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Apparently, they're planning on using both campaign and Super PAC resources as well as Romney himself to send out the anti-Santorum message—exactly as they did with great success to destroy Newt Gingrich. But this time, everybody is expecting it—and Romney's target is nowhere near is vulnerable to attacks from the right as was Gingrich. And conservatives are warning Romney against using his anti-Newt playbook against Santorum.
The best case scenario for Romney is that his plan nukes Santorum and Republicans decide that their only option is to nominate Mitt. But if that happens, he'll enter the general election as a severely weakened candidate—everybody will know he only won the primary campaign by default.
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This week's movie recommendation is M (1931) starring Peter Lorre and directed by Fritz Lang
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Johnson AndrewLiberal news source
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Newspaper circulation peaked in 1993 (combining daily and Sunday circulation) -- before the blogs, before Google, before the web. Daily circulation peaked all the way back in 1985. The industry's problems are certainly self-inflicted, no matter who they try to blame.
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Sue RostvoldThat was written by an industry veteran, by the way. If I seem callous at times about the fate of the newspaper industry, it's for this reason -- with the advent of the corporate newspaper chains, the notion of "journalism" has taken a back seat to the pursuit of 30 percent profit margins. Newsrooms have been decimated. Investigative journalism has been slashed. "Serious" writing has been replaced with Brittany-style fluff. The product has become more vapid, less substantive. Local reporting has been replaced with cheaper (but soulless and generic) wire copy. Many newspapers would survive as stand-alone entities, but are being dragged down by over-leveraged corporate owners who've spent the last few years bleeding their media properties dry.
What the newspaper industry is trying to save right now isn't "journalism", it's "shareholder value".-
That was written by an industry veteran, by the way. If I seem callous at times about the fate of the newspaper industry, it's for this reason -- with the advent of the corporate newspaper chains, the notion of "journalism" has taken a back seat to the pursuit of 30 percent profit margins. Newsrooms have been decimated. Investigative journalism has been slashed. "Serious" writing has been replaced with Brittany-style fluff. The product has become more vapid, less substantive. Local reporting has been replaced with cheaper (but soulless and generic) wire copy. Many newspapers would survive as stand-alone entities, but are being dragged down by over-leveraged corporate owners who've spent the last few years bleeding their media properties dry.
What the newspaper industry is trying to save right now isn't "journalism", it's "shareholder value".
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That was written by an industry veteran, by the way. If I seem callous at times about the fate of the newspaper industry, it's for this reason -- with the advent of the corporate newspaper chains, the notion of "journalism" has taken a back seat to the pursuit of 30 percent profit margins. Newsrooms have been decimated. Investigative journalism has been slashed. "Serious" writing has been replaced with Brittany-style fluff. The product has become more vapid, less substantive. Local reporting has been replaced with cheaper (but soulless and generic) wire copy. Many newspapers would survive as stand-alone entities, but are being dragged down by over-leveraged corporate owners who've spent the last few years bleeding their media properties dry.
What the newspaper industry is trying to save right now isn't "journalism", it's "shareholder value".
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That was written by an industry veteran, by the way. If I seem callous at times about the fate of the newspaper industry, it's for this reason -- with the advent of the corporate newspaper chains, the notion of "journalism" has taken a back seat to the pursuit of 30 percent profit margins. Newsrooms have been decimated. Investigative journalism has been slashed. "Serious" writing has been replaced with Brittany-style fluff. The product has become more vapid, less substantive. Local reporting has been replaced with cheaper (but soulless and generic) wire copy. Many newspapers would survive as stand-alone entities, but are being dragged down by over-leveraged corporate owners who've spent the last few years bleeding their media properties dry.
What the newspaper industry is trying to save right now isn't "journalism", it's "shareholder value".
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Just arrived at my hotel in Chicago for a brief, one-day visit, and the first thing I did was check the vote tallies.
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But it's clear that the social aspects of these scenes do reinforce certain ideological tenets, depending on the scene.
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So who won? Who cares. Nothing happened to change the dynamics of this race.
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Stephanopoulos weren't the only two participants playing the game, because Hillary Clinton was right down in the mud with them.
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From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE...
"If you Google, maybe he'll shut up..."
There it is again---that little voice in my head. I hear it every time a Bush administration official gives another speech comparing patriotic Americans like you and me with Nazi appeasers.
"If you Google, maybe he'll shut up..."
Google? Google what? Why are you doing this to me? Okay, fine. I'll Google something. Like, I dunno, "Bush Family" + "Hitler." But I don't think it'll do anyth... Whooooa:
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from...files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings...continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
"If you Google, maybe he'll shut up..."
"The Union Banking Corporation was a holding company for the Nazis, for Fritz Thyssen," said [former US attorney John] Loftus. "At various times, the Bush family has tried to spin it, saying they were owned by a Dutch bank and it wasn't until the Nazis took over Holland that they realized that now the Nazis controlled the apparent company and that is why the Bush supporters claim when the war was over they got their money back. Both the American treasury investigations and the intelligence investigations in Europe completely belie that, it's absolute horseshit. They always knew who the ultimate beneficiaries were."
"This was the mechanism by which Hitler was funded to come to power, this was the mechanism by which the Third Reich's defence industry was re-armed, this was the mechanism by which Nazi profits were repatriated back to the American owners, this was the mechanism by which investigations into the financial laundering of the Third Reich were blunted," said Loftus, who is vice-chairman of the Holocaust Museum in St Petersburg.
Scholastic discussion question: Who's worse...those who appeased the Third Reich or those who helped build it?
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