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Small-town paper lambasted for NOT publishing news of Obama victory

By Michael Becker | Published: November 10, 2008
Correction: The title should have read that the paper was crit­i­cized for NOT pub­lish­ing news of Obama’s win. CNN reports about the 5,000-circulation Daily Herald in Salpulpa, Okla., which did not carry news of Barack Obama’s win in its Wednesday edition. Embedded video from CNN Video Some towns­peo­ple, many of them African American, pick­eted out­side [...]
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Dropping the election ball

By Michael Becker | Published: November 5, 2008
Even though I feel like my local news­pa­per com­pletely dropped the ball when it came to pro­vid­ing timely cov­er­age through­out elec­tion night, I have to give my respect to the staff’s work here in Gallatin County, Montana. I used to be a reporter on their staff, so I know how frus­trat­ing late nights wait­ing for [...]
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Political for a moment

By Michael Becker | Published: October 27, 2008
I’m sorry about inject­ing pol­i­tics into this blog, but I couldn’t resist this. CNN is report­ing that vice pres­i­dent can­di­date Sarah Palin went “off script” at a rally Sunday in Florida. From the arti­cle: A senior McCain adviser told CNN that those com­ments “were not the remarks we sent to her plane.” Palin did not [...]
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Obama will appoint tech officer to cabinet if elected

By Michael Becker | Published: October 22, 2008
Business Week reported on Oct. 19 that, if elected, Barack Obama will likely appoint the first Cabinet-level chief tech­nol­ogy offi­cer because he feels the coun­try “is not doing nearly enough to cre­ate jobs through tech­nol­ogy.” The CTO’s job would be to expand broad­band ser­vice to even more parts of the U.S., espe­cially rural areas into [...]
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Free speech on Facebook

By Michael Becker | Published: October 5, 2008
So after watch­ing the vice pres­i­den­tial debate last Thursday, I decided in my light-hearted way to poke fun at Sarah Palin’s folksi­ness with a oh-so-clever sta­tus update on my Facebook page. The update was per­fect, just the right col­lec­tion of all her choice phrases from the debate — well, it was per­fect enough to gar­ner [...]
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