Fourth Estate

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• Why are you so anxious, Ann?

  
  our man in abiko — Authority: 135
  Our Man doesnt believe in polls. Sure, they exist and all, but so do weather stories - they are there to fill the void between the adverts in the paper on slow news days. Case in point: The Nikkei in a hardhitting report (er, regurgitated news release) has UNCOVERED THE TRUTH - Japanese worry alot. In fact more ...
  13 hours ago

• The 1000th Post

  
  Obi's Sister — Authority: 557
  So what should I talk about?How about TeaPartyGirl takes on Mutant Nostril, and wins?Or The Daily Show is actually reporting stuff the LameStreamMedia ignores?Or Zippers, A Man’s Best Friend? Georgia Edition. Florida Edition.Or Obama’s Safe-School Czar pushing child-porn? Why is this a surprise?Or Madam Boxer, ...
  3 days ago

• Dayton Grassroots Daily: v11 The Fourth Estate

  
  Esrati — Authority: 131
  Greg Hunter and David Esrati discuss the importance of investigative journalism in a democracy. It would seem, that Dayton has been missing this important equalizer in the grand scheme of things. It’s short- enjoy: Click here to view the embedded video.
  3 days ago

• Too Big To Ignore

  
  Hard Starboard — Authority: 142
  Barack Hussein Obamas burgeoning unpopularity (via Newsmax Insider): Katie Couric may be best known for her unflattering interview with Sarah Palin. But her nightly news broadcast this past Monday night may be an indicator that the big liberal media are now turning their guns on Obama. Couric said on CBS ...
  1 week ago

• Weather forecast: Dry all over

  
  our man in abiko — Authority: 135
  Sure its old, but it still amuses Our Man. Did Our Man ever tell you how his first job in papers used to be to fake weather reports? Now, he never believes anything he reads in the paper, except the horoscopes of course.
  1 week ago

• Incensed Justice Liberhan says he didn’t leak his Babri report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov.23 (ANI): An incensed and highly agitated Justice M.Liberhan on Monday called on the media not indulge in character assassination, and categoricaly refuted suggestions that he had leaked details of a commission report prepared by him to the fourth estate.When television and print media reporters asked ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disguise by Hugo Hamilton

  
  Reading Matters — Authority: 423
    Fiction - paperback; Fourth Estate; 288 pages; 2009. Disguise , the fifth novel by Irish writer Hugo Hamilton, is a story about lost identity. It opens in war-torn Germany at the height of the Second World War. Mara Leidmans young son, Gregor, iskilled during the bombing of Berlin -- "He was almost ...
  2 weeks ago

• Too Good to Check

  
  Obi's Sister — Authority: 557
  Pictures tell stories, don’t they?Posted in Fourth Estate, Sarah Palin
  2 weeks ago

• The Unfit President v32.5.78.03

  
  Obi's Sister — Authority: 557
  As they say in radio, “Stay tuned folks; ’cause those hits, they just keep a’comin’!”Some days I feel like a broken record. Obama this; Obama that. Simple protocol skills. Simple geography. Simple American history. Simple manners. All lacking. What remains clear is that the man is truly UNFIT [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Blade of Glory

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Im blogging this Friday from the nations capital. Hanging out with my colleagues here and enjoying the town I once called home. When I first moved to D.C. back in 2004, I was on the cusp of finally coming out to my family. Was D.C. the catalyst? Probably not. But, coming out in an evironment that accepted- no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Smoker-in-Chief Giving Up Cigarettes Today?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  A cloud is hanging over the Oval Office as Americans wonder whether or not Smoker-in-Chief Barack Obama is giving up cigarettes during today’s Great American Smokeout.Truth be told, one would hardly know the event that takes place annually on the third Thursday of November is taking place today.As of this posting at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philosophers and journalists – unlikely bedfellows? Bourdieu in the house!

  
  Ethical Martini — Authority: 113
  [Thanks Jess for the link] An interesting, if a little obtuse piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education this week about the fractious relationship between philosophy and journalism. I was struck most immediately by this paragraph, which IMHO sums up the situation reasonably well: Still, broadly speaking, we need ...
  2 weeks ago

• Something to read when the last paper folds?

  
  our man in abiko — Authority: 135
  Good news for Tokyo ex-pats? Probably. But isnt the correct term webterpreneurialsoultionizerista? Secret handshake to 1Rick.com .
  2 weeks ago

• More on Fourth Estate

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  NZ Herald - Letters to the Editor - 17 November
  2 weeks ago

• Only Two African Books Make the UK Sunday Times‘ Top 100 of the Decade

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Alert! As far as BOOK SA can tell, the UK’s Sunday Times has listed just two books from Africa in its round up of the top 100 tomes to have appeared in the decade that ends at midnight, 31 December 2009. You know you’re in trouble, as an enthusiast of works from this continent, when Chimamanda Ngozi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fourth Estate collapses

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 484
  Cactus Kate points out how the media through a combination of cost cutting and weakness are allowing themselves to be gagged in the worst way possible, self censorship to avoid legal costs. Thus the so-called Fourth Estate that indefatigable defender of our rights and stronghold of fearless inestigative truthtellers ...
  3 weeks ago

• The FDICs Other Friday Gambit

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 751
  Fridays seem to have become the day to dump bad news as a consequence of the lazy tendency of some members of the Fourth Estate to head out early to start their weekends.  (There is a reason it isnt FDIC Failure Tuesday- part of it involves the ease of moving retail deposits to their new home, but reporting plays a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Our Mans a patient reader

  
  our man in abiko — Authority: 135
  Lead headline in Our Mans print edition of the Japan Times today : AMR, TPG eye hefty JAL investment Question: Are they trying to tell me a news story or give me an eye exam? Im leaning towards the latter. Our Mans OK with the last line, but he cant read the first two, Doc. Time for bifocals?
  3 weeks ago

• Jokes on Fox, again

  
  our man in abiko — Authority: 135
  Its getting too easy to see through Fox News. But its still funny: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Becks Protest Footage http://www.thedailyshow.com/ Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Secret handshake to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting Serious About That Novel: A Dozen Top Writers Share Their Habits

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Alert! Let’s face it: if you want to be successful, really successful, as a writer, you have to put in the hours. Exactly how you structure this putting in of the hours is up to you, but you still gotta do it. In a terrific piece that has nothing to do with SA Lit but cries out for as wide a readership as possible, ...
  3 weeks ago

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