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Praise the Lord and Drop the Bombsnew
A self-professed "left-of-center" journalist
attends a huge pro-America rally in
Central Florida and comes away
disturbed, and more than a little worried. "I'm also terrified at how easily the right is winning the public-relations war by appealing to base emotions of God, family and country. Dissent has suddenly become un-American, even treasonous," Jeffrey C. Billman writes in Orlando Weekly.
Americans in Prague Returning to New Yorknew
Jeff Koyen and Alex Zaitchik, American ex-pats in Prague (the Paris of the new millenium) are set to take over editorial management of New York Press this week, the New York Times reports. Koyen, formerly production manager at the Press, will become editor, and Zaitchik, who was running an iconoclastic newspaper, The Prague Pill, will be Koyen's deputy, the Times reports.
New York Times |
03-03-2003 10:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
The Iraq Connectionnew
A federal anti-terrorism task force has arrested an Iraqi refugee living in the Seattle suburbs and charged him with running a "sprawling illegal financial network" that "funneled millions of dollars" back to his homeland. At least one national security expert thinks the case is "ridiculous." Either way, writes Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro, the story of Hussain Alshafei tells a lot about the country with which we may soon be at war, and about our country's hunt for terrorists among immigrant populations.
Pushing the Apocalypsenew
The end of the world is right on schedule -- or so
believe fundamentalists and the politicians who
share their views or want their votes. Salt Lake City Weekly's Zach Abend writes about how some Christians see scripture and
politics converging to bring on the apocalypse. He also shows how the current administration's rock-solid support of Israel might be helping speed things along, swayed by "Dispensational premillennialism," or End Time theology.
Neal Pollack to Host Alternative Newsweekly Awards
AAN Staff |
02-28-2003 2:23 pm |
Association News
Emergency Contraception to the Rescuenew
"Condoms break, or slip off, during intercourse. Women forget to take their birth
control pills. Couples, caught up in a moment of passion, often addled by intoxication, have
unprotected sex. And sexual assaults, ranging from brutal attacks to insidious incidents of
date rape, are still all too common," Chris Busby writes in Rochester, N.Y.'s, City Newspaper. Emergency contraception, or the "morning-after pill," can stop those accidents from becoming unwanted pregnancies. Busby, however, finds out hospitals and health-care workers aren't routinely letting woman know about emergency contraception, even rape victims. "Unlike so many unintended pregnancies, this is no accident," Busby writes.
Southern Alts Convene Their Own Conference
AAN Staff |
02-27-2003 1:56 pm |
Association News
Alt-Weekly Writers Win Education Awardsnew
Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette
Week and Pete Kotz of Cleveland Scene are awarded special citations by the Education Writers Association.
Education Writers Association |
02-26-2003 7:20 pm |
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The Last Best Liberal: George McGovern's Second Windnew
The thickest plank of McGovern’s 1972
platform, the one that carried the weight,
was anti-war. George McGovern was the
first member of the U.S. Senate to
explicitly denounce U.S. policy in
Indochina, and it’s safe to assume that
were he still in the Senate, he would have
been the first to denounce the Bush
administration’s plans in Iraq. But as it
stands, McGovern is no longer an elected
official, and his opposition, and whatever
influence it may have, comes now from
the mouth of an elder statesman, a
World War II hero, the collective
imagination’s anti-Nixon transported into
this anxious echo of belligerent Nixonian
daydreams. George McGovern isn’t
running for anything. He can say anything
he wants. And here he is, riding a second
wind in Stevensville, Mont., saying to Brad Tyer, editor of Missoula Independent, pretty much
the same things he said 30 years ago:
Stop hitting. Feed the hungry.
Water Inequalitynew
State and local governments have known about it for 15 years. So why are Hopkins residents still living with gasoline-tainted water? Columbia Free Times' Amanda Presley looks into the lack of action on the potentially toxic water in rural Hopkins, S.C., which is predominantly black and low-income. "Rosa Nowell, who used to live in a home where [a state agency] found contamination, asks how long the wells
have been affected. It’s a question no one at the meeting can answer. 'That’s where I raised my children,
from babies,' Nowell says. 'We were there.'”
Robbins Appointed to Board Classified Chair
AAN Staff |
02-25-2003 3:54 pm |
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