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Nico / Think Progress:
Air America To Declare Bankruptcy, But Progressive Radio Remains Strong — Air America Radio will announce a major restructuring on Friday, which is expected to include a bankruptcy filing, three independent sources have told ThinkProgress. — Air America could remain on the air under the deal …
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John Cook / RADAR:
AIR AMERICA STIFFS FRANKEN — Is Air America Radio filing for bankruptcy on Friday? That's what Think Progress, citing three sources, reported today. Calls to Air America executives weren't returned, but star talk-show host Al Franken confirms that, once again, the troubled network is facing a serious cash crunch.
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Air America Radio Bankruptcy, Sale Possible — BANKRUPT? — Air America Out Of Ca$h, Up For Sale — *** 16.59 MAJOR UPDATES: SCROLL DOWN *** — Cash- starved Air America Radio is broke and up for sale, the Radio Equalizer has learned exclusively. — In addition, a liberal website …
NewsMax.com:
Air America Denies Bankruptcy Report — Air America Radio, the network that features such liberal mouthpieces as Al Franken and Randi Rhodes, is denying reports that it will declare bankruptcy. — The Web site ThinkProgress.org, citing "three independent sources," started a buzz on the Internet …
Bill Brubaker / Washington Post:
Senate Committee Approves Wiretap Legislation — A Senate committee today approved a bill supported by President Bush that would enable the administration to continue a warrantless wiretapping program that the White House launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
The Specter bill much closer to being enacted today — (updated below) — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today on various proposals relating to the Specter FISA bill, as well as the other competing FISA bills pending before the Committee. This report from the AP's Laurie Kellman …
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David Stout / New York Times:
Democratic Effort to Limit Surveillance Bill Is Blocked — The Senate Judiciary Committee today endorsed a bill backed by the White House to have a secret court review the constitutionality of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program. — By a party-line vote of 10 to 8 …
New York Times:
Panel in Senate Backs Bush Plan for Eavesdropping — Senators John McCain, John W. Warner and Lindsey Graham, all Republicans, Wednesday at the Capitol. They have voiced opposition to a White House plan to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Conventions.
Robert Novak / Chicago Sun Times:
Real story behind Armitage story — When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
Novak Changes His Story—a Fourth Time — Bob Novak, faced with the evidence that his story is BS, has now changed his story ... a fourth time. And even while he changes his story, he suggests Armitage is the unreliable one. — Novak's Changing Story, Part One
Travis Reed / Associated Press:
Mother of Missing Boy Commits Suicide — Two weeks after telling police that her son had been snatched from his crib, Melinda Duckett found herself reeling in an interview with TV's famously prosecutorial Nancy Grace. Before it was over, Grace was pounding her desk and loudly demanding to know: "Where were you?
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Stephen Hudak / Orlando Sentinel:
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
Show didn't cause suicide, host says
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David Plotz / Slate:
Frank Rich Is Wrong About That 9/11 Photograph — THOSE NEW YORKERS WEREN'T RELAXING! … In his Sept. 10 column, Frank Rich of the New York Times describes a "taboo 9/11 photo," one so "shocking" that photographer Thomas Hoepker didn't publish it for four years.
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Daily Mail:
Bush to hold talks on Ali G creator after diplomatic row — US President George Bush is to host White House talks on British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. — Cohen, 35, creator of Ali G, has infuriated the Kazakhstan government with his portrayal of Borat, a bumbling Kazakh TV presenter.
rules.house.gov:
SUMMARY AND TEXT OF H. RES. 1000, PROVIDING FOR EARMARKING REFORM IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — Earmark Reform: How the New Rule Works — In order for the House to consider a bill, the Committee of jurisdiction must list all earmarks included in the bill and committee report along …
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Washington Post:
In R.I., a Model for Voter Turnout — Employing Senate Primary Strategy May Give GOP an Edge — The turnout campaign that Republican operatives used to help pull Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee to victory in the Rhode Island primary was a potent demonstration of how money and manpower can transform …
Reuters:
Muslims urged to buy influence in world media —Text+RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.