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UPDATE 4-13-24 5:10 ET The NY Times reports Iran has launched drone attacks on Israeli territory. ...Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said in a statement broadcast on state television that it had launched missiles as well as drones toward Israel from...
by xaxnar
on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 07:46 AM PDT
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Today’s New York Times has an article (probably behind the paywall) on the front page of the business section titled “NPR Roiled By Editor Claiming Liberal Bias; A staff journalist publishes an essay complaining of a ‘progressive worldview’.” (The...
by DtheO
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 10:58 AM PDT
with 55 Recommends
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Earlier this week, a poll conducted by Marist for NPR and PBS NewsHour found Joe Biden was out to a two-point lead over Donald Trump. As Kerry Eleveld noted on Saturday, this was the latest in a round of good polling news for the blue team. But former...
by Darrell Lucus
on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 05:59 PM PDT
with 223 Recommends
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NOTE: See the UPDATE below. While Senator Katie Britt has gotten a lot of flak for her performance (and it was a performance), something else was going on. People have commented on her presentation — they way she emoted, the way she sounded, ‘the woman...
by xaxnar
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:03 AM PDT
with 697 Recommends
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I don’t usually dunk on NPR, because they are a real journalistic outfit that typically produces quality reporting. This is not one of those times. In an effort to be more dumb than one of The New York Times’ many pieces asking Donald Trump supporters...
by SemDem
on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 12:41 AM PST
with 486 Recommends
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I used to listen to the radio whenever I was awake, and sometimes just left it on when I slept. ...
by blueoregon
on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
with 43 Recommends
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For nearly 25 years, “The voice one woke up to”, after-the-jump ……. But first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos. Surely ... you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and .. well, perhaps...
by Ed Tracey
on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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He hosted NPR's Morning Edition for almost 25 years until being unceremoniously canned in 2004. He was 76. The cause was apparently metastatic bladder cancer. Here is the NPR story. He was a talented journalist. Morning Edition was a part of my life...
by Binkley
on Mon Feb 12, 2024 at 09:08 AM PST
with 200 Recommends
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On the heels of a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that 68% of Republicans think Trump should have immunity for actions he took as president, such...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 12:33 PM PST
with 254 Recommends
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Despite the risk of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, I’ve put together this TL;DR compendium of writings addressing the constitutional challenge now facing the country. I realize it is a lot to go through, but when the regular media treats Trump vs Biden as “the...
by xaxnar
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM PST
with 20 Recommends
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In case you missed it, there is a tempest over what goes in a tea cup, sparked by research into what makes a good cup of tea. From NPR: A U.S. scientist's tea recipe has Brits aghast. Salt? Warm milk? The horror! LONDON — It was an innocent little...
by xaxnar
on Thu Jan 25, 2024 at 06:42 PM PST
with 23 Recommends
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Flour for Gaza to be shipped through the Israeli port in Ashdod, the White House says The Israeli port of Ashdod is located about 20 miles north of Gaza. As reported by NPR, the White House announcement of the decision to ship flour to Gaza through...
by ybruti
on Mon Jan 22, 2024 at 07:14 AM PST
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Just finished reading a great diary by James … Dear National Media: Don't Look Now, But You've been Played … and it reminded me of a segment I heard last month on NPR: Gen X and President Biden: Reality bites Tara Schoettle's disapproval of President...
by thehecticdialectic
on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 04:24 PM PST
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2023 was a busy year. A former President is under indictment, hawking his mug shot like it’s ...
by blueoregon
on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Once upon a time, people had what seemed like a good idea... Building four dams on the Lower Snake River �would serve several purposes: provide hydro power, make the river navigable for barge ...
by xaxnar
on Tue Dec 19, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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I have heard several newsbreak NPR items on aid to Ukraine that have repeated that Trump’s first impeachment was about the Trump admin/campaign wanting to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for military aid to Ukraine. I guess they’d have liked to...
by textus
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 05:45 AM PST
with 20 Recommends
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[Updated title 9:00pm EDT] Browsing though Eschaton, ran across this observation by Atrios: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023 Why Start Now When Trump was president, if you watched Trump, The Live Show, you had the full uncut Trump. If you just read the NYT...
by xaxnar
on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:47 PM PDT
with 41 Recommends
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David French, writing at The NY Times is not a happy man. The spectacle unfolding at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA has him looking at it as emblematic of the way evangelical Christianity has ...
by xaxnar
on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 12:43 PM PDT
with 553 Recommends
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Remember Madison Cawthorn , the one-term GOP wonder boy who flamed out in a flurry of scandals, not the least of which was claiming he had been “ invited to what he described as cocaine-fueled ...
by xaxnar
on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 10:45 AM PDT
with 135 Recommends
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To be stored in the “better late than never” column, from Oct 2-8 NPR is doing a week of climate stories under the general title NPR’s Climate Week: A Search For Solutions. I heard the first story this morning, a 4:22 bit justifying taking the time out...
by birches
on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 09:14 AM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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