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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6CA82F1B-CA06-4DED-B604-0815EF66A5F8/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Nice blog with big, beautiful pics and some news. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://boston.com/bigpicture/" title="http://boston.com/bigpicture/">boston.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2><A href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/soaked_swiss_soccer.html" linkindex="18">Soaked Swiss Soccer</A></H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img 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color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV class="bpCaption">The Sun is on the opposite side, so all of Saturn is backlit. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2><A href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/uncontacted_tribe_photographed.html" linkindex="93">Uncontacted Tribe Photographed in Brazil</A></H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/89C6478E-FBAF-48B0-B09B-B5E24513BFE6.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2><A href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/05/after_the_quake.html" linkindex="100">After the Quake</A></H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/D97BD87C-DAC8-4EF7-81C8-AC11084A3A11.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2><A 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href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/art/" rel="tag">art</a></div>http://boston.com/bigpicture/Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:01:41 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D5CE84BD-E2A6-419B-86C9-BD222AC60867/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/as-surge-succeeds-iraq-coverage.html" title="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/as-surge-succeeds-iraq-coverage.html">gatewaypundit.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV><A href="http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/003814.html" linkindex="1"><STRONG>Democracy Project</STRONG></A> analyzes a recent report published at the <EM>American Journalism Review</EM> titled: "<A href="http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4515" linkindex="2"><STRONG>Whatever Happened to Iraq?</STRONG></A>"</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><EM>In a media shocker...</EM><BR /><DIV>This past year Iraq has disappeared from the front pages of the nation's newspapers and from the nightly network newscasts.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Network news devoted to Iraq dropped from 23% to 3% (92% decline) compared to last year:</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/84A3939A-1297-4FEE-8CFA-40B38FBB2911.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Cable news dedicated to Iraq dropped even further from 24% to 1% over last year:</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/E84FE281-64EE-46E7-95C0-FD882FE35FAA.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Print news dedicated to Iraq dropped 70% over last year.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><EM><STRONG>Related...</STRONG></EM> Don't expect to see this on the American networks:<BR />The following is a translation by Iraqi-American <STRONG>Haider Ajina</STRONG> from the Iraqi <A href="http://www.burathanews.com/news_article_42361.html" linkindex="8"><STRONG>Buratha News</STRONG></A>:</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Baghdad Parks & Recreation department Invites families to visit Abu-Nawass Gardens</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/5B8E1799-1A0A-457B-B855-911F3A41797D.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iraq/" rel="tag">iraq</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war+on+terror/" rel="tag">war on terror</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/surge/" rel="tag">surge</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a></div>http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/05/as-surge-succeeds-iraq-coverage.htmlThu, 29 May 2008 20:35:35 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/38C88239-4A96-4854-B836-0A46A5453516/<b>clipped by:</b> <a 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color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H3>Photography News and Post Aggregators</H3></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B><A href="http://photographyvoter.com/">Photography Voter</A></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B><A href="http://imaginginsider.com/">Imaging Insider</A></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B><A href="http://picurls.com/">PicUrls</A></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B><A href="http://aphlog.com/">Aphlog</A></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B><A href="http://1001noisycameras.blogspot.com/2008/03/digital-camera-news.html">1001 Noisy Cameras Digital Camera News</A></B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI><A href="http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html">The Online Photographer</A></LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI><A href="http://www.photub.com/">Photub</A></LI></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><LI><A href="http://www.fredmiranda.com/">Fred Miranda</A></LI></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">blogs</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/links/" rel="tag">links</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photographers/" rel="tag">photographers</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photography/" rel="tag">photography</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/portfolios./" rel="tag">portfolios.</a></div>http://www.cameraporn.net/2008/05/12/60-photography-links-you-cant-live-without/Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:43 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/48BB05AF-79D0-43CF-838F-36A21E146DBF/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoe" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoe">newsbusters.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">During the 1992 presidential campaign, when incumbent Vice President Dan Quayle made a spelling mistake, the New York Times <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DA1031F934A25755C0A964958260&scp=39&sq=quayle+potato&st=nyt" linkindex="14" set="yes">was all over it</A>.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">On Friday, Barack Obama</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">told an Oregon audience that "I've been in 57 states, (with) I think one left to go."</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Searches at the Times</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/257F8CBA-E1D4-4D10-87E4-DC3F3FD9E82F.jpg" alt="NYTobama57states0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/D282D8A1-D6F3-4742-8B38-6DDF97B6C61F.jpg" alt="NYTobamaFiftySevenStates0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">But <A href="http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?frow=0&n=10&srcht=a&query=quayle+potato&srchst=nyt&submit.x=41&submit.y=17&submit=sub&hdlquery=&bylquery=&daterange=period&mon1=06&day1=10&year1=1992&mon2=11&day2=10&year2=1992" linkindex="18" set="yes">a Times search on "Quayle potato"</A> (not in quotes) from June 10 to November 10, 1992 shows that the Old Gray Lady's reporters, columnists, writers, and editorialists went back to the story another 38 times</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Washington Post</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/7F042F86-A598-44E4-B7AD-ED162BF67996.jpg" alt="WaPoObama57on0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/5E63D41D-6D64-47C6-983E-52C9AAC4A1D9.jpg" alt="WaPoObamaFiftySeven0508" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The Associated Press? Surely you jest (<A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=obama+57+states" linkindex="21">here</A> and <A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/search.hosted.ap.org/wireCoreTool/Search?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&query=Obama+fifty-seven+states" linkindex="22">here</A>).</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Google News search on the first of the two terms <A href="http://news.google.com/news?as_q=obama&svnum=10&as_scoring=n&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&tab=wn&ie=ISO-8859-1&ned=us&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=57+states&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=8&as_minm=5&as_maxd=11&as_maxm=5&as_nsrc=&as_nloc=&geo=&as_occt=any&aq=f" linkindex="23">returned 27 results</A>, only four of which could be considered Old Media</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a <A href="http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/05/09/to-obama-it-seems-like-there-are-more-than-50-states/" linkindex="24" set="yes">Reuters blog</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Bloomberg "Campaign Notebook" item carried at <A href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5770553.html" linkindex="25" set="yes">the Houston Chronicle</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ticket11-2008may11,0,3612671.story" linkindex="26" set="yes">Los Angeles Times</A> blog</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">MSNBC <A href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/10/1007145.aspx" linkindex="27" set="yes">"First Read" blog entry</A></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The others buried it</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">a <A href="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=quayle+potato&num=20&as_ldate=06/10/1992&as_hdate=11/10/1992&scoring=n&ned=us&sa=N&start=840" linkindex="30" set="yes">Google News Archive Search</A> on "Quayle potato" for the period from June 10 to November 10, 1992</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">over 850 items</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/quayle/" rel="tag">quayle</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a></div>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/05/11/old-media-ignores-obamas-57-states-couldnt-get-enough-quayles-potatoeMon, 12 May 2008 14:48:51 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D9BDD0EE-D532-4382-8C76-764D714AD469/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://minx.cc/?post=261721" title="http://minx.cc/?post=261721">minx.cc</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><A href="http://thepage.time.com/on-mondays-morning-shows-2/" linkindex="6" set="yes">Funny how the networks are quick to accede to the political desires of liberals,</A> without worrying too much about "pandering" or subcontracting their own highly-trained sense of news-value to the lay public, so long as that lay public can be used as a pretext to do what what the liberals in the newsroom want to do anyway.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Imagine if FoxNews announced "We're going to have Wright updates every half hour, because that's what our viewers want."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> I imagine they'd be castigated for deferring to their bitter, gun-clinging audiences' wishes.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Because CNN has a <I>better</I> audience, of course. It's liberal, and, as such, can be trusted to help make the big news-judgment decisions.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> Because ultimately it's not a J-school credential that empowers one to decide what should and should not be in the national debate -- it's an adherence to the liberal political philosophy.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/cnn/" rel="tag">cnn</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wright/" rel="tag">wright</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/liberals/" rel="tag">liberals</a></div>http://minx.cc/?post=261721Mon, 05 May 2008 21:48:24 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/343A1DE0-9808-4346-8910-2D1B13D8273E/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20080422.aspx" title="http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20080422.aspx">www.strategypage.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Between mid-March and mid-April, al Qaeda suffered major losses in Iraq. American and Iraqi troops killed or captured 53 al Qaeda leaders. These include men in charge of entire cities (or portions of large cities like Mosul or Baghdad), as well as men in charge of various aspects of terror operations (making bombs, placing them or minding the bombers). Most important, nine of the ten most senior men involved, were captured, and interrogated. This led to locating more al Qaeda staff, and assets. Hundreds of weapons and explosives caches have been discovered this year, as a result of interrogating captured terrorists.<SPAN>  </SPAN>The result has been a sharp fall in suicide bomber attacks, and the ones still carried out are against soft targets</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">All this is good news, meaning it's not reported.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Bad news brings in the eyeballs and advertising revenue. Stories of desertion and desperation in Basra grab the headlines, while al Qaeda's travails are relegated to the back pages, if at all.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iraq/" rel="tag">iraq</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war+on+terror/" rel="tag">war on terror</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/military/" rel="tag">military</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/al+qaeda/" rel="tag">al qaeda</a></div>http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20080422.aspxWed, 30 Apr 2008 06:25:36 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/287D7EB1-2581-45F2-94E0-4C89B4F1B4F5/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2949" title="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2949">www.scrappleface.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>(2008-04-19) — ABC News today issued an apology to the Democrat party and <A href="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/an-open-letter.html" linkindex="420">progressive pundits</A>, on behalf of journalists George Stephanopolous and Charles Gibson, for allowing this week’s Democrat presidential debate to descend into ‘<EM>tangential character issues</EM>‘ like honesty, integrity and personal association with terrorists and racists.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>To atone for this ‘<EM>gross disservice</EM>‘, ABC News said it would set aside up to three full minutes in prime time on the eve of Tuesday’s presidential primary in Pennsylvania to allow Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama “to fully debate their substantive policy differences.”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>As a further demonstration of its commitment to serious coverage of the issues that divide the Democrat rivals, the network said it would air the policy debate with “limited commercial interruption.”</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/democrat/" rel="tag">democrat</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/debate/" rel="tag">debate</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/abc/" rel="tag">abc</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humor/" rel="tag">humor</a></div>http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2949Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:48:13 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DBF2AC63-AF8A-4D52-86C6-5D814D709482/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicken-comes-home-to-roost-in-16.html" title="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicken-comes-home-to-roost-in-16.html">gatewaypundit.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>Being an <A href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P2EVd9WDio0&eurl=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/search?q=jeremiah+wright" linkindex="1"><STRONG>anti-American racist minister</STRONG></A> has its perks.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/9A7AC3BB-85F8-4F60-B343-4B81C13B47FE.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Rev. Jeremiah Wright is about to roost in a 10,340 square foor $1.6 million dollar home.<BR /><DIV><A href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/27/obamas-former-pastor-builds-a-multimillion-dollar-retirement-home/#comment-254991" linkindex="3"><STRONG>FOX News</STRONG></A> reported:</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wright/" rel="tag">wright</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/religion/" rel="tag">religion</a></div>http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicken-comes-home-to-roost-in-16.htmlFri, 28 Mar 2008 03:34:04 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5ADFA921-F534-40E4-9D90-1B984B9C0D70/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/775/iraq-news" title="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/775/iraq-news">pewresearch.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P class="text">From January 2007 -- when Bush announced the "surge" -- through the end of May 2007, Iraq had been the dominant story, accounting for 20% of all the news coverage measured by PEJ's News Coverage Index. But from the time of that May funding vote through the war's fifth anniversary on March 19, 2008, coverage plunged by about 50%. In that period, the media paid more than twice as much attention to the presidential campaign as it did to the war.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">In the first three months of 2008, coverage of the campaign outstripped coverage of the war by a margin of more than 10-to-1 (43% of the newshole compared with 4%).</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/n2sooners/512/2FA3D7ED-B45D-465A-8ACA-026B1921577F.gif" alt="Figure" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The reduction in violence on the ground that began late last year has coincided with a significant decrease in coverage from the war zone as well.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">In November, stories filed from Iraq began to take greater notice of the surge's success in reducing violence, even as the volume of coverage tapered off, evidence perhaps of the old adage that no news is good news.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iraq/" rel="tag">iraq</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/war+on+terror/" rel="tag">war on terror</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/surge/" rel="tag">surge</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/success/" rel="tag">success</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/military/" rel="tag">military</a></div>http://pewresearch.org/pubs/775/iraq-newsFri, 28 Mar 2008 01:09:43 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D49F01CE-4F24-4B5A-9583-E7B3A7AA866B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2925" title="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2925">www.scrappleface.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">After a CBS News video appeared on <A target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4" linkindex="387">YouTube</A> contradicting former First Lady Hillary Clinton’s account of her 1996 landing in Bosnia “under sniper fire”, a spokesman for Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign said unnamed critics were trying to “swiftboat” her “in a fashion reminiscent of what they did to John Kerry in 2004.”</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The Clinton campaign source said CBS News had apparently edited out the sniper fire audio from its video clips, making it look like First Lady Clinton and her daughter Chelsea were greeted at the landing site by a little, pony-tailed Bosnian girl who kissed Mrs. Clinton on the cheeks.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Even without the audio, you can see Hillary and Chelsea ducking toward the little girl as bullets whistle over their heads,” said the anonymous campaign staffer. “The other people standing nearby were so paralyzed by fear that all they could do was smile. The little girl practically leaped into Hillary’s arms for protection from the barrage of searing hot lead.” </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/clinton/" rel="tag">clinton</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bosnia/" rel="tag">bosnia</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/swiftboat/" rel="tag">swiftboat</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/satire/" rel="tag">satire</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humor/" rel="tag">humor</a></div>http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2925Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:55 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/694D7E96-DDD9-474B-AD76-3C31580B4B2D/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2855" title="http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2855">www.scrappleface.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Republican <A target="_blank" href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24398" linkindex="345">Fred Thompson</A> announced today he has pulled out of the race to set pre-primary <A target="_blank" href="http://fredfile.fred08.com/blog/2008/video-fred-thompson-on-late-edition-011308/" linkindex="346">expectations</A> through media-driven political polling.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Thompson said he’s <A target="_blank" href="http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local/story/136968.html" linkindex="347" set="yes">committed</A> to winning the Republican nomination for president, and then the White House, but would no longer allow his name to stand in public opinion polls funded by newspapers and cable news outlets.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“The mainstream media shape public opinion about the candidates through their decidedly-liberal news coverage,” said Mr. Thompson, “and then they turn around and ask people what they think of those candidates. Well, if you feed slop to a pig, what do you think you’re going to shovel up later?”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">“Do we really want The New York Times and the Washington Post to tell the Republican party whom we ought to pick to run against Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?”</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Mr. Thompson added, “If you polled the San Diego Chargers, before the AFC title game, do you think they’d choose Tom Brady to quarterback the Patriots?”</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/polls/" rel="tag">polls</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/2008/" rel="tag">2008</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">campaign</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humor/" rel="tag">humor</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/satire/" rel="tag">satire</a></div>http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2855Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:05:17 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4716D461-4718-4A63-B060-E285F9801EC4/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.cmpa.com/releases.html" title="http://www.cmpa.com/releases.html">www.cmpa.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">according to a new study by the <B>Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Fox NewsChannel�s evening news show provided more balanced coverage than its counterparts on the broadcast networks.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>For a PDF file of the complete press release, please <A href="http://www.cmpa.com/releases/07_12_21_Election_Study.pdf">click here</A></P></div></div><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.cmpa.com/about.html" title="http://www.cmpa.com/about.html">www.cmpa.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2>About the Center for Media and Public Affairs</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The Center's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content. CMPA's bi-monthly newsletter, Media Monitor, is a prime example of these analyses. Our scientific approach sets us apart from self appointed media "watchdog" groups, while our timeliness and outreach distinguishes us from traditional academic researchers.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fox+news/" rel="tag">fox news</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bias/" rel="tag">bias</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/study/" rel="tag">study</a></div>http://www.cmpa.com/releases.htmlThu, 27 Dec 2007 02:32:02 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/26BD9AA8-9C47-4D33-AAE5-3F5817D3FCFF/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28310&only&rss" title="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28310&only&rss">littlegreenfootballs.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The ever-tolerant peace-lovers who frequent loony left sites such as Huffington Post and Democratic Underground <A target="_blank" title="Fox Haters React to News Corp Explosion" href="http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/iblog/C1049953760/E20071217153505/index.html" linkindex="56" set="yes">react to the news of a small chemical explosion at Fox News headquarters</A>.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* Who among us would have wept if Fox News HQ had been blown up? I can honestly say I wouldn’t’ve.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* We could only wish. Those hate-filled bigots should be taken off the air ASAP!</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* If something happens to FOX News and one of those Bush enablers get’s [sic] hurt...who cares? How many have died because they helped this administration lie us into a war?</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* oh yea good idea.... ****DIRTY BOMB, ...Let us Pray</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>As if to reinforce the point that these people are seriously disturbed, this LGF entry has been posted at Digg.com with the title: <A target="_blank" title="Digg - Little Green Footballs Declare Jesus Was an IslamoFacist" href="http://www.digg.com/political_opinion/Little_Green_Footballs_Declare_Jesus_Was_an_IslamoFacist" linkindex="57">Digg - Little Green Footballs Declare Jesus Was an IslamoFacist</A>.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* what a nice christmas present, i guess the whole sleazy enterprise going up in smoke would have been too much of a gift. well, it’s a start</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>* Fox News being destroyed is one of the best things that could happen.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/liberals/" rel="tag">liberals</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/leftists/" rel="tag">leftists</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fox+news/" rel="tag">fox news</a></div>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28310&only&rssTue, 18 Dec 2007 00:45:05 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D77C4AD5-0C13-4AFE-8A58-237749BCA04A/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317012,00.html" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317012,00.html">www.foxnews.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>WASHINGTON —  Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat who ran as an independent last election after losing his primary re-election, will endorse Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>FOX News contributor Bill Kristol, who publishes The Weekly Standard and is a longtime McCain supporter, was first to break the news on his Web site.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="2">The two had just traveled together, once again, to Iraq for the Thanksgiving holiday. Lieberman has long said he would let the process "play itself out" -- meaning, not endorse a candidate early, but according to the aide, "Lieberman just thought McCain was clearly the most qualified candidate (of the entire '08 line-up) to be commander in chief from day one so rather than just observe from the sidelines, the senator now hopes to actually influence the process."</FONT></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><FONT size="2">"This is in no way an endorsement of the (Republican) Party, just the man," the aide said, adding that McCain did not ask Lieberman to join his ticket in the vice presidential slot.</FONT></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/lieberman/" rel="tag">lieberman</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mccain/" rel="tag">mccain</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/president/" rel="tag">president</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/campaign/" rel="tag">campaign</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/endorse/" rel="tag">endorse</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/democrat/" rel="tag">democrat</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/republican/" rel="tag">republican</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a></div>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317012,00.htmlMon, 17 Dec 2007 04:27:58 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1B5B9369-B6A3-4104-9D23-BED73FD3B572/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/n2sooners/">n2sooners</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I think he is dead wrong. The news industry has no right to regulate us. And how many of todays big newspapers does he thing started out with teams of lawyers, editorial review boards, and a stable of reporters? He even goes out to layout the standards of news media today such as multiple sources on controversial stories and balanced reporting that takes in both sides. What a laugh. I say that the new media IS the balance to the old media. They just had their toys in their toy box for so long that they can't stand the competition. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/12/citizened_1213.html" title="http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/12/citizened_1213.html">www.ajc.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Supporters of "citizen journalism" argue it provides independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media don't provide. While it has its place, the reality is it really isn't journalism at all, and it opens up information flow to the strong probability of fraud and abuse. The news industry should find some way to monitor and regulate this new trend.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The premise of citizen journalism is that regular people can now collect information and pictures with video cameras and cellphones, and distribute words and images over the Internet. Advocates argue that the acts of collecting and distributing makes these people "journalists." This is like saying someone who carries a scalpel is a "citizen surgeon" or someone who can read a law book is a "citizen lawyer." Tools are merely that. Education, skill and standards are really what make people into trusted professionals. Information without journalistic standards is called gossip.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">journalism</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/media/" rel="tag">media</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/msm/" rel="tag">msm</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">freedom</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/press/" rel="tag">press</a></div>http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/12/12/citizened_1213.htmlSat, 15 Dec 2007 17:51:38 GMT