Newspaper Online Adverting Revenue Down 5.4%

Newspaper online advertising is down 5.4 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same time last year; A report released Wednesday said.

There is a bright spot  ad revenue was up 1.7%  versus the second quarter 2009. The first back to back increase in ad revenue since final quarter of 2008; according to PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP report for Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade industry group.

The revenue for the third quarter is $5.5 billion down from $5.84 billion this time last year.  The number is down compared to the peak of $6.1 billion.

“The advertising sector overall has been hard hit by the economy, but digital media has been a bright spot within the larger economic downturn,” Randall Rothenberg, chief executive of the advertising trade group, said in a statement.

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ABC News: Jobs Saved or Created in Made Up Congressional Districts

Can someone tell me: What in world is a Job Saved or Created? What does that mean? How Do you define it? Is it Tangible?

ABC News discovered that the jobs list by states on the Recovery.gov website are located in Congressional districts that do not exist. Well imagine that. For example: 30 jobs saved or created in the 15th Congressional District at a cost of  “$761,420 in federal stimulus spending.

There is one teeny,tiny problem the Arizona 15th Congressional District does   not exist.

ABC News found many inaccuracies on the Recovery.gov site. Late Monday, officials who run the website  attribute the cause to human error.

“We report what the recipients submit to us,” said Ed Pound, Communications Director for the Board.

Recovery.gov receives information from state and  federal agencies, public colleges and universities on what programs funded.

“Some recipients clearly don’t know what congressional district they live in, so they seem to be just throwing in any number. We expected all along that recipients would make mistakes on their congressional districts, on jobs numbers, on award amounts, and so on. Human beings make mistakes,” Pound said.

Reaction from Congress was anger and frustration. U.S. Representative David Obey(D-WI) Chairman of the House appropriations Committee, issues  a written statement demanding the Recovery.gov site corrected and updated.

“The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes.”

Another citation was $34 million to the Navajo Housing Authority in the 86th Congressional district. Again the congressional district does not exists.  In fact, ABC News cites several incidents from the recovery.gov website.

In Oklahoma, recovery.gov lists more than $19 million in spending — and 15 jobs created — in yet more congressional districts that don’t exist.

In Iowa, it shows $10.6 million spent – and 39 jobs created — in nonexistent districts.

In Connecticut’s 42nd district (which also does not exist), the Web site claims 25 jobs created with zero stimulus dollars.

The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.

$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.

$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico’s 99th congressional district.

The  Recovery.gov  website created to give information on the $787 billion stimulus bill to show to foster greater accountability and transparency”.

Here’s a clue President Obama fire your economic advisers they do not have your best interest at heart. Peter Orzag, Christina Romer most go.  The $787 billion stimulus package does not work. Shovel ready jobs does not exist. This administration along with the Democratic congress supposed to create infrastructure jobs  where are the jobs and why unemployment rate continues grow(albeit at slower rate).

Look I understand that unemployment is a lagging indicator but The White House and Congress promised the Unemployment rate would not reach eight Percent we are now nine month out we are at 10.2  percent and growing.

We fooled by this stimulus package. The remaining funds will be distributed in the third quarter of  2010 to protect Democrats  for the November election. Time to start over  tax cuts and tax credits which gives employers incentives to hire the growing ranks of the Unemployed.

A job summit sounds good but we need action with results. Employers need feel confident to take  that risk. Until then Jobs  will continue to disappear and hope and change has become fear and disillusionment

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Death of News Industry: 100 People let go at New York Times

New York the basition of “great journalism” is laying off 100 newsroom staff in a memo by New York Times Editor in Chief Bill Keller, the cut will affect both unionized and non-union workers.  The paper offer buyouts to the employees.

If the paper cannot reach the 8 percent in total job cut the paper will institute layoffs. Keller in a said in a statement, “As before, if we do not reach 100 positions through buyouts, we will be forced to go to layoffs. I hope that won’t happen, but it might.”

I won’t pretend that these staff cuts will not add to the burdens of journalists whose responsibilities have grown faster than their compensation,” he wrote, adding, “Like you, I yearn for the day when we can do our jobs without looking over our shoulders for economic thunderstorms.”

The New York Times has  currently has 1250. The average major American Newspaper has only 750. The paper had hits it peak at 1300. Before today announcement, the last round of cuts was back last spring(2008).

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White House Declares War on Fox News

Well the truth has come out: The Obama Administration has decide to go public on it’s war on FOX News. Over a month ago the White House gives  an interview to five broadcast networks except Fox News on Health Care. Then about a week ago White House Advisor Dave Axelrod read the riot act over dinner with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes. It didn’t faze Ailes nor did it change Fox News reportage.

On Sunday, White House Communication Director Anita Dunn whined to CNN’s Howard Kurtz on his program “Reliable Sources” for nearly 10 minutes on Sunday. Dunn accuses the Media company as an arm of the Republican Party.

Dunn says the President may go on Fox News later this year. She lied. A representative of her office say the president won’t be on Fox News for the rest of the year.

Fox News has fired back across its various programs including the Glenn Beck Show, Special Report with Bret Baer,  The Fox Report with Shepard Smith, The O’Reilly Factor, etc.

Apparently a thin skinned Obama Administration has decided to pick a fight with Fox News because it wound bend over for the administration. What’s worse Fox News Channel has the largest audience in cable television. You Obama makes Richard Nixon’s white house seem like a Sunday School class.

Very petty, immature, what a disgrace. George Bush , nor his father or Ronald Reagan would treat the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC,CBS  and CNN this disgracefully. Pathetic.

Legendary humorist, author and playright Mark Twain once said Never pick a fight with a people who buys ink by the barrel. Apparently Anita Dunn never learned that in school.

Hat Tip Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit

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Sen. Feinstein: Why President Obama Dithering on McChrystal Recommedations

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee  smashed President Obama on moving General Stanley McChrystal request of 40,000 troop member increase in Afghanistan. This during an interview on ABC News “This Week ” host my George  Stephanopoulos on Sunday.

“I don’t know how you put somebody in, who is as ‘cracker jack’ as General McChrystal who gives the president very solid recommendations and not take those recommendations if you are not going to pull out,” Feinstein told me on ’This Week.’ “If you do not want to take the recommendations then you put your people in such  jeopardy.”

Senator Saxby Chambliss(R-Ga)  who is Republican minority leader on the Committee said, “I don’t think there’s any question on whether he’s going to have to. I think it’s the right thing to do.”

It’s a very fractious government over there…and not much stability,” Chambliss said. “To slow down the Taliban, that means to prevailing militarily and obviously that’s where the additional resources in the form of troops comes in. That’s where McChrystal has recommended and I think the President has got to follow his commanders on the ground.”

William Safire:RIP at 79.

William Safire, the conservative syndicated columnist for The New York Times has died he was 79.  Safire was a no nonsense conservative,but has also angered conservatives from time to time including the George W. Bush Administration with the Patriot Act of 2002 which Safire called it an intrusion  on civil liberties.

Safire was born Dec 17, 1929 at onset of the Great Depression, in New York.  Attended New York Public Schools and graduated from Bronx High School of the Sciences in 1947. Safire attended Syracuse University, he dropped out in 1949  to work at the  former  New York Hearld-Tribune. In 1951 He left to work for NBC News.

His first taste for politics on a large scale was to organize a political rally at Madison Square Garden for General Dwight Eisenhower, then president of Columbia University in 1952 who was running for president of United States for the Republican nominee.

According to the New York Times, Safire in 1959 working in Public Relations in Moscow USSR as part of promoting American products brought together then Vice President of the United States Richard Nixon and then Soviet Union leader N ikita S. Khrushchev; into the so-called Kitchen debates of the superiority of capitalism vs communism.

That led to Safire to work on the 1960 presidential of Richard Nixon. Nixon went on to lose to then Senator John F. Kennedy(D-MA).  Despite the loss,  it didn’t quell Safire taste of  world of politics.

In 1964  Safire work on the then New York Governor  Nelson A. Rockefeller presidential Campaign.  Rockefeller lost to Senator Barry Goldwater(R-AZ) for the Republican nomination. Goldwater went on to lose to President Lyndon Baines Johnson who won election that November.

In 1965, he led the successful campaign for John V. Lindsay for Mayor of New York.

During the time in of 1961 to 1969 Safire owned his Public Relations firm. In 1968 He sold the firm and joined the Nixon Administration as a speechwriter. Safire wrote many of the president along Patrick J. Buchanan  and Raymond K. Price.

Safire was credited with the phrase nattering nabobs of negativism crafted  for a speech for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (who was in trouble  tax evasion, fraud, bribery, and conspiracy and charged those crimes  and convicted.

Safire left Nixon Administration in 1973 after being hired by the New York Times. There he wrote the  column Essays in the New York Times Op-Ed pages.  Many at The Times were angry that the paper hired former Nixon speechwriter. But Safire writing paid off for him and the paper by winning the Pulitzer Prize in commentary in 1978.

Safire continued the column from 1973 til his retirement in 2005. Safire was a wordsmith  who play on language was present in writing and his television appearances on PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN  and FOX News Channel.

William Safire,  written several books fiction and non fiction including 1968 non fiction book “The New Language of Politics,” While at the New York Times he wrote “Before the Fall” 1975 about his years in the Nixon White House. Two years later he wrote his first novel, “Full Disclosure” in 1977 about an American president who survives an assassination attempt and loses his sight and dealt with succession issues.

Safire wrote a column called On Language for The New York Times for 30 years until Earlier in this month.

In 1995-2004 he a member of the Pulitzer Prize board of directors. In 2005 He was awarded the  Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award given to an American Civilian  in 2005.

William Safire is survived by his wife Helene a model, pianist and Jeweler of 47 years and his children  Mark and Annabell and his grand daughter Lily Safire.

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Good Time Charlie Rangel Cries Racism, It’s Time to Say Goodbye,Charlie

This is a broken record. For the third week in the row an African-American Pol has cried racism to their peril. Charlie Rangel, The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee has used the race card at a health care in his district in New York.  Rangel says it race that’s behind the opposition to President Obama health care program.

“Some Americans have not gotten over the fact that Obama is President of the United States. They go to sleep wondering, ‘how did this happen?’” said Rangel.

Rangel see the fight over health care similar to the civil rights movement.

“Why do black people have to bargain for what is theirs? Why do we have to wait for the right to vote? Why can’t we get what God has given us? And that is the right to live as human beings and not negotiate with white southerners and not court the votes. Just do the right thing,” Rangel said.

This comes on the heels of the revelations   the Congressman misreported his income  via  amended tax  forms. This has lead to the Washington Post  calling for his resignation. The Washington Post says: “Much is expected of elected officials. Much more is expected and demanded of those entrusted with chairmanships and the power that comes with them, especially when it involves the nation’s purse strings. From all that we’ve seen thus far, Mr. Rangel has violated that trust continually and seemingly without care.”

Some of his constituents thinks its time for Rangel to go.  Jacob Israel of Harlem  agrees,  “He’s not the only one. They’re all stealing. It’s just that they want to get him out because he has too much influence. He’s been there too long. Every last one of them is stealing.”

Another resident, Jerry Watson  adds, “He should step aside because who knows what else he’s doing that we don’t know about.

Meanwhile , local politicians are speaking out. New York  City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is waiting for the facts to come out. “Charlie has been very helpful to this city in terms of doing things that we’ve asked him to do, bringing home the bacon if you will and I hope that he’s done nothing wrong,” Bloomberg said.

Mayorial candidate and City Councilman Tony Avella said in a statement.”It was also mar his effectiveness in representing Harlem in Congress. He should not stand for re-election.”

Is this what we got look forward for next three years essentially “White folks are out to get us ” instead of say our opponents are wrong. Or in Charlie instances because  failing to report income to the IRS .  I mean he writes tax policies and he does not follow the rules. Basically, do as  I say  not as I do . Charlie  take  your self down to the Dominican Republic and don’t come back Or look forward to a different home in Sing Sing Prison in Upstate New York.

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Obama Poll Numbers Continue Free Fall

President Obama job approval continue to fall. Rasmussen Reports shows only 27% strongly approval  of his job performance.  41% of those surveyed strongly disprove of his job performance.   Which says Obama’s job approval is a -14 points. These are the lowest of his very young administration.

The President before  today the presidential approval has never fallen below 29%. Whats worse now only 49% of Democrats approve what Obama is doing. Is this an omen of things to come? Meanwhile, 70% of Republicans disapprove of what the President is doing.

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NY Governor Plays Race Card Blames “White Media” for woes

New York Governor David Patterson lashes out at media blaming them for his woes and accuses the of pushing him out 2010 Governor’s Race.

“The whole idea is to get me not to run in the primary,” Paterson told New York Daily News report and radio talk show host Errol Lewis. Patterson says Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and President Barack Obama are also coming under fire because they are black.

“We’re not in the post-racial period,” Paterson said.

“The reality is the next victim on the list – and you can see it coming – is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than trying to reform a health care system.”

Reaction from blacks political leaders are mixed.

“He’s given the media more than enough to feed on with the incompetence shown in his administration,” said state Senator Ken Parker(D-Brooklyn)who is black.

“To quote Michael Jackson, he should start with the man in the mirror,” Parker said.

A ally of Governor  Patterson is State Senator Bill Perkins (D-Harlem) says his friend should stay focus on governing and Stay”focused on the message.”

Patterson’s poll numbers are very low. The absolute lowest was 18%  but it has risen to 30%  and Pollsters say Patterson could loose a match up between him and  Attorney Genera Andrew Cuomo.

Later Governor Patterson played of his earlier comments, by saying

“At no point did I claim that this media piling-on effect was due to race.”

“What I did point out was that certain media outlets have engaged in coverage that exploits racial stereotypes,” he said.

Look incompetence is no excuse to cry racism.  Governor Patterson you sir have poor leadership skills. There is true racism,this isn’t it. Governor Patterson, you have trivialized the word. Black politicians today throw down the race card if things don’t go his or her way. If  the media, District Attorney or Attorney General investigate and again play the race card.

The problem is these people couldn’t handle the pressure of the post; or they  are head deep in corruption. It’s safer to run  in all black(or Hispanic for that matter) election districts where the is little opposition. If there is opposition the opponent doesn’t have the financial wherewithal to win.

Mean while,The State Legislature in Albany, is a disgrace. The people of New York need a constitutional Amendment move the legislature like what us happening in California. A group Citizens for California Reform to moving  state assembly and state senate from full to part time status. Since they are unresponsive to the people. I suggest that the Voters of New York state do the same for the your state.

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Remembering Two News Giants Don Hewitt on the Left and Robert Novak on the Right

On Wednesday,  one of the Giants of TV news has died, Don Hewitt the creator of long time pioneering CBS News Magazine 60 Minutes. Hewitt was 81. In 1948 Hewitt first television accomplishment was directing journalist Douglas Edwards  with 15 minute national newscast “Douglas Edwards and the News.” Edwards was the  veteran radio newsman who brought the world  to millions on the radio during The Great Depression and World War II.

Hewitt went on to do other shows for the Network in the critically acclaimed documentary series “See It Now” hosted by Edward R. Murrow who co-created the program With veteran television producer Fred Friendly in the 1950’s.

Hewitt produced the CBS Evening News with Walter Chronkite in the 1960’s  The show Don Hewitt  will be remembered the most “60 Minutes” created in 1968 the series garnered eight Emmy Awards. The show earned a reputation if you are on 60 Minutes  you must be in trouble. That’s because it after went those who were alleged in wrongdoing.

The program also profiled  news makers in arts, literature, busisness, science, education and entertainment.

Hewitt retired from the show in 2004.  He wrote two books Minute by Minute a history of “60 Minutes” and a second book “Tell Me a Story:50 Years  and 60 Minutes in Television. Hewitt received the Edward R. Murrow Award of Lifetime achievement in Broadcast Journalism by Washington State University in 2008.

Hewitt is survived by his wife Marilyn Berger and four children.

On Tuesday, Robert Novak died. Novak was the conservative journalist who knew  the in and out of politics in Washington,DC. was 78. Novak was covered politics  since the 1950’s. By early 1960’s he became columnist with Rowland Evans  which was the Evan and Novak Political Report. Evan and Novak was so popular they moved to television with Evan and Novak (which would become Evans , Novak, Hunt and Shields.(Al Hunt columnist and editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal and Robert Shields also longtime sydicated columnist) on CNN. The weekly series focused on politics. Novak  was also on the nightly series Crossfire and The Capital Gang.

Novak was moderate to conservative supporting Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and Republican Ronald Reagan.

He wrote stories that was critical to the left and the right. The Valerie Plame affair where Novak revealed that Plame was a CIA operative. He obtain the name from Karl Rove assistant Lewis “Scooter” Libby;  Rove the first White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush.  It is a federal crime to reveal covert officer identity. But the actual person that revealed  Plame and her husband Joe Wilson who investigated Iraq use of “yellow cake uranium from Niger” for its nuclear ambitions was Ambassador Richard Armitage; whom Novak learned of.

Novak wondered how a person with no Foreign Service bona fides.would investigate  But it’s Wilson who served in the  George H.W. Bush administration and had extensive knowledge of the African continent. The left  use this to beat up on Novak and conservatives.

Novak angered conservatives by being critical of Middle East Peace.  Novak believed peace between Israel and Palestine could take place. And He didn’t understand conservatives die hard devotion to Israel and supported Palestine’s right to exist.

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