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5 Years After Gulf Oil Spill, BP Spokesman Tells Public Not To Worry About Tar Balls In The Water
Think Progress - Sat Apr 18, 2015
Five years ago, BP's historic 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill resulted in more than 210 million barrels of oil ending up in the Gulf of Mexico. More»

Zombie-like attacker used pot, not 'bath salts'
Associated Press - Thu Jun 28, 2012
The naked Florida man who chewed off the face of another man last month in a zombie-like cannibal attack used marijuana but not "bath salts" as police had suspected, authorities said Wednesday. More»

Viva WikiLeaks! Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba
Michael Moore - Huffington Post - Sat Dec 18, 2010
Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me and my film, 'Sicko. More»

BP: What Oil Plumes?
Huffington Post - Sun May 30, 2010
VENICE, Louisiana - Disputing scientists' claims of large oil plumes suspended underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC's chief executive on Sunday said the company has largely narrowed the focus of its cleanup to surface slicks rolling into Louisiana's coastal marshes. More»

Leaked documents reveal GOP plan to use scare tactics
Yahoo News Blog - Thu Mar 4, 2010
National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. More»

White House targets Fox as it goes after press critics
AFP - Mon Oct 12, 2009
WASHINGTON - The White House has gone on the offensive against its critics in the press, singling out Fox News and going so far as to accuse the News Corp-owned network of waging a "war against Barack Obama". More»

Drug Maker Said to Pay Ghostwriters for Journal Articles
New York Times - Fri Dec 12, 2008
Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its female hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company's involvement in medical ghostwriting. More»

Republicans in 'Oxford plot' to smear Barack Obama
Times UK - Fri Oct 31, 2008
The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama's ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to "prove" that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist. More»

GOP mailing depicts Obama's face on food stamp
The Press-Enterprise - Fri Oct 17, 2008
The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles. More»

Fake Michelle Obama Interview Fascinates Blogosphere
Huffington Post - Tue Oct 14, 2008
Over at The Corner, Byron York has had to post an item officially alerting the right wing of the blogosphere that an article purporting to be a genuine interview with Michelle Obama, is in fact a fake. More»

Leaked Memos tell officials to ignore global-warming impact
McClatchy Newspapers - Mon Oct 13, 2008
WASHINGTON - New legal memos by top Bush administration officials say that the Endangered Species Act can't be used to protect animals and their habitats from climate change by regulating specific sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the cause of global warming. More»

Palin: We can't let 'leftist groups .... steal this election'
CNN - Sun Oct 12, 2008
The McCain campaign is fundraising off embattled community group ACORN. More»

Villagers with Torches - The "Terrorist" Barack Hussein Obama
FRANK RICH - New York Times - Fri Oct 10, 2008
IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him. More»

'I'm High Fructose Corn Syrup, and I Approve This Message'
ABC Blog - Thu Sep 25, 2008
Presidential candidates aren't the only ones banking on television ads to prop up their public images. More»

News agency says missile-test photo digitally changed
USA Today - Sat Jul 12, 2008
An editor who transmitted an apparently doctored photo of an Iranian missile test published around the world said Thursday the gaffe shows that news organizations must be careful about using government handouts. More»

NBC reprimands employee for Obama error
Associated Press - Tue Feb 19, 2008
NEW YORK - NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama. More»

Mercury in Childhood Vaccines "Excreted Quickly"
Health Day - Sat Feb 2, 2008
The latest chapter in the debate over whether childhood vaccines can cause autism was written Wednesday with release of a study that showed the controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal is rapidly excreted from babies' bodies and can't reach toxic levels. More»

FEMA forgives itself for staging fake press conference
Washington Post - Mon Nov 12, 2007
An internal investigation into a fake news conference staged by the Federal Emergency Management Agency during last month's California wildfires found that the agency's press secretary directed aides to pose as reporters, secretly coached them during the briefing and ended the event after a final, scripted question was asked, according to a senior FEMA official. More»

FEMA sorry for fake news briefing
Washington Post - Fri Oct 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Number 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. More»

White House Edits CDC Climate Testimony
Associated Press - Mon Oct 22, 2007
The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar with the documents. More»

Dan Rather files lawsuit against CBS
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
NEW YORK - Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service. More»

Ex-ABC consultant said to fake interview
Associated Press - Thu Sep 13, 2007
A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others. More»

DHS ends criticized data-mining program
Associated Press - Tue Sep 4, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards. More»

Industry pressure waters down breast-feed ads
Washington Post - Thu Aug 30, 2007
In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. More»

US poverty rate 'declines significantly'
Associated Press - Mon Aug 27, 2007
WASHINGTON - Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped. More»

Pentagon to shut down controversial database
Associated Press - Mon Aug 20, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said Tuesday that it will shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat. More»

Mad Cow USA - The Coverup Continues in Washington
Associated Press - Mon May 28, 2007
The Associated Press notes that the Bush administration "will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. More»

Exxon Spends Millions to Cast Doubt on Global Warming
The Independent, UK - Wed Dec 6, 2006
The world's largest energy company is still spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund European organisations that seek to cast doubt on the scientific consensus on global warming and undermine support for legislation to curb emission of greenhouse gases. More»

Bloggers on Campaign Payrolls Proliferate
MSNBC - Mon Oct 30, 2006
Bloggers paid by campaigns were a rarity two years ago -- so rare that their work and their ethics, whether for Republicans or Democrats, became fodder for controversy. More»

Pentagon Increases 'Media War' Unit
BBC - Sun Oct 29, 2006
The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet. More»

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