Recently, the Associated Press wrote about a joke Queen Elizabeth II told at a state dinner in her honor. The gist: Earlier, President George Bush began to mistakenly refer to the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence as having happened in 1776, before catching his error and correcting the date. Says the Associated Press: The [...]
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Reuters Publishes A Stinker Of A Lead
Here’s an excerpt from one of the earlier stories about Larry Birkhead being the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby: NASSAU (Reuters) – A former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, was identified on Tuesday as the father of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith’s 7-month-old daughter after DNA test results were released by a Bahamas court. The revelation [...]
Shame On You, Associated Press
Published in a recent news story on the growing Justice Department prosecutor firings scandal: DES MOINES, Iowa – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday blamed the Bush administration’s fear of scandal for the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, dismissals she said were virtually unprecedented. Come on, Associated Press. Nothing can be “virtually unprecedented.” [...]
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I am a free-lance computer programmer and business consultant based in Augusta, Maine. I was raised in Augusta from age 3. I attended Cony High School from 1981-1985 and the University of Maine in Orono from 1986-1991, where I majored in broadcast journalism. I earned a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism from UMaine [...]
