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SpinSpotter Debuts Service to Spot Media Bias and Inaccuracy Online (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) September 8, 2008, 7:00 am EDT Today at DEMOfall08, SpinSpotter unveiled a new online service designed to surface specific instances of bias and inaccuracy in any news story online. By installing a SpinSpotter toolbar called Spinoculars, users of the SpinSpotter service can ... |
Mystery around Palin hinders election (Arizona Daily Wildcat) September 8, 2008, 4:58 am EDT The press is getting a bad name these days. What is more disturbing is that many of us don't seem to mind. Sen. John McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, has not yet given a single significant statement to the press. Not a single interview. |
Mystery around Palin hinders election (Arizona Daily Wildcat) September 8, 2008, 4:54 am EDT The press is getting a bad name these days. What is more disturbing is that many of us don't seem to mind. Sen. John McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, has not yet given a single significant statement to the press. Not a single interview. |
MSNBC Drops Olbermann and Matthews From Election Coverage Anchor Roles (Broadcasting and Cable) September 8, 2008, 2:14 am EDT Outspoken duo demoted to analysts for debate and election night coverage |
MSNBC dropping political anchors (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune) September 8, 2008, 1:06 am EDT MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel's coverage of the election. That experiment appears to be over. |
Palin watch ends! (Salon.com) September 7, 2008, 11:51 pm EDT She'll talk to ABC's Charles Gibson next week. What should he ask her? |
Valley GOP fueled up by McCain speech (The News Virginian) September 5, 2008, 11:25 pm EDT Shenandoah Valley Republicans said Friday that John McCain’s acceptance speech showed his strength of character and commitment to reform government. |
Not all county candidates have filed campaign financing reports (Herald-Banner) September 5, 2008, 12:35 am EDT GREENVILLE — Some local candidates and officeholders have reported monetary contributions, others have reported no campaign contributions, and two candidates have yet to file their most recent required Campaign Finance Reports, which were ... |
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Posted by: archiveguard on Aug 17, 2005 - 10:17 PM
As presently configured, the national security institutions of the U.S.
government are still the institutions constructed to win the Cold War. The
United States confronts a very different world today. Instead of facing a few
very dangerous adversaries, the United States confronts a number of less visible
challenges that surpass the boundaries of traditional nation-states and call for
quick, imaginative, and agile responses. HOW TO DO IT? A DIFFERENT WAY OF ORGANIZING THE GOVERNMENT
The men and women of the World War II generation rose to the challenges of
the 1940s and 1950s. They restructured the government so that it could protect
the country. That is now the job of the generation that experienced 9/11. Those
attacks showed, emphatically, that ways of doing business rooted in a different
era are just not good enough. Americans should not settle for incremental, ad
hoc adjustments to a system designed generations ago for a world that no longer
exists.
We recommend significant changes in the organization of the government. We
know that the quality of the people is more important than the quality of the
wiring diagrams. Some of the saddest aspects of the 9/11 story are the
outstanding efforts of so many individual officials straining, often without
success, against the boundaries of the possible. Good people can overcome bad
structures. They should not have to.
The United States has the resources and the people. The government should
combine them more effectively, achieving unity of effort. We offer five major
recommendations to do that:
- unifying strategic intelligence and operational planning against Islamist
terrorists across the foreign-domestic divide with a National
Counterterrorism Center;
- unifying the intelligence community with a new National Intelligence
Director;
- unifying the many participants in the counterterrorism effort and their
knowledge in a network-based information-sharing system that transcends
traditional governmental boundaries;
- unifying and strengthening congressional oversight to improve quality and
accountability; and
- strengthening the FBI and homeland defenders.
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