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June 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Firedoglake » Associated Press: Dinosaurs of the Internet

If I were running a major metropolitan daily, and I saw my advertising revenues shrinking and my newsroom personnel diminishing as the dead tree business died, and I knew how important it was to generate online traffic to keep the doors open, I’d be thinking … Reuters. McClatchy. Bloomberg. Anything but AP.

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From the Trib Archives: Keating 1991:
06/Oct/08

Senate ethics panel cites Cranston in Keating Five case — chicagotribune.com Interesting to read this now… and McCain was the only Republican involved, at a time when the Democrats ruled the Senate (and the House, I believe).

The Palin/Combover Poll: WIN:
23/Sep/08

Still More Questions About Sarah Palin and that Combed-Over Guy with the Creepy Smile Who Hangs on to Her Skirt for Dear Life - 236.com - The Room I won the poll, what’s my prize?? Huh?

McCain: Political Dirty Trickster:
21/Sep/08

In These Times - March 6, 2000 - Free Ride Here is what happened: McCain boasted to my wife and me over lunch in Washington that he had planted complex questions with the Senate Interior Committee chairman to sabotage the testimony of Arizona Gov. Rose Mofford, a Democrat, about the Central Arizona Project, the multibillion-dollar Colorado River water delivery system for Arizona urban areas. When I protested to McCain that the project had enjoyed bipartisan support for nearly 50 years, from conservative Barry Goldwater to liberal Morris Udall, McCain retorted: “I’m duty bound to embarrass a Democrat whenever I can.”

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