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He He He. Woof, woof Quote:Jon Stewart: MSNBC Now the Same as FOX By David Knowles Dec 2nd 2008 9:45AM Filed Under:eBarack Obama, Featured Stories, Humor, Media On last night’s "Daily Show", Jon Stewart took aim at MSNBC for the network’s continued slide toward what he sees as the same partisan cheerleading that one has witnessed over the past eight years at FOX News. Watch: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/inde...oId=210922 While many liberals have hailed th... more

Huffington Post , which by the way has its own problems of point of view and of authorial relevance, has two pieces today that are worth a second look. Jon Stewart takes on MSNBC as the erstwhile mouthpiece of the Obama Era, in much the same way as Fox has been the water-carrier for the Bush-Cheney-Neocon Administration. As with most Jon Stewart perceptions there is a strong glare of reality in his charges of bias and sycophancy. Keith is considerably less quotable these days, over the top ... more

Filed under: Barack Obama , Featured Stories , Humor , Media On last night’s "Daily Show", Jon Stewart took aim at MSNBC for the network’s continued slide toward what he sees as the same partisan cheerleading that one has witnessed over the past eight years at FOX News. Watch: While many liberals have hailed the rise of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow as a long-overdue cable news counterweight to their ideological rivals on FOX, others, like Stewart, bemoan the f... more

http://www.ft.com/… Morgan Stanley has won the contract to market the prime broadcast spectrum that will become available for sale once all television stations switch from analogue to digital signals in 2012. The auction, which may raise up to £5bn for the Treasury, will make available up to eight packages of wavelength in a “sweet spot” on the spectrum. About 128Mhz of spectrum in the sweet spot around 700Mhz will be available. Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator,... more

http://www.lewrockwell.com/… Posted by Kathryn Muratore at September 14, 2008 01:23 PM Since the big story broke last spring about prescription medicine showing up in municipal water, more and more tests have been run in different areas of the country, and all show the same general trend. Previously, I implicated the Drug War in being one of the culprits in this problem. But I underestimated the depth of the guilt of the DEA. It turns out that the Drug War regulations make... more

http://www.reuters.com/… A meeting between top government officials and the heads of some of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms over the fate of Lehman Brothers broke up on Saturday but was set to resume on Sunday, a spokesman for the New York Federal Reserve Bank said. “Senior representatives of major financial institutions reconvened on Saturday with U.S. officials at the New York Fed. Discussions are expected to continue tomorrow,” the spokesman said. Small g... more

http://opinion.latimes.com/… The U.S. Department of Agriculture doesn’t want to test more than 1% of cattle for mad-cow disease, and it doesn’t want anybody else to do it either. Who cares about customers and the companies that might want to please them? The USDA won its appellate round in court; justices ruled that the agency had the authority to stop beef producer Creekstone Farms from testing under a nearly century-old law that was intended to keep cattlemen f... more