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...back that the BNP would consider him for membership. Williams died in 2006. But while the EHRC has a statutory duty to follow up on the complaints it has received, it is doing so without enthusiasm, concerned that it could deliver a propaganda coup to the BNP. Griffin relishes high-profile denunciations. "When Gordon Brown urges people not to vote for us, it's manna from heaven. It's smashing stuff," he says. (See pictures of Gordon Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...unlike my mother, who had a difficult time with her cancer in part because her insurance was a little bit unreliable and she had just taken a new job, my grandmother had been signed up under Kaiser Permanente for years. And it's actually one of the models of high-quality, cost-efficient care that's out there right now, partly because they maintain such a stable base of patients and they construct a whole team approach that has proven to be very effective. So my grandmother was generally very happy with her care, and if we could actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: 'This Has Been the Most Difficult Test for Me.' | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...live every week like it's Shark Week, then, might be a metaphor for living in our media environment: to spend every week titillated by unlikely threats, getting whipped into frenzies, yawning over high-minded stuff like health-care policy and supping from the delicious chum bucket of hysteria. The President is a secret Kenyan who faked his birth certificate! Terrorists are coming to get you! And the world is going to end, six different ways! But first a word from our sponsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Freak-outs: Every Week Is Shark Week | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Coincidentally, one of the best recent critiques of how media overkill works is airing during Shark Week. Summer is high season for media freak-outs. This year, we've had celebrity deaths, political sex scandals and a conspiracy theory that President Obama was born outside the U.S., revived by the likes of CNN's Lou Dobbs. Sharkbite Summer (Aug. 4) looks back eight years to when a few high-profile shark attacks sent the media into their own feeding frenzy. The summer of 2001, postrecount and pre-9/11, was notoriously slow on news. (Hence, it was also the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Freak-outs: Every Week Is Shark Week | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Dialing phone 5.9 times as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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