Ministers plotting to oust Met police chief Sir Ian Blair, report says

According to reports, UK ministers are planning to request that the Metropolitan Polive commissioner of London to step down, after he has been embroiled in a series of controversies including accusations of institutionalized racism within the department."Ministers, officials...

Kids learn to share by age 7-8, study finds

Parents concerned about the selfish tendencies of their young children can breathe a sigh of relief. They may not be full-blown psychopaths just yet.A new study suggests the concept of sharing is learned later than...

FCC Commissioner: Return of Fairness Doctrine Could Control Web Content

 There’s a huge concern among conservative talk radio hosts that reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine would all-but destroy the industry due to equal time constraints. But speech limits might not stop at radio. They could even be extended to include the Internet and...

Democrats – Can’t See The Forest For The Trees :: MAXINE

"The day after it was revealed that former ABC News Capitol Hill correspondent Linda Douglass was going to be joining Barack Obama's presidential campaign, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said this was a perfect...

NBC Ordered to allow Kucinich in Presidential Debate

"NBC Ordered by Judge to Allow Kucinich in Presidential Debate Senior Clark County District Court Judge Charles Thompson vowed to issue an injunction halting the nationally televised debate if MSNBC failed to comply...

CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION: International Human Rights Day

 Commentary-December 10,2007 Ottawa, OntarioFifty-nine years ago on this December 10th, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, creating a...

CNN: Corrupt News Network

A self-serving agenda was set for the Republican presidential debates.   The United States is at war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the economy is writhing like a snake with a broken back, oil prices are...

ProPublica -- New Investigative Journalism Org.

" A new, non-partisan, non-profit newsroom producing journalism in the public interest will launch here in January under the name ProPublica. Paul E. Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will serve as president and editor in chief. ProPublica, when...

Air America: Time to Give Elliott the Boot for False Report

"Something happened to Air America talk show personality Randi Rhodes in New York. Before the blood was even dry in her incident--as yet still undefined-- Air American host Jon Elliott issued a blistering attack on "the right wing hate machine" that he said had attacked...

Thousands of student loan borrowers forced to default

Everywhere you go you find college students completely unhappy with their lack of money, difficulty in finding a job and struggling to pay back loans."Student activists say the federal government is denying Canada's most desperate student-loan recipients relief from sky-high...

FCC: Fairness Doctrine losing relevance

This is not good news and points out why portals like NowPublic are becoming more and more important to the free transfer of information on the Internet.  - The Angryindian---------------------------------------------"The Federal Communications Commission has no...

Liberal Blog Daily Kos now "damn ugly" says owner

The Daily Kos is one of the true success stories of the blogosphere, but there are signs its founder  Markos Moulitsas is growing weary of the nasty tone of the political discourse the blog fosters. Moulitsas...

Who owns the Public airwaves?

The Fairness doctrine makes the news again. I talked to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Friday and thanked him for his support of the Fairness Doctrine, though what he did was less support than just making sure that Fairness could be revisited when a less partisan administration...

Wake Up Call

OpinionBarry Artiste,Now Public ContributorI guess the Key Word here is "Lengthy criminal record". Why are these Criminals released on the streets, time after time? People wonder why some citizens take the law...

And the Democrats say they have no interest in the Fairness Doctrine

"Friday, Democrats in the Senate blocked an amendment that would have prevented the return of the Fairness Doctrine.  Thune and others argue that reviving the Fairness Doctrine would give the government too much power in regulating content.  "

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