Word: shafer
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...Washington G-20 Gluttony Delegates at the summit on the world financial crisis are drawing fire for their luxurious banquet, which included quail, lamb and bottles of 2003 Shafer Cabernet Hillside Select that can cost...
...CSPAN - as well as journalism organizations like The Center for Public Integrity and the Center for Investigative Reporting have been doing for decades. But with most of Pro Publica's assets the product of the Sandlers' largesse, it leaves the group open to speculation, as Slate media columnist Jack Shafer pointed out, that the Sandlers political views could influence coverage: the couple have donated heavily to the Democratic Party and the progressive activism group MoveOn.org. "The perennial problem of nonprofit journalism is the appearance of undue influence," says Christa Scharfenberg, associate director at the Center for Investigative Reporting. "The real...
...never ratified and the billions of gallons of water just out of reach on the other side. "Georgia not only has legal and historical claim to the Tennessee River, but it has an ecological one because all of Northwest Georgia drains into the Tennessee River," Georgia State Sen. David Shafer told the Chattanooga Times-Free Press...
Today's meeting between the larger-than-life news mogul Rupert Murdoch and the Bancroft family, coupon-clipping owners of Dow Jones, has gripped the little world of journalists. "The rotten old bastard intends to charm them all with his lies," warned Slate media critic Jack Shafer. The idea that Murdoch might get his mitts on the Wall Street Journal has folks scandalized, as though Larry Flynt were buying the New York City Ballet...
DIED. Raymond Shafer, 89, former Pennsylvania Governor; in Meadville, Pa. He chaired Richard Nixon's Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse--which stunned Nixon by recommending legalizing pot in small amounts. Shafer was nicknamed Dudley Do-Right for well-intentioned efforts that sometimes got him in trouble...