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Networks Ignore
Clinton Ally's Coalition-Building with Louis Farrakhan
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Reserving Rebukes for Buchanan
When the liberal Center for Public Integrity released
a report February 15 showing Larry Pratt, co-chairman of the Pat
Buchanan campaign, had attended and spoken before meetings of white
supremacists and anti-semites, it led all the network evening newscasts.
Some made Buchanan guilty by association. "Pat Buchanan was caught today
in his own crossfire with accusations that he is running a campaign of
hate and bigotry," declared Phil Jones on CBS.
But five days later, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore
attended the swearing in of Kweisi Mfume as President of the NAACP, the
networks refused to make an issue of Mfume's links to the Nation of
Islam's Louis Farrakhan. The four network evening shows didn't even
mention the event.
As New York Post editorial page editor Eric Breindel
pointed out February 29, Mfume "helped forge the 1993 `Sacred Covenant'
between the Congressional Black Caucus, which Mfume chaired, and Louis
Farrakhan's Nation of Islam." Surely, asked Breindel, "the fringe-right
groups with which Larry Pratt associates are no more pernicious than the
Pratt, head of Gun Owners of America, immediately took
a leave of absence from the Buchanan campaign. "Mfume, by contrast,"
Breindel noted, "hasn't manifested any inclination to distance himself
from Farrakhan....the ex-Congressman hasn't even been asked to do so."
Not even after Farrakhan praised the leaders of Libya, Iraq and Iran
during a world trip. Farrakhan accepted a $1 billion pledge from Libyan
dictator Moammar Gadhafi for his separatist organization to "mobilize
`oppressed' minorities to influence this year's U.S. elections," The
Washington Post reported February 17, three days before Clinton stood
beside Mfume.
Back in the U.S., Farrakhan offered some fresh anti-semitism.
In a clip shown February 29 on Rush Limbaugh, he said: "When you bring
me before Congress, I'm going to call the roll of all the Congressmen
who are honorary members of the Israeli Knesset and get contributions
from the Zionist AIPAC, and then I want you to register as a foreign
power! Every year you give Israel $46 billion of the taxpayers' money
and you haven't asked the taxpayers one damn thing. Who are you an agent
Did reporters demand Clinton explain his support of
Farrakhan backer Mfume? No, they were too busy tarnishing Buchanan. In a
February 23 NBC Nightly News piece, Gwen Ifill proffered to Buchanan:
"People say that you are a sexist, a racist, an anti-semite." Ifill
concluded that "Buchanan fancies himself a trench-fight-er, a warrior
for a new conservatism of the heart. But increasingly he's being judged
by the company he keeps." That's not a judgment reporters made of
Two network veterans have joined the effort to
re-elect President Clinton. In the Clinton-Gore campaign office, Roll
Call reported that Joseph Lockhart, who bounces between Democratic
presidential campaigns and network slots, has bounced again, this time
into the national press secretary slot. Lockhart was an assistant press
secretary to Democratic candidate Walter Mondale in 1984, then Press
Secretary to Senator Paul Simon until becoming assignment editor for ABC
News in Chicago in 1985. He put in a stint as a deputy assignment editor
at CNN before joining the 1988 Dukakis-Bentsen campaign as a traveling
press aide. Stuart Schear, the off-air health and science reporter until
last year for the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, has joined the White House
press office as coordinator of local and national TV interviews with the
President, The Washington Post reported. For the July/August 1995 Mother
Jones, Schear wrote "a consumer guide to the health insurer's new,
overheated advertising campaigns."
ABC and Fox have chosen political operatives to head
their future all-news cable channels. ABC News President Roone Arledge
went left, hiring back former ABC News executive Jeff Gralnick from NBC
News where he's been Executive Producer of the NBC Nightly News since
1993. In 1971 Gralnick served as Press Secretary to liberal Senator
George McGovern (D-S.D.). After promoting the future presidential
candidate, Gralnick jumped to ABC, where by 1979 he had risen to
Executive Producer of World News Tonight. He oversaw all election
coverage for ABC since 1980, becoming Vice President and Executive
Producer of special events in 1985.
Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch went to the right, naming
Roger Ailes, President of CNBC since 1993, as the chief executive of the
Fox All News Network as well as of the Fox broadcast news operation.
While producer of the Mike Douglas Show in the 1960s, Ailes met Richard
Nixon and left the show to become media adviser to the 1968 Republican
candidate's successful run. He spent the next two decades devising media
and ad strategies for GOP candidates, including Ronald Reagan and George
Bush. In 1992 he took the helm of the Rush Limbaugh TV show as its
Executive Producer.
Six media veterans are making out pretty well at the
White House, a June 26, 1995 payroll report shows. The March 1
Washington Times ran the list of salaries of 407 White House staffers
released by the Senate Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on the
Treasury, Postal Service and general government.
The list shows that speechwriting head Donald Baer, a
former U.S. News Assistant Managing Editor, earns $125,000 a year. Wall
Street Journal and Time reporter turned speechwriter Daniel Benjamin
gets $80,000, as do speechwriters Carolyn Curiel, a former Nightline
producer, and Alison Muscatine, a former Washington Post reporter who
also helped write First Lady Hillary Clinton's book It Takes a Village.
Deputy Press Secretary Virginia Terzano, a CBS News election unit
researcher in 1988, pulls down $66,000. At the bottom end lies Anne
Edwards at $50,000, a former CBS News assignment editor and Senior
Editor for NPR who now runs the press advance operation.
First she reported the news, then she spun the news.
Now Kathleen deLaski will do both in cyberspace. America Online has
named her general manager of its politics section. In 1988 she became an
on-air report-er in Washington for ABC, jumping to the Clinton team in
1993 as Chief Public Affairs Officer for the Department of Defense where
she remained through late 1994. For the past year she's been Deputy to
the Undersecretary for Policy Liaison.
Post Redefines Deregulation
The Congress may have failed so far to pass a
regulatory reform bill, but The Washington Post is warning of the
consequences of "deregulation" nonetheless. In a four-part February
18-21 series titled "De Facto Deregulation," Post reporters didn't so
much describe "deregulation" as they did the frustration of regulators
and their political allies at their inability to implement additional
In the first story, reporter Cindy Skrzycki did
feature opinions from the "libertarian" Cato Institute and the
"conservative" National Center for Public Policy Research, but leftist
Ralph Nader was simply a "consumer activist." Despite their prominence
in the series, liberal groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC) were not described as liberal.
Stephen Barr's story on the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) read like a bureaucrat's newsletter,
beginning with the headline "Cuts Frustrate OSHA Plans to Improve Worker
Safety." Barr mourned the agency's 15 percent budget reduction and
trotted out the OSHA line that it has far too few inspectors to enforce
its regulations in every business across the nation. Barr passed on OSHA
complaints that it hasn't enough money for its office redesign plans and
computer networking operations. Barr added that its employees "likely
will lose part of their salaries through unpaid furlough days....The
possibility of layoffs has flattened morale at OSHA and left many OSHA
employees feeling anxious about their futures."
Barr didn't address the philosophical point of new
congressional oversight -- that for decades, regulatory agencies had no
check or balance in the legislative branch -- or the obvious
counterpoint that OSHA's actions have often caused economic frustrations
and anxieties to businesses.
In the last article of the series, reporter Gary Lee
mourned the failure to implement new revisions from the 1990 Clean Air
Act reauthorization. As David Hawkins of the NRDC complained in the
series' last paragraph: "We'll never be able to get clean air in areas
like [Baltimore or Houston] without stricter enforcement of the act."
Apparently to the Post, "deregulation" doesn't mean the repeal of
regulations, but merely slowing down the juggernaut of ever-increasing
government interference.
Janet Cooke Award
CBS Reporter Smears Pat Buchanan by Connecting
Him to the Ku Klux Klan
McNamara Tries Guilt by Association
After newscasts highlighted the story of Larry Pratt,
the Pat Buchanan campaign co-chairman who resigned to combat the
discovery that he spoke in a number of forums where racists and other
bigots appeared, liberal Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant loaded his
February 20 column with friendly fire: "For liberals to be silent simply
because this filth is being directed at a creature of the Right who
happens to be on a political roll is intolerable." If the networks
wished to investigate the charge of bigotry against Buchanan, they had a
library of columns and an archive of video clips to spend weeks hunting
through for examples. Instead of doing the hard work of combing the
minutiae of his paper (and TV) trail, the networks decided to practice
guilt by association, suggesting his campaign appeal is too
indiscriminate, too likely to appeal to bigots.
In a February 23 Nightline, ABC's Ted Koppel refined
the issue: "It's not that Pat Buchanan today is associated with overtly
anti-Semitic or racist acts or statements, but rather that he has
created an image of someone who might be sympathetic to such acts or
statements by others." Koppel not only suggested Buchanan's father was a
regular listener to the anti-Semitic radio show of Father Coughlin (he
later apologized when the family denied this), he even stooped to
accusing Buchanan's little brothers of having beaten up Jewish kids in
the 1950s. This is odd coming from Koppel, who said of Bill Clinton's
1969 draft-dodging thank-you letter: "If we were electing that
23-year-old man, what he said and thought and felt at that time would be
Koppel ended his show with a pro-Buchanan letter from
Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky charging Israel controls
America's finances "through American Jews or Negroes." Koppel concluded:
"It's not that Buchanan hasn't expressed some of the views that
Zhirinovsky echoed, but perhaps he'd never realized how ugly they
sounded until he heard them in the mouth of a genuine bigot." For a
desperate search for damaging Buchanan allies, the other networks could
not match CBS. For finding Buchanan guilty by association with people
he's either repudiated or never heard of, CBS reporter Bob McNamara won
the March Janet Cooke Award. On the February 28 Evening News, Dan Rather
began the story: "For his part, Buchanan vowed to come back big in the
next phase of primaries and immediately, quote, `lit into' Forbes during
a southern campaign swing today, lit into Forbes as too liberal. At the
same time, Buchanan is trying to deflect criticism that he is an
extremist, who, at the very least, uses code words to attract voters
with racist, bigoted views. Buchanan flatly denies this. Correspondent
Bob Mc- Namara has been looking into it."
McNamara moved quickly to the issue of Buchanan's
fans: "They were waiting 3,000 strong for Pat Buchanan outside Atlanta
last night. They say they've been waiting for years... Here, his call to
take back the country is a crowd pleaser. But outside the campaign,
critics charge that Buchanan's rhetoric is making this race about race.
And the man and his ideas are now beginning to be judged by the company
they keep."
McNamara explained: "Lurking in the shadows of last
month's Louisiana campaign, there was former Klan leader David Duke."
Duke told CBS: "I let the word out to all my supporters in the state
that I supported Patrick Buchanan, and if Patrick goes on to win the
nomination, I guess part of the credit will have to go to us." McNamara
allowed a perfunctory rebuttal: "It is not an endorsement Buchanan
wants, and today his backers took pains to distance their man from
charges of extremism on economics and immigration, race, and religion."
CBS aired Buchanan backer Rabbi Aryeh Spero: "This is a guilt by
association, which is very dangerous to our whole political system."
Focusing on racism, McNamara countered: "Today, even
in the New South, old ideas have not been completely laid to rest. And
for people uncomfortable with the way the world has changed, Buchanan's
message is hitting home....Danny Carver is a roofing contractor, a
Christian, and a lifetime member of the Ku Klux Klan. He says he and
Buchanan speak the same language." Carver told McNamara: "About
everything he says we agree with....When he's talking about affirmative
action he has to be talking about women and niggers, I guess." McNamara
asked: "Do you think Buchanan would want to hear that you support him?"
Carver replied: "He would want to hear it, but he don't want it on TV."
CBS didn't explain how Carver came to their attention.
He's not an unknown, but a self-promoting semi-regular on Howard Stern's
syndicated radio show. Stern, who's Jewish and calls Carver a "lunatic,"
has featured him as the butt of humor on his Butt Bongo Fiesta video
(where he struck out in the game "Guess Who's the Jew"), and as a judge
of the topless "Miss Howard Stern" contest in a 1993 New Year's Eve
pay-per-view special.
McNamara concluded: "The Buchanan campaign said
tonight that it adamantly rejects all forms of racism as immoral, saying
that their campaign is, quote, `populated by people who embrace the
sense of justice in the Old and New Testament.' But he has become a
candidate battling a political Catch-22. A man who says what he means
and means what he says and now must fight the embrace of people who
think they know exactly what he is talking about." CBS News spokeswoman
Kim Apgar told MediaWatch "I can't speak to this. You need McNamara."
But CBS could not locate a number where McNamara could be reached.
While CBS attempted to connect Buchanan with neo-Nazis
and the KKK, they have been critical of any look at the associations of
Bill Clinton. In October 1992, The Washington Times and others
investigated Clinton's role in the anti-Vietnam war movement. Father
Richard McSorley's book Peace Eyes recounts Clinton's role as an
organizer of a protest service that ended in a march to the U.S. embassy
with white crosses, left "as an indication of our desire to end the
agony of Vietnam." McSorley reported the protest's organizers were
"Group 68 (Americans in Britain)," which "had the support" of the
British Peace Council, a Soviet front group.
After Clinton's anti-war involvement came up in the
first presidential debate, CBS This Morning co-host Harry Smith declared
on October 12: "Clearly, that red-baiting junk didn't work last night."
The networks aired no stories questioning "the company Clinton keeps" or
suggesting "It's not that Clinton has signaled through acts or
statements his support for the Soviet Union, but that he created an
image of someone who might be sympathetic to such acts or statements."
They called it a smear. Guilt by association is clearly a game reporters
play on only one side.
In an attack uglier than any of this year's attack
ads, Time national correspondent Jack E. White announced the culprits
behind black church burnings in the South. After blaming Pat Buchanan's
"ugly rhetoric" in the March 18 issue, he broadened the smear: "In fact,
all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who
have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should
come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in
Tyler [Alabama]...and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the
arsonists. Over the past 18 months, while Republicans fulminated about
welfare and affirmative action, more than 20 churches in Alabama and six
other Southern and Border states have been torched."
White noted the current lack of evidence of a racist
conspiracy in the bombings, yet concluded: "But there is already enough
evidence to indict the cynical conservatives who build their political
careers, George Wallace-style, on a foundation of race-baiting. They may
not start fires, but they fan the flames."
Tom Brokaw may have engaged in wishful thinking on the
February 14 Nightly News when he devoted the "NBC News Online" to the
alleged fall of Rush Limbaugh. Brokaw claimed "Election results are one
way to tell who's hot in politics. Then there are the ratings in this
business." Brokaw charged that Limbaugh's "radio and television ratings
have tumbled, and his books, once huge best-sellers, now are in the
discount bins." He added a plug for the book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat
Idiot by Al Franken, a fellow NBC employee: "And a book about Limbaugh,
by the comedian Al Franken, is riding high, it's number two behind
Hillary Clinton's book and rising fast."
But as Talkers magazine Editor Michael Harrison noted
in the March 3 Washington Times, Limbaugh's ratings "dropped a marginal,
insignificant amount" in the fall. "The guy belches in ratings, and
everyone runs around as if the witch is dead," Harrison said. He noted
Limbaugh is on 650 radio stations, with a total audience more than
double his closest political talk show competition.
Linda Cecere of the Rush Limbaugh television show told
MediaWatch there are 8.9 million copies of Limbaugh's two books
currently in print, and noted the books have spent a total of 114 weeks
on the New York Times bestseller list (hardcover and paperback). His
first book spent 24 weeks at the #1 spot. Brokaw ignored how virtually
all bestsellers with a big press run are eventually discounted.
During the usually contentious primary season the
media focused on Republican rifts, but ignored Democratic divisions over
their party leader. With two exceptions the networks failed to report
attacks on President Clinton from two prominent Democrats. In an
interview with Washington Post reporter Martha Sherrill in the January
issue of Esquire magazine Senator Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) insisted:
"Clinton's an unusually good liar." Kerrey's extraordinary admission
received very little coverage. Tim Russert, prompted by a Washington
Times article, asked Colorado Gov. Roy Romer about the Kerrey quote on
the February 4 Meet the Press.
CNN's Bernard Shaw briefly mentioned the quote on the
February 6 Inside Politics, and added the remarks of Sen. Ernest
Hollings (D-S.C.) who joked of Clinton's poll ratings: "If they get up
to 60 percent, his people tell me Bill can start dating again." Shaw
also relayed a Hollings quote from a South Carolina paper: "Clinton's as
popular as AIDS in South Carolina." The Hollings quotes received no
coverage in the usually AIDS-sensitive television networks of ABC, NBC
and CBS. By contrast, in December 1994 when Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.)
joked that Clinton was so unpopular that he had better bring bodyguards
if he visited any military bases, the Helms remark generated nine
stories on the three broadcast network evening news shows.
In the weeks following the Oklahoma City bombing, the
news media were quick to portray suspect Timothy McVeigh
unsympathetically as a violent extremist, as well they should. But when
26-year-old Lori Berenson was sentenced to life in prison by a Peruvian
military tribunal for being closely involved with the Marxist terrorists
of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), the news media tried
to portray her sympathetically as a concerned American who went to Latin
America to work for the poor.
Although she admitted to being affiliated with the
MRTA, the January 22 Time didn't feel that was important: "Her friends
and relatives know Lori Berenson as a compassionate idealist, an
innocent waylaid by her concern for the poor and oppressed of Latin
America." Time concluded: "But Berenson's real passion was always to
help the downtrodden; as a teenager she donated time to a soup kitchen."
A February 4 Washington Post headline read: "Little Girl Lost. American
Lori Berenson, 26, Was a Good Daughter, A Good Worker, a Good-Hearted
Person. In Peru, She Got Into Trouble. Bad Trouble." On February 21, ABC
Prime Time Live reporter John Quinones used the same approach in a story
titled "To Love A Country": "In the 8th grade, Lori volunteered to work
at a soup kitchen. Later that year she was selected to narrate a
commercial for CARE, an appeal to feed needy children."
This theme was countered by a Mark Falcoff article in
the February 26 issue of The Weekly Standard: "But let the record show
that she is charged not for her views, but for her involvement with a
terrorist group that, in recent years, has been involved in
assassinations, bombings, kidnappings, robberies, and attacks against
innocent people, many of them poor."
The networks continue to ignore ethics complaints
against Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives. In early
February, the networks saw no need for a story when Rep. Jennifer Dunn
(R-Wash.) filed a complaint with the House ethics committee suggesting
House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt may have evaded capital gains
taxes on a land swap.
The February 23 Washington Times reported that
Gephardt dumped his share of ownership of the vacation home on North
Carolina's Outer Banks. George Archibald wrote that Gephardt, who is an
avid opponent of capital gains tax cuts, "claimed for
financial-disclosure purposes that his condo was not a rental property
the year he sold it for $183,000. He simultaneously claimed it as a
rental property for tax purposes to escape capital gains taxes of about
$17,000 in 1991." Archibald struck again with a March 6 piece in the
Washington Times noting that Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) formally requested
the Justice Department undertake a criminal probe of Gephardt's tax
situation. Neither story piqued the networks' curiosity.
On March 6, the conservative Landmark Legal Foundation
filed a complaint against House MinorityWhip David Bonior, the ethical
scold of Speaker Newt Gingrich, for misusing his congressional staff to
write a 1984 book on government time. The networks didn't cover that
"This morning we're taking a close look at the problem
of child care, a problem some countries are solving," co-host Harry
Smith announced on the February 21 CBS This Morning. The country with
the solution? France and its expensive, old-style socialist system.
Smith marveled at the state-mandated benefits: "Like
all new mothers in France, Helene took a 16-week paid maternity leave
from her job. In addition, mothers who work for larger companies can
take off two more years unpaid, with the guarantee their jobs will still
be there when they get back." To support this system, Smith admitted
that taxes are "much higher in France than in the United States...and
that may be why they're going through some of their own economic
problems." But, incredibly, he also referred to the system as free:
"When Jeanne leaves day care, she can attend a completely free, good
quality, state-run pre-school where she stays until she is six and
primary school begins." Smith followed the segment with an interview of
Ellen Galinsky of the liberal Families and Work Institute. His first
question was more accusation: "In the United States, are we just not
willing to pay for child care?"
A special interest group wants to use the coercive
power of the government to silence the opposition. ABC News naturally
comes down on the side of free speech, right? Not quite. Here's how
Peter Jennings introduced a February 14 World News Tonight story:
"Supporters of gun control, who had no success convincing a Republican
Congress to pass stronger gun control legislation, have adopted a new
tactic. They have asked the Federal Trade Commission to stop certain
advertisements by gun manufacturers."
Lisa Stark explained that the ads "sell safety and
security, offering guns as a way to protect loved ones, to guard home
and family. But critics say this picture is deceptive and misleading."
After a soundbite from Sarah Brady, Stark elaborated: "Gun control
advocates point to tragedies you won't find in the ads. In Texas, a
teenager shot and killed, mistaken for a burglar by her father; in
California, a four-year-old shoots himself," and a 15-year-old "killed
by his best friend."
Stark asserted that "scientific studies show handguns
are more likely to hurt family members than protect them." ABC aired
three soundbites from opponents of the gun ads, but only one from Tanya
Metaksa of the National Rifle Association. Metaksa was only allowed to
defend the right to air ads, not to counter the liberal statistics about
gun accidents. If Stark had any interest in balance, she could have
noted that Dr. Arthur Kellerman, a fervent gun control advocate,
explained in the August 14, 1994 U.S. News & World Report that "Studies
such as ours do not include cases in which intruders are wounded or
frightened away by the use or display of a firearm." Last year in his
book Guns, David Kopel noted that bicycle and swimming pool accidents
kill more children annually than do guns. If ABC wants the FTC to
regulate advertisements from weapon manufacturers, then who will
regulate the network's own gun control ads disguised as journalism?
The word inquisition brings to mind torture sessions
in dark castles in medieval Europe where unbelievers were strapped to
the rack until they swore allegiance to the church. Recently, the
networks used the word to describe whether the Episcopal Church should
allow a practicing homosexual minister to lead church services.
Peter Jennings led off the rhetorical overkill about
Bishop Walter Righter on the February 27 World News Tonight: "This next
story in the news tonight may conjure the Spanish Inquisition for some
but the dateline is Wilmington, Delaware. A retired bishop could become
the second Episcopal priest in the two hundred year history of the U.S.
Episcopal Church to be tried for heresy, the most serious breach of
Christian faith. His offense: ordaining a practicing homosexual five
years ago."
On the same night's CBS Evening News, reporter Richard
Threlkeld referred to the trial as something "right out of the middle
ages" and stated that "critics charge Bishop Righter's the victim of a
conservative inquisition." The idea that conservative bishops inside the
Episcopal Church wanted to enforce church doctrine left Threlkeld
scratching his head: "It's ironic that something so medieval should be
happening within the Episcopal Church, one of the more tolerant of
Protestant denominations."
Networks on the GOP: Lard on the Labels,
Investigate Finances, and Charge Bigotry
Clinton Thought He Had It Tough...
Reporters don't like ideological labeling, at least
when it's applied to them. Last November, Dan Rather told Denver radio
host Mike Rosen he hated "to be tagged by someone else's label. I try
really hard not to do that with other people, particularly people who
are in public service and politics."
So do reporters use labeling in campaign coverage?
MediaWatch analysts compared media coverage of the primaries in 1992
with those in 1996. Analysts reviewed evening news coverage of the four
networks (ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News,
and CNN's The World Today and in 1992 World News or Prime News) for 19
days, starting with the Tuesday before the New Hampshire primary.
For 1992, the days studied were February 11-29; in
1996, February 13-March 2, the day of the South Carolina primary. Both
were periods when voters and reporters winnowed down the presidential
The study found the Democratic candidates or their
supporters were labeled "liberal" only four times, none suggesting
extremism. In 1996, GOP candidates or their supporters were labeled 73
times, 45 of the labels suggesting extremism. Analysts also looked at
campaign controveries. Five stories investigated the finances of
Republicans, compared to no investigations of the Democrats. Charges of
bigotry by Pat Buchanan were featured in 20 stories.
Reporters used only four liberal labels to describe
the Democratic candidates, all in the first two days of the 1992 study
period. On February 11, NBC's Andrea Mitchell used two labels, calling
Tom Harkin "a pure liberal and proud of it" with "old-fashioned liberal
solutions." That same night, ABC's Judy Muller noted: "If Kerrey's
health plan strikes some voters as too liberal, his more conservative
proposals for dealing with the recession seem to strike a chord with
voters trying to make ends meet." The next night, Muller said Harkin
calls himself "an unabashed liberal."
Even when the ideology seemed obvious, reporters
stressed candidates were not liberal, but part of the mainstream. On
February 12, 1992, ABC reporter Chris Bury reported on Jerry Brown: "To
those who hear him, Brown's appeal is his idealism, his calls for
political reform, universal health care, and environmental activism."
Despite that left-wing agenda, Bury underlined: "Some voters seemed
surprised Brown did not sound so radical." The closest thing to a
Clinton label came from ABC's Jack Smith, who told viewers a week later
that Clinton's economic message "runs counter to so much traditional
liberal ideology." (Did reporters eschew labeling in 1992? No. Stories
during the study period on the 1992 GOP race used the word
"conservative" or "from the right" on 77 occasions, with four references
to extremism.)
In 1996, Republicans and their voters were labeled on
73 occasions. The networks employed 18 conservative descriptions, six
moderate labels, and even four liberal tags (all of them from reporters
quoting Buchanan's attacks on his rivals). On the 18th, NBC's David
Bloom said Lamar Alexander was "trying to bolster his conservative
credentials." But extreme terms were applied on 45 occasions -- all but
one to describe Pat Buchanan. (The exception: Bloom called Alexander a
"moderate Republican with a radical plan of devolution.") Among
references to extremism, 36 used the terms "extreme" or "extremist," but
analysts included the terms "ultraconservative," "too conservative" or
"out of the mainstream."
CBS led the networks with 19 references to Buchanan's
extremism (compared to 12 for CNN, nine for ABC, and five by NBC). On
six occasions, CBS underlined their perception of Buchanan's
ultraconservatism by referring to the networks' Voter News Service exit
poll question asking if Buchanan was too extreme. In a February 18
interview with Sen. Phil Gramm, Dan Rather asked: "There is a perception
that Buchanan has around him people with extremist views on race. Do you
agree?" On February 25, CBS weekend anchor John Roberts asked CBS
consultant Joe Klein: "Some call Buchanan an extremist. Others call him
as American as apple pie. What is this fellow's appeal?" Klein replied:
"He is both. He is an extremist and as American as apple pie."
Reporters were not interested in the Democratic
candidates' finances in 1992, airing no stories during the study period.
When Whitewater first came to light on March 8, 1992, NBC aired only one
story, eight days later. CBS made a brief mention on the 8th, and then
dismissed financial questions on the 16th. Reporter Richard Threlkeld
portrayed Whitewater questions as an invasion of Hillary Clinton's
privacy. All together, the networks did just five full stories on the
Clinton finances in 1992.
In 1996, CBS and NBC combined for five stories in just
19 days touching on Republican candidate finances. NBC investigated the
sweetheart deals of Lamar Alexander on February 13, and mentioned them
again February 18. CBS investigated the Alexander deals on February 15,
then added another look at Honey Alexander's and Elizabeth Dole's
financial moves on February 17. On March 2, CBS suggested hypocrisy in
Buchanan's stock ownership of Fortune 500 corporations. On February 21,
CBS reporter Rita Braver claimed Lamar Alexander had "some financial
dealings in his past that might put Whitewater to shame."
Sparked by the disclosure that Buchanan campaign
co-chair Larry Pratt spoke at forums shared by white supremacists, the
networks aired twenty stories raising the allegation that Buchanan was
bigoted against blacks or Jews. CBS reporter Phil Jones concluded:
"Buchanan has been talking and writing like this for years. Then, he was
on the fringe. Now, he's on the front line and Americans are starting to
take a closer look at Pat Buchanan's America." The story count didn't
include isolated soundbites, like one voter on the March 2 CBS Evening
News: "Buchanan scares me. He reminds me of a little guy over in Germany
with a mustache."
In September 1992, Bill Clinton claimed: "Nobody's had
a tougher press than I have. No candidate in history has." Some of this
year's candidates may beg to differ.
the Bright Side
Tendentious Tenure
The national news media continually call for increased
funding of public education, but they rarely ask if teachers' unions
could be the problem.
A February 16 20/20 report and the February 26
U.S. News & World Report both looked at the declining quality of
public education, and came to the same conclusion: Teachers unions are
at the heart of the problem. In a cover story entitled `Why Teachers
Don't Teach,' U.S. News summed it up: "The nation's future lies
in its classrooms. But teachers' unions are driving out good teachers,
coddling bad ones and putting bureaucracy in the way of quality
Both reports allowed unionized teachers to explain how
they believe tenure protects them from unfair firings, but reporter Lynn
Sherr revealed: "It often takes so long, it's so expensive and usually
so unsuccessful at getting rid of allegedly bad teachers, some boards of
education have thrown up their hands at even trying." Sherr continued:
"Most elementary and secondary school teachers in this country have
tenure...they have lifetime employment. It is virtually impossible to
get rid of them." Sherr recounted the story of a school board in
Connecticut that had to spend $250,000 in taxpayer money to fire an
inadequate teacher who was later reinstated even though she was found
partially incompetent.
While the media constantly warn voters of the
Republican Party's pandering to the NRA and the Christian Coalition,
U.S. News pointed out the political power of the National Education
Association: "But teachers unions have used their resources to fight
reform -- and their resources are vast."
The union spent $52 million to renovate their
Washington headquarters, which U.S. News called: "A testament to
its power in national politics, where the NEA has wedded itself to the
Democratic Party. The union handed out $8.9 million to
congressional candidates between 1989 and 1995, only a fraction of it to
the Republicans."
Detecting Deception
CNN's Brooks Jackson was first out of the
gate to critique the presidential candidates in their ads and speeches.
On the April 1 Inside Politics he critiqued Republican charges that
Clinton judges were soft on crime. But in a surprising turn Jackson has
also slammed Clinton's newest set of ads. His April 4 "Spin Patrol"
segment challenged each claim made in the Democratic National Committee
CNN aired the ad: "The President proposes
a balanced budget protecting Medicare, education, the environment. But
Dole is voting no. The President cuts taxes for 40 million Americans.
Dole votes no."
Jackson replied: "Dole voting no to a
balanced budget and tax cuts? Let's see that again...True, Clinton's
latest budget would balance in 7 years on paper, but experts are
skeptical." Jackson used moderate-to-liberal Carol Cox Wait of the
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Robert Reischauer of the
Brookings Institution.
Jackson found the ad's claim "The
President cuts taxes for 40 million Americans" was "Not the whole
story." He pointed out that the Clinton administration arrived at the 40
million number through the 1993 budget bill's expansion of the earned
income tax credit to "15 million low wage families, 40 million if you
count their children." Jackson countered they also raised taxes on 1.5
million high-income families and 5 million Social Security recipients,
not to mention higher gas taxes for everyone.
Another ad claimed Republicans cut school
lunches. Jackson: "Not so. The Republican Congress appropriated more
money for school lunches this year....And the Agriculture Department
says it has increased the number of children served."
The same ad charged the GOP cut Head
Start: "Money for the Head Start pre-school program has been cut four
percent this year, temporarily. But Republican leaders have agreed to a
one percent increase once a permanent appropriations bill is passed.
Meanwhile not a single child has been affected. In fact Head Start
enrollment is up this year."
And the DNC's claim that Republicans "cut
child health care" did not go unchallenged. Jackson explained that
Republicans only reduced the rate of Medicaid growth and that there is
not much difference between the GOP and Clinton's proposal.
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CBS Spikes Goldberg for His Honesty
What a difference the message makes. After 60 Minutes
last fall spiked part of an interview with Jeffrey Wigand, the ex-Brown
& Williamson cigarette company executive, CBS reporters were angry and
embarrassed that Wigand's confidentiality pledge prevented him from
blowing the whistle on his former employer. On February 4, CBS overcame
the legal hurdle and aired the spiked charges about manipulated nicotine
levels. On PBS's Charlie Rose February 6 Dan Rather said that story "was
gutsy, great reporting."
Fast forward a week and CBS correspondent Bernard
Goldberg blew the whistle on CBS, detailing in a February 13 Wall Street
Journal op-ed how colleague Eric Engberg's story on the flat tax "set
new standards for bias." Goldberg explained that "The old argument that
the networks and other `media elites' have a liberal bias is so
blatantly true that it's hardly worth discussing anymore."
So did journalists trumpet this whistle-blower?
Hardly. "It's such a wacky charge....I don't know what Bernie was
driving at. It just sounds bizarre," Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer
told The Washington Post. "To accuse Eric of liberal bias is absurd,"
sniffed CBS News President Andrew Heyward. "The test is not the names
people call you or accusations by political activists inside or outside
your own organization," Rather told the New York Post in an insult to
Goldberg's professionalism, insisting "I am not going to be cowed by
anybody's special political agenda."
USA Today's Peter Johnson reported March 11: "Some
colleagues supported him privately. But many others stopped talking to
him, dismissing him as dead wrong, an ingrate, a nut or all of the
above. Mostly, the big chill set in. Not-so-coincidentally, none of his
commentary segments on the News, `Bernard Goldberg's America,' has aired
since the day his piece came out."
Johnson concluded that CBS has decided to bully the
messenger: "Goldberg has spent the past month lying low, hoping animus
toward him would die down. It hasn't, and all signs around CBS News are
that it will continue until Goldberg shows interest in eating a healthy
serving of humble pie."
The March 13 New York Post reported that Goldberg
apologized to Engberg and is sorry if he "hurt anyone's feelings." But
Goldberg felt he had to go public since, as he explained to the Post's
Josef Adalian, he "tried for years and years to discuss this issue," but
was "met with varying degrees of `Who cares?'"
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Dubai: Although India won`t play their next ODI before the month of June, Virat Kohli has managed to maintain his top spot among the ICC`s list of ODI batsmen while his compatriot Ravindra Jadeja is among the top-five in both bowlers` and all-rounders` list.
India remain second in the list of teams with 112 points as Australia manitain their top rank with 115 points.
Kohli with 881 points tops the list of the batsmen followed by AB de Villiers with 872 points. India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is sixth in the list with 783 points while Shikhar Dhawan is ranked eighth with 723 points.
In the bowling list, Jadeja remained at fifth position with 676 points while Ravichandran Ashwin is at the 14th spot. Among the all-rounders, Jadeja is ranked fourth in the list.

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As the only carrier currently allowed to utilize MotoMaker, we expected AT&T to take the lead in releasing details about the availability of the Moto X. This morning, the company did just that. The Moto X will be available in black and white on August 23. Consumers will then be able to start customizing through MotoMaker, which will get the phone to them in four days or so after they place their order. If you registered to find out when the Moto X would become available, you could be one of a lucky few selected by AT&T to have a chance to design your Moto X on August 19 and receive it before anybody else on AT&T gets one.
As for pricing, the 16GB model will go for $199 and the 32GB model will go for $249, both on a two-year contract of course. With AT&T Next, the 16GB model will be $27 per month and the 32GB model will be $32 per month. AT&T will also sell the Motorola Skip as an accessory. Just like Motorola said, the Skip will be free with any customized Moto X for a limited time.
AT&T will also have what it's calling "Experience Tables" in many AT&T stores that are meant to show customers what the customization could look like with the Moto X. Essentially, AT&T will have a couple of Moto X phones and some backplate options, so customers can see what they look like in real life before ordering through MotoMaker. Here's a concept drawing of what an Experience Table might look like, as well as a color wheel of the Moto X colors.
Are you planning to order a Moto X through AT&T? Will you customize it?Show Press Release
At launch, customers can begin their Moto X customization at AT&T stores and through www.att.com/MotoX. Visit your nearest store** to see physical color samples before making your purchase. Woven white and woven black models will also be available.
AT&T will offer the 16 GB Moto X for $199.99 and the 32 GB Moto X for $249.99 with a two-year agreement. With AT&T Next, the 16 GB model is available for $27 per month and the 32 GB model is $32 per month.
Starting August 19, AT&T will offer a few lucky customers who registered*** at www.att.com/MotoX an opportunity to design and receive their Moto X before the general public.****
"We're excited to be the first carrier to offer you a chance to design a smartphone that's truly yours," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president — Devices, AT&T. "We've worked closely with Motorola to create a tailored display, sales, and distribution processes to get these customized devices into your hands quickly so you can start enjoying all Moto X has to offer, all on the nation's fastest and most reliable 4G LTE network."
Designing your own Moto X is simple. Using Moto Maker, you can select:
Color options for the front and back
Accent colors for the power key, volume key and camera ring
Adding your name or short message on the back of the phone
Unique wallpapers
Custom power-on message
Memory capacity — 16GB or 32GB
Once you've designed and purchased your custom device, it will be assembled in the USA and shipped to you for free in four days or less**** with no hassle returns.
The Moto X runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), and features a 4.7-inch HD display. Other device highlights include:
Touchless Control lets you check the weather, get directions, make a call or search for just about anything–just by saying "OK Google Now." Because you tune Moto X to your voice, it's always ready to respond to you.
The Quick Capture function makes the 10 megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash and 2 megapixel front-facing camera even easier to use. Just pick up your Moto X, twist your wrist twice and you're ready to shoot. Touch anywhere on the screen, and you'll get an amazing shot. Its Clear Pixel technology can capture dark scenes or stop motion blur in bright light.
With Active Display, information efficiently appears on the screen. It doesn't interrupt and it's battery friendly. You don't have to wake up Moto X to look at the time or see your messages, satisfying that constant itch to check your phone.
Keeping your phone protected with passwords can be cumbersome. Now with a new accessory called Motorola Skip, you can unlock your phone with a single tap. Skip is a small clip you can wear on a shirtsleeve, shirt hem, belt loop, or wherever it feels most comfortable. Additionally, it comes with Skip dots, which work just like Skip but in sticker form. Stick them in convenient places like a car dashboard or nightstand. Skip allows you to keep information safe, but still have easy access to what you need most. Plus, for a limited time, Motorola Skip will be included for free in all Moto Maker orders.
AT&T recently launched AT&T Next, a new program that gives you the chance to get a new device every year. AT&T Next is simple and easy to use.
You can purchase a smartphone or tablet with no down payment, no upgrade fee and no activation fee and agree to pay monthly installments for the device, with no financing fees.
After 12 payments, you can trade it in and upgrade to a brand new device – again with no down payment.
AT&T Next is available for new AT&T customers or existing customers who are upgrade eligible.
Using AT&T Next, you can get the 16 GB Moto X for $27 per month or the 32 GB Moto X for $32 per month.
AT&T now has the most reliable 4G LTE network. According to independent third-party data, AT&T has the highest success rate for delivering mobile content across nationwide 4G LTE networks.***** And AT&T was named America's fastest 4G LTE network in PC Magazine's 2013 Fastest Mobile Networks 30-market study — and also swept the top rankings in all six U.S. regions from coast to coast: Northeast, Southeast, North-Central, South-Central, Northwest and Southwest. ******


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Indians make numerous roster moves
Cleveland, OH – The Cleveland Indians made multiple roster moves after learning of pitcher Carlos Carrasco's eight-game suspension on Friday.
The team recalled pitcher Nick Hagadone from Triple-A Columbus, placed pitcher Matt Albers on the paternity leave list, activated designated hitter Jason Giambi from the 15-day disabled list and optioned pitcher Corey Kluber to Columbus.
Hagadone went 1-0 with a 6.39 ERA in 27 relief appearances for the Indians last season.
Giambi, who was on the DL with a lower back strain, will be making his Indians debut after signing with the club on Feb. 9. He hit .225 with one homer and eight RBI in 60 games for the Rockies last season.


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SACRAMENTO — As they have embarked on this season with free of egos and full of effort, the Lakers have become a living example of Forrest Gump's take on a box of chocolates.
The Lakers never know what they're going to get.
Their 106-100 win Friday to the Sacramento Kings at Sleep Train Arena reflected timely shots from Pau Gasol, Jodie Meeks and Nick Young while forcing Sacramento to one field goal and three turnovers in the final six minutes. The stretch epitimized how the Lakers have taken a by-committee approach in ensuring something few thought imaginable.
The Lakers (10-9) have a winning record without Kobe Bryant, who announced Friday he will return when the Lakers host the Toronto Raptors at Staples Center after rehabbing his left Achilles tendon for the past eight months.
"Every night," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said, "somebody comes up big."
Meeks capped a team-leading 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting by hitting an open 3-pointer to cut the Kings' lead to 97-96 with 2:43 remaining. Gasol followed with a 20-foot jumper at the top of the key two minutes later for a 98-97 lead, adding respectability to a 19-point effort on only 6-of-15 shooting. Meeks and Young provided more timely jumpers, while Wesley Johnson provided a timely steal and block.
"It's been really fun so far," Gasol said. "The guys give it their all. They don't think about individual play or individual performances. No one cares about getting more credit. Everybody gives it their best."
Even when things don't go as planned.
The Lakers conceded an endless flurry of 3-pointers (9 of 21), open looks for Ben McClemore (20 points on 8-of-17 shooting) and Isaiah Thomas (14 points on 6-of-13 shooting). It also didn't help the Lakers went on a five-minute stretch midway through the fourth quarter recording one field goal. But in his first start this season at center, Robert Sacre overcame three first-half fouls by posting 11 points on 5 of 7 shooting and making Kings center DeMarcus Cousins work for his 20 points on only a six of 17 clip. D'Antoni then featured Jordan Hill off the bench in hopes shortened playing time would offset his recent fatigue. He responded by posting seven of his nine rebounds in the second half through 14 minutes.
"A lot of teams don't know how to scout us," Sacre said. "It'll make it difficult where teams we can't lock on one player because another player is doing well. You never know who the guy will be that night."
The scouting report will soon zero in on Bryant, obviously.
But as the Lakers learned painfully last season, a prolific Bryant can't solely carry them.
"They don't need to stand around and watch him play," D'Antoni said. "We can't watch and sit around and think he's a savior. We have to keep competing like we have been."


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Las Vegas beckons for Brook's title shot
Devon Alexander won a welterweight title on October 20, just hours after Kell Brook won a title eliminator in his hometown of Sheffield to become the mandatory challenger. Now, they will face each other.
Alexander, a former unified junior welterweight titlist, will make the first defence of his 147-pound belt against Brook on January 19 in the main event of US broadcaster Showtime's first major fight card of 2013.
The site has not been determined, but it is likely to take place in Las Vegas, Brook's promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport told ESPN.com.
Hearn said that contractually the fight could not take place in Missouri, the home state of St. Louis native Alexander. Hearn said he and Alexander's promoter Golden Boy have reached an agreement rather than pushing the fight to a purse bid and they are "just tying things up."
"We made a number of significant offers to Golden Boy and (Alexander's adviser) Al Haymon, well in excess of seven figures, to try and bring the fight to the UK, but Devon had no interest in travelling," Hearn said. "We were at a 75-25 disadvantage in any potential purse bid and when we received the final offer from Golden Boy, we were all happy.
"If we won a purse bid and Devon vacated, we had all the potential to become a paper champion and that's not what Kell Brook is all about. To become great and make a statement, there is no better way than travel to a champion's country and rip the belt from him. Kell has the opportunity to make a huge statement in the 147-pound division."
Kevin Cunningham, Alexander's trainer and manager, said they had no intention of going to England for the fight.
"There's no reason to have to leave the country to fight a guy who no one in America has ever heard of," Cunningham said. "That was not going to happen. I'm just happy that I have a team and a promoter that was willing to step up and make this thing happen in the States and now we're just going to work to make sure this title stays in the States.
"Devon should be fighting someone with a bigger name than Kell Brook, but since he's the mandatory, we'll defend the title against the mandatory. But I don't see anything special about Kell Brook."
The 25-year-old Alexander (24-1, 13 KOs) outpointed Randall Bailey on the opening card at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last month to win the belt, but the dreadful fight drew sustained booing from the crowd because it lacked any semblance of action.
After the fight, Alexander sheepishly said he understood the booing but that he had to fight cautiously because of Bailey's tremendous punching power, although Bailey did virtually nothing the entire fight.
Alexander said he aims to make a more exciting fight with Brook. "I definitely want to be a crowd pleaser," said Alexander, who began training for the fight in St. Louis last week. "I want to be exciting and the crowd to be into it and cheering. This is entertainment. The Bailey fight was not what I would have liked to be it. I'm planning to be more engaged and throwing more punches.
"We will definitely be more exciting this fight."
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" opened to a strong $32 million to lead the U.S. box office for the week, pushing "Gravity" to second place with $20.3 million.
"Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Keener, was third with $11.8 million.
"The Counselor" came in fourth at $8 million.
"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" was fifth with an estimated $6.1 million.
"Carrie (2013)" was sixth with $5.9 million; "Escape Plan" seventh with $4.3 million; "12 Years a Slave" eighth with $2.15 million; "Enough Said" ninth with $1.5 million.
"Prisoners" was 10th with $1.06 million.
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PKRA News:
Lay Day for the PKRA in China
The fourth day of the Hainan Island PKRA world tour stop brought an unexpected bout of no wind, which surprised riders who arrived early to the beach, ready to begin the double eliminations. The forecast for this day looked promising, and as such, all competitors remained amped and excited to continue the action – some looking to hold onto their positions and others ready to redeem themselves.
The hot and humid day, however, had different plans. Passing the time with Sudoku games, social media, and lounge time in the rider's area of the event site, competitors hoped with every calm breeze that passed, that better conditions were moments away. In the afternoon, the wind did begin to pick up, and riders acted quickly to pump up their kites in preparation.
Unfortunately they realized their wishful thinking did not materialize, and the wind began to die just as suddenly as it had picked up. The race director, Erik Troostheide, remained hopeful and set up hourly announcements until 2:30, at which time the day was called with an unfavorable forecast for the remainder of the afternoon.
In loo of competition, riders spent their free time soaking in the hotel pools and exploring the city, which many find quite captivating. A few riders even traveled to a nearby temple, enjoying the many cultural wonders of the region. The judges also took advantage of this break in competition to deliberate over the rules for the 2013 season.
Reflecting on this day without competition, Manuela Jungo (SVE) commented that she wished the riders could have at least done some slalom races, as it was a really great way to spend a light wind day.
For tomorrow, the forecast is expected to be good in the morning for the beginning of the double eliminations. Keeping their finger's crossed, the riders will spend the night in anticipation, hoping to continue the hard fought battle into this second round.


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The answer, of course, is no – consumers don't "buy" rubbish. Strong brands are about emotion, inspiration and relevance to our lives. Good advertising helps create these values. But, essentially, brands are about trust.
So when Tesco or Findus sells us horsemeat dressed up as beef, or Barclays fixes the Libor rate, advertising alone will fail. There is a trust deficit.
The same thing applies to media. This week, I attended a debate on post-Leveson regulation of newspapers. One side backed the Conservatives' argument that statutory legislation was unnecessary – a view also taken by British advertisers. ISBA says: "We know self-regulation works, it empowers consumers and keeps companies in check. There is no reason why it cannot be applied to the press."
Indeed, ad agencies, through a fiercely independent judiciary, the Advertising Standards Authority, have achieved an exemplary system of regulation. ASA rulings are robust without government interference, yet based on law and backed by the Office of Fair Trading and Ofcom. The public seems to trust this.
So when Tesco sells us horsemeat dressed up as beef, or Barclays fixes the Libor rate, advertising along will fail
But the other side of the debate, led by Hacked Off, used the compelling argument that only legislation would truly reassure sceptical consumers after years of appalling behaviour by some tabloid journalists.
We should perhaps remind ourselves of the acute crisis of trust in our newspaper business. Events in 2011 quickly destroyed the News of the World, depriving the ad and media sector of one of its most powerful vehicles.
The nub is that, however newspaper regulation is taken forward, it must have the necessary teeth – and, crucially, gain buy-in from the general public, rather than just the politico-media establishment.
It must lead to prolonged good behaviour by newspapers. In British society, where faith in many things is at a low ebb, this trust in quality journalism – as well as in big brands – is more important than ever. It underpins our vibrant, world-leading advertising and wider creative sector.
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Since 2004, a music education professor at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill. has been collecting and documenting the indigenous music of the native Kichwa people of the Ecuadorian rain forest. With globalization, much of Ecuador's culture is changing rapidly and much of the indigenous music is in danger of being lost. Philip Wilhelm is on a mission to integrate the music back into the schools in Ecuador.
Wilhelm sat down with St. Louis Public Radio's Julie Bierach to explain what is so unique about the music and why it should be saved.
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It has been an inauspicious start in the lower Southeast to a growing season that began with more promise than any in recent history. The promise, of course, the result of skyrocketing prices in the grain and soybean markets.
But the potential for making a profit this year — with corn or anything else for that matter — has been significantly damaged by a series of early season weather calamities. Problems caused by a lingering drought were compounded by sub-freezing temperatures during Easter weekend that severely damaged much of the region's wheat crop and set back the later-planted corn. Some old-timers are calling this the worst start to a season they've ever seen, and the evidence bears this out.
Large portions of Alabama, Georgia and Florida are currently categorized as being in "extreme" or "severe" drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought generally is defined as a moisture deficit bad enough to have social, environmental or economic effects. Extreme drought conditions are those that are expected once in 50 years, causing major crop and pasture losses and possible widespread water shortages or restrictions.
Severe drought conditions, on the other hand, are those we can expect once every 20 years. And while droughts have appeared to be occurring with greater frequency in recent years, the current one could end up being in a class all it's own.
To anyone who has been paying attention to rainfall amounts, this drought doesn't come as a complete surprise. According to John Christy, state climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the current drought actually began in January of 2005, and every season since has been below average for rainfall.
In Georgia, several counties are reporting some of the driest first four months of the year in many decades of record-keeping. For example, Rome, Ga., had only 8.40 inches of rain from January through April of this year, the driest four months in 109 years of reporting. Other areas of the state are reporting similar rainfall deficits.
River and stream flows also help to put droughts in historical perspective, says David Stooksbury, University of Georgia state climatologist. The U.S. Geological Survey reports daily record to near-record low stream flows for the first part of May across all of Georgia except the extreme northeast. And even in the northeast, stream flows were extremely low for early May and falling.
In the Coosawattee and Oostanaula basins of northwest Georgia and the Oconee, Ocmulgee and Altamaha basins of east Georgia stream flows, were near or breaking low-flow records set on May 3 in 1986, said Stooksbury in mid-May.
In the northern and middle Flint River basin, the current flows were breaking records set in 2000, and the May 3 flow on the Flint at Newton, Ga., broke the record low for that day, set in 1981.
Meanwhile, rivers draining the Okefenokee Swamp are near or at record low flows set in the early 1930s and middle 1950s. And in extreme southwest Georgia, stream flows in the smaller basins are breaking records that were set last year.
Stooksbury says little if any widespread, sustained relief from the drought is anticipated, and that his long-term outlook is for the drought to continue to intensify.
In southeast Alabama, some cotton producers were dusting in seed in mid-May, while others were halting planting altogether. William Birdsong, an Extension specialist in the area, says he has never seen two extensive droughts back to back, and he remains hopeful that this year won't be his first such experience.
It's difficult to remain optimistic considering the dismal start to 2007, but it brings to mind last year's cotton crop in Georgia, the one Extension cotton specialist Steve Brown so aptly named "the comeback crop." Dry weather and high temperatures hung over the crop for much of the 2006 growing season. And as late as this past September, average yields were being forecast in the 200-pound per-acre range. But aided by a few late-season showers and ideal harvest conditions, Georgia's cotton made a final surge and finished at more than 820 pounds per acre, the third highest yield on record.
The lesson being, it ain't over 'til it's over.


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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Five years Backreaction
29 comments:
- Phil Warnell said...
Dear Bee and Stefan,
I would just like to say, that since my discovery of your blog, it too has been a constant and welcomed companion. That is it has not simply provided a variety of subject matter, thought and amusement, yet also serves as sounding board and scale against which my own understanding, soundness of opinion and sense of well being can be evaluated and given opportunity to grow. That is it has had me to become more firmly convinced than ever, that knowing things and thinking things alone having little value and provides scant gratification when they having no outlet to be shared.
This blog stands as a reminder of what is so often overlooked, that the important distinction to be made between our species and other creatures, being our potential is greater than the sum total of our individual physical abilities and cognitive capacity, as only realized through our seemingly innate desire and understanding, that when these are shared serves each of us better, in then finding ourselves more complete. So in such regard I thank you for caring enough to spare the time and effort to have created this space, as it being one I so much enjoy to visit and happily regularly return.
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy fifth anniversary,
- 7:17 AM, February 24, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Since I don't write as well as Phil, I'll just say thanks to you as well, and see if you can't get Stefan to put fingers to keyboard every now and then between testing milk bottle temperatures, and thanks for all the fish.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
... Douglas Adams
Next month will mark my second anniversary here myself (seems like yesterday), and if I ever accomplish anything in this game, I'll have you and Stefan and your fine posters to thank for greatly reducing my learning curve.
- 7:52 AM, February 24, 2011
- Arun said...
Thanks, Bee and Stefan, it has been our pleasure. It has been a pleasure to see this blog grow from one to four :)
- 9:37 AM, February 24, 2011
- xlines said...
Happy b-day for my favorite not-so-technical physics blog! :)
- 10:19 AM, February 24, 2011
- Kay zum Felde said...
Dear Bee and Stefan,
it is always a pleasure to read your interesting blogs and commentaries on our commentaries. I hope, this will go on for a long time.
Best Kay
- 10:44 AM, February 24, 2011
- Eric said...
Hi Bee,
You are doing very good work and I'm glad you are sharing it with us. I think this is a particularly interesting time for physics with many cross currents pulling and tugging. There is a certain intellectual inertia in all of us and you have managed well to fill us in where you think those points are. Sometimes we have pushed back and disagreed. But I think I can say that just having you put ideas into words and forcing us to voice in words our own ideas has been hugely rewarding. At least for me it has been. And of course it always makes one feel less alone to communicate with fellow travelers on the journey. Thanks.
- 10:48 AM, February 24, 2011
- Plato said...
A big thank you for being hosts to all the posts and interesting conversations.
- 11:05 AM, February 24, 2011
- Christine said...
Happy Anniversary!
- 11:45 AM, February 24, 2011
- Anonymous Snowboarder said...
Bee (and Stefan) - thanks for the very many insightful posts over these past years and as well putting up with all the riff-raff that come to visit the blog! May I be the first to suggest that the 10th will require a non-virtual celebration? (preferably somewhere with snowboarding of course!)
- 8:34 PM, February 24, 2011
- Neil B said...
Congrats on your blog pentaversary, Bee and Stefan, et al! I have found the scientific and socio-philosophical essays very interesting and often illuminating, written in a fetching style and very impressive English for an EASL practictioner, thought-provoking, with convincing counsel in many cases. The best of the interdisciplinary pieces about science and society are of the caliber of from greats like CP Snow. Much belongs on the pages of the great high-end general interest magazines and blogs, really. Much effort put into helpful BO comments, being worth the rigorous discipline ;-). Thank you, and you're welcome, too. Carry on.
- 10:32 PM, February 24, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
What is blogspot up to? I can only get feeds from the last 6 hours. Why? There are many gods, but who are the worst gods? That's right, the blogspot gods.
- 11:17 PM, February 24, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Steven,
I don't think I write all that well and may explain why I have messed up Bee's and Stephan's space so often with my erasures. That is why I also like to include quotes, as I invariably find someone else has expressed things much better than I often can. In having said that, the last one I offered was truncated and now discover I should have given the full rendition, as it in total more aptly expresses what I find to be the value and quality of this blog and its authors.
" To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 7:08 AM, February 25, 2011
- Neil B said...
Phil, strive to be concise, not flowery! You can learn a lot from Bee's style, which manages to balance various needs and aesthetic concerns.
- 8:12 AM, February 25, 2011
- Nirmalya said...
This blog has been an engaging and inspiring read for me : very honest and straightforward, funny, incisive, intelligent and very civil and very very nice.
Best wishes to Backreaction!
- 8:18 AM, February 25, 2011
- Uncle Al said...
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. Always pursue the statistical anomaly! They'll forget when you were wrong and extoll your virtues for being correct. Keep your ideas public.
(Those who are always wrong become economists, psychologists, and politicians. Being burned in effigy is not nearly as inconvenient as the alternative.)
- 11:04 AM, February 25, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Phil, you're fine just the way you are, brah. No excuses, don't ever change.
- 4:20 PM, February 25, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Uncle Al writes;
Those who are always wrong become economists, psychologists, and politicians. Being burned in effigy is not nearly as inconvenient as the alternative.
You are ONE CRAZY sumbitch, Al, I am NOT the first person to have that opinion, am I?
Don't you ever change either. ;-0
- 4:23 PM, February 25, 2011
- stefan said...
Dear All,
thanks a lot for all the kind words and the good wishes for Backreaction's anniversary! It's indeed amazing to see it five years old already!
Steven, I haven't give up yet the hope that I'll write a post again some day ;-)
- 5:29 PM, February 25, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Steven,
Thanks for completely liking and accepting me as I am, thus having you becoming part of a exclusive group, that is along with my dear mother and perhaps a few others:-). Then again how could I not take Neil's advice to heart, especially in light of the example he offered as perhaps those managing striking a better balance. That said, in general I still find to many people these days wanting to be overly concise at the sacrifice of having their meaning clear. I suppose that is one reason I haven't been tempted to become more of a tweeter :-)
-"The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience"
-Albert Einstein, from the book "Ideas and Opinions" Crown Publishing (1954)
- 6:44 AM, February 26, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Thanks, Stefan. Well if the reason you haven't written has something to do with two new humans and/or you job at Springer on top of that (and taking out the garbage, which is Job 1), we can fully understand so don't rush on our account.
If on the other hand, it's for lacks of ideas, may I suggest some that take us away from the silly SuperStrings Wars and LHC stuff that seems to be crowding out everything else, like quark-gluon plasma (or just plasma in general!)?
In particular, I was thinking of as simple an explanation as possible of the following (since you both are superb at making the complicated understandable):
The realm of the very large, of galaxies and the filaments of same and the voids between them have always fascinated me.
Perhaps chief among them are the jets, called polar jets when non-relativistic and relativistic when not, that shoot out from the poles of everything from neutron stars to stellar-sized black holes to galactic-sized black holes to quasars (active galaxies).
Apparently there are 2 competing theories on the origin and mechanism of the faster relativistic ones, that I just became aware of, called Blandford-Znajek process and Penrose mechanism.
I'm curious if anyone knows how things are progressing to solving this interesting mystery, given the fantastic amount of new data the observatories on earth and in space are providing.
These are also drawn into the mathematics of "Frame-dragging", an interesting field in its own right, which basically says that matter in a rotating body warps space-time due to the rotation, which was predicted in 1918 based on Einstein's field equations of General Relativity.
Hi Phil,
Well, the reason I completely like and accept you as you are is a default, because I presently lack the funds to motor on up to Toronto to beat you into submission to seeing things my way and only my way! lol, just kidding, except for the lack of funds thing. ;-0 No, hey man, you've opened my eyes to something I long suspected, that being that things aren't always black and white and shades of gray (In Canada: grey) should always be considered, so thanks again.
- 8:43 AM, February 26, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
oops, I should have said drags space-time not warps as even a non-rotating body warps it. Sheesh, I type too fast. Or think too fast and type too slow. Or something.
- 8:55 AM, February 26, 2011
- Neil B said...
Phil - thanks for being accepting of advice (and it was prompted by your own implicit appeal), and yet to be accepted as you are is wonderful too. As I have said your writing is elegant and brings up shades of meaning and context. Then again, there are times when you have limited space and time and want to get teh (sic!) same basic point out. It's good to have the ability, just like it's good for a delicately dexterous person to have the chops to tug hard when needed. Hey, you can do both.
Steven: the subject of frame-dragging is fascinating and experiments have been talked about for years (I recall, back in the 70s reading the old Pugh/Schiff proposal for a satellite test. One thing that has to be taken into account is the SRT Thomas precession, one of my fascinations and about which the issue of conservation of angular momentum is poorly elucidated in the literature.) Somehow, according to Wikipedia: Frame-dragging, good experiments still haven't been effectively completed. This effect can be considered part of the gravitational analog of magnetism, usually called gravitational magnetism or gravitomagnetism, but I propose "gravitism" as a cuter and shorter alternative.
BTW Steven, had time to finish digesting my FQXI essay yet? I added a new experimental test involving spatial decoherence, not just the instance-varying type of the original MZI case. The piece needs more comments, etc.
- 9:17 AM, February 26, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Steven,
Thanks for your support; I think :-) As for the difficulty in getting up my way I would alleviate that situation by me making the effort, that is if time not being more of a factor, rather than one of resource. Hell I'd even put out of my mind I would be also be getting closer to the New York Yankees and Leonard Susskind :-)
More seriously though, in the last few years I've felt less welcome in your neck of the woods, with what 911 has mitigated as to have happened to our more general mutual acceptance and historic relationship. Interestingly enough with the apparent recent effectiveness of what I would call the "Facebook" facilitated revolutions, perhaps better described as "In Your Facebook Revolutions" , I have a mind to start a page to ask all my countrypersons to refrain from giving reason to having America become more uncomfortable with having us being present. That is I find that in the end action or in this case inaction, as Ghandi would have advised, might speak louder than words.
I apologize for the rant and being off topic; I guess it's just that non political/economical focused Canadian brand of Globalism bubbling to the surface:-) Then again of course this is but a fools dream, especially with our dollar slightly now higher valued then yours and all those bargains to be had; that is despite your your Commander and Chief now proposing to more justify the feeling ; sigh.
- 9:54 AM, February 26, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Neil,
I always take seriously what you have to say, as I've found that your intent by in large is meant to offer constructive criticism, rather than the opposite. That is I would concur that the current nature of the world suggests we be more economical than ever before. However what I'm more fearful of, is that it also might relate to what forms to be the aggregate of the average attention span. I think the only way to combat this relates to Bee's sentiments regarding publications with recognizing it better to say more, yet less often and then only when it having meaningful significance.
Interestingly enough one of those I consider as having wisdom, in that being Robert Pirsig, was to have expressed the same when it came to the relationship between quality and quantity. Better still he was a perosn that followed his own convictions, with so far only ever writing two books; with the first being "Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance" (1974) and the second "Lila" (1991).
In such regard I've often wondered what the world would be like if we all not only felt, yet acted the same. That is would the silence be so deafening to have most if not all go mad or would it leave more space to hear one's own thoughts and reflect upon those of others of quality more often?
- 10:59 AM, February 26, 2011
- Robert L. Oldershaw said...
Neutron mass = Proton mass + 3(Einstein mass). [99.9967% level]
Electron = (sqrt 3/2)(Einstein mass).
sqrt 3/2 = [j(j+1)/a]^1/2 and j=a=1/2.
Einstein mass = (alpha^2 e^2/G')^1/2
G' = 2.18 x 10^31 cgs units.
So that's 11 major baryons, the electron and the neutron at the <99.6>% level.
But of course one is not allowed to think of subatomic particles as Kerr-Newman ultracompacts, since that would involve gravitation in the quantum domain, and negate most of theoretical hep hermetics.
What is a natural philosopher to do in an era of Platonic pseudo-science?
- 12:32 PM, February 26, 2011
- Eric said...
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- 4:39 PM, February 26, 2011
- Eric said...
Robert, can't you just this once congratulate Bee and Stefan on the fifth anniversary of their blog. There is plenty of other times that we all get to discuss our physics theories.
- 4:42 PM, February 26, 2011
- Robert L. Oldershaw said...
Yes we can!
Congratulations Bee and Stefan on the 5-year mark for the blog.
And on approaching the point at which you might get to sleep for a full 6-8 hours undisturbed.
Isn't life strange and stressful and wonderful all at the same time?
- 10:41 PM, February 26, 2011
- William said...
What an eventful 5 years. Marriage, location changes, pregnancy, births, and all. Can you post that as a Feynman diagram? :)
Thanks and congratulations!
- 1:36 AM, March 01, 2011


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