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| USATODAY.com News Opinion - Benedetto |
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| Best re-election strategy? Solid district and constituent service |
(Sat, 16 Sep 2006)
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| With the 2006 elections just seven weeks away, here are some random thoughts about where things stand:
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| Wilson-Plame case prime example of media reluctance to admit mistakes |
(Fri, 08 Sep 2006)
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| We in the news media are very good at uncovering and chomping into what we see as a scandal, relentlessly picking at the carcass until nothing's left but bare bones strewn across the landscape. But when it appears we might have gone too far in our zeal to satisfy our appetite for blood and need to make amends, we tend to run the other way.
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| Simple courtesy by public officials should always be in good taste |
(Sat, 02 Sep 2006)
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| You know that civility in public discourse has fallen on rough times when the mayor of the capital city of the nation's most Republican state fails to welcome the visiting president of the United States and instead calls him all kinds of names in public.
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| Media can't resist an anniversary |
(Fri, 25 Aug 2006)
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| Nothing is so sublime for the media as a first anniversary. And Tuesday, we mark the first anniversary of the Gulf Coast landfall of Hurricane Katrina, a storm that in the eyes of most Americans was the worst natural disaster to hit the United States, worse than the San Francisco earthquake.
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| Courts, Congress and voters will decide wiretaps issue, not the media |
(Fri, 18 Aug 2006)
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| Thursday's court ruling that the Bush administration violated the Constitution by wiretapping without court order suspected terrorists' phone calls isn't the final word in what promises to be a drawn-out legal battle that could rise to the Supreme Court.
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