, aka Atrios, now a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Media Matters for America); and Talking Points Memo (run by reporter and columnist Joshua Micah Marshall). These people are the warriors "who put on their armor and sit down at the typewriter to do battle, and judge their success by how many dragons they slay that day," says David D. Perlmutter, a senior fellow at Louisiana State University's Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs.
The other camp of A-List bloggers includes pundits whom Perlmutter describes as "sages who stand above the partisan fray and talk about bloggers as a philosophy, a phenomenon." The ubiquitous maestros of pundit blogging are New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis, consultant to About.com and former president of online media publisher Advance.net. Their blogs, PressThink and BuzzMachine, abound with insight and commentary on the news media--how they're evolving, what's broken, why cultural and technological changes matter. Neither is soft on the press, especially when they detect arrogance and archaic thinking.
It's through these blogs and a dozen or so others that every bona fide blog swarm flows. Of course talking about the top bloggers neglects the vast infantry of unsung bloggers and readers who constantly supply feedback, ideas and tips that enrich their conversations. More often than not, blog swarms start with little blogs that feed bigger blogs.
For all their celebrity, blogs still haven't achieved the reach of other media. Pew reported this year that just 16 percent of adults in the United States read any type of blog. According to Gallup, only 2 percent of Americans read political blogs on a daily basis compared with 39 percent who watch cable news, 36 percent who watch network news and 21 percent who listen to talk radio.
But blogs don't need a large audience if they have an influential one. What matters is blogs' readership among the traditional journalists who still mediate most of our news. According to a 2005 University of Connecticut study, 41 percent of journalists access blogs at least once a week and 55 percent say they read blogs as part of their work duties.
Operating through traditional media, bloggers appear to be influencing mass communication in three ways:
The least frequent but most dramatic way is policing the media. Rathergate was a perfect swarm because there was raw evidence, documents that could be dissected and evaluated by the blogosphere's collective expertise. The thrill was even more gratifying for bloggers, says Pew's Cornfield, because mainstream media caught on and joined the chase. Meanwhile CBS News fueled the fire by clinging to its disintegrating story and blaming the uproar on "partisan political operatives." (See Full Court Press, February/March.)
Other times, it's a lack of documentation or unclear sourcing that sustains the swarm. After a rookie blogger reported CNN executive Eason Jordan's remarks at the World Economic Forum in January (Jordan allegedly claimed U.S. troops had deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq), it was the forum's refusal to release a tape and CNN's failure to try to get it to do so that incensed bloggers the most (see The Beat, April/May). In April, conservative bloggers charged that a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photo of Iraqi election workers being killed by insurgents was taken at such close range the photographer must have been tipped off by the terrorists. "The Pulitzer Prize for felony murder goes to the Associated Press," wrote Scott Johnson on Power Line. To answer the bloggers' extensive analysis of camera angles and lens characteristics, AP soon put out its own release detailing why the photographer was at the scene and how the shot was made. Shortly after AP's response, the bloggers moved on, though it's not clear whether they were appeased or just finished with the fight. Swarms frequently end in ambivalence rather than a decisive outcome.
The second way blogs influence journalism is through their role as conduits between mainstream media and the online zeitgeist. Pew's May 2005 report, "Buzz, Blogs and Beyond," found that "journalists, activists, and political decision-makers have learned to consult political blogs as a guide to what is going on in the rest of the Internet."
"Mainstream media need bloggers as badly as bloggers need mainstream media," says Pew's Cornfield, who directed the study, "because the Internet is too voluminous for mainstream media to cover on its own." Cornfield says blogs have become especially important for 24-hour cable news channels, providing fodder to fill gaping programming holes. CNN's "Inside the Blog" segment, which debuted on the February 14 edition of "Inside Politics," is a case in point. (The concept has been lauded, but the format--coanchors reading from blogs on a computer screen--is yawn-inducing.)
Pew's preliminary findings also suggest that while blogs might help create and sustain buzz, they are buzz followers as often as leaders. "If bloggers, or media, or presidential campaigns were buzz makers..then there would be a recurring pattern in which one channel led and the others followed," the report said. "That was not what we detected."
Finally, bloggers may be influencing journalism by achieving credibility as media pundits. It's become common practice for mainstream media--particularly cable, talk radio and columnists--to interview bloggers or excerpt blog posts whenever a news organization flubs, even if the flub didn't involve blogs. When Newsweek's Quran story broke down, for example, bloggers' comments on the incident and the use of anonymous sources in general (guess what, they're against them) were part of mainstream media's coverage of the story.
Poynter's Mitchell says it makes sense to consider bloggers' perspectives on media issues. "Many bloggers probably consume news at least more aggressively, if not always more carefully, than a lot of other people," Mitchell says. "If you're writing a story about a new car, you don't want to just talk to people who are designers, engineers and mechanics; you want to talk to the consumer. [Bloggers] seem to me to be pretty qualified as news consumers."
The power of blog buzz has been far too effective to escape the notice of political strategists. After the 2004 campaign, a former aide to unsuccessful Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean said that Moulitsas (Daily Kos) and business partner Jerome Armstrong (MyDD) had been hired to work on Dean's Internet campaign, "largely in order to ensure that they said positive things about Dean" on their blogs. "They never committed to supporting Dean for the payment," wrote the aide, Zephyr Teachout, on her own blog, "but it was very clearly, internally, our goal."
Moulitsas and Armstrong freely acknowledged their work as paid consultants, but fiercely denied that posting on their blogs was part of the deal. Moulitsas also took issue with the suggestion that his work for Dean, or any other candidate, would be unethical. "I never claimed to be free of bias," he wrote on his blog. "Ultimately, I trust you all to take what I write with the proper grain of salt, fully appraised of whatever conflicts of interest I may have... I have to make my living, and if I can do so helping Democrats win elections, I can't imagine anything more exciting and fulfilling." But Perlmutter questions the ability of a blogger to remain true to his or her own opinions while on the payroll of a campaign. "Will he be likely to say, 'Boy the campaign really screwed up?' Or [will] they start saying things they don't believe because it's the party line?"
While Moulitsas was widely defended in the blogosphere, the actions of two North Dakota bloggers were generally condemned. Following the 2004 election, it was revealed that two conservative bloggers--Jason van Beek and Jon Lauck--were paid a total of $35,000 by the campaign of South Dakota Republican John Thune, who unseated former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Throughout the campaign the two bloggers doggedly attacked Daschle and pummeled the state's largest newspaper, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, with charges of individual and institutional bias. Neither blogger disclosed his relationship to Thune on his blog. Because of the significance of the race, the bloggers' posts were picked up by top conservative blogs, including Instapundit, Power Line and the Drudge Report.
When reports of the payments surfaced, the bloggers were criticized by their peers, suggesting an implicit code of conduct. "My instinct is that the bloggers' relationship with the Thune campaign should have been disclosed on the blogs," wrote Power Line blogger John Hinderaker. "No one reading the blogs could have failed to understand that Lauck and Van Beek were pro-Thune and anti-Daschle... But, rightly or wrongly, many people would view the blogs differently if they knew their authors were also Thune consultants."
Although bloggers currently have no obligation to reveal financial arrangements with campaigns, the Federal Election Commission is considering new rules this summer that might require them to do so. Bloggers are fighting hard for self-regulation, but the specter of more cases like the one involving the Thune campaign is fueling support for the rules. Perlmutter says modest disclosure guidelines wouldn't be a bad idea but predicts the self-correcting behavior of the blogosphere will kick in more effectively during the next election cycle. Payments to bloggers "hadn't been on the radar yet," says Perlmutter, "so that was a new thing at the time. More and more people are going to pay attention to that" during the next election. At the same time, Perlmutter predicts a flood of blogs backed by political action groups.
More often than being misleading, bloggers just get things wrong; it's the nature of the blogosphere to toss out hypotheses and wait for evidence to surface. In the case of Power Line's September 9, 2004, post, "The 61st Minute," bloggers' suspicions about CBS' report on Bush's National Guard service turned out to be right. Several months later, when ABC News and the Washington Post reported that a memo describing the Terri Schiavo case as "a great political issue" was distributed to Republican senators, a Power Line post asked, "Is This The Biggest Hoax Since The Sixty Minutes Story?" Blogger John Hinderaker noted that the memo was unsigned, without letterhead, and "does not sound like something written by a conservative." Turns out a Republican senator's aide had written the memo. But in the two weeks it took for the memo's author to come forward, groundless charges of fraud were repeated by several national news outlets, including CNN, NBC News, Fox News and the Washington Post.
ABC News Vice President Jeffrey Schneider says it wasn't bloggers who compelled ABC News to eventually report the memo's source, but pressure from within the Senate for the author, who worked for U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., to come forward. "It was becoming increasingly obvious that there were senators who knew exactly who the sources were, and I think that was made clear to Sen. Martinez's office," Schneider says. "It was not my sense that pressure from the blogosphere made that person come forward and admit that they had drafted it. It was the pressure of decency that made them come forward."
Some may have expected an apology from Hinderaker, but they didn't get one. "We did not report as a fact that the memo was fake, and we did not purport to have any information that was not publicly available," Hinderaker wrote in an April 9 post. "Any reader could follow our logic and either agree or disagree with our opinion. But the Post was 'wrong' in a much different and more serious way. The Post..reported those statements as facts, without giving the reader any information about how the paper knew them to be true." It was Hinderaker's position that if the Post had adequately sourced its information, the hullabaloo wouldn't have happened in the first place.
While that's wacky logic to journalists who've been drilled to get the facts before publishing, Pew's Cornfield says the vetting process works differently on the Internet. Journalists and citizens need to learn a different way of approaching information on the Web.
"I don't think a blogger has any sort of responsibility to anybody, other than their own sense of what matters and then eventually to their audience," Cornfield says. "They can be irresponsible if they want. You the reader, the browser, have to be more diligent because you have the power of determining what's true and what's relevant and what's fair... While there are lots of mistakes on the Internet, there are lots of corrections and corrections come really fast."
When it comes to rules of conduct and self-correction, Slate Editor at Large Jack Shafer suggests a distinction between the widely read "top 100" bloggers and the rest. Shafer, whose Press Box column frequently addresses skirmishes in blogland, says the top tier is likely to adopt self-imposed best practices, but the entire blogosphere is too vast and unruly to fall into line. "Remember, not all bloggers are created equal," Shafer wrote in an e-mail interview. "Some are smarter and more accurate than others (just like journalists). I trust the marketplace of ideas to sort out bad bloggers from good, just as it does bad journalists from good."
Blogger and Greensboro News & Record columnist Ed Cone offers this piece of advice: "You have to be a careful consumer of news is the lesson that blogs are trying to teach you by their criticism. Sometimes they teach you by their example."
According to many bloggers and pundits, the "blogs vs. mainstream media" meme is passé--almost as uncool as debating whether bloggers are journalists. The enlightened way to regard the advent of the bloggers would be to accept them as part of an evolving media scene rather than treat them as an invading force. But if the dichotomy is false, many bloggers and journalists are still operating as though it were real.
Those who feel most threatened, Cone says, are the ones who insist on drawing a hard line between bloggers and journalists. The whole notion that bloggers should be pitched in opposition to journalists, he says, is phony and antiquated. "To focus on those differences is a defense mechanism on the part of corporate media that maybe doesn't want to admit--maybe doesn't realize--that the game is over, the game has changed," Cone says. "When blogs jump on a story or an event, are they really a different thing? Where is the divide? I'm not sure it's there even now. I think the media landscape is a lot richer, and there's a lot more analysis and independent thought out there."
Poynter's Mitchell says the light bulb is on for many journalists. "A lot of journalists recognize that on a lot of stories, readers necessarily know more about it than they do," Mitchell says. They are "coming to grips with the futility of being too defensive. There used to be a kind of defense to getting things wrong and that was just pretending it was right. The idea is not to cave in to critics, [it's] figuring out how the audience generally forget about bloggers in particular can actually improve the journalism."
As soon as accusations of misreporting surfaced in the Schiavo memo affair, ABC Vice President Schneider says he started contacting bloggers directly. "It's important to get your two cents into those stories as early as possible, but being careful not to fuel those stories," Schneider says. "There were bloggers that I personally dealt with who I thought were really interested in getting at the truth. There were others who simply made up their minds without a whole lot of thought or investigation, and they were intent on proving that ABC News had somehow taken a big misstep."
Internally, many newsrooms are reviewing and revising their reporting guidelines. The New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today have all recently adopted more stringent policies regarding unidentified sources; NBC News and CBS News are also reviewing their practices. However, efforts in two-way dialogue are less apparent. (In one right-minded but ill-fated experiment, the Los Angeles Times invited readers to modify the paper's editorials via its Web site in June. Three days later the initiative was suspended after it became flooded with obscenity.) Many newsrooms have started blogs, but most of those are set up as storytelling devices for journalists rather than conversations with viewers and readers about the reporting process. Even after Rathergate and the Eason Jordan melee, mainstream media don't often stoop to engage their critics promptly and directly--or "speak from someplace other than the mountaintop," as Cone puts it.
Cone has firsthand experience with that kind of engagement. At the Greensboro News & Record, Editor John Robinson maintains a blog called The Editor's Log. "When people question something, he writes about it in his blog," says Cone. "He's in the game. He's not just waiting for his column to come out next week to answer a challenge made yesterday."
Pew's Cornfield senses the same need. "Every time I open the Sunday New York Times and look at the ombud, I think, 'Oh my God, this is so restricted and stilted.' Ombuds should move to the Net. Anything involving direct evidence should migrate to the Net."
The first step toward greater transparency for many news organizations may be establishing an ombudsman or ethics board. (About 40 American news organizations have ombudsmen--see "The Ombudsman Puzzle," February/March.) "You wouldn't have a company that says 'advertising is very important to us but we don't have anybody who does that,'" Perlmutter says. "If you don't have an ombudsman, you're saying, 'Screw you, we're not interested in your opinion.' There are many things that traditional media can learn from the public engagement and excitement that blogs generate, but they're more interested in being hip and techie than understanding the true lessons of blogs."
Of course transparency and interaction take time. News & Record Editor Robinson wrote in an e-mail interview that some of his colleagues in resource-strapped newsrooms may be scared to take that plunge. "Who can blame them? Newsroom staffs are being cut beyond where they should," Robinson says. "Now the editors are thinking about adding on additional duties to already overworked and underpaid reporters?.. Maintaining a blog is time-consuming. You're putting yourself out there. You're acknowledging mistakes... And there are many people lurking in the blogosphere who routinely use that as an opportunity to smack you from the blind side. So you have to have a thick skin to deal with those folks who prefer to criticize you personally rather than add to the civic discussion."
But, Robinson says, "Doing nothing was not an option, given all the readership trends and research."
As for the journalists who feel besieged by hotheaded and often uninformed hecklers, Robinson says he understands their exasperation and resentment. "Yes, I empathize," Robinson says. "I have been there. Hell, I am there. Just visit my blog. But the fact is that the toothpaste is out of the tube. Ignoring or belittling them will not make it all go away. As everyone knows, people have been criticizing newspapers for one reason or another for years before there were blogs. Now they can make their criticism read around the world. So the world has changed. Our responsibility, our challenge, is to explain why we do what we do. It's hard and it's intimidating and it's frustrating. But none of those things are excuses for not rising to the challenge."
Where will all of this lead, and how long will bloggers' glory days last? One scenario is that the blogosphere (or its essential behavior, since the technology may change) is an emerging Fifth Estate, a vast and vigilant sector of citizen watchdogs over a wide range of media, government and corporate institutions. In order to sustain that role, however, bloggers must survive numerous threats to their independence.
One is the possibility that today's impassioned amateur bloggers will be co-opted or crowded out. In Cornfield's view that could happen if the most prominent media and policy blogs are swallowed up by big media, recruited by political campaigns or subsumed by "official versions" such as ABC News' The Note. Cornfield says amateur bloggers won't be eliminated, but they could find themselves competing with the superior marketing and promotional clout of media giants.
Slate's Shafer doesn't regard the demise of the amateur blogger as a serious possibility. "The MSM could hire the top 100 bloggers right now, and I predict 100 equally smart and talented people would replace them," he says.
The tone of the blogosphere--particularly in the realm of political activism--could also depend on whether online speech becomes government-regulated. In that respect the FEC's decision on blog regulation could open the door to other controls. "This decision will send a big signal about whether the government intends to mess around with the Internet or not," Cornfield says. "Up until now, [the government has] largely left the Internet alone and even gone to the point of trying to stay out of its way."
In the near term, bloggers will continue to monitor the national media--and have just begun to make their presence felt on the local scene. The Thune campaign was one example. This spring, a blog run by an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico drew attention from Congress and then the national media for its harsh complaints about operational problems at the facility. In Greensboro, Cone recounts an incident in which the city council killed an incentive plan for Wal-Mart after two council members who opposed the measure discussed it frequently in their blogs. "The News & Record was all over" the story, Cone says. "Was some of the coverage because of the blogs? Probably. It's not reducible to 'blogging killed the incentives,' but the conversation is richer because of the blogs." Of those examples, only the Thune episode involved criticism of the mainstream media, but news organizations played a role in each. As local bloggers become better organized and more widely read by their neighbors and the local press--which is already happening in places like Greensboro--blog swarms will likely hit home.
It could be coincidence that the blogosphere emerged around the same time trust in the media was falling and political rancor was intensifying--or perhaps those factors helped shape the blogosphere. In any case, blogs have proven an extremely effective vehicle for mobilizing individuals to influence journalism, public discourse and policy. We've also learned that bloggers don't need the blessing of the establishment in order to flourish; they will continue to check, correct and challenge the reporting of the New York Times and your local paper. Sometimes they'll be right, sometimes they'll be wrong, sometimes they'll be vindictive.
"It will take a tough hide, a tougher one than journalists maybe are used to, as they sort out their new relationship with a more interactive audience," says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "But journalism has no value, nor any claim to authority, except in the name of citizens... I think many news organizations have already found it remarkable how much the tone of an angry audience member can change if you simply listen attentively and respond fairly."
Says Perlmutter, "Traditional journalists look at bloggers like Major League Baseball players look at some guy in the cheap seats yelling advice."
In some ways, that's exactly what they are--angry, rowdy and out of control. That doesn't mean we can't learn from them.


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After playing four of their first six on the road, the Canes (4-2, 3-0 ACC) are back home to kickoff the first of three straight games at Sun Life Stadium. First up: North Carolina (4-2, 1-1 ACC). Kickoff is set for 2:30 p.m. and the game can be seen on ESPNU.
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EEOC Settles Suit against Texas Construction Contractor
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A construction contractor operating at Texas refineries will pay $175,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The EEOC's lawsuit charged Brand Energy Solutions, L.L.C., formerly known as Brand Scaffold Builders, L.L.C., with violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting a female employee to sexual harassment and retaliation. The agency said that an operations manager employed by Brand at a Corpus Christi refinery sexually harassed a female timekeeper whom he supervised.
The EEOC said the harassment included subjecting her to repeated unwelcome physical contact, sexual advances and comments; placing lurid images on her work computer; and threatening and intimidating behavior such as throwing objects at her and locking her in a trailer. According to the suit, the woman was forced to quit her job when Brand Scaffold failed to take prompt and appropriate remedial action to address the harassment, as the law requires.
Further, the EEOC charged, Brand retaliated against the woman for complaining about the abuse. After she complained to management she was removed from her work site, placed directly in the harasser's office and was shunned by the other employees. She was told by co-workers and at least one Brand manager that whistleblowers never keep their jobs.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division (Civil Action No. 2:08-cv-00305) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court.
In addition to providing $175,000 in monetary damages, the consent decree resolving this case enjoins Brand from discriminating against employees based on sex or retaliating against employees for opposing unlawful employment practices. It also provides for the implementation of an effective anti-discrimination policy and anti-discrimination training for Brand's employees.
"The law requires employers to take reasonable steps to prevent such sexual harassment," said David Rivela, senior trial attorney of the EEOC's San Antonio Field Office. "We will continue to actively prosecute cases where employees are subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace. We are glad that Brand was willing to resolve this matter."
Judith G. Taylor, supervisory trial attorney of the EEOC's San Antonio Field Office, added, "Employees have the right to work in an environment that is free from sexual harassment. They also have a right to complain about unlawful discrimination without the fear of being terminated. We believe all Brand's employees will benefit from the new policy and the training the company's employees will undergo."
In Fiscal Year 2008, 13,867 sexual harassment charges were filed with the EEOC and state or local agencies nationwide, an increase of 11 percent from the prior year and the highest level since FY 2002.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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A baseball scale of best to worst might start with a young, powerful Babe Ruth as the top and an actual baby with a child's souvenir bat at the bottom. The 2011 Astros would fall somewhere around 'toddler.' They took steps all by themselves, fell down only occasionally, and didn't soil their pants too often. Despite that, they were the worst team in baseball that season by a wide margin. In fact, they were the worst team since the 2005 Kansas City Royals also lost 106. Not good enough. So, last season the Astros one-upped them by losing 107. Everything's bigger in Texas.
How bad were last year's Astros? Tied in the top of the 11th inning in an Aug. 6 game against Washington, Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki bunted down the first base line to advance the runner from first to second base. That set in motion a series of events I will now describe. You will think I made them up. I did not.
1. The pitcher and the first baseman run to field the ball. They collide.
2. The first baseman recovers and goes to retrieve the ball whereupon he almost collides with the third baseman.
3. To avoid a collision, the third baseman puts his arms up and leaps over the first baseman like a small child pretending to be superman.
4. The first baseman fields the ball.
5. The first baseman throws the ball down the first base line.
6. The ball is retrieved by the right fielder. By this point, the runner, who had hoped to safely reach second base, is rounding third. It's coup de grace time, so…
7. The right fielder heaves the ball over the catcher's head.
8. The runner scores.
9. The Astros lose. (I'm not making this up. Pinky swear.)
Ralph Kiner once asked Branch Rickey for a raise. Rickey famously told him, "We finished last with you, we can finish last without you." That statement could fairly apply to any member of the 2012 Houston Astros. But what about the 2013 Astros?
Not surprisingly, much isn't expected of them either. Baseball Prospectus's conservative PECOTA projection system forecasts a 99-loss season, while Dan Szymborski's ZIPs system sees 105 losses. Both have Houston as the worst team in baseball. Everywhere you look the Astros are projected, prognosticated, and predicted to end up in last place, dead last, dead dead last, and dead dead where the deadest dead die dead deaths last.
Everyone is forecasting doom, but I'd bet a lot of someone else's money that many of the people making the guesses couldn't name half the players on the Astros roster*. It brings up two questions. First, can they really be that bad? To correctly answer that question we have to ask the second, one made famous by Jerry Seinfeld, namely: who are these people?
* To be clear, PECOTA and ZIPs can name every single Astro on the roster.
Let's find out.
Projected Starting Lineup (from MLB Depth Charts)
1. SS Tyler Greene
Previous Organizations: St. Louis
Notes: A former first round pick of the Cardinals in 2005, Greene came to the Astros for the steep price of a player to be named later or cash. (Not both. Never both.) He's an acceptable shortstop, if a bit below average defensively. His bat can be described as not very good, which is how I'm now describing it. His saving grace as a hitter has nothing to do with him and everything to do with the generally lousy state of hitting from his fellow shortstops, which makes him look better by comparison. He did manage 11 homers in just over 300 plate appearances last season, though when pitchers figure out that he walked just eight more times than he homered, the power numbers might drop a bit.
2. 2B Jose Altuve
Previous Organizations: none
Notes: Altuve is the shining star in the darkest night that is the Astros major league franchise. Which is to say he's not bad. He's a fine contact hitter who plays an above average second base, but he's limited by one thing. Stand up. Now look down. That's how tall Altuve is. His Lilliputian size limits any power potential, but on the plus side, until Major League Baseball removes the one-All-Star-per-team requirement, he's going to rack up quite a resume. In two decades there may be an Altuve-for-Hall-of-Fame movement based solely on the fact that he made the All Star team twenty consecutive seasons.
3. DH Carlos Peña
Previous Organizations: Texas, Oakland, Detroit, Boston, New York, Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay
Notes: Pena hasn't hit over .225 in three seasons. This wouldn't be a problem if he were slugging .500, but last year he slugged .354. He hasn't been a good player since 2009 with Tampa, and at 35 years old, there's no reason to expect him to be one this season. On the plus side, few players look as majestic as Pena when striking out, so that's something.
4. LF Chris Carter
Previous Organizations: Chicago White Sox, Arizona, Oakland
Notes: The prototypical power hitter, Carter is big, strong, and looks like he should be in the middle of the lineup. He should be, but in Triple A. Carter has just over 300 decent plate appearances in the majors, so maybe that's not quite fair. (Then again, at 26 he's past the age most prospects start to hit, so maybe it is fair.) So far, the holes in his swing have been like holes on a public golf course. They're impossible to find if you're not so good, but if you're a professional of the highest level, it's no problem.
5. 1B Brett Wallace
Previous Organizations: Cardinals, A's, Blue Jays
Notes: The possessor of one of the greatest baseball nicknames since the late 1800s, "The Walrus" is another failed prospect. In the minor leagues Wallace could get on base and hit for power. In the majors, well, it's harder. He's still only 26, but there aren't many more years you can put "still only" in front of his age. Add in the fact that Wallace's nickname stems from -- besides a resemblance to his last name -- his defensive ability, and you can see why Houston is his fourth organization.
6. CF Justin Maxwell
Previous Organizations: Washington, New York Yankees
Notes: Maxwell was selected off waivers from the Yankees, but rather than work out a trade, the Yankees just handed him over. That's not to say he can't play. He hit 18 homers last year as a center fielder. If that sounds like a player who could give Altuve a run for his All Star spot, well, maybe. But that's only if he doesn't get hurt, something he's managed to do with the frequency of Sideshow Bob in a field of rakes.
7. C Jason Castro
Previous Organizations: none
Notes: The Astros' first-round pick from the 2008 draft, Castro has played well when he's played. Like Maxwell, he's battled injuries, missing all of 2011 when he tore his ACL. He's young enough his power might come around and he could be an above-average catcher. Or he could get eaten by wolves. Let's hope it's the first one.
8. RF Fernando Martinez (vs RHP)
Previous Organizations: New York Mets
Notes: A failed prospect (sensing a theme here?) from the Mets organization, Martinez is just 24, but already suffers from arthritis in his knees. The speed that was once his calling card is gone and though there is still some speed left in his bat, he's now a platoon player in an outfield corner.
9. 3B Matt Dominguez
Previous Organizations: Miami
Notes: The Marlins first round pick in 2007, Dominguez still has some upside despite faltering at Triple-A over the last few seasons. His performance in the majors last season was fluky but he's just 23 so he could turn into something useful. Like a major league-quality third baseman. Or a merman. You scoff, but which one do you think Houston fans are more likely to go see play third base?
Projected Starting Rotation (from MLB Depth Charts)
1. RHP Bud Norris
Previous Organizations: none
Notes: Rather than throw a collection of average innings, Norris throws a few great innings and follows up with a few putrid ones. The end result is something approaching average, though there is probably more potential for greatness than there is for being cut mid-season. This, by the way, makes Norris the ace of the staff.
2. RHP Lucas Harrell
Previous Organizations: White Sox
Notes: Harrell started 32 games last year and threw almost 200 innings. So that was nice. He doesn't strike batters out, but he walks hitters like he does. (That, by the way, is not good.) He does throw a nifty sinker that generates lots of ground balls. That can work but the Astros were 27th at turning batted balls into outs last season. They could improve but remember, their first baseman is nicknamed The Walrus.
3. RHP Jordan Lyles
Previous Organizations: none
Notes: According to Baseball Prospectus, one of Lyles' comparables is Zack Greinke, of the $147 million contract. Another is Michael Bowden. So, you know. Maybe? Probably not though.
4. RHP Phil Humber
Previous Organizations: New York Mets, Minnesota, Kansas City, Chicago White Sox
Notes: You may remember Humber as the guy who threw a perfect game for the White Sox last year. What you might not remember is his ERA afterwards was 7.39, and batters put up better than a .900 OPS against him. The White Sox cut him. He's probably not that bad, but even if he's two runs better…
5 LHP Erik Bedard
Previous Organizations: Baltimore, Seattle, Boston, Pittsburgh
Notes: There was a time Bedard would have been… well, actually you can probably say that for this whole team. This is what happens when you inherit an old, over-priced, team and tear it down. Just about everyone in the starting lineup with the exception of Altuve used to be a highly touted prospect, and just about everyone in the starting lineup with the exception of Altuve isn't anymore.
Maybe the Astros will catch lightning in their bare hands with a few of these guys. Even if they do, though, they won't catch a team full of lightning. It just doesn't strike often enough. (Also, too painful.) Like the Astros teams of the last two seasons, the 2013 Astros will do a whole lot of losing. Whether we know who they are or not.


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Best 'Master of Puppets' Song – Readers Poll
March 3, 1986 is a day that will forever be a special holiday for Metallica fans across the world. On that day, the legendary rock band released their third studio album, 'Master of Puppets,' and took their heavy music and dark lyrics to a whole new level.
'Master of Puppets' was the first album 'Tallica recorded with Elektra Records. While some bands might alienate fans with their first major-label release, Metallica only solidified their importance to the metal and rock world even more. The music is complex, the lyrics are fantastically deep and the overall record is near-flawless. Besides the album sounding like a metal masterpiece, Metallica fans hold 'Master of Puppets' in their hearts for another reason.
Two hundred and one days after the record was released, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton died in a tour bus accident in southern Sweden. Burton was a significant part of Metallica, contributing his unique bass style to three studio albums and helping write songs like 'Orion,' 'Damage Inc.' and 'Master of Puppets,' a song Burton claimed was his favorite Metallica tune. 'Master of Puppets' was the last album Burton was a part of.
'Master of Puppets' has become an album that many critics and fans hold up as not only one of the best Metallica albums ever released, but one of the best overall metal albums of all time. Eight songs make up this 54-minute masterpiece. It is an album that showcases Metallica's maturing and progression from 'Kill 'Em All' to 'Ride the Lightning,' and is a great bridge connecting fans to '…And Justice for All.' To date, 'Master of Puppets' has sold more than six million copies.
What is your favorite track from Metallica's 'Master of Puppets?' Cast your vote below, then let us know why you picked that song in the comments section!


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Nutrition food labels are a useful tool to help build a healthy diet. Often people don't take the time to read labels or they do not understand what they read.
Ingredients on the food label are listed in descending order from the most to the least by weight. Sugar is often added to foods to add flavor, add to texture or to assist in browning. Sugar as an ingredient may be listed in these forms:
Salt is added to food items during processing to add flavor and as a preservative. Salt as an ingredient may be listed by these terms:
I encourage you to take a closer look at nutrition labels. You may be surprised what you find. For more information on nutrition labels, take a closer look at these websites:
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A national collaboration, which includes the University of Rochester, has won a $5 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to continue to develop young scientists into science and engineering professors who will excel in the classroom as well as the lab.
Ten years ago, the national collaboration called the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) set out to prepare the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math professors to be as bold and creative in the classroom as they are in their programs of research. The University of Rochester joined CIRTL, creating its own CIRTL community, in 2011, and since that time, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at the University of Rochester have benefitted from both online and local courses, workshops, seminars, and discussions related to teaching and learning. With this new NSF funding, 7,000 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows are expected to benefit from being a part of CIRTL learning communities nationwide. These future faculty will learn to implement and advance high-impact, evidence-based learning and teaching practices, which will greatly benefit our next generation of undergraduate STEM students.
"Learning how to be an effective teacher is fundamentally important to the professional development of our graduate students, and CIRTL, through the collaboration of 22 institutions across the country, provides an expanded portfolio of options for our students to learn about different facets of teaching and learning," said Wendi Heinzelman, dean of graduate studies for arts, sciences and engineering at the University. Through both online and on-campus events, CIRTL provides graduate students at the University of Rochester the opportunity to learn about how to improve traditional means of teaching, such as teaching in large lecture format, as well as state-of-the-art teaching, such as online courses. "Additionally, CIRTL provides opportunities to explore other aspects of teaching and learning beyond fundamental pedagogy, such as the importance of mentoring, how to engage a diverse population, and how to balance one's professional and personal lives."
"In addition to supporting our local CIRTL community, the University of Rochester will be contributing to the national network by sharing our expertise in small-group collaborative problem solving, in online homework systems, and in teaching students with disabilities," explained Vicki Roth, director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL). CETL promotes excellence in both teaching and learning through a range of programs for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students and will oversee the local CIRTL community.
"Fundamentally, the future faculty of the nation lies in today's graduate students," said Professor Robert Mathieu of the University of Wisconsin Madison, the director of the CIRTL network. "If we can enhance their graduate preparation in teaching, we can advance undergraduate learning across the entire nation."
The new funding will allow extensive cross-network engagement and online learning among the 22 universities, as well as develop infrastructure necessary for further national expansion. As a result, graduate students will have extensive opportunities to learn from faculty and students with diverse experiences in student populations, university cultures and locations.
The grant is the third major NSF award in the past decade to develop and expand the CIRTL Network.


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State Representative Josh Harms, R-Watseka, has been in office for just more than a week now, and he's already spent two days in Springfield on the job.
Harms, like many other freshman representatives, has already introduced a bill, which concerns district maps.
"What I proposed is not new," he said. "Basically, my position is that nobody should have the right to repress another person based on the map. That's what our maps do. It takes eight people (four from each party) and they have to pick someone who's going to lead that committee to make the map. It can't be computer drawn. It just can't. It also says that the representative districts and senate districts don't have to align."
There are many specific rules that apply to bills concerning district maps.
"A remap can get kicked out by the courts as unconstitutional if you don't have minority majority districts, so this takes into account and directs the commission that they have to make sure those are there, because that's federal and states are required to comply with federal mandates. It's in there and it directs them that those have to be in there. This is when the majority of the population is non-white. You have to have so many Hispanic districts and African-American districts," he explained.
Similar bills have been presented to the legislature in the past, and Harms knows that if this passes, it could potentially change his fate as a representative.
"A map like this, with my close proximity to Kankakee, which has a Democrat, and Champaign, which has a Democrat, might make me lose, but so what? I may lose an election because it would make a fair map, but if I were to lose in order to give back control of the state to the people, then I think that's great, because people would be in control," he said.
Harms is prepared to tackle what he says is the biggest issue with the state — the budget.
"We spend more money than we take in. We need to fund priorities. I said that throughout my campaign. We have to make sure the money is there for the schools. We need to prioritize where we spend our money — schools, roads, public safety and developmentally disabled, and we need to rein in individual entitlements," he said.
The entitlements he's speaking about include the LINK card and Medicaid.
"The money just keeps going on, even if someone's not eligible for it anymore. When people become ineligible, because they go back to work and start making too much money, it doesn't mean the benefits go away," he explained. "During the Blagojevic administration, we expanded greatly for services and we need to time that up again because, the fact of the matter is is there's no money. When the state comes along and tells a CILA that they're going to get paid, but pay them eight or 10 months late, it's unacceptable. Where's the money going to come from? From the individual entitlements."
Another big issue he carried through his campaign is stabilizing the business economy.
"When people say that you just have to keep up in taxes, I disagree. You have to make it so that businesses want to come, because you expand your tax base and keep your tax rate low, that's how your economy is going to go forward. That's how you finance things in the public that everyone uses," he said.
Harms weighed in on the closing of a number of state facilities, including Dwight Correctional Center.
"I think closing DCC is crazy, because we are at a very high population capacity. The guards are working a lot of overtime. In order to move inmates, my understanding is they're just going to downgrade their status. If you have a maximum-security person, in order to bring them to Pontiac from Tamms, they're going to downgrade them from super max to maximum and then downgrade your maximum to medium and send them to Danville," he said. "I don't understand what the governor is doing. Jason (Barickman, R-Champaign) did a great job last year making sure the money was put back in the budget. I don't understand the governor's thinking. We have to make sure our guards are safe and we have to make sure the inmates are safe."
Harms also said that, when it comes to same-sex marriage, he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman, and also says that he will do his best to block any gun control that comes to legislation.
Rep. Josh Harms ready to tackle tough problems
State Representative Josh Harms, R-Watseka, has been in office for just more than a week now, and he's already spent two days in Springfield on the job.


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PhD-HRIR Alum Earns Faculty Achievement and Early Career Awards
Zhen Zhang, '08 PhD-HRIR, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, recently received the "ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Young Investigator."
Zhen Zhang, '08 PhD-HRIR, Assistant Professor of Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, recently received the "ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Young Investigator." He also won an Early Career Award from the Academy of Management Research Methods Division.
Zhang's research focuses on leadership process and leadership development, biological basis of work behavior, and advanced research methods. His work has appeared in several leading management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Leadership Quarterly. He also published research methods-oriented papers in Psychological Methods and Organizational Research Methods.
One of his papers was the winner of the 2013 Wiley Award for Excellence in Survey Research of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He currently serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Leadership Quarterly.


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Ted Allen (born Edward R. Allen on May 20, 1965 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American writer and television personality. He was the food and wine connoisseur on the American Bravo network's Emmy-winning television program Queer Eye. He now is host of two prime-time series on Food Network: Chopped, a culinary competition in which four chefs per episode attempt to cook their way through three courses to win a $10,000 prize, and Food Detectives, which uses scientific experiments to test myths about food. He is a frequent guest on television cooking shows and the author of magazine articles and books.
Allen was born in Columbus, Ohio, but grew up in Carmel, Indiana. His Southern-born mother instilled in him a love of food and cooking.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with long-time partner Barry Rice, a former professor at Columbia College Chicago.


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In the Community: Meet Kenny Kerr
Hello. Welcome to the first "in the community" posts spotlighting members of the C++ and/or developer community. Today we meet Kenny Kerr and a Microsoft MVP who graciously agreed to "go first" :) Kenny is a computer programmer with a bias toward Windows and C++. He enjoys writing and teaching developers how to get the… Read more
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This is a nickname said to a person who you love, like or is very sweet.
Another endearment for 'darling'.
Another endearment for 'darling'.
I love you my Hunny-bunny
by dah_ela July 24, 2014
A Hunnybunny is an incredible person. He is someone who cares genuinely about everyone, such as his family, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's family, and his friends. He is generous and forgiving, more than he should be, but forgiving nevertheless. He is selfless and an amazing role model for children. He allows you to see and feel the light of the world. A Hunnybunny is as sweet as honey and cute as a bunny. He is someone you'd want to keep in your life forever.
by darkandsinister13 November 15, 2014
The girl I love more than anything or anyone in the world. I would give the world if I could. She is the one I think of in the morning when I wake up, and the one I think of when I go to bed. Everyday, I yearn more and more of the soft kiss or small touch from my hunny bunny. She is all that I need and all I will ever need. She is the one I would ride my bike 6 miles every morning for. The one who I would open the door for even thought I have a broken collar bone. The one who, no matter what, I would pledge my undying love for every day, for the rest of my life. I Love My Sara
I Love My Hunny Bunny.
by Jonathan Martinez January 16, 2004
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Shes the girl that's always on my mind, Shes the girl that I will do anything for, whether it's fighting an army to save her or just buying her random gifts to let her know I care. I will wait a thousand years just to be with her. I will stick with her no matter what. She is and always will be my hunny bunny. She will always be my courtney... I love you girl :)
by oscar pork July 01, 2010
someone that is so sweet that the smile has to be slapped from my face. Ready to jump at a moments notice to do good, or be nice to someone for no reason at all. On a summer day when the sun shines on her ever so fine peach fur , she seems to precious to touch , like maybe its a crime or something. Her eyes are so big and have that pet me look. Oh and what a cute tail. On the other hand , her other nickname is "skitty kitty". but I will keep her.
by springbrook cobbler April 15, 2009
My sexy boyfriend. I love him to death.
"I love MY Hunny Bunny!"
by Yashira April 30, 2008
Hunny Bunny is a Bee (also known as Panda) that I love with all my corazon y cabeza. We sing Hunny Bunny songs.
Hunny bunny baby hunny bunny bee. You are my hunny bunny and that's enough for me..
by Nathaliexol April 14, 2010