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An American Jewish Committee study nine years ago revealed that American Jews, for the most part, are undisturbed by mixed marriages.
But the same can't be said for Jews in Israel. A 2007 poll found that more than half of Israeli Jews equate intermarriage with "national [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:05pm EST
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A question editors mulled yesterday and again in this morning's news meeting: Yesterday, the military issued a report entitled "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve" (warning: pdf in link), which states that "75 percent of America?s young adults cannot join the military" because of poor education, involvement in crime, [...]
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Today is the 30-year birthday of Morning Edition. Yesterday NPR's content management system turned 7. Thought some might find the histories interesting -- that is my sole reason for posting this. ACS
MORNING EDITION HITS 30
This comes from Ellen McDonnell, executive director of news programming. She joined NPR the [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 3:04pm EST
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Here's one of those weird little details that readers always notice: Several people called me Monday to tell me their copies of the editorial page had a strange flaw -- the text down the first column on the left was wavy. Was that intentional?
Definitely not, and I couldn't find an [...]
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The good folks at Duke are continuing to push the conversation about how watchdog journalism can be saved.
A new report from
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy examines ways that
can make smaller numbers of reporters more efficient at combing through
piles of documents or large databases. [...]
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A caller today was extremely upset at a story about K2, one of several brands of dried herbs that contain chemicals that affect people who smoke it in a manner similar to marijuana.
"I can't believe you'd even consider writing an article about something like this," she said. "If you don't [...]
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All-too-common occurence illustrates a problem I encounter pretty much every week: A reader contacted reporter Randy Covitz and me about Covitz' story last week about gay athletes, after Larry Johnson's recent suspension for using the words "fag" and "faggot" on Twitter and while speaking to the media.
The reader's point [...]
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One of the most interesting aspects of this peculiar job is that you hear from viewers about lots of things that surprise you. I expect to hear regularly about The NewsHour, Frontline, Bill Moyers Journal, NOW, Tavis Smiley or Washington... [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:30am EST
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UPDATE: It's a moot point now, as she's been charged. This story names her -- Jill Theresa Conaghan -- along with her booking mug shot.
A user on KansasCity.com just contacted me to protest the "unfair treatment" he endured when a Web editor removed a comment he'd posted on a [...]
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