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Insurgents -- they buy American
ACCORDING TO the defense lawyers at his trial, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby didn't lie to investigators about his role in outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. He was just so darn busy with pressing national security matters that he kept forgetting the...Tags: Civil Unrest, Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Weaponry, National Government
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McCain, Obama videos campaign for attention on YouTube
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJohn McCain's image takes a drubbing in the world of Web video, particularly in comparison to his likely opponent for president, Barack Obama. Nearly 51,000 people subscribe to Obama's channel on YouTube, the most popular video sharing site, compared to...Tags: John McCain, Iraq, Mitt Romney, David Letterman, Will.I.Am (movie)
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Clinton, Obama agree on changing trade pact
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersToughening their stances as they appealed for votes in economically stricken Ohio, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that they would use the threat of opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement to substantially renegotiate...Tags: John McCain, Elections, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Television
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Is fake news now the standard?
'Pat Philbin, the man who staged a fake FEMA news conference on the California wildfires last week, has lost his promotion because of the event, which begs the question: What does it actually take to get fired from FEMA?" That was the lead story on the...Tags: Jon Stewart, Fires, FEMA, Brian Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Is there truthiness to his '08 bid?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe more late-night television satirist Stephen Colbert jokes and romps his way through the early campaign season with his almost-real candidacy for president of the United States, the more some folks are intent on taking him seriously. It was no...Tags: Political Fundraising, Elections, News Media, Sam Brownback, Bill Richardson
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Radio and television figures
Radio and television figures Bob LeMond Jr., 94; leading announcer on CBS radio and television (Jan. 6) Dwight Arlington Hemion, 81; television director and producer who won 18 Emmy Awards for his musical variety specials (Jan. 28) Don Herbert, 72;...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lincoln Center, PBS (tv network), Meet the Press (tv program)
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Constitutional smackdown
MARTIN KAPLAN directs the Norman Lear Center for the study of entertainment, media and society at the USC Annenberg School.WHEN someone like Tim Russert asks someone like Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), as he did Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," whether a conflict between Congress and the Bush White House will lead to a constitutional crisis, I get the sense that the news...Tags: Lewis Libby, Constitutional Issues, White House, Elections, Lindsay Lohan
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Tim Russert, 58; keen-minded NBC journalist brought blue-collar touch to political coverage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York Tim Russert, the longest-serving moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" and the lion of the Washington press corps, died of a sudden heart attack Friday. He was 58. Russert had returned early from a family trip to Italy and was working at NBC's...Tags: Lewis Libby, Employees, Family, News Media, Meet the Press (tv program)
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Katie Couric, news anchors and the cult of personality
Special to The TimesTailored suit, tasteful hair, good posture, all business, only rare hints of perkiness. I've been checking out Katie Couric, really putting the evil eye on her. You know, Couric, the former NBC "Today" superstar and subsequent $15-million-a-year Jeanne...Tags: Today (tv program), Meet the Press (tv program), Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), Television, Television Industry
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Ted Koppel gives a lesson on China in a four-part Discovery Channel documentary.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Ted Koppel knows that persuading television viewers to tune into a four-part documentary about China's economic growth could be a difficult sell. So in the days leading to the broadcast of his latest Discovery Channel program, the veteran...Tags: Beijing Games, China Earthquake (2010), Management Change, John Alexander, PBS (tv network)
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We're all scandal-plagued attorneys general now
In an interview on Sunday's Meet the Press, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was pummeled by host Tim Russert about everything from his inconsistencies on Iraq to his professions of loyalty to both the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. Perhaps the...Tags: Arlen Specter, New York Yankees, U.S. Senate, Janet Reno, Minority Groups
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