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...democratic impulse in news is also reflected in the current vogue for "public" or "civic" journalism. Under this philosophy, pioneered by newspapers like the Wichita Eagle and Minneapolis Star Tribune, the news outlet seeks to "reconnect" with its community by taking polls, sponsoring issue forums and seeking solutions to neighborhood problems. For this year's political races in North Carolina, for example, several of the state's newspapers and TV stations banded together to poll voters on what issues they wanted to see addressed, and then focused coverage on those issues. The editors involved argue that this approach has made...
...YORK: An eight-team women's professional basketball league begins its inaugural forty game season Friday when the New England Blizzard take on the Richmond Rage at the Hartford Civic Center. The American Basketball League follows such ill fated attempts at a pro game for women as the Liberty Basketball Association, a league that never made it past its first exhibition game in 1991. This time around, league organizers say they have the financial backing, and the demographics, to make their game a success. ABL boosters point to statistics showing that basketball is the number one youth sport for girls...
...will occasionally indulge in a little social criticism that goes along these lines: Our society isn't nearly as dangerous as it's made out to be. The threatening undertones that pulse through the media and recent political rhetoric are useful tools for boosting readership or scaring voters into civic submission, but they aren't reflective of any greater truth. We are a culture with a violence fixation; even as we bemoan the increased brutality of our cities, we turn the volume of the TV up to make sure we hear the final glory details...
...first time in the history of the peace process, insisting that they honor the agreements they have made--something that they are are clearly unwilling to do--and so, in order to divert attention from this in the eyes of the world media, they are shamelessly exploiting a minor civic decision that hardly even concerns them to focus the blame and censure on Israel. The Western press and our European allies are all too ready to publicize and sympathize with their whines and laments while ignoring their flagrant violations of the peace accords, such as the continued operation of illegal...
...Alice has been in government for a long time, and her votes are well-known. There is no surprise where her stands are," says Geneva T. Malenfant, president of the progressive Cambridge Civic Association. "With Galluccio, he's only been city councillor one and half terms, and some of his views seem to have changed between last year and this...