Yet Another Fake News Epidemic
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While fleeing an ambush in Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers reportedly opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians and then destroyed photos and video taken at the scene by freelance journalists.
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Beware the blog that gushes about a product, movie, or anything you might consider purchasing. There's a chance that the blogger is on the payroll of "new marketing middlemen such as PayPerPost Inc. that connect advertisers with mom-and-pop webmasters." PayPerPost alone pays 15,500 bloggers for inserting their clients into blog postings.
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The Washington Times reports on the U.S.
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In the last week at least seven newspapers have dropped the syndicated column of conservative firebrand Ann Coulter. Speaking at the American Conservative Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
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The American Heart Association (AHA) is once again partnering with the Rite Aid Drug Store chain to promote its "Go Red for Women" campaign, aimed at increasing public awareness of heart disease in women.
Starting this week, we at Congresspedia will be cross-posting from TheWeekInCongress.com. The site is a project of Sunlight friend and grantee Robert H. McElroy, and provides a rundown of the past week’s legislative activity in Congress (on weeks when one or both houses of Congress are in session).
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A New Zealand government-owned coal mining company, Solid Energy, has lost a bid to suppress the publication of a spoof corporate social responsibility repo
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"Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media," reports Kelly Kennedy.
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