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		<title>Internet Users Don&#8217;t Trust Newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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By Matthew Fleischer on Jul 29, 2010
Media Bistro
A new survey from USC Annenberg School of Journalism&#8217;s Center for the Digital Future reveals that only 56 percent of Internet users considered newspapers a valuable source of information. That number is down four percent since 2008. Asked what they would do if their home newspaper folded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakedown of taxpayers begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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	Local government leaders&#39; threat to cut about half a million workers because of the recession is nothing more than a shakedown based on a lie.


	The Big Shakedown begins, based on the Big Lie.

	The Big Shakedown is a threat by local officials to lay off up to 500,000 municipal and county workers over the next two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Newspapers Sink Below Internet and TV as Information Sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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By:                                 Mark Fitzgerald
Published:                     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States hide trillions in debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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	EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This is a compilation of official state debt and obligations compiled from the most recent public records available and a foundation report. It represents only a fraction of total long-term&#160;deficits. This report should be used as a minimum&#160;baseline for further research.


	Aggregate state debt now exceeds $1.8 trillion, with much more potentially hidden off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franklin Center Statement on Passing of Daniel Schorr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national non-profit journalism organization, released the following statement regarding the passing of veteran journalist Daniel Schorr.  Schorr’s six decade career touched every aspect of journalism.  He began in print, then spent 23 years in television at CBS News and was most recently at NPR.
“Daniel Schorr was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Journal to Fight Charges Against Arrested Reporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Douglas Belkin didn&#8217;t follow orders while covering Rod Blagojevich trial, authorities say.
Updated 10:30 AM CDT, Thu, Jul 22, 2010
NBC Chicago
A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said the newspaper will fight the charges lobbed against one of their reporters following his arrest Wednesday.
The reporter, Douglas Belkin, was waiting in a designated reporters&#8217; area in the Dirksen Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Caller: 2008 – The year journalism really died</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Myra Adams

Is anyone honestly surprised by the revelations that members of the liberal left media plotted to kill stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 presidential campaign?
For the now-defunct Journolist, a once powerful listserv, its members’ greatest fear was if Obama’s pastor story ran unchecked by them, re-plays of Reverend Wright’s sermons would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Despite gains, public pensions crashing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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	State and local pensions remain in a hole at least $1.3 trillion deep despite transient gains in the first quarter of 2010. That&#39;s about $12,000 for every private sector worker due right now just to get the funds on an even keel.


	

	Each private sector worker in America owes state and local government pension funds at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JEREMY W. PETERS
New York Times 
ARLINGTON, Va.  —  In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious.
It was April Fools’ Day last year, and Politico’s top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 a.m. start time for all reporters.
“These pre-sunrise hours are often the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic: Should the Government Bail Out Journalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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By Derek Thompson
The Atlantic

Newspapers (that is: news, on paper) might not be essential for democracy, but some form of journalism certainly is. And journalism, as you might have heard, is struggling. Gone are the lucrative classifieds. Stripped are the ad-laden car and real estate sections that helped to cross-subsidize the expensive work of reporting war [...]]]></description>
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