October 2011
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September 2011
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Report: Inside the Freedom Tower →
Yesterday morning I took a private tour of World Trade One, or the “Freedom Tower” in lower Manhattan. Guided by Component Assembly Systems, a construction subcontractor on the building,…
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Unnecessary Journalism Phrases: 15. For All... →
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“And though they’d released their debut album in 1989, for all intents and purposes, Nirvana’s story really began with Nevermind, which, though it may seem incomprehensible to anyone who lived during the halcyon days of 1991, turns 20 on Saturday.”
MTV: Nirvana’s Rise To Fame, In Their…
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Watch Live: President Obama Addresses the United... →
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Wall Street Protesters Say They’re Settled In →
(NEW YORK) — Protesters who vowed to “occupy Wall Street” are holding their ground in downtown New York, and say they have no plans to leave anytime soon. The protest started Saturday with a “Day of Rage,” when thousands of people gathered in the Financial District and vowed to stay on Wall Street as long as it takes to make their point that they will “no longer tolerate the greed and...
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Unnecessary Journalism Phrases: 6. Close Proximity... →
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“Laura Abrams, also of Coldwell Banker, has the listing and says the size of the lot, the privacy and the close proximity to San Francisco justify the price.”
Wall Street Journal: A Private Retreat In the Suburbs
“The ASU experiment represents the latest attempt to further near-field…
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The Thing About Journalism →
The audience must trust that the journalist does not have an agenda and is not brining an agenda to the conversation (read: medium of publication).
No one is perfectly objective and no one is without conflict. Compromised reporting is an ambiguous beat. However: a compromised reporter or editor can leverage access to relationships, information, and events that the public cannot (think simple:...
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Voices of September 11th →
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Voices of September 11th by abcnewsradio
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The Politics of September 11th: From Agreement to... →
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(NEW YORK) — Ten years ago, in the days, weeks and months after Sept. 11, 2001, the country and government came together. Democrats and Republicans worked together to ease a scared nation, but also out of fear that not doing so would have them labeled unpatriotic. Bipartisan approval for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reigned. You rarely heard the word “deficit,” and money was...
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New 9/11 Tapes Show Desperate Search for... →
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(NEW YORK) — For the first time, the full audio recordings of communications between military and civilian air traffic controllers as they were dealing with the hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, have been made public. The multimedia document, published by the Rutgers Law Review, provides a rare real-time look at how government agencies were responding as the hijacking of the four...
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Would Obama's Infrastructure Plan Create Jobs Now? →
Did you watch the GOP debate last night? Will you watch Obama’s jobs speech tonight? What’s the takeaway?
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“We’ve got roads and bridges across this country that need rebuilding. We’ve got private companies with the equipment and the manpower to do the building,” Obama told a crowd Monday in Detroit. “We’ve got more than one million unemployed construction workers ready...
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Where Were You On 9/11/01? →
Share your story by sending a voicemail or SMS to (347) 881-3418 (GVoice - standard message rates apply). Along with the +ABC News Radio team I will be covering the 10th anniversary ceremony from Ground Zero in Manhattan on Sunday, September 11th, 2011. I’ll edit the messages in to an audio montage and share share your stories using Soundcloud on the ABC News Radio podcast page.
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Where Did 9/11 Conspiracies Come From? →
An excellent series from @Slate by Jeremy Stahl on the origins of and psychology behind 9/11 conspiracies.
The 9/11 conspiracy theories predate 9/11. On July 25, 2001, in a two-and-a-half-hour broadcast of his Infowars TV program on a local public-access channel, Alex Jones laid out what he saw as the history of government-manufactured false-flag attacks, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident that...
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Cornell Chronicle: People are Afraid of Creative... →
“How is it that people say they want creativity but in reality often reject it?” said Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant professor of organizational behavior and co-author of research to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science. The paper reports on two 2010 experiments at the University of Pennsylvania involving more than 200 people.
The studies’...
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It's Not A Mirror, It's A Crystal Ball
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Aside from a few tweets, I’ve mainly stayed out of the latest TechCrunch brouhaha. These things tend to flare up every few months, and they ultimately end up meaning nothing. But I would like to address one thing in particular, because The New York Times’ David Carr names me specifically in his article on the matter today.
More generally, it occurs to me that a lot of these posts...
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