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Music
- Entertainment
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Webcast
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Artists
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Free
Speech - 
Communications
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Media
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Net
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Corporate
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Politics
- Seattle
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Washington
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Illinois
- "Pearl
Jam protests censoring of Lollapalooza webcast: AT&T
says the deleting of Vedder's anti-Bush lyrics was a 'major, major mistake.'."
... "Pearl Jam is alarmed that an AT&T concert website pulled the plug
on their stage politics, but an official with the communications giant
today called the incident "a major, major mistake" that runs counter to
the company's policy." ... "The Seattle [Washington] rock band closed the
three-day Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago [Illinois] last weekend, with
AT&T's Blue Room handling the live webcast. But when lead singer Eddie
Vedder sprinkled one song with some disparaging lyrics about [Republican]
President Bush, a content monitor chose to hit the equivalent of a mute
button." ... "The band, on its official
website, called that decision an example of Corporate America putting
a chill on free speech." ... ""This, of course, troubles us as artists
but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly
consolidated control of the media," the band said in the statement. "AT&T's
actions strike at the heart of the public's concerns over the power that
corporations have when it comes to determining what the public sees and
hears through communications media."" -By Geoff Boucher
-LAtimes
Global
- 
Climate
- 
Earth
- Music
- Politics
- 
Australia
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United
States - 
Japan
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China
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South
Africa - 
Brazil
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Germany
- "Live
Earth Series Starts in Sydney." ... "The Live Earth
global [music] concert series kicked off Saturday with an aboriginal group
dancing and singing a traditional welcome at the first venue in Sydney
[Australia]." ... "Tribal leaders with white-painted bodies and shaking
eucalyptus fronds were the first of more than 150 performers at the eight
concert, 24-hour series to raise awareness about climate change." ... "The
performance was immediately followed by a video greeting from former [Democratic]
Vice President Al Gore, whose campaign to force global warming onto the
international political agenda inspired the event." ... "The biggest names
will appear at Live Earth concerts in London [UK] and the United States,
with more modest lineups of mostly local and regional acts in Australia,
Japan, China, South Africa, Brazil and Germany."
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
People
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Health
- Drugs
- Companies
- Politics
- 
Kansas
- "'Sicko'
a pain in the neck for health care industry: Uncomfortable
attention on insurers, drug companies." ... "In "Sicko," his new film assailing
the U.S. health care system, filmmaker Michael Moore doesn't try to be
fair to health insurers and pharmaceutical companies." ... "That's because
Moore -- the man behind anti-Bush "Fahrenheit 9/11" and pro-gun control
"Bowling for Columbine" -- makes no pretense of balance. He has a point
of view: Greedy pharmaceutical companies need to be much more tightly regulated.
And health insurers? They shouldn't exist at all, replaced instead by government-subsidized
health care." ... "Moore builds his case against managed care through a
series of anecdotes: a woman whose health insurer denied treatment on the
basis she was "too young" to have cervical cancer; another who was billed
for an ambulance ride after a car accident because she failed to get the
trip "pre-approved."" ... "Some cases are heart-wrenching, such as a Kansas
City [Kansas] man who died from kidney cancer after his insurer deemed
his treatment options "experimental."" -By Victoria
Colliver -SFGate.com
Poverty
- 2008
Election - Music
- Entertainer
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Food
- Health
- 
Education
- 
Water
- "ONE
Vote to launch anti-poverty campaign." ... "The anti-poverty
campaign of U2 [music entertainer] frontman Bono is promoting a $30 million
effort to pressure [2008 election] Republican and Democratic presidential
candidates to make the oft-forgotten issue a priority." ... "Dubbed ONE
Vote '08, the bipartisan political push aims to get [Republican] President
Bush's successor to commit to taking concrete steps in the first 100 days
to combat hunger and disease while improving access to education and water
across the globe." -AP
via -USATODAY
"ONE
Vote '08"
John
Edwards
- Free
Speech - 2008
Election - Don
Imus - Media
- Entertainment
- Business
- Politics
- Language
- 
Women
- University
- Sports
- "Edwards
On Imus Spat: 'I Believe In Forgiveness: Presidential
Candidate Stays Mum On Future Imus Appearances." ... "Democratic Presidential
candidate John Edwards' spoke exclusively to CBS 2 on Wednesday morning
about the Don Imus and Rutgers University controversy, and though he feels
Imus deserves a second chance, he wasn't so sure about his future on Imus'
popular radio show." ... ""I believe in redemption, I believe in forgiveness,"
Edwards said of Imus, who was suspended earlier in the week after calling
the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos."" ... "Unlike candidates
Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, who say they will continue to appear on
Imus' radio show, Edwards says he hasn't seen enough from the shock jock
to make that decision just yet." ... ""What he said is wrong because it's
wrong. It has to be condemned, we have to speak out when people use this
kind of language," Edwards said. "This is a very serious matter, it should
be taken very seriously."" -By Marcia Kramer
-WCBStv.com
Global
- Climate
- Ocean
- Animal
- Food
- 
Environment
- 
Science
- People
- Business
- Politics
- "Some
happy that a family film flaunts dire facts." ...
"Michael Hirshfield has long struggled to get across his earnest but wonky
message: that global warming and overfishing are killing off the oceans'
food supply." ... "Then, along came the animated movie "Happy Feet" and,
voila, tens of millions of youngsters -- and their parents -- across the
country are suddenly aware that man-made problems are threatening the penguins
near the South Pole, and almost everything else in the South Seas." ...
"The blockbuster film, the top box-office hit for the past three weekends,
is about emperor penguins struggling to survive with a depleted food supply,
and one tap-dancing penguin's epic search to learn what is causing the
colony's fish to disappear." ... "A study published recently in the journal
Science predicted that if overfishing of depleted seafood populations continued
at current rates, the world would run out of commercial stocks by 2048."
-By John Donnelly
-Boston/Globe
Gay
- 
Military
- Entertainment
- Money
- 
Law
- "RNC
Accepts Money From Army Porn Movie Distributor."
... "Despite running an attack ad accusing a Democratic senatorial candidate
of accepting money from "porn movie producers," the Republican National
Committee itself has accepted several donations over the past few years
from the president of a large pornographic movie distribution company."
... "Marina Pacific Distributors calls itself "the leader in adult video
distribution." Included in the movies for sale on their Web site are videos
made by "Active Duty Productions." Active Duty, as their name suggests,
has cast active duty soldiers in some of their films but not without serious
consequences for the soldiers." ... "Three Fort Bragg soldiers were found
guilty and sentenced to prison in separate courts-martial earlier this
year for appearing in pornographic videos made by Active Duty." -By
Maddy Sauer -ABCNEWS.com
Rove
- 
Abramoff
- 
Ralston
- Sports
- Entertainment
- Money
- 
Government
- 
Intelligence
- Northern
Mariana Islands - E-Mail
- 
Safavian
- "Rove
Aide Linked To Abramoff Resigns: Scandal Claims Its
First West Wing Job." ... "A top aide to White House strategist Karl Rove
resigned yesterday after disclosures that she accepted gifts from and passed
information to now-convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, becoming the first
official in the West Wing to lose a job in the influence-peddling scandal."
... "Susan B. Ralston submitted her resignation to avoid causing political
damage to President Bush a month before the midterm elections, officials
said. "She did not want to be a distraction to the White House at this
important time," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino." ... "A congressional
report showed last week that Ralston accepted sometimes-pricey tickets
to nine sports and entertainment events from Abramoff while she provided
him with inside White House information. The bipartisan report said there
is no evidence that Rove knew of or approved of Ralston's actions, and
sources said yesterday that the White House was surprised by the report's
revelations." ... "The only other White House official caught up in the
probe has been David H. Safavian, the procurement chief for the Office
of Management and Budget, who was convicted in June of lying about his
ties to Abramoff." ... "As a former Abramoff assistant, Ralston played
intermediary between the lobbyist and Rove. The congressional report found
66 Abramoff contacts with the White House, more than half of them with
Ralston. In addition, Abramoff's lobbying colleagues contacted Ralston
69 times." ... "On Oct. 21, 2001, Ralston e-mailed Abramoff that Rove had
read an Abramoff memo about a political endorsement in the Mariana Islands
governor's race, a little-noticed election but one important to Abramoff
because he had lucrative clients there. Ralston reported to Abramoff that
Rove had agreed, writing the next day: "You win :)."" (1, 2)
-By Peter Baker and James V. Grimaldi
-WashingtonPost
TV
- Media
- Business
- 
Terrorism
- 
History
- Politics
- "ABC
Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film." ... "ABC faced
growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials,
historians and a Democratic petition with nearly 200,000 signatures urged
the network to scrap the five-hour drama." ... "The network said the movie,
scheduled to air commercial-free on Sunday and Monday, is being edited
to deal with concerns that it distorts history. ABC had no response to
the calls to abandon it." ... "A group of historians, including Arthur
Schlesinger Jr. and Princeton University's Sean Wilentz, wrote to ABC parent
Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger, urging him to scrap the series. They said
that permitting inaccuracies to heighten drama is "disingenuous and dangerous.""
... ""A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the
falsification of history, except to expose it," they wrote." ... "Harvey
Keitel, one of the actors in "The Path to 9/11," also said he had questions
about whether some of the material was accurate." ... ""When I received
the script, it said ABC history project," Keitel said in an interview with
CNN Headline News' "Showbiz Tonight." "I took it to be exactly what they
presented to me, history. And that the facts were correct. It turned out
not all the facts were correct, and ABC set out trying to heal that problem.
In some instances it was too late because we had begun."" ... "The controversy
is reminiscent of the one that erupted over a 2003 CBS miniseries about
President Ronald Reagan. In the face of political pressure over that film's
accuracy, CBS canceled it, and it later aired on the Showtime cable network."
-By David Bauder -AP
Entertainment
- Business
- Technology
- Consumer
- Database
- 
Parents
& Children - "Disney's
Finger Scan Upgrade Raises Privacy Concerns." ...
"An upgrade on Disney's finger scanning technology implemented to prevent
ticket fraud or resale is raising concerns from privacy advocates, according
to Local 6 News." ... "For years, Walt Disney World has been reading the
shape of visitors' fingers on its property. Now, the upgraded controversial
finger scanning machines scan fingerprint information." ... ""Privacy advocates
worry that Disney is getting too much of your personal information and
their concern is where that information goes after it is scanned," Local
6 reporter Jessica D'Onofrio said." -Local6.com
DCI
- Marketing
- 
Oil
- Corporation
- Politics
- Global
- Climate
- Internet
- 
Computer- Entertainment
-
- Environment
- 
Al
Gore - "Al
Gore YouTube Spoof Not So Amateurish: Republican
PR [public relations] Firm Said to Be Behind 'Inconvenient Truth' Spoof."
... "A tiny little movie making fun of Al Gore, supposedly made by an amateur
filmmaker, recently appeared on the popular Web site YouTube.com." ...
"At first blush, the spoof seemed like a scrappy little homemade film poking
fun at Gore and his anti-global warming crusade." ... "The film actually
came from a slick Republican public relations firm called DCI, which just
happens to have oil giant Exxon as a client." ... "Public relations firms
have long used computer technology to create bogus grassroots campaigns,
which are called "Astroturf."" ... "Now these firms are being hired to
push illusions on the Internet to create the false impression of real people
blogging, e-mailing and making films. " (1, 2)
-By Jake Tapper and Max Culhane
-ABCNEWS.c
