by The Phoenix.

Can a Boston start-up reinvent foreign reporting?
In January, Philip Balboni and Charles Sennott will launch GlobalPost, a new Boston-based foreign-news-only service that will compete with the Associated Press and CNN.

No other newsroom figure boasts quite the same mix of romantic appeal and nobility of purpose as the foreign correspondent. Hunkering down in exotic locales, courting and defying danger, watching history unfold, then writing its first draft for the folks back home . . . What could be more enticing?

12/05/2008 by Jim Naureckas
(www.fair.org)

There was an Editorial Observer piece in the New York Times today (12/4/08) that really read like a piece from the segregated South of the 1950s, taking the side of the Jim Crow-enforcing sheriff against the outside agitators.

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Bob Maschi posting to the Blog for Peace and Freedom writes:

President-Elect Barack Obama continued his absorption of the former Clinton administration today by appointing Bill Clinton President of the United States. This development comes after Obama named a majority of former Clinton administration people to his transition team including Rahm Emanuel, Jacob Lew and Carol Browner. Fully 2/3 of his appointees, so far, have past connections to the Clinton administration including Hillary Clinton (recently named his Secretary of State).

"I wanted my guitar to sound thin, clean and clanky. Not chunky. distorted and mach. My philosophy at the time being that this puny sound was in the true nature of this instrument...the first truly modern instrument. The first scientific industrial instrument...clean, metalic, precise, yet funky and African...the first instrument to embody our young culture, not the modern culture of Europe with its international aesthetic, but "American" cool-African-futuristic-trash-aesthetic.

– By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA ~ NY Times.

SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.

It's a party to thank Leo and Liz
--they gave us Cafe' Corazon on the Fulton Mall--a great place to get the finest coffee and baked goods (and sandwiches!) or just hang/read/listen to music & poetry.
It recently closed its doors, and so their dream is definately in a state of transition.

So let's give 'em some love.

A whole pile o' local musicians will be providing the music, Audie's Olympic[CLubFred] is generously providing the place.

Musicians scheduled so far include:
Wheel of Fortune & Succulent, Love Seats, It'll Grow Back,

By JACQUES STEINBERG - NY Times.

When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago — claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a “60 Minutes” segment about President Bush’s National Guard service — the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as “old news.”

So far, Mr. Rather has spent more than $2 million of his own money on the suit. And according to documents filed recently in court, he may be getting something for his money.

The Fresno Idea Café (FIC) is a starting gate for new ideas and profit producing business opportunities; locally amassing venture capital funds, and spawning clusters of professionally managed industry specific worker cooperatives.

NEWS DISSECTOR October 27, 2008

NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME

So far I have been unsuccessful in getting on any major American TV outlets including the ones I used to work for to discuss the issues raised in my book PLUNDER. I have been on TV in England, France, Al Jazeera, Russia, and Brazil, And just last Friday on Iran's PRESS TV (http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=73187&sectionid=3510213):