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...Weiner says his own disposition is akin to that of his favorite Winnie the Pooh character, Eeyore the despondent donkey. That - along with the fact that he has worked as a journalist in more than 30 countries and for a decade was a correspondent for U.S. nonprofit radio-news syndicator NPR - means he takes a skeptical and fact-based approach. The first place he lands is the World Database of Happiness (WDH), a Dutch institute that scientifically researches perceptions of happiness in various societies around the world, and ranks countries in order of contentment. At WDH, Weiner learns some...
Some issue movies have become for liberals, who are more than twice as likely as conservatives to say they prefer documentaries, what talk radio is for conservatives: a way of rallying the base. Many follow the pattern of the $370 million--grossing 2004 juggernaut The Passion of the Christ. Fewer than 0.1% of those who saw the film said they became Christians as a result, according to a Barna Group poll, but 18% of the audience said some aspect of their religious behavior changed--mostly praying and attending church more...
...shouting "Why, why?" as they ran out of their houses. "We could hear children in the vehicle," he says. "It looked like a scene out of the movie Pulp Fiction. People covered in blood." The soldiers found themselves surrounded by Iraqis and one of the snipers said over the radio he had seen an Iraqi going to get a weapon. This prompted the Australians, in accordance with their orders, to withdraw - making it impossible for them to stay and give medical attention...
...dwindling allies in Congress argue that this kind of government-encouraged media consolidation policy is needed to help newspapers ailing in the Internet revolution. However, instead of addressing these new challenges, the policy represents a continuation of media concentration that we have already seen in ownership in the large radio companies like Clear Channel...
...named Fred Tuttle - a high school dropout who had starred in a low-budget political farce called Man With a Plan but had never showed any interest in public policy - won the G.O.P. primary to challenge Senator Leahy with a $16 campaign budget. (The key moment came during a radio debate, when he stumped his multimillionaire opponent by asking: "How many teats are there on a cow?") Tuttle proceeded to endorse Leahy before the general election, which probably wasn't what the Republican National Senatorial Committee had in mind...