NEW YORK POST: …The decision comes at a time of rapid change as publicly traded media companies are spinning off their publishing holdings from their TV operations. “Pure plays are being recognized as companies that have a big future,” said Paton. The company’s controlling shareholder, hedge fund Alden Global Capital, apparently wants out, while a […]
Why does Intell suppress news concerning motorcycle deaths?
…the Intelligencer Journal New Era articles continuously, and apparently purposefully, fail to report whether the injured or killed was wearing crash helmet.
Capitolwire: Wolf, the vehicle for voters to express dissatisfaction with Corbett.
Wolf is “very vanilla,” said long-time political observer from the Democratic side, PR consultant Larry Ceisler. But “he becomes a very convenient vehicle for the dissatisfaction with Tom Corbett.”
Intell editorial identifies with the aggressor
Let us set forth a strictly hypothetical situation.
Let us set forth a strictly hypothetical situation: A teacher assistant at Franklin & Marshall is swimming at the field house and, upon returning to the men’s locker room, encounters a retired philosophy professor messing around, apparently inappropriately, with a boy.
PSU-Sandusky cover-up continues
Losers in this cover-up are Penn State student-athletes, all PSU students, alumni, the memory of Joe Paterno, the surrounding community and certainly all who deserve to know what went on.
Pope Francis: World’s Many Conflicts Amount to WW III
NEWSMAX: Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a “piecemeal” Third World War, condemning the arms trade and “plotters of terrorism” sowing death and destruction. “Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep,” Francis said in the homily of a Mass during a visit […]
Paths to War, Then and Now, Haunt Obama
NEW YORK TIMES: …“I was not here in the run-up to Iraq in 2003,” he told a group of visitors who met with him in the White House before histelevised speech to the nation, according to several people who were in the meeting. “It would have been fascinating to see the momentum and how it builds.”
A promising change in LNP’s editorial pages
We don’t want the opinion pages to be an echo chamber, but rather a forum that reflects the diversity of opinions in this area in which people can engage and work through issues respectfully ..
World Leaders Call for Regulatory Alternatives to Drug Prohibition
“Health-based approaches to drug policy routinely prove much less expensive and more effective than criminalization and incarceration,” said former Mexican President Zedillo.
Federal Appeals Court Permits Wisconsin Voter ID Law
NEW YORK TIMES: A federal appeals court on Friday permitted Wisconsin to restore a requirement that voters provide photo identification before casting their ballots, allowing the long-debated state law to take effect in time for a hard-fought election on Nov. 4. The order, which came surprisingly swiftly, on the same day that lawyers made their […]
Is high school football child abuse?
Perhaps the greatest health secret of the past century is the long term dangerous effects of concussions. Problems manifest themselves in a variety of ways, from dementia to obesity.
Judge removes Penn State trustees from Paterno lawsuit against NCAA
Judge John Leete denied the bid by Penn State and the NCAA to throw out the civil case, but he pared it back and gave the remaining plaintiffs a month to amend their claims to be more specific…
Army commanders: White men lead a diverse force
USA TODAY: Command of the Army’s main combat units — its pipeline to top leadership — is virtually devoid of black officers, according to interviews, documents and data obtained by USA TODAY. The lack of black officers who lead infantry, armor and field artillery battalions and brigades — there are no black colonels at the […]
Students walk out and demand local control of schools
By Kevin Zeese I found this inspiring. . . students fighting for their rights. Students walked out of high schools today and yesterday in Newark in two amazing days of protest. They were demanding local control of schools and an end to corporatization and privatization of education. Today, they blockaded a main downtown road for […]