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Some want to avoid it OVER lunch today I was talking to our multimedia editor, explaining how I thought it was important to learn the tricks of his trade, as those skills would likely serve me well as journalism evolves online. So I then read with some interest the news on New York magazine's website that Columbia's heralded journalism school will be offering a "revamped, digitally focused curriculum designed to make all students as capable of creating an interactive graphic as they are of pounding out 600 words on a community-board meeting". Pretty cool and, you know, practical. But not everyone is happy. [T]he push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1 [i.e.,
The Economist Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:55:33 +0000
Michelle Obama visited the military base at Fort Bragg where she offered thanks and support to military families.
New York Times - The Caucus Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:35:44 +0000
On his radio show last night, conservative talker Hugh Hewitt asked former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) to give his “sense of where the economy is headed right now.” Santorum replied that he had “an innate sense that America is never going to revisit the Depression era again.” “I really don’t believe we’re going to go [...]
Thinkprogress.org Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
I started the day at 4:30 am, waking up concerned about Bernie Madoff (regardless of what he did, he's 70 years old, non-violent and doesn't belong at an MCC for months pending sentencing. Bail is not meant as punishment, only to secure one's appearance at the next court proceeding.) I'm blogged out for now, the TL kid and I are going shopping, after which there's a new Gray's Anatomy to watch. Your turn, all topics welcome.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio is trying hard to avoid reporting to federal prison on March 23. In the past week, he's filed a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence in the trial court and, in the 10th Circuit, a request for continued bail pending the disposition of an as-yet unfiled petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The Tenth Circuit dismissed his bond request (pdf)saying he should have filed it in the trial court. It said if he gets denied there, he can come back to the appeals court. He filed the request yesterday in the trial court and today it was denied (pdf) -- because the Bail Reform Statute doesn't apply to petitions for cert that haven't been filed yet. The trial court said the denial was without prejudice, meaning if he cites the correct authority for allowing bail before the writ is filed, he can try again. [More...] He also has filed a motion under seal to extend his voluntary surrender date due to a health problem. Nacchio obviously doesn't want the problem made public. But,the Judge unsealed the request (not the attached health document) because you can't just file things under seal here. Motions to seal have to be posted on the court's website and the public has to be given a chance to object. Substantively, I like his motion for new trial. It's based on cooperating witness Robin Szeliga's apparent contradiction of her trial testimony in a recent SEC deposition. The testimony went to the heart of the issue of whether Nacchio sold his stock based on material, insider information. I also like the preview his lawyers filed of cert petition, contained in his bond applications. It's the Rule 16 vs. Rule 702 issue on excluding his expert's testimony. He adds a few more issues regarding materiality and jury instructions and says there's a split among the circuits...which is a consideration for the Supreme Court in deciding whether to grant cert. So Nacchio has a few moves left before March 23. Don't count him out yet. I'm hoping Nacchio gets bond and the Supreme Court takes up the 702 vs. Rule 16 issue since the issue applies to defendants in all federal cases, not just Nacchio.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
Roy Edroso has a handy little guide to brand new NYT columnist Ross Douthat's stranger scribblings. But in my neck of the woods--New Orleans--Douthat will be remembered for coining the phrase "Welfare Duchess" to describe a New Orleans woman named Sharon Jasper who was living in subsidized housing and who happened to be photographed in her apartment with a big screen TV. A few commenters nailed Douthat for the stupid, and frankly racist, remark. "Here's the double-bind," wrote one commenter, "If Sharon Jasper keeps her apartment clean and attractive and decorates it with flowers she's a crooked welfare queen, cynically scamming the Hell out of the sweaty, put-upon, hard workin', tax payin', David Duke votin' white Louisianans. Conversely if she'd let it degenerate into a filthy mess, she'd be a typical slum-dwelling black: a sub-human savage who doesn't even deserve to live indoors." [More...] But the best response to the outrage over Jasper's alleged good fortune came from New Orleans blogger Dangerblond who captured the absurdity with this great satirical headline:"elderly black woman caught with big-screen t.v.; lacks proper level of humility and appreciation." In the era of bailouts for billionaires and socialism for the rich, of course, Douthat's skewering of an African American woman for having a living standard too high for his tastes seems all the more misguided. In fact, I'd like to see the phrase "Welfare Queen" or if Douthat prefers, "Welfare Duchess," applied to the likes of Citigroup or Bank of America. As Cactus at Angry Bear wrote last fall:"..Can we at least require every bank that takes government money to include the words 'Welfare Queen' in its name? I think it would be a very useful thing if Goldman Sachs were forced to call itself Welfare Queen Goldman Sachs. It might make a few members of the voting public realize exactly how the system work." Here's hoping that at his new perch Douthat will apply the same level of scrutiny to the big banks as he did to a low-income resident of a city that has rebuilt and largely repopulated without the sort of helping hand extended to, as Cactus might put it, Welfare Queen Goldman Sachs.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
From Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller Before the Business Roundtable Thursday afternoon, President Obama told the assembled CEOs that the nation "cannot go back to endless cycles of bubble and bust. We can't continue to base our economy on reckless...
ABC News - Political Punch Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:05 -0400
The Senate approves David Ogden as No. 2 at the Justice Department, and Thomas Perrelli, as the No. 3 official there.
New York Times - The Caucus Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:44:36 +0000
Michael Steele has gone and put his foot in his mouth again. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Republican National Committee chairman described abortion as an “individual choice” and said individual states should decide its legality. Those comments, predictably, have drawn a sharp rebuke from other Republican leaders who say he should stick to the [...]
Reuters - Front Row Washington Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:16:03 +0000
Republican Marilyn Musgrave, who was defeated in last year’s election for a Colorado seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has found a new job — director of a project to unseat other members of Congress. Musgrave, who lost the congressional seat she had first won in 2002 to Democrat Betsy Markey after a close and bitter [...]
Reuters - Front Row Washington Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:23:25 +0000
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Some want to avoid it OVER lunch today I was talking to our multimedia editor, explaining how I thought it was important to learn the tricks of his trade, as those skills would likely serve me well as journalism evolves online. So I then read with some interest the news on New York magazine's website that Columbia's heralded journalism school will be offering a "revamped, digitally focused curriculum designed to make all students as capable of creating an interactive graphic as they are of pounding out 600 words on a community-board meeting". Pretty cool and, you know, practical. But not everyone is happy. [T]he push for modernization has also raised the ire of some professors, particularly those closely tied to Columbia’s crown jewel, RW1 [i.e.,
The Economist Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:55:33 +0000
Michelle Obama visited the military base at Fort Bragg where she offered thanks and support to military families.
New York Times - The Caucus Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:35:44 +0000
On his radio show last night, conservative talker Hugh Hewitt asked former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) to give his “sense of where the economy is headed right now.” Santorum replied that he had “an innate sense that America is never going to revisit the Depression era again.” “I really don’t believe we’re going to go [...]
Thinkprogress.org Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
I started the day at 4:30 am, waking up concerned about Bernie Madoff (regardless of what he did, he's 70 years old, non-violent and doesn't belong at an MCC for months pending sentencing. Bail is not meant as punishment, only to secure one's appearance at the next court proceeding.) I'm blogged out for now, the TL kid and I are going shopping, after which there's a new Gray's Anatomy to watch. Your turn, all topics welcome.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio is trying hard to avoid reporting to federal prison on March 23. In the past week, he's filed a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence in the trial court and, in the 10th Circuit, a request for continued bail pending the disposition of an as-yet unfiled petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The Tenth Circuit dismissed his bond request (pdf)saying he should have filed it in the trial court. It said if he gets denied there, he can come back to the appeals court. He filed the request yesterday in the trial court and today it was denied (pdf) -- because the Bail Reform Statute doesn't apply to petitions for cert that haven't been filed yet. The trial court said the denial was without prejudice, meaning if he cites the correct authority for allowing bail before the writ is filed, he can try again. [More...] He also has filed a motion under seal to extend his voluntary surrender date due to a health problem. Nacchio obviously doesn't want the problem made public. But,the Judge unsealed the request (not the attached health document) because you can't just file things under seal here. Motions to seal have to be posted on the court's website and the public has to be given a chance to object. Substantively, I like his motion for new trial. It's based on cooperating witness Robin Szeliga's apparent contradiction of her trial testimony in a recent SEC deposition. The testimony went to the heart of the issue of whether Nacchio sold his stock based on material, insider information. I also like the preview his lawyers filed of cert petition, contained in his bond applications. It's the Rule 16 vs. Rule 702 issue on excluding his expert's testimony. He adds a few more issues regarding materiality and jury instructions and says there's a split among the circuits...which is a consideration for the Supreme Court in deciding whether to grant cert. So Nacchio has a few moves left before March 23. Don't count him out yet. I'm hoping Nacchio gets bond and the Supreme Court takes up the 702 vs. Rule 16 issue since the issue applies to defendants in all federal cases, not just Nacchio.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
Roy Edroso has a handy little guide to brand new NYT columnist Ross Douthat's stranger scribblings. But in my neck of the woods--New Orleans--Douthat will be remembered for coining the phrase "Welfare Duchess" to describe a New Orleans woman named Sharon Jasper who was living in subsidized housing and who happened to be photographed in her apartment with a big screen TV. A few commenters nailed Douthat for the stupid, and frankly racist, remark. "Here's the double-bind," wrote one commenter, "If Sharon Jasper keeps her apartment clean and attractive and decorates it with flowers she's a crooked welfare queen, cynically scamming the Hell out of the sweaty, put-upon, hard workin', tax payin', David Duke votin' white Louisianans. Conversely if she'd let it degenerate into a filthy mess, she'd be a typical slum-dwelling black: a sub-human savage who doesn't even deserve to live indoors." [More...] But the best response to the outrage over Jasper's alleged good fortune came from New Orleans blogger Dangerblond who captured the absurdity with this great satirical headline:"elderly black woman caught with big-screen t.v.; lacks proper level of humility and appreciation." In the era of bailouts for billionaires and socialism for the rich, of course, Douthat's skewering of an African American woman for having a living standard too high for his tastes seems all the more misguided. In fact, I'd like to see the phrase "Welfare Queen" or if Douthat prefers, "Welfare Duchess," applied to the likes of Citigroup or Bank of America. As Cactus at Angry Bear wrote last fall:"..Can we at least require every bank that takes government money to include the words 'Welfare Queen' in its name? I think it would be a very useful thing if Goldman Sachs were forced to call itself Welfare Queen Goldman Sachs. It might make a few members of the voting public realize exactly how the system work." Here's hoping that at his new perch Douthat will apply the same level of scrutiny to the big banks as he did to a low-income resident of a city that has rebuilt and largely repopulated without the sort of helping hand extended to, as Cactus might put it, Welfare Queen Goldman Sachs.
Talkleft.com Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000
From Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller Before the Business Roundtable Thursday afternoon, President Obama told the assembled CEOs that the nation "cannot go back to endless cycles of bubble and bust. We can't continue to base our economy on reckless...
ABC News - Political Punch Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:05 -0400
The Senate approves David Ogden as No. 2 at the Justice Department, and Thomas Perrelli, as the No. 3 official there.
New York Times - The Caucus Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:44:36 +0000
Michael Steele has gone and put his foot in his mouth again. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Republican National Committee chairman described abortion as an “individual choice” and said individual states should decide its legality. Those comments, predictably, have drawn a sharp rebuke from other Republican leaders who say he should stick to the [...]
Reuters - Front Row Washington Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:16:03 +0000
Republican Marilyn Musgrave, who was defeated in last year’s election for a Colorado seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has found a new job — director of a project to unseat other members of Congress. Musgrave, who lost the congressional seat she had first won in 2002 to Democrat Betsy Markey after a close and bitter [...]
Reuters - Front Row Washington Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:23:25 +0000
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