News of the World Shutting Down

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Thursday July 07, 2011 · 9:27 AM PDT

2011/07/07 · 09:27

In spite of the UK public outrage and ostensible credibility damage (not to mention at least short-term interrupting of advertising revenue) coming as a fallout of the News of the World "hacking scandal", I never really thought that there would be serious fallout to the paper itself. It's hardly has some paragon of journalistic integrity to hold up, after all.

But the news out now is certainly pointing otherwise. It has been announced that News of the World will be shutting down after its Sunday edition, ending a 165-year continuous publishing schedule.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 11:57 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 11:57

While a number of diaries have shown up through the last few weeks urging support to defeat California Proposition #8 and mourning its passage yesterday (the referenced diary talks about challenges to its passage), the implications of a lesser-known homophobia-by-initiative, at least to me, in Arkansas, are dawning on me this morning.

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 10:31 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 10:31

Windham, New Hampshire is a lovely little community of 10,700 or so people adjacent to Salem, in the Southern part of the state. Like much of this part of the state, its residents may well go to determine the next President of the United States.

I had one of the best days canvassing Sagturday there I can ever remember for a Presidential election, across four campaigns and five states. In the continuing spirit of a number of invaluable diaries on Kos with shared experiences, notes, and what worked, I wanted to share what happened over the weekend below the flip.

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Friday May 16, 2008 · 8:35 AM PDT

2008/05/16 · 08:35

As a former John Edwards supporter, one thing I really really love about the man is his clarity and lack of ambiguity. Barack Obama, who's been pretty good about this sort of thing too, could learn a lot from it. As the latest example, though, sounds like he'll have to do it in some other capacity than being the head of a "Obama/Edwards" ticket. John Edwards has announced he has no interest in being vice-president in a Barack Obama administration.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 1:58 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 13:58

This just off the wires and I don't have more than a moment to post and opine on this (and I put the "b" word in non-upper case to avoid DHS-style alarmism).

Just posted from Reuters, Canadian PM Stephen Harper has decried the "leak" of the position on the Obama position on Nafta as "blatantly unfair" and "may well be illegal".

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Wednesday October 24, 2007 · 10:29 AM PDT

2007/10/24 · 10:29

I don't have a lot of time to elaborate, but I just came across a rather stunning admission from Norman Podhoretz, wherein he claims he has been advising Rudy Giuliani as to how to initiate and win a World War IV that Podhoretz appears to be quite happy to help bring to fruition.

This is coming from an article in the upcoming edition of the New York Observer.

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Monday October 22, 2007 · 6:38 AM PDT

2007/10/22 · 06:38

This will be short, just a notice that Riverbend has added a new chapter to her odyssey.

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Tuesday August 14, 2007 · 8:18 PM PDT

2007/08/14 · 20:18

Former house speaker Dennis Hastert is announcing his retirement on Friday, according to Reuters.

For many, the shock is that he hung around this long after he helped hand us victory last November, or at least after he had to hand over his chairmanship in ignominy to Nancy Pelosi.

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Thursday January 18, 2007 · 9:35 AM PST

2007/01/18 · 09:35

Political humorist Art Buchwald has died in Washington at the age of 81.

An absolute fixture in American journalism and humor for over five decades, he was (imho) a pioneer in his subtle, good-natured way, paving the way for the future likes of John Stewart and Al Franken.

What was amazing about Buchwald was that, while he never passed up a chance for satire (and saved his best stuff for the likes of Nixon and Reagan), in my recollection he never seemed to engender ill will amongst his targets or the populace at large, much less make enemies. While every leftist political satirist can directly draw their lineage to his work, even my lifelong Republican late mother treasured his editorial page by-lines over the decades.

His work was definitely emblematic of a kinder, gentler time in the American political scene, but it doesn't make it any less funny or literate.

My first diary, so go gentle, but figured it was well worth noting and providing a place for commentary upon.

RIP, Artie.

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