Saturday, June 02, 2007

 
On my way to Nashville, TN for CMA Fest 2007....Might find some time to post this week....YEEE HAW...

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

 

Let the Debates Begin

CNN has released its coverage schedule for this weekend's debate and Tuesday's debate:

Sunday June 3

7 a.m.-8:30 a.m. CNN Sunday Morning with reports from Bill Schneider on location in New Hampshire

9 a.m.-10 a.m. CNN Sunday Morning with reports from Bill Schneider on location in New Hampshire

10 a.m.-11 a.m. Reliable Sources with reports from Wolf Blitzer and John Roberts on location in New Hampshire

11 a.m.-1 p.m. Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer live on location in New Hampshire

5 p.m.-7 p.m. Raw Politics, pre-debate program anchored by Lou Dobbs live on location in New Hampshire

7 p.m.-9 p.m. CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader Democratic Candidate Debate

9 p.m.-11 p.m. Raw Politics, post-debate program anchored by Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Larry King and John Roberts live on location in New Hampshire

Monday June 4

6 a.m.-9 a.m. American Morning with anchor John Roberts live on location in New Hampshire

4 p.m.-6 p.m. The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer live on location in New Hampshire

7 p.m.-8 p.m. The Situation Room with Blitzer live on location in New Hampshire and Soledad O’Brien moderating the Sojourners’ forum live from Washington, D.C.

8 p.m.-9 p.m. Paula Zahn Now from New York


Tuesday June 5

6 a.m.-9 a.m. American Morning with Roberts live on location in New Hampshire

4 p.m.-6 p.m. The Situation Room with Blitzer live on location in New Hampshire

6 p.m.-7 p.m. Lou Dobbs Tonight with Dobbs live on location in New Hampshire

7 p.m.-9 p.m. CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader Republican Candidate Debate

9 p.m.-11 p.m. Raw Politics,a post-debate program anchored by Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Larry King and John Roberts live on location in New Hampshire

11 p.m.-midnight Anderson Cooper 360º with Cooper live on location in New Hampshire



Wednesday June 6

6 a.m.-9 a.m. American Morning with Roberts live on location in New Hampshire



> Correspondents providing reports for CNN’s numerous networks and services include Dana Bash, congressional correspondent; Candy Crowley, senior political correspondent; Ed Henry, White House correspondent; Joe Johns, correspondent; Andrea Koppel, congressional correspondent; John King, chief national correspondent; Suzanne Malveaux, White House correspondent; Elaine Quijano, White House correspondent; and Bill Schneider, senior political analyst. Political contributors will include Paul Begala, Bill Bennett, Donna Brazile, James Carville, Mike Murphy and J.C. Watts.

> Over the three days of political programming, CNN.com will stream large segments of the forums, as well as post-debate responses and commentary. The site also will offer on-demand video as well as an “All Access” podcast showing behind-the-scenes footage of the presidential debates. CNN’s top political producers and reporters will offer behind-the-scenes tidbits, immediate reflections and on-the-spot analysis on CNN’s Political Ticker at www.CNN.com/ticker.


> CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service, will offer extensive political coverage that includes live streams of the debate with alternative camera angles of the candidates and numerous Web-exclusive analysis and viewer responses. The service will be free to all users from 6 p.m. (ET) Sunday, June 3, through midnight (ET) Tuesday, June 5.

> CNN International will broadcast CNN/U.S. coverage of both debates on Sunday, June 3, and Tuesday, June 5, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. (ET). The network will also air coverage of the Sojourner’s forum on Monday, June 4, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (ET) for the Europe and Latin American feeds only. CNN en Español will simulcast both New Hampshire debates.

> CNN Radio will provide live anchored coverage of both debates with Lisa Goddard and Steve Kastenbaum anchoring from Manchester. CNN Newsource will provide its affiliates access to reports and live shots on-site correspondents, including Kyung Lah and Mary Snow, from Sunday, June 3, through Wednesday, June 6.

> CNN Student News will present the news of these debates and free classroom materials that help to tie these political events to the textbook. Teachers, parents and students can find the CNN Student News program and its curriculum materials online at CNN.com/Education and on Headline News from Monday through Friday at 3:12 a.m. (ET)

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CNN Radio Special Focuses on Businesses "Going Green"

Source: CNN Press Release When Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, announced its plans to “go green” and reduce its impact on the environment, the effort reverberated through its 66,000 vendor companies, forcing many to find ways to reduce excess packaging and waste and improve recycling. But “going green” affects the bottomline, making it difficult for some to handle such commitments to the environment.

CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi, through interviews with Wal-Mart and other businesses, examines in “Going Green, Going Broke?” what jumping on the green bandwagon means for business. In addition, the program takes a look at how some consumers have managed to take themselves completely off the national power “grid.” This hour-long program, produced by CNN Radio supervising producer Sherri Maksin, will be available to affiliates on Thursday, May 31.

Guests include Dennis Creech, executive director of Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta; Marc Gunther, senior writer for Fortune magazine; Jay Hall, lead consultant for the U.S. Green Building Council; Jane Lazgin, spokeswoman of Nestle Water/North America; Richard Perez, publisher of Home Power; Gwen Ruta, director of corporate partnerships program at the Environmental Defense Fund; and Andy Ruben, vice president of sustainability at Wal-Mart.

“Going Green, Going Broke?” also will be available on CNN.com’s podcasting page, which can be found at http://www.CNN.com/podcasting/, and at CNN’s dedicated space on iTunes. Additionally, CNN Radio programming, including long-form programs, can be heard streamed for the Web on the CNN.com home page.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

 

Dobbs Sets the Record Straight

Source: CNN.com I've been -- over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs on those issues -- attacked, and usually pretty vigorously, by both the left wing and the right wing of this nation's media, both mainstream and otherwise, and of course the politicians that form the extremes of our political spectrum.

As a matter of fact, I'm regularly attacked by the right wing -- the biggest business lobbyists in the country, "The Wall Street Journal" editorial page, the Bush administration -- for my criticism of so-called free trade policies and outsourcing.

I'm regularly attacked by the left wing as well -- the Southern Poverty Law Center, "The New York Times," "The Nation," MALDEF and MEChA -- for my opposition to illegal immigration.

Today, "The New York Times" published a column that picks up where an advertisement -- a paid advertisement in "The Times," paid for by the Southern Poverty Law Center -- left off two weeks ago.

Today's "New York Times" column is primarily a personal attack on me, focuses on an ad-lib on the set of this broadcast uttered more than two years ago by Christine Romans on a number of cases of leprosy in this country. An unscripted ad-lib, not a report by the way -- we've never done a report on leprosy until we had to set this record straight a couple of weeks ago. That's over four and a half years of reporting on that issue.

The second issue, accusing us of overstating the number of non-citizens in our federal prisons. That number reported on this broadcast three-and-a-half years ago.

Now, no one hates making a mistake, I assure you, more than I do. And on this broadcast, we do make mistakes -- not often, mind you -- but certainly enough to frustrate me mightily, and with barely tolerable frequency.

But today's scurrilous personal attack from "The New York Times"columnist David Leonhardt, carrying the water of the Southern Poverty Law Center, also has the facts wrong.

He wrote that I said, quote, that "One third of the inmates in the federal prison system are illegal immigrants." That isn't what I said. I didn't say anything close to it.

We reported that one-third of the federal prison population three and a half years ago were non-citizens. The columnist said the number was 6 percent. The exact number of the year in question was 29.3 percent for fiscal year 2001. And by the way, we're putting up links on our Web site, loudobbs.com, so you can check the numbers for yourself.

I introduced that report three and a half years ago by saying the number of illegal immigrants in our prisons was increasing and the financial burden rising. Well, we had to go back and check, and because our correspondent no longer has his notes to support that statement, that the number of illegal immigrants within a prison population of non-citizens, I have to retract it here tonight, and I apologize to you for the necessity of doing so. But like I said, I do make mistakes.

Let's look at a few other issues, however, raised by "The New York Times," including that columnist's statement that none of the enemies of the middle class, he said I said, "play a bigger role than illegal immigrants."

Well, again, that's just not true. I've made perfectly clear over the years that corporate power, expressed by lobbyists spending billions of dollars each year in Washington to influence both political parties and public policy represents the greatest single threat to this nation's middle class.

That columnist also said I gave air time to white supremacists, and mentions one by name, Madeleine Cosman, who wrote the article that Christine Romans used as a source for her later leprosy statement.

The fact is, I made a mistake, and I've said we would never have used her as a source if we had known of her controversial background two years ago, at the time of the offending ad-lib. But the columnist fails to note that his own paper wrote a glowing obituary of Madeleine Cosman when she died last year.

And the columnist writes that I suggested that new immigration reform bill would be the first step to a North American union. Nope. What I did say is that the proposed legislation, favored by President Bush and Senator Kennedy and others who are misguided, contains language in Section 413 that, if approved by Congress, would endorse and legitimize the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, which is the foundation of this administration's efforts to create a North American union, and which would further threaten, in my opinion, our national sovereignty.

Well, as I said tonight at the outset, I don't like personal attacks from both the left and the right wings, but I'm getting kind of used to it. I will assure you that we'll continue to report on the nonpartisan independent reality that is too often overwhelmed by the ideologues in our national media, the left wing and the right wing.

And I'll guarantee you this: Those attacks from the left and the right will continue. They perhaps may get even a little more energetic. And as long as they continue to do so, you and I can rest assured that we're doing more right than wrong on this broadcast.

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Rosie O Against the World....and Larry King

This from Planet Gossip: When asked on her blog whether she'd seen the recent appearance of her archnemesis Trump on King's CNN talk show, O'Donnell made it clear that King isn't on her TiVo to-do list.

"Stick a fork in him," O'Donnell wrote on her blog late last night. "Larry is done."
Yikes!

When one blog reader opined that she has "lost all respect for LK," O'Donnell said simply, "I never had any."

No surprise, but O'Donnell also said she'd never be a guest on King's show.

A rep for King had no immediate comment.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

 

CNN Investigates Global Effects of Skyrocketing Oil Prices

Source: CNN Press Release As Americans face the highest gasoline prices in the nation’s history, CNN special correspondent Frank Sesno investigates the obstacles to finding solutions for the world’s addiction to oil. At the dawn of another busy summer travel season, this hour-long documentary examines a hypothetical, yet plausible situation: A series of natural and man-made disasters interrupting the already strained oil supply chain.

CNN: Special Investigations Unit – We Were Warned, Out of Gas, will air on Saturday, June 2, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. All times Eastern.

Sesno examines how major stresses on the international fuel supply chain could cripple domestic and international commerce, tourism and the multinational food supply web and how over-reliance on fossil fuels causes global climate change. Sesno speaks to global entrepreneur and innovator Sir Richard Branson, who intends to do something about both challenges, particularly when his Virgin Airlines fleet burns 700 million gallons of fuel annually, an increase in costs of about $1 billion dollars over the past three years.

“If fuel prices went to a $120.00 a barrel, which is not beyond the realms of possibilities, the short-term effect would be massive bankruptcies in quite a lot of industries,” Branson says in the documentary.

To meet the global challenge of energy security, Branson founded a renewable energy research corporation, Virgin Fuels, that is providing industry leadership in an apparent vacuum of government leadership. An exception may be Brazil , which produces fuels from sugar cane.

With rare interviews with famed automobile industry innovator Bob Lutz and former CIA Director James Woolsey, Sesno also explores the oil sands of Western Canada , the efficiency of hybrid automobiles and the American politics and international trade policies that maintain dependence on such a fragile balance.

CNN: Special Investigations Unit – We Were Warned, Out of Gas was executive produced by Steve Robinson; Heather O’Neill was producer. The vice president and senior executive producer of CNN Productions is Mark Nelson.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

 

Venezuela Dictator to Sue CNN

Source: Variety In the wake of the controversial shutdown of Venezuela's oldest broadcaster, RCTV, on Sunday night, President Hugo Chavez's government is stepping up the pressure on other local webs and even rattling its saber at CNN for any hint of opposition to its strong-arm tactics.

Minister of Communications William Lara has cited two segments aired by CNN, one depicting crowds of protesters and another placing a photo of Chavez alongside that of a late Al Qaeda leader and of some demonstrations in China. Lara claims latter images were meant to "associate the image of Chavez with that of violence and death" while footage of a demonstration was in fact taken in Acapulco when people took to the streets after the killing of a journalist and was not, as CNN claimed, of protests against the closure of RCTV (Radio Caracas Television).

Lara claimed these images formed part of an international campaign to discredit and attack Venezuela, which would take its case against CNN to an international court.

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