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MacKay was one of three panelists speaking on "The Media Filter: The Role of the Press in Shaping the Outcome of the Modern U.S. Presidential Election...
...secret that soft money has flooded the American political process. But only now has the extent of the deluge emerged in clear relief: According to a report released Wednesday by New York University's Brennan Center, the unregulated funds, which corporations and other wealthy donors filter into campaigns via the political parties, are surging to record levels. For the first time, party expenditures are outpacing spending by the campaigns themselves...
Bruce got out of the hospital in late March. Immediately, he and his family got busy--planning for his death. Dialysis might prolong his life, but Bruce adamantly refuses it. "Lying down for four straight hours three times a week with needles stuck in me to filter my blood--that's not the kind of life I want," he says. His doctors, some of whom initially protested his decision, gave him a week, a month tops. He said it felt good, even empowering, to tell his doctors what the next step would be, rather than the other way around--even...
...information. And that requires that journalists and editors maintain a healthy skepticism of whatever is gleaned from such sources, always assessing the motive for its release. Of course, such sources are the very lifeblood of the profession, but serving the public means that there is a need to filter and question, even when the intimidating notion of "national interest" is brought to bear...
...University; part of character education is to entrust students with the freedom to make wrong decisions, and Harvard has good reason to expect its students to act as responsibly online as on campus. Harvard does not scan network traffic for copied MP3's, but neither does it filter World Wide Web downloads for illegal pornography or conduct random searches of dorm rooms for the underage possession of alcohol...