Yahoo News - A Right Wing Media Outlet?

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Tuesday October 15, 2013 · 5:00 AM PDT

2013/10/15 · 05:00

Since I use Yahoo's e-mail service, I regularly call up their homepage with the news story summaries. I note again and again their apparent right wing bias. This morning alone, the following stories were listed on their homepage - "The disastrous Obamacare exchanges are just the tip of the iceberg", "Obamacare's Website is Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are", "It's Not the Debt Level, It's the Economy (Stupid) [leading to the usual right wing attack on "entitlements"]" , "Obamacare website security called 'outrageous'; How safe is it?", and "[video] Health care 'illiteracy' by youth?"

Who runs Yahoo? Do they have any connection to the right wing media market? Just asking......

Zimmerman Juror B37 - Profiting from Jury Duty

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Tuesday July 16, 2013 · 5:43 AM PDT

2013/07/16 · 05:43

I started to read an article detailing the interview that Juror B37 gave Anderson Cooper as reported in the Bradenton (FL) Herald this morning, wanting to understand how the jury reached its verdict. Then I came across what I consider an "aha" moment reading the following paragraph - "Despite keeping her identity secret, Juror B37 has already secured an agent to peddle an as-yet unwritten book." (Emphasis added). I can't help but wonder how any civic-minded person could so readily look to profit by doing her duty as a juror in a criminal case centered around the death of a 17 year old teenager. The verdict was rendered on Saturday. By Monday (maybe earlier, who knows) she is chasing a book deal. Was she thinking about a book deal when she reported for jury duty? As she listened to the presentation of the case? As she deliberated with her co-jurors? It just seems wrong. Is justice for sale?

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