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[BASEHEAD]

....when you use comedians as political analysts.

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WMMJ-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Urban Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

7.0​

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WPGC-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Rhythmic Contemporary Hit Radio​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

6.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

6.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

6.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

6.6​

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WHUR-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Urban Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.5​

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WGMS-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Classical​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.3​

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WKYS-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Urban Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.7​

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WASH-FM​

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Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

5.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.6​

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WMZQ-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Country​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.5​

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WIHT-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Pop Contemporary Hit Radio​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.4​

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WJZW-FM​

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New AC (NAC)/Smooth Jazz​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

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WWDC-FM​

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Alternative​

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2.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

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WLZL-FM​

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Spanish Tropical​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.1​

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WMAL-AM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

News Talk Information​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

4.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.1​

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WBIG-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Oldies​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.9​

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WTOP-AM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

All News​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.9​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WRQX-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Hot Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

3.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.7​

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WARW-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Classic Rock​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.3​

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WJFK-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Talk/Personality​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.9​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.3​

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WTOP-FM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

All News​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.0​

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2.1​

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WTEM-AM​

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All Sports​

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1.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

2.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.8​

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WWZZ-FM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Hot Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.8​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WAVA-FM​

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Contemporary Christian​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.1​

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WPGC-AM​

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Gospel​

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0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.0​

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WFRE-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Country​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.9​

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WACA-AM​

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Spanish Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

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0.7​

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WILC-AM​

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Spanish Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.7​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WKDL-AM​

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Mexican Regional​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.0​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.7​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WYCB-AM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Gospel​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

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WBQB-FM​

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Hot Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WERQ-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Urban Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WFLS-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Country​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WFMD-AM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

News Talk Information​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WIYY-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Active Rock​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WTNT-AM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Talk/Personality​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.8​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WOL-AM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

News Talk Information​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WBPS-FM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Spanish Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.6​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WBZS-FM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Spanish Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WWVZ-FM @​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Hot Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.1​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.2​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.1​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#e0dbef><TD class=smdata width=104>

WAFY-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.4​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD></TR><TR class=smdata bgColor=#ffffff><TD class=smdata width=104>

WHFS-FM​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=166>

Talk/Personality​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

1.3​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

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WINC-FM​

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Hot Adult Contemporary​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.7​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

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WKIK-AM​

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Country​

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0.0​

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*​

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WKIK-FM​

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Country​

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0.4​

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*​

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*​

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*​

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WWEG-FM​

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Classic Hits​

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*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

0.5​

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*​

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WWRC-AM​

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Talk/Personality​

</TD><TD class=smdata width=45>

*​

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*​

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0.4​

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*​

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WWRC at the bottom is Air America.....LOL.

Its a good thing the libs have got the strangle hold on the print and tv media.

 

[RobFunk]

Interesting. Did you take broadcasting classes or something?

 

[gopherbob]

is that the "liberal media" you guys are always complaining about ?

 

[RobFunk]

I guess so bob. They cant stand those pesky guys getting the .4 share.


Actually I posted a pretty well written article which proves the media is more conversvative than liberal. It made me realize I need stop listening to even more crap from the right.

 

[cutacrossshorty]

You are wrong about WWRC being Air America. Between the hours of 9AM and 6 PM they only carry 3 hours of Air America programming. The other 6 hours consist of programming supplied by the Jones radio network (Stephanie Miller show from 9AM-12PM and the Ed Schultz show from 3PM to 6PM).

It should be noted that WWRC has had left leaning programming for about 9 months. The right leaning station WTNT has ratings that are a little better, but I bet they've been around a lot lot longer. I'm not sure what the columns necessarily represent, but in the 3rd column WTNT has 0.6, while WWRC has 0.4. Given that WWRC is basically in it's infantcy, I'd be reluctant to say those numbers are bad. If your willing to say they are bad, then it could be argued that the numbers for WTNT are horrendous (considering they are an established station).

 

[BASEHEAD]

I guess so bob. They cant stand those pesky guys getting the .4 share.


Actually I posted a pretty well written article which proves the media is more conversvative than liberal. It made me realize I need stop listening to even more crap from the right.

OK so daily you begin to post all mainstream media articles that show the positive aspects of the economy, the soldiers,the administration,the war or the president and Ill post the negative.I will crash this server with all the misinformation the MSM spews.I read as much news as I can and can see with my own two eyes....hear with my own ears.Give me a break.

I usually dont even need to go past the In The News section on the home page of yahoo before I get my first dose.

 

[edub69]

What gets more press- one murder or a million people going to work and going home safely at night?:drink:

 

[docmercer--banned]

The media is controlled by the Right in this country ....

and lets look at the Bushie National Spokesman called Limbaugh:

* User of illegal drugs
* Chickenhawk
* Cant get a family unit together
* Full blown racist

And you wonder why the Right is a bunch of Nazi Dittoheads???

 

[BASEHEAD]

Just this past week or so.....lets see:

Clinton (democrat) media darling....gone for years but embarrassing stories still arise.Covered by the press here much....no?Big stories...bigger than Valerie Plume thats for sure.Its no wonder Cheneys at odds with the CIA....look at their handling of Able Danger.This is still going on....but you wouldnt know it by reading the papers or watching NBC.Is this a big story?Knowing one of the key members of the Brooklyn AlQaeda cell a year before 9-11 but unAble to act.....knowing that the USS Cole would br attacked 2 days before entering the harbor where it struck...big story? When this initially came out it recieved minimal coverage and placed the blame no where...certainly not near Clinton.Now it recieves none.

Isnt 3000 civilians gone a big enough headline to wonder what the hell went on?

How about Freehs book....some damaging stuff there to....but it will be brushed aside by the left wing media,cant damage Hillarys chance to change the world.In the end Clintons ignorance,arrogance or just plain indifference will cost his wife dearly IMO.

 

[edub69]

It all depends on your point of view. I think Bush gets way too much POSITIVE media coverage, does that make the media conservative?

Also, I don't remember any positive coverage of Bill Clinton when he was president. Lewinsky-gate was the only thing that got reported, as far as a casual observer was concerned.

 

[BASEHEAD]

Too much POSITIVE????where are you getting your news from?

As far as Lewinskygate....I hear the same argument in here about it....it was just a hummer.No ,it was that he lied....but it wasnt about anything IMPORTANT right? It was just a married man in the White House getting a blowjob from some slut....thats nothing.Meanwhile terrorists are laying in wait,planning to attack this country.Terrorists Clinton had a fair amount of info on.Granted the latter part of the story is much bigger than the former....but neither got the press it deserved.

Let me ask you is this guy clueless:

Army Maj. Steven Warren, 39, is not happy, because he believes the media are painting an inaccurate picture of what's happening in Iraq. In a call arranged by the Florida-based Central Command of U.S. forces in Iraq, Warren spoke from Diyala province in the Sunni Triangle, where he has been stationed since January.

"I walk into the mess hall every day," he told me. He watches American TV news reports from Iraq, "and I ask myself, 'Where are they?'"

---------------------------------------------------------------

This is a common theme among the military....why is that? Any progress in Iraq is considered a victory for the administration....therefore must be downplayed or just plain ignored.The referendum was a huge milestone....I doubt the MSM will even print the final numbers.If they do Im sure it will be followed with a nice piece about how the elections were rigged or that its insignificant piece of the process.

 

[BASEHEAD]

Why are the citizens of Louisiana outraged at Nagins/Blancos lack of responsibility yet the MSM will refuse to place the blame anywhere except the very top?....ie Bush.

 

[docmercer--banned]

Too funny ...

only Basehead woud be idiotic enough to blame Clinton for 9-11 ... hell, flappin Rice had not even heard of Al Queda when she took over office

Basehead is a 100% Fullblown Dittohead who is clueless on everything ... Bush committed our troops into a country that had no ties to 9-11 and Indictments are coming from everywhere to go after the corrupt jackasses in this administration ... they lie about everything and Basehead cant handle the facts he is in the Minority when it comes to supporting the most corrupt leader since Nixon

 

[TheRightWing]

yeah I'm sure she's never heard of them Doc!

Education

After studying piano at an Aspen music camp, Rice enrolled at the University of Denver, where her father both served as an assistant dean and taught a class called "The Black Experience in America." [6]

At age 15, Rice began classes with the goal of becoming a concert pianist. Her plans changed when she attended a course on international politics taught by Josef Korbel, the father of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This experience sparked her interest in the Soviet Union and international relations and led her to call Korbel, "one of the most central figures in my life" [7].

In 1974, at age 19, Rice earned her B.A. in political science (cum laude) and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver. In 1975, she obtained her Master's Degree from the University of Notre Dame. In 1976 she switched her party registration/affiliation to the Republican Party. She first worked in the State Department in 1977, during the Carter administration, as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In 1981, at age 26, she received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. In addition to English, she speaks Russian, French, and Spanish.

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Academic career


Condoleezza Rice has been praised for her fashion sense.


At Stanford University, Rice was an Assistant Professor, Political Science (1981-1987), Associate Professor (1987-1993), tenured Professor of Political Science (1993-July 2000), (see [8]], Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Senior Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. She was a specialist on the former Soviet Union and gave lectures on the subject for the Berkeley-Stanford joint program led by U.C. Berkeley's George Breslauer in the mid-1980s. She was regarded as moderately conservative at the time. However, she kept her political opinions out of her scholarship. She also was an avid reader of Leo Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and once told a friend she leaned toward the latter in her world view. She was quietly cerebral, friendly but decorous, and always popular among students. They often saw her exercising in the gym. From 1993 to 1999 she served as the Stanford Provost, the chief budget and academic officer of the university. Yet, she managed to maintain friendly contact with various student associations, such as the Venezuelan Student Organization. After departing to enter government service, she returned to Stanford in June 2002 to deliver the commencement address.

Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004.

Rice has written or collaborated on several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995), The Gorbachev Era (1986), and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).

 

[HiloBoy]

basehead they don't need to worry about past prsidents to get stoties the current pres i mean village idiot will provide plenty of copy.

 

[BASEHEAD]

HILO...They didnt back then anyway....but when somethings kept secret for years,until that Pres. is out of office its certainly still newsworthy when details arise.Just not to the NY Times.Wheres the scathing investigative report for the WAPO,CBS?Wont happen.Even though as Ive said this is ten times the story Rove is.

Doc....you scare your own kind with your foolish statements.Not to mention your utter lack of creativity...Dittohead,time to retire that one sport.You are perhaps the least infromed person in the entire forum.At least some of the other guys can back some of their shit up but you?? Never. The problem with debating me is eventually youll need to post some facts to counter....thats usually when your end of the debate ends.

So are the soldiers SAYING that we ARE making a difference and that we are making huge strides just being good yes men? No one ever answers this.

 

[BASEHEAD]

<!-- lt-column -->TV's gloomy take on Iraq



Oct 20, 2005
by Brent Bozell ( bio | archive | contact )

<!-- /widget --><!-- rt-column --><!-- /spotlight --> On Saturday, millions of Iraqis walked with determination to the polls to vote for a new constitution. The turnout was high. The violence was down dramatically from the triumphant elections of January. But the network found all this boring. On the night before the historic vote, ABC led with bird-flu panic. CBS imagined Karl Rove in a prison jumpsuit. NBC hyped inflation.

They say that news is a man-bites-dog story. In the Middle East, how common is a constitutional referendum? Have they had one in Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Syria? Jordan? Until the last few years, the phrase "Arab constitutional democracy" sounded like a pipe dream or an oxymoron. But today, the reporters can only kvetch. NBC's Richard Engel growled online that the new constitution was "a deeply flawed document, peppered with religious slogans, and leaves plenty of room for Shiites and Kurds to govern themselves." Engel says Iraqis disagree on the constitution, but "with the daily pressures of the insurgency, power cuts and lawlessness, there might not be enough time to start over before this country and the people lose hope -- along with many of their lives."

Does Engel wear black everywhere he goes? The news pattern from Iraq has that familiar gloom to it. The process of building a constitutional democracy has been a story made in sessions of boring political blather, in a language Americans can't understand. Bombs blowing people up -- now that's action, great television, it doesn't require an interpreter. That's news.

A massive new study by Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center reviews every Iraq story on the evening news programs of ABC, CBS and NBC from January through September of 2005. That's 1,388 news stories. He titled it "The Bad News Brigade," because 61 percent of the stories were negative or pessimistic, while only 15 percent of the stories were positive or optimistic -- a four-to-one ratio. The trend in coverage has also become increasingly negative during 2005, with pessimistic stories rising to nearly three-fourths of all Iraq news by August and September, with a 10-to-one ratio of negative stories over positive ones. <!------ OAS AD 'Middle' begin ------><SCRIPT language=JavaScript><!--OAS_AD('Middle');//--></SCRIPT><!------ OAS AD 'Middle' end ------>

Terrorists are the real assignment editors of American TV news from Iraq. Two out of every five network evening news stories (564 stories this year) featured car bombings, assassinations, kidnappings or other attacks launched by the terrorists against the Iraqi people or coalition forces, more than any other topic. That's an average of two stories every night between the three shows.

Even the evolution of democracy in Iraq is presented in more negative than positive terms. More stories (124) focused on shortcomings in Iraq's political process -- the danger of bloodshed during the January elections, political infighting, and fears that the new Iraqi constitution might spur more violence -- than on the positive side of democracy-building (92 stories). And then there's this: One-third of those optimistic stories (32) appeared on just two nights -- Jan. 30 and 31, just after Iraq's first successful elections. You can see how people who watch the news regularly would ask where the good news can be located.

That's especially true when the subject of the story is the American soldier. In the most upsetting part of the study, Noyes found that 79 stories focused primarily on allegations of wrongdoing by American forces in Iraq, including this year's Abu Ghraib hangover stories, compared to only eight that focused on the heroism of American soldiers. Is that still a story? Sure. But what about positive stories about the military? There were only eight stories that focused on the heroism of American soldiers, and only nine on soldier acts of kindness or generosity. The TV news titans not only suggest the mission in Iraq is a waste of money and lives, they are painting our soldiers as a big problem there, not a part of the solution.

The natural rebuttal the media's defenders would offer to this study came from one defensive blogger at the Washington Post website: "An objective press is not supposed to 'embrace' anything. It is supposed to report the facts." But while the news from Iraq can be utterly factual, but in the selection of facts, be utterly biased. The overwhelming picture TV viewers get day in and day out, through this selectivity, is that Iraq is packed with chaos, a "mess."

Viewers should sense a political mission in the gloom. Demoralization over the "mess" in Iraq drags down Bush's approval rating, drives the numbers up when the network pollsters ask constantly whether the war is "worth the cost," and seems to revise history toward the Howard Dean view that deposing Saddam Hussein was a colossal mistake. They are right to assume that when reporters watch the Iraqis stream to the polls, they see sad puppets of the American president trying to put a happy-faced Post-It note on a disaster scene.

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As Homer Simpson would say......D-OH!

 

[919]

by brent bozell...lmfao...

 

[BASEHEAD]

Does it matter who writes an article that mainly is quoting numerical statistics?I mean if John Kerry told me the Red Sox won the world series last year...Id have to beleive him even though he is no so reliable,because its a statistical fact. So ,block out the opining and just look at the stats.....can you dispute them?Thats all you need to do.

I highly doubt it will happen.

Liberal media folks....sorry.

 

[BASEHEAD]

Fresh headline: AP finds this to be breaking news.This is not even a story but its on the home yahoo screen....Im sure its right at the top of the AP wire.

Miers Firm Received Bush Campaign Payments
AP - Fri Oct 21, 3:41 AM ET

<!--summary-->WASHINGTON - George W. Bush's rising political fortunes provided a windfall for Harriet Miers' law firm. <!--/summary-->Campaign records show Bush's Texas gubernatorial campaigns paid Miers a total of $163,000 in legal fees, most of it for work done during the future president's 1998 re-election bid. Some senators are planning to explore Miers' legal work for Bush during her confirmation process to be the newest Supreme Court justice, but the White House says it won't release any memos detailing that work.

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