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...surprisingly, the report has triggered a political firestorm. Labour politicians are calling on Conservative leader David Cameron to sack his director of communications and principal spin doctor, Andrew Coulson, who was deputy editor and then editor of the News of the World during the period its journalists were supposedly engaging in the hacking. MP John Whittingdale, the Conservative chair of the Commons culture select committee, said it was "highly likely" that Coulson would be asked to testify in the committee's investigation into whether News of the World executives knew how its journalists were operating. Prime Minister Gordon Brown mentioned...
...July 4, Casey Kasem counted down the hits one last time. Thirty-nine years to the day after he premiered his American Top 40 program - playing the most popular songs, calling out listeners' long-distance dedications and paving the way for the American Top 20 and American Top 10 spin-offs - the velvet-throated DJ with the unmistakable voice has turned off his mike for good. "Hosting various versions of my countdown program has kept me extremely busy, and I loved every minute of it," Kasem, 77, said in a statement. "However, this decision will free up time I need...
...spin this into a case for reduced regulation--regulators are likely to mess up, so why bother? But it can also point toward an approach based not so much on discretion as on rules, the simpler the better. I first encountered this argument last fall in the work of left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias--he advocated "crude measures" like the old ban on interstate banking. Lately, though, I've been hearing similar suggestions from those of a conservative, University of Chicago bent. "When you give a lot of discretion to regulators, they don't use the tools that are given...
...lead writer for the classic television comedy All in the Family, Michael Ross, 89, won an Emmy in 1973. Two years later he created The Jeffersons, a popular spin...
...deal was announced in February. "It's really good that some of the press and some of the consumer groups out there that have hated the fact that there's been service charges on tickets and have hated Ticketmaster for the last 20 years have been able to spin all you people," he said sarcastically. "But quite honestly it's a line of bull crap...