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...according to the report, it fostered an atmosphere of accelerated journalist judgment, daily campaign briefings, partisan spin doctors, "deliberately coarse and provocative" content and political "tweeting." Bit by bit, the authors write, "the line between unfiltered personal thought and public discourse is evaporating." The organization further condemned the political press for being "more reactive and passive and less of an enterprising investigator of the candidates than it once was," singling out The Washington Post for running 10 fewer in-depth candidate profiles during the 2008 presidential election than it did in 1992. The report spreads the blame around, though, observing...
...some liberals will openly admit that they wish to curb conservatives’ supremacy on the airwaves, insisting that the right has an unfair structural advantage. Liberal radio host Bill Press is one of these, as he demonstrated in an interview with Senator Tom Harkin: “You know, we’re not going to take any of the conservative voices off the airwaves, but just make sure that there are a few progressives and liberals out there, right...
...Press correctly points out that the doctrine does not entail censorship, but government meddling in broadcasting content for reasons other than slander or obscenity is still unconstitutional. Press’s premise, moreover, is farcical: Talk radio operates under the rules of the free market system. There is no structural advantage for conservatives; they just happen to flourish in this realm. Nothing is hindering liberals from talk radio success other than their lack of appeal to talk-radio’s conservative-leaning audience, just as conservatives struggle to prosper in the liberal dominions of print media, the Internet...
...developers like him, that does not appear to be forthcoming. The central government, in the just completed National People's Congress, offered new subsidies only to create more "affordable" housing for lower-income citizens and stiffed the more high-end developers, despite a fierce, behind-the-scenes campaign to press for help among big property developers. In fact, the outcome - more subsidized housing (about $4.8 billion worth) for relatively low-income citizens - is exactly what most developers didn't want to happen, because they look at the lower cost housing as just more competition in an already glutted market...
...says of the government. "I think it the duty of journalists to remind politicians of their promises." Hours later, the government faced another setback when Sherry Rehman, a senior member of Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), resigned as Information Minister. Rehman had been a prominent campaigner for press freedom and had earlier vowed to resign if there was any move to muzzle journalists...