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The Next Battle in the Newspaper Wars
In mid-April, higher-ups at the St. Paul Pioneer Press laid off part-time staff cartoonist Kirk Anderson, who had been poking fun at local politicos on the paper's editorial page for eight years. The mainstream press, busy promoting the war in Iraq, more or less ignored the ouster. On websites and in publications that cater to journalists and media junkies, however, the story caused a buzz.
Editor & Publisher filed a series of online reports, one concluding that Anderson's removal "continued a trend that has seen the ranks of staff editorial cartoonists dwindle to fewer than 100 in the U.S. as newspapers seek to save money and/or avoid running controversial art."
Meanwhile, journalists from coast to coast e-mailed copies of the cartoonist's indignant farewell memo like so many Jayson Blair jokes. "I hope seeing my rolling bloody head bobble down the stairs doesn't frighten anyone, I hope it just makes you cheesed off about the mess it leaves behind," Anderson wrote. "Strong journalism doesn't come from frightened workers. Strong journalism comes from empowered employees who believe in themselves, in their mission, and who know that their company supports and cares about them and their mission too."
To those of us working in this age of media consolidation, Anderson's layoff was just further evidence that publicly held companies like Gannett or the San Jose-based behemoth Knight Ridder, which has owned the Pioneer Press since Knight Newspapers merged with Ridder Publications in 1974, will do anything to ensure 18 to 25 percent profit margins for their shareholders. Even if it means laying off a guy who works just 24 hours a week and pays half of his health insurance premium. "What we're seeing is that newspapers--especially mid-size papers like the Pioneer Press--are being pressured on levels that were unheard of until just recently, because of profit imperatives that are more than two times the size of other industries," says Geneva Overholser, a media critic and professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. "So people can still put out a great homes section, but the international news and opinion sections are being slashed. It's becoming a common- place problem."
In St. Paul, Anderson's dismissal transcended the usual hand-wringing over the bottom line and journalistic integrity. Local managers had always brayed about being in the business of battling the Star Tribune. Now they had to lower their gloves in public, trading locally generated content--not so long ago the paper's main claim to fame--for something more generic. "We've had empty positions before that never got filled, and some things that we would have liked to have done that we couldn't afford," says columnist Nick Coleman, who has been with the Pi-Press since 1986. "But when I heard that we had lost our editorial page cartoonist, well, that's the first time I felt my cheeks flush. I thought, 'My God, even the Rochester paper has a local cartoonist.'
"In general, I think the company has been fortunate that this paper is as good and hard-working as it is. That's why the cartoonist decision embarrassed me. Because this one you can't hide, you can't cover it with smoke and mirrors and say, 'Oh, just have Coleman draw some stick figures.' It's a gaping hole. And I think it shows people that we are stretched too thin, that we are smaller and less effective than we were a few years ago."
Anderson's unceremonious removal also came at a time when union employees at the Pi-Press in editorial, advertising, and circulation were already suffering from low morale after an eight-month long impasse in contract negotiations between the Minnesota Newspaper Guild and local management, which seemed to be taking directions from San Jose and daring workers to walk off the job. "It was a calculated move designed to engender fear," asserts Mike Sweeney, the Guild's administrative officer and primary negotiator. "Essentially, management was saying, 'Look, we can do what we want.' It was meant to have an effect on bargaining."
Instead of further rattling the rank and file, though, the company's actions stirred anger, resulting in a newfound sense of camaraderie and common purpose. More than a few Guild members are scared silly of a strike, of course, and the union has a ways to go before it engenders the sort of solidarity necessary to launch a successful, long-term offensive. Still, as local union organizer Bernie Hesse put it, "The reporters over there are finally realizing that they're workers. Before this all started, I think they thought they would be treated as professionals. But now they know they're nothing more than commodities."
On May 29, Guild members at the Pi-Press took their names off stories in that day's paper, engaging in the first byline strike in the Twin Cities since reporters at the Star Tribune used a similar ploy in 1989. Employees have also made a habit of leaving the office en masse at 3:00 p.m. for a 15-minute break in front of the newspaper's downtown Cedar Street offices, carrying placards with slogans such as "Invest in Labor not in Wall Street." Just a few weeks ago, a strike steering committee was formed to begin discussing contingency issues such as health care and strike pay.
Labor actions like these are calculated to generate media attention; primarily, though, they are designed to send a signal that the Guild is gathering strength. So far, the coverage has been scant and management has been unmoved. "I don't think [Knight Ridder] thinks there's a snowball's chance in hell that there will be a strike," posits Bill Weyandt, who just took a leave of absence from the paper's technology department to work full time as strike coordinator. "I think they believe we will ultimately take whatever they decide to give us."
A couple of months ago, the company conceded to offering an annual two percent wage increase for three years (the union was hoping for at least four percent), but it has not backed down from its insistence that employees pay higher health care premiums. Most significantly, Guild members are also being asked to abandon a "strike sympathy" clause in the contract that, when push comes to shove, allows workers to refuse to cross picket lines if another union at the Pi-Press strikes. This demand is particularly telling, says Sweeney, because there are three other labor contracts pending at the paper and a fourth coming up at the end of the year. "The only way to look at it is as a union-busting issue," he declares. "What they don't seem to understand is that by pushing their demands on the strike language, they're creating a situation which will cause what they fear most--a strike."
There is a growing sense around the shop in St. Paul that a confrontation is imminent, perhaps before summer's end. Lynda Hanner, who sells advertising at the Pi-Press and has been involved in several contract talks during her 30 years in the local Guild, says she's never seen negotiations this contentious. "I'm a glass-is-half-full sort of person," she says. "And I can usually figure out what they're trying to accomplish and see how we could somehow come to a compromise. I don't see that this time. For the first time ever I think we will have to strike."
Karl Karlson, who has been a staff writer at the paper for 31 years, agrees: "Look, the bottom line is that the company is not negotiating. They're daring us to run to the edge of the abyss. That's a dangerous thing, because when you do that you run the risk of going into a free fall. And if that happens, if we have to strike, the paper may never come out of it."
There is no doubt a strike would be calamitous, especially considering KR's record. Not so long ago the company weathered a brutal newspaper strike in Detroit, the most expensive of its kind in U.S. history. But strike or no, the Pi-Press has been in a free fall for some time now, and Knight Ridder's recent behavior suggests that no matter what transpires between management and the Guild over the next few months, St. Paul's hometown paper will never be the same.
Journalists are whiny people. When talking about themselves or their peers (off the record, of course), they also tend to exaggerate for dramatic effect. Spend a martini's worth of time in a pub with a newspaper reporter, and you're sure to get a glassful about how this editor screwed up this story, that reporter stole that source, and speculation that by the end of the year there will be classified ads on the front page of the paper--above the fold!
A perennial local favorite is the fate of the Pioneer Press. In fact, based on the "inside information" I've had served with my beer nuts over the last decade, that paper should have unplugged the presses--well, at least three times by now.
It's a safe bet, though, that Knight Ridder's small operation in St. Paul, once considered the company's flagship, will be around for a long time. The Pi-Press does not make as much money as CEO Tony Ridder would like, and it is no longer considered a "destination paper" for the chain's more talented journalists. Still, the property consistently runs in the black (in 2002, its profit margin was between 13 and 15 percent) and there has never been a speck of credible evidence that its ownership is considering a mercy killing or fire sale. Neither move makes good business sense.
What does compute, in pure economic terms at least, and what is really driving the journalists in this town to drink, is the way KR is squeezing its 31 papers, from the Pi-Press to the San Jose Mercury News to the once-revered Miami Herald--not because they have to, but because they can. Over the last three years, the company has posted the highest total shareholder return (stock-price gains plus dividends) of all seven companies in the Standard & Poor's Publishing/Newspaper Index. In the fourth quarter of 2002, its net income was up 31 percent from the same period of 2001. As a result, executives at the company received $10 million in stock bonuses. (Ridder himself reportedly received 35,085 shares at a value of $2.4 million.)
Not at all coincidentally, the chain has reduced its head count by nearly 17 percent during the same period. In 2001 alone, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, 2,200 Knight Ridder employees were let go, saving an estimated $100 million. In St. Paul over the last two years, 49 employees have packed their bags (27 in editorial), making the newsroom 10 percent smaller and nearly half the size of the Strib's.
In 2001 Jay Harris, the publisher of the Mercury News and an heir apparent to Tony Ridder in the eyes of many, resigned in protest over the company's extraordinary profit targets. In his letter of resignation, Harris wrote that the company was placing too much emphasis on money at the expense of journalism, especially at the chain's smaller newspapers. In May of this year, during an interview with Boston Public Radio, he explained to listeners why executives at the mother ship can be so blasé and so draconian. "With several notable and distinguished exceptions, the press does not cover itself as well as it does other institutions in society. If these cuts were happening in local hospitals, it would be an enormous story," he said.
As the Pi-Press shrunk under the radar, the Star Tribune, purchased in 1997 by Sacramento-based McClatchy Co. for $1.4 billion, marshaled its resources to make the cross-town competition irrelevant to every part of the Twin Cities but St. Paul proper. In all the ways that matter, the Strib has already accomplished its goal. The Pi-Press, once widely revered as the little paper that could, is quickly becoming little more than a small-town newspaper: its talent pool deleted, its reporters struggling to keep up in their own neighborhood, and its shrinking news hole home to more and more copy off the corporate wire.
The Strib, under the leadership of new Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, has pumped up its international coverage, markedly improved its Sunday paper, and become noticeably more aggressive in its local coverage. In short, they have gone a long way toward turning the Twin Cities into a one-newspaper town.
Four years ago I wrote a story about the ongoing David-and-Goliath rivalry between the two local dailies. On paper, at least, the Strib was dominant. The Pi-Press had a daily circulation of just over 200,000, and 268,000 readers on Sunday. The Strib was distributing 364,000 daily papers and 672,00 on Sunday.
Despite the numbers, though, Tony Ridder told me that he still considered the Strib to be a direct competitor, both on the page and in the margins.
Was it a bona fide newspaper war? I asked.
"It's just a question of how you define a war," he replied. "The Star Tribune would like to be the only paper in the Twin Cities. We're doing all we can to maintain and grow our position. They're the big kid on the block. They're very aggressive. So maybe they're right. Maybe it's not a newspaper war in the classic sense. But hey, it's going to be one hell of a battle."
At the time, a scrappy Pi-Press staff had given Ridder good reason to talk a little trash. A month before I spoke with him, the paper stunned the Strib by publishing an exclusive series about academic fraud in the University of Minnesota's basketball program. The story's author, George Dohrmann, would eventually win a Pulitzer Prize for the piece, and no matter how hard the Strib tried to publish scoops as the scandal unfolded--often succeeding--the Pi-Press owned the story in the public eye. The achievement invigorated everyone at the paper. Reporters believed they could do more with less. Editors mused out loud about burning more resources for long-term projects. The paper's ad reps even believed it was still possible to beat up the Strib in the Twin Cities' eastern suburbs, where a number of affluent readers remained up for grabs.
According to the latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the Strib now has a daily circulation of 375,000 and a Sunday circulation of 669,358 (the nation's 12th largest). The Pioneer Press's Sunday circulation is just 251,000, and its daily number has dropped below 200,000--a figure considered a cutoff point for some large advertisers--to 191,000.
The commonly held belief among local ad executives, as well as business managers at the Star Tribune, is that at some point in the last two years, the Pi-Press fundamentally changed its master strategy, deciding to be a sort of community newspaper and not a metro-wide competitor. (The Oakland Tribune is one model of that approach.) They believe the St. Paul paper's hard-target market area has been reduced from over 700,000 readers in 20 counties to 375,000 readers living in seven--not including Hennepin County, which accounts for 50 percent of the metro area's retail sales and was long ago ceded to the Strib. The Pi-Press still has an advantage in Ramsey County, due to their dominance in St. Paul, but in the once hotly contested suburbs between here and Hudson, Wisconsin, the Strib is taking charge of the battle.
In the Strib's newsroom, reporters have always been reluctant to admit that they pay any attention to what the Pi-Press is up to. Until recently, though, it was obvious that editors and reporters at both papers were tracking each other's movements in the course of plotting their own. Now staffers at the Strib seem to pity their former rivals, hoping more than anything that their parent company never gets as greedy as Knight Ridder.
Those veterans that remain at the Pi-Press, whom I have always known to be fiercely loyal and defiant, have been worn down to admitting that they can no longer keep pace. "Are we getting beat? Yeah, we're getting beat," admits Pi-Press reporter and union steward Chuck Laszewski. "We know we're not covering the stories we should be covering. The simple fact is that, day after day, they have more people. They have to play .500 baseball every other day. We have to play .700 baseball, every day."
"We're the underdog," explains reporter Karl Karlson. "And nine of ten times the underdog gets the shit kicked out of them. Someone calls with a tip, and we literally don't have the bodies to follow up. This is the newsroom where story leads come to die."
To make matters worse, explains another veteran reporter, the Pi-Press's shrinking staff is less experienced, less acquainted with the community it's covering, and less interested in sticking around. "It's like the Pinochet regime: We're all colleagues of the disappeared," she says. "When Sen. Wellstone's plane crashed, it was chaos. Editors ran around, interns ran around, and senior people just sat on their hands all day. The editor in charge of the story didn't know to tap those people, just didn't know what to do." (This observation is especially telling, given that Pi-Press Editor Vicki Gowler says that her paper's coverage of the Wellstone crash--along with pieces about the Minnesota Wild's 2003 championship run--best exemplifies how the Pi-Press can still show up the Strib on a local story.)
Staffers at the Pi-Press are acutely aware that KR means to try squeezing even more money out of its papers. In fact, an e-mail recently circulated among union workers around the chain claiming that KR editors have been instructed to come up with another $100 million in company-wide savings. Suggested measures include creating a national reporting team to provide coverage of wars, politics, and other "major events" for the entire chain, eliminating diversity initiatives, considering the inclusion of advertising on the bottom of sections' front pages, and centralized copy editing for all the papers.
KR also seems to be in the mood to tame its unionized work force at a number of properties. In St. Paul, the Guild will likely either have to swallow hard on a number of previously unthinkable concessions, or call the company's bluff and risk the possibility of an all-out strike.
Mention the word to union advocates in nearly any industry and they will shudder. For many, the newspaper strike that took place in that city not only represented a new day for media companies like Knight Ridder, but a turning point for organized labor across the country. "Hanging over this strike is an unmistakable feeling that an era has passed," Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post wrote in the midst of the labor battle. "That--even here in Detroit, the spiritual center of American unionism--an old-fashioned union fight might, in this day and age, be insignificant and even a little quaint."
Beginning on July 13, 1995, and for the next 583 days, some 2,500 workers from six unions at the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News fought against the papers' owners, Gannett and KR, who had started the ball rolling when they signed a joint operating agreement in 1990. The strike was an unmitigated disaster not unlike the 1980s Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota. Both Gannett and KR lost money (not to mention circulation and talent), but the News and Press both published scab papers for the entire 19 months of the strike and, in the end, it was the Teamsters and the Newspaper Guild who gave up. According to the Metro Times, an alternative weekly in Detroit, only a third of the strikers ultimately returned to their jobs. The rest had "either moved away, found other jobs, been fired, or died. And those who are back at work are often making less money and now labor in an open shop, where union membership is no longer required."
Until just recently, it was hard to find many employees at the Pi-Press who believed that a similar scenario would unfold in St. Paul. The Guild has faced tough negotiations in the past, of course, but always with a sense that the sides would reach agreement. During the last round of contract talks, in fact, union members even agreed to settle for fewer resources and less money than Guild members at the Star Tribune. What's more, the presence of that competition, hypothetically at least, was sure to make management think twice about a labor stoppage, since another paper would be more than happy to fill the void.
Over the last year, though, it has become clear that Knight Ridder is in no mood to negotiate in St. Paul, no matter how modest the demands or how long negotiations drag out. The typographers have been without a contract since 2001, talks between management and the machinists have been stalled since last October, the Newspaper Guild has been without a contract for nearly a year now, and the drivers who deliver the Pi-Press have to start negotiating for a new contract at the end of 2003. "We have to remember who we are dealing with here," says Peter Rachleff, a professor at Macalester College who specializes in labor. "This is not the Pioneer Press, this is a multinational corporation. The notion of our hometown paper being shut down is very hard to imagine. But this is a company that has done this very thing in other communities. And I don't think there is any principled reason that they would not do it here."
But why do it? The Guild is only asking for a moderate raise and the Pi-Press is making money. Ultimately, that's something only KR executives would know, and they're not talking. (Polk Laffoon, vice president of corporate relations in San Jose, said he did not know anything about union issues in St. Paul and that no one at corporate headquarters, including Tony Ridder, would comment.) There are a number of theories, though, as to the company's motives.
"I think they want to tame the union," posits columnist Nick Coleman. "They want to scratch us behind the ears until we roll over and show them our bellies."
Bernie Hesse is more blunt: "The best-case scenario is that the company is playing chicken, seeing who will blink first or how much they can jam up the union's ass." The worst-case scenario, for which Hesse says people at the Pi-Press are starting to prepare themselves, is that Knight Ridder will not budge another inch at the negotiating table, no matter what.
The Newspaper Guild is the largest union at the Pi-Press, representing 449 employees in the newsroom and other departments, including advertising and circulation. The fact that management continues to insist on anti-sympathy strike language in the Guild contract is generally taken as a sign of the KR strategy. As Guild member Lynda Hanner says bluntly, "it looks like they want to pick off some of the smaller unions."
Rachleff, Hesse, and others believe that KR may be trying to save money in this soft economy by going after unskilled labor at their newspapers, such as delivery drivers and the people who stuff newspapers with advertisements. Those jobs are unionized in St. Paul, and it would be much easier to tame those blue-collar workers with the Guild on a leash. "About 10 years ago, I was working with the pressmen at the paper, who were being pressured to give up their picket-line language," the professor says. "They succeeded in retaining it at the time. At a conceptual level, though, this is an idea that has been in Knight Ridder's head for a long time."
Take this theory one step further, and it is not hard to imagine that just as KR believes weakening the Guild in St. Paul could help bring other union locals to heel, they might be willing to risk a newspaper strike to send a message to unions at bigger KR papers such as the Kansas City Star and Philadelphia Inquirer: The company is still willing to play hardball, Detroit-style.
"It looks to me like Knight Ridder has run the numbers and decided that the only long-term option to keep profits high is a nonunion workforce. And I get the feeling they will try to make that point in a smaller market where it's a lot cheaper to absorb the losses that might result from pressing that point," one high-ranking executive from another large newspaper chain concluded. "I think the Pioneer Press is being made an example of. I think it could get ugly."
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A blind guitarist from the North Carolina hill country, Doc Watson brought old-time Appalachian music to new generations of folk-music fans around the world.
Mr. Watson, 89 years old, died Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Mr. Watson's style epitomized flat picking—playing guitar strings with a single pick—though his finger picking also was considered masterful. He was known for virtuoso adaptations of traditional tunes, many originally composed for the fiddle, accompanied by his own sonorous vocals.
Although he had toured in the 1950s playing electric guitar in a country-and-western swing band, it was Mr. Watson's work as an acoustic guitarist during the folk-music revival of the 1960s that gained him fame as a roots musician.
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HILLSIDE, Ill. -- During his brief holiday visit home, Duke guard Jon Scheyer stopped by basketball practice at his alma mater, Glenbrook North High School.
Scheyer, now a senior in college, is still a legend in John Hughes country for his high school dominance, and he wanted to give his team a little pep talk in preparation for the Proviso West Holiday Tournament.
"I told them, 'You've got to win one for our school,'" he said. "Because I definitely didn't."
Not exactly "Win One for the Scheyer," but the Spartans, one of the tournament favorites, likely got the gist.
Far from the negativity surrounding Jay Cutler and Vinny Del Negro and the specter of Milton Bradley, Saturday morning was a breath of fresh air for at least one reporter.
It was a Boxing-Out Day, if you will.
This weekend marks the end of tournament season before conference play begins, and Chicago is stacked with choices. From Proviso West to the Big Dipper at Rich South to the Pontiac Holiday Tournament to several smaller ones dotting the suburbs, the best players in the area will be trying to test themselves against some solid competition before league play begins, culminating in championship games on Wednesday. Foreman, an easy first-round winner at Proviso West, got things started by beating Simeon to win the CPS Holiday Tournament on Dec. 23.
If you're sick of watching Chicago teams (not including the Blackhawks, obviously) sputter and spin out, and you're tired of waiting for the ax to fall on beleaguered coaches Lovie Smith and Del Negro, there's still time to watch someone win a championship around here.
Proviso West is a good place to end the year on a good note. You don't go there for the food ($4.25 for a slice of pizza?) or the outdated music, which, on Saturday, included Ricky Martin's "She Bangs," "Another Night" by Real McCoy and "Wild Wild West" by Escape Club. You go for the basketball. You go for the eight games stretched over 13 hours on the opening day.
A few hours before Glenbrook North tipped off against T.F. North in its tournament opener (a 55-48 win), Scheyer was talking in a phone conversation from Durham, N.C., preparing to go to practice. He said he wished he could have stayed in Chicago an extra day to watch GBN play. Scheyer, a three-time all-tournament selection, is the all-time leading scorer (386 points) at the hoops fest, now in its 49th year.
Scheyer's records are pretty impressive, considering the stars who came before him -- from Doc Rivers and Isiah Thomas to Farragut high riser Ronnie Fields and Westinghouse legend Cedrick Banks. (Though, in all fairness, Thomas and Rivers, who joined Mark Aguirre on the 1977 all-tournament team, didn't have a 3-point line.)
Scheyer made national headlines as a senior in 2005, when he scored 21 points in 75 seconds in Hillside. Unfortunately for his Spartans, the defending state champions, it wasn't enough as they lost to the hosts. Proviso West was winning 71-58 when he went on a tear with 1:24 to play, hitting four 3-pointers, a layup and 7 of 8 free throws, not to mention two steals, before fouling out. He scored 52 points, also a tournament record, in the 85-79 loss.
"People bring it up to me all the time. 'I was there when you scored 21 points at Proviso,'" he said. "But since we lost, it's not always the best memory."
How big is this tournament? Scheyer said winning it may be tougher than winning the state championship.
"Not winning Proviso West," Scheyer said, "is probably my biggest regret from high school."
Jacob Pullen understands. Pullen, a starting guard on Kansas State's nationally ranked squad, made it to the tournament for a bit to watch his Proviso East Pirates take on Evanston before catching a flight back to Manhattan, Kan.
Pullen lost a tight championship game, 59-58, to St. Joseph in 2006. That St. Joe's team was led by Evan Turner and Demetri McCamey, who play for Ohio State and Illinois, respectively.
"It was probably one of the best games in Proviso West history," Pullen said. "It was back and forth. I hit a 3 and then Demetri would hit a 3 and Evan would get an 'and-one.' Four seconds left, we were up by one and Evan was holding the ball at the top of the key and he made a pass to Demetri under the rim and he shot a layup with like 0.2 seconds left. It was a lot of fun. It doesn't get any better than the good old days, when we were playing."
Proviso East has produced a string of famous guards, from Rivers to Michael Finley to Dee Brown and Shannon Brown, and last won a tournament title in 1991. St. Joseph, Whitney Young, Westinghouse and Farragut have dominated in the last decade and change. Morton won the title over Proviso West last year.
"Growing up, when you're little, all the top players were involved in it, like Dee Brown and Shannon Brown, so you always wanted to be around," Pullen said. "So growing up, this was like the biggest thing. It was almost bigger than the playoffs, because there is so much good competition and you get to play against teams you don't always get to see."
Simeon is the No. 1 seed in Pontiac, which starts Monday. The school's most famous alum, Derrick Rose, was preparing for an important game at the United Center on Saturday night, when he reminisced about his amateur days.
"I played in the CPS holiday tournament here and they're just competitive," he said. "Everybody comes out. All your schoolmates, your gym class teachers and all that usually come to the game because there's no school. It's just fun."
This year's Proviso West slate is less stacked with star players, but competition is still fierce. Hillcrest, which had won its first 12 games of the season, lost its tournament opener to Von Steuben. The Panthers went 0-4 in the tournament last year.
"We wanted to come and show we should be in this tournament and we can play with the best teams in the tournament," Von Steuben guard Jermaine Hiller (11 points, five rebounds, four steals) said. "Obviously Hillcrest is one of the top teams, so we wanted to make a statement by winning the first game."
The Pirates, playing in their trademark short-sleeve jerseys, outlasted a scrappy Evanston team, 59-55 in overtime. Sophomore forward Trashaun Carroll (14 points, 13 rebounds) went from goat to hero when he tipped in the go-ahead basket after missing 6 of 8 free throws in the extra period. A transfer from Curie, he got his first taste of tournament time.
"We haven't won this tournament in a long time," Carroll said. "We're trying to show people we can do it. We've just got to believe"
Jon Greenberg is a columnist for ESPNChicago.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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There is exactly one Windows machine left in my house. I feel like I barely even know how to use it anymore, with the exception of its dedicated purpose: it runs my embroidery machine. And you only think whatever the latest video game you tried to crack was proprietary, locked-up madness. It takes... Read more
No matter how well organized you are, no matter how well you manage your time, you probably don't get the chance to read all of the interesting articles that you find when you find them. To get around that, you can use services like Readability, Instapaper, and Pocket that allow you clip articles... Read more
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CEO Jeff Walpole of Phase2 helps persuade businesses to consider open source as a viable solution. Particularly, Drupal. Jeff says, "Phase2 invests an estimated $500,000 every year in time, code, and sponsorship to grow this remarkable open source project." And, in return? Jeff and his team show... Read more
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Skip to comments.Amazon.com Removes Mapes Excerpt
Posted on 10/05/2005 7:38:43 PM PDT by RatherBiased.com
After initially putting the first chapter of fired CBS producer Mary Mapes's book, Truth and Duty, on its web site, Amazon.com has apparently pulled the plug on the enterprise. Visitors to the online book retailer can no longer read the excerpt as it no longer shows up in listings for the print or audio versions of the book.
Was the excerpt yanked because of the several objectively incorrect assertions it contained, and the subsequent blog firestorm their exposition caused? Only Amazon or Mapes's publisher, St. Martins Press knows for sure.
Well if she has too, Mapes can always....well you know....fake it.
Yeah right in the first chapter she brags about how great and thorough her fact checking is, then she says buckhead posted his debunking of her story before it even aired on TV. He posted hours afterwards. Gross error right in the beginning of the book that a quick check would have revealed.
I think you can claim at least an assist on this one.
There was no analysis of what the documents actually said, no work done to look at the content, no comparison with the official record, no phone calls made to check the facts of the story, nothing beyond a cursory and politically motivated examination of the typeface.
So... according to the now fired Mapes, all stories should have their content thoroughly discussed, whether they are made up or not. In the old days that was called mud-slinging. Sounds like something right tout of the DNC play book... Investigate because of the seriousness of the charge, who cares if there is no evidence.
Bill Clinton was charged by a woman with rape. I don't recall the MSM or democrats screaming for an investigation.
The title of her book is "Truth and Duty". I think that right there is the problem with the left-wing MSM. It's largely composed of zealots who think they're on some kind of mission from God to bring The Truth to the ignorant masses.
Newsflash, Mary: All I want from you is the news. Not the truth, the news. I'll decide what the truth is.
That was intentional. It's called "spin", and it's meant to mislead those readers who don't have the common sense to research the facts. (ie most MSM viewers.) Just as she and Dan did with the forged documents, she is directing her false information at her regular demographic: sheeple.
For some insane and unknown reason, that made me think of Meg Ryan's deli scene in When Harry Met Sally.
How does she suggest that buckhead got the news before it aired.
She has such a East Coast mind set that she didn't consider the West Coast clock FR operates under...
Man, this woman's full of crap! Just from memory, I know the above is 100% wrong, because I was on that thread that night. Buckhead's posting was shortly after it first aired.
Nice fact-checking, Mopes/Dopes - you moron!! Just as diligent as you were with the original fake documents. You, Rathernot - the whole gang of leftist liars, you can all just kiss my ass.
My favorite excerpt was how she heard it was being discussed on obscure websites she had never heard of before, such as Free Republic and Powerline, so she ran right over to Daily Kos and checked it out....
I think she only said the part about the right leaning web sites, not about running to daily kos, that was just a witty comic parody
Perhaps she had a physical reaction, and was gasping and gulping for air, sweating and shaking, and checking out websites full of hyperconservative vitriol. Perhaps she recoiled in horror and shock at all the refutation and cruel mockery of her first chapter, as if a right wing political jihad had been born, with her as the target!!!
Or maybe her publisher did.
LOL....this toon is too good!!!!
The excerpt and comments are hilarious. BTW, what in the hell is "peripheral spacing"????? There's a well-known typesetting concept called "proportional spacing".
Thanks, we don't want to get OUR facts wrong!
Just the same, isn't it strange how clueless the MSM is? Their head is so in the clouds they are totally unaware of major sites, forms and blogs like FR?
That is, IF she is telling the truth.
Thanks, we don't want to get OUR facts wrong!
Just the same, isn't it strange how clueless the MSM is? Their head is so in the clouds they are totally unaware of major sites, forms and blogs like FR?
That is, IF she is telling the truth.
Thanks, we don't want to get OUR facts wrong!
Just the same, isn't it strange how clueless the MSM is? Their head is so in the clouds they are totally unaware of major sites, forms and blogs like FR?
That is, IF she is telling the truth.
According to my records, Buckhead made the famous "post 47" at 11:59 EST. Now 60 minutes is on early in the evening, right?
I only pressed it once! I promise!
That would be me. :-)
That's a Pulitzer statement if I ever heard one. Good on you!
Time for SMP to become a vanity publisher. It's sure acting like one.
Don't you guys understand! The documents weren't forged, they were recreated from historical information.
This is commonly referred to as "forged".
There. Now it's accurate.
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The MAIN reason why the Mary Mapes book was removed from Amazon was because I DUFUed it on the DUFUed it in the DUmmie FUnnies. That book was taken down from Amazon (first just the excerpt and then the book itself) only a SHORT TIME after it was featured in the DUmmie FUnnies.
hey PJ, you should ping the list to this thread....
YUP! The MAIN reason the book was removed. Remember, within minutes after my DUFU blog edition about this went up, it was the #1 news story in Google about Mary Mapes. Right now it is in the #2 slot.
You might remember that I did question in the DUmmie FUnnies why her publisher did no fact checking. The fact that Mary Mapes herself can't be bothered with fact checking is well known but that even her publisher doesn't bother to check the facts is really inexcusable.
The title should read, Truth Decay.
The documents weren't forged, they were recreated from historical information warped, deceptive liberal minds.
There. Now it's accurate.
Thanks, I needed that, I don't know what came over me.
de nada
If you can show that the memo had to have been a forgery because of the typeface, none of that other stuff matters at all. Had this been a trial, the judge would have thrown the case out of court no matter what the other evidence and then gone out loaded for bear looking for who submitted perjurious evidence in his courtroom.
Do you have enough to sue whinny Mary and her publisher for perpetrating a lie against you?
They are not in the style that we used when I came in to the USAF. They looked like the style and format we started using about 12 years ago (1992). Our signature blocks were left justified, now they are rigth of center...like the ones they just showed.
Can we get a copy of those memos?
"TRUTH AND DUTY is the always fast, sometimes furious, and often unexpectedly funny story behind the collapse of one of America's great institutions."
Did you write this, PJ?
MARY: "It don't matter. I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where--wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fax so hungry journalists can be duped, I'll be there. Wherever there's a blog beatin' up a lib, I'll be there. I'll be in the way DUmmies yell when they're mad--an' I'll be in the way FReepers laugh when they're amused an' they know the moonbats are barkin'. An' when the people are watchin' the stuff we make up, an' believin' the stories we report, I'll be there too."
DAN: "I don't understan' it, Mary."
MARY: "Me neither, Dan, but jus' sump'n I've been thinkin' about."
LOL....again. I agree....the most common threads on DU are FU this, FU that, or more commonly F Bush. Shows the infantile vocabulary of the followers of the "Democratic Al Quaida."
OK, now she's going to say that PJ-Comix blew her out of the water before she was even published! LOL
Man, you couldn't write stuff like this -- who would believe it! ;)
In her next book, Grounded Before Flying she will relate how she was maligned, misquoted, and taken out of context (although PJ posted the entire contents) by "the evil right wing blogs" in an attempt to quash the selling of her tome before it was even published.
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1. Traditional IRA contributions. You have until April 15, to contribute up to $5,500 to a traditional IRA for 2015 and, if you qualify, deduct it on your tax return. Here are some guidelines:
2. Self-employed retirement plans. If you work for yourself, you can open a Simplified Employee Pension IRA by April 15, 2016, and deduct your contribution on your 2015 return. SEP IRAs may be an easy way to create your own retirement plan, and they can allow much higher contributions than traditional IRAs. Contributing to a SEP IRA does not exclude you from making an IRA contribution, but it may affect whether you can take a deduction for it. (A SEP IRA is considered an employer-sponsored plan).
3. Mortgage interest. You're allowed to deduct interest paid on your primary mortgage, as well as home equity loans, home improvement loans and lines of credit. In general, you may deduct interest on up to $1 million of primary mortgage debt and up to $100,000 of home equity balances.
4. State and local taxes. The federal government generally allows taxpayers to deduct property and income taxes paid to state and local governments.
5. Sales tax. If you didn't pay much state income tax -- or live in a state that doesn't tax income at all -- you may be able to choose to deduct sales tax instead. And you typically don't need receipts -- simply calculate an assumed amount using an IRS table or online calculator.
6. Charitable gifts. Donations to charity may ease your tax burden, but only if you have the right documentation. Cash contributions -- regardless of the amount -- require a canceled check or dated receipt. Any contribution of $250 or more requires bank or payroll deduction records or a written acknowledgment from the charity. Noncash contributions valued at more than $5,000 generally require an appraisal.
7. Education costs. Up to $2,500 in interest on loans for qualified higher education expenses may be deductible if your adjusted gross income is less than $75,000 ($150,000 if you're married and filing a joint return). A portion of your tuition and fees may be deductible if your adjusted gross income is $80,000 or less ($160,000 on a joint return). There are also two tax credits for college costs: the American Opportunity Credit and the Lifetime Learning Credit (See IRS Publication 970).
8. Medical and dental costs. The government sets a high hurdle for these expenses: You may be able to only deduct them if they exceed 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. Be aware that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act decreases this deduction for the 2015 tax year because those expenses generally will be deductible only if they exceed 10% of your adjusted gross income. The law does include a temporary waiver for seniors and their spouses if either has reached age 65 before the close of tax years 2015-2016.
9. Health insurance. Self-employed taxpayers get a break on one of their biggest financial headaches. In general, they may be able to deduct all of their health insurance premiums.
10. Health savings accounts. If your family was covered by a high-deductible health insurance plan in 2015, you may be able to contribute up to $6,650 to a health savings account ($3,350 if it only covered yourself). Contributions are deductible, and withdrawals for qualified medical expenses are tax-free. Similar to IRAs, you have until April 15 to contribute for the previous tax year.
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12. Guard and Reserve travel expenses. If you traveled more than 100 miles to attend a drill and spent the night, you may be able to deduct lodging expenses, half the cost of your meals and 57.5 cents per mile for travel. You also can deduct tolls and parking fees.
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Hosted by UNHInnovation, this day of interactive panel and discussion sessions for UNH faculty, staff, students, and interested members of the local community will explore the definition of creative works as well as mechanisms to protect and commercialize creative works. Creative works typically are works that include copyrights, trademarks, or both.
Led by experts in intellectual property management and protection, discussions will cover topics ranging from ownership of creative works and when to protect intellectual property, to overviews of copyrights, trademarks, open source software, and fair use, and understanding a publishing copyright license.
On March 17, 2015, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) released its expectations for sharing data resulting from NIMH-funded clinical research.
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As is Tradition we are hitting the road starting September 19th and routes along the East coast / midwest till November 2nd with opening acts One Eyed Doll, XFactor1, Ionia & The Xmembers.
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(Hed)pe and Mushroomhead have announced they will join forces with American Head Charge, Corvus, and Tenafly Viper for the "Hed2Head" co-headlining tour. The tour will kick off April 19th in Bloomington, IL and run for six week across the entire U.S.
"It's amazing what you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets all the credit. The strength of this wolf is in the pack," commented Mushroomhead. "We've toured with (Hed)p.e. a couple times and each time the shows get bigger and better. Both bands put on an explosive live show and we're constantly pushing each other to make the show even more insane to make it the best possible ticket for the fans hard earned money."
"We're stoked to be hitting the road with Mushroomhead and (Hed)p.e. on this tour," added American Head Charge bassist Chad Hanks. "We've been away for a while and this tour is the perfect way for us to get back in front of many of our hardcore fans and it gives us a chance to make new fans along the way."
Mushroomhead are touring in support of their brand new seventh studio album "Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children". As one of the leaders of the alterna-metal movement, the band's extreme performance style has garnered them an enormously devoted cult following and its cornucopian sound — a forceful yet melodic, underground yet accessible merging of hard rock, heavy metal, hardcore punk, industrial and soundtrack-worthy ambience – has seen it move upwards of one million albums worldwide. Mushroomhead's latest ultra-violent video and single "Come On" can be viewed at http://www.mtv.com/videos/mushroomhead/577957/come-on.jhtml]]>
Following the fights, Mushroomhead will take the stage to put the Rock in Rock in Rock-n-Rage! Mushroomhead will blow the roof off the 40,000 square foot facility in front of fighters and fans alike! You won't want to miss this event! ELITE Series 15 Rock-n-Rage takes place Saturday, February 25th at the Rocktagon Arena located at 4377 Midway Mall in Elyria, Ohio. General Admission tickets are on sale now for $35 and may be purchased online at www.rocktagonmma.com, tix.com, or at the Rocktagon ticket booth inside Midway Mall. Limited VIP Tables, featuring cage side seating and VIP viewing for Mushroomhead, are available by calling 440-934-4MMA.
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Brick is what im currently playing on Borderlands, truly the Brute of the game , will make one for each Class
I love playing as Brick. It's so satisfying beating the crap out of a BigMutha Bruiser with your fist.
Awesome work! The color pallet shows much darker vibes bleeding through.
Anybody else feel sorry for the bandits? being punched to death is goddammed brutal
they get their revenge in BL2..beings they're pretty tough if u try to melee them XD
That just means your melee'ing them longer meaning it takes longer to die and as a result is even MORE painful.
beat the game with brick. great character. love his beserk abilities. now trying to finish the various dlc. great job!
Yea im workin on the General Knoxx dlc now. and ty
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Pretty, looks like the real thing.
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nice job on this 2 brick is wikid kool
nice job on this 2 brick is wikid kool
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I met my wife when she was serving as a missionary in my singles ward.
We kept in some contact when she went home. She came to visit me six months later.
We had never dated. I asked her to marry me on Jan 3rd. She said yes and went home to pack. One weeks later, she flew back up. We had one date on Jan 27th. We got married in the Boise Temple on February 8th.
We're happily married with 3 kids.
All totally true. Take that!]]>
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Tom, you won't have to tell if you wait for me to tell first.]]>
Fess up all you Mormon internet daters!]]>
Mwah-ha-ha-ha. Don't forget that there is a certain person in the bloggernacle who was taking Gemology with your now-wife when the two of you got engaged…I won't blow your secret, but I'm still a little bitter about S. marrying you instead of doing field camp with me that spring!
As for me, my husband and I met six years before we married. Of course, that awesome accomplishment is somewhat marred by the embarrassing fact that we met in our Freshman Orientation Group, on the second day of college. And we went tunnel singing a lot our freshman year–and I'm not even ashamed!]]>


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I've tried many hummus recipes, and this is the easiest and tastiest one! It seems a bit like cheating, but one bite and you'll never make it any other way. The Annie's dressing is tahini based and full of other flavors that lend themselves well to hummus. This is an easy, economical and tasty alternative to expensive, preservative-filled storebought hummus. It is delicious!
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