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Tribune Company's Credit Rating Dropping Below Junk Bond
The bad news just keeps coming for the old media, this time for major newspaper publisher the Tribune Company which may see its corporate bonds relegated even lower in the "junk bond" category.Standard & Poor's Corp. put Tribune Co.'s already junk-rated debt under review for possible downgrade Friday, saying the Chicago-based media company's newspaper publishing group is likely to face…
Toledo Mayor to Marines: Go Away, You 'Frighten People
Is the Glass City becoming the Berkeley of the Midwest? In today's Toledo Blade (HT Maggie Thurber; bolds are mine): VACATE THE PREMISES Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown He says urban exercises scare people A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines,…
CNN Veteran Andrea Koppel Joins Left-Wing PR Firm
Andrea Koppel, who left CNN last July after 14 years as an on-air correspondent, has joined M+R Strategic Services, a Washington, DC-based public relations firm with a long list of left of center and solidly left-wing clients, as chief of its Communications Division. Amongst the clients listed on the firm's Web site: Environmental Defense, Earthjustice, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
Real sports fans know that when the Super Bowl ends, one of the most exciting events of the year isn't far away: March Madness, Baby!As such, let's talk some College B-Ball.Will Memphis run the table? Is Duke as good as their record indicates? How about the Tarheels?When you look at the current top 25, who'll be in the Final Four two months from now, and who are the surprises to keep an eye on?…
Today's Unbalanced 'Real-People' Panel
Call it Today's homage to John Lennon: imagine there're no conservatives. The NBC show so much enjoyed the conservative-free citizens panel it hosted back in November that it brought it back this morning.As I wrote about at the time, two timid Republicans were pitted against two partisan Dems. In November, one of the "Republicans," Susie O'Neil, claimed that the country is in decline due to the…
Bob, People Have the Big Ideas, Not Government
Admission: over the course of my NewsBusting, I've actually developed a certain admiration for Bob Herbert. Not that I agree with virtually anything the NY Times columnist has to say, but that I appreciate his directness and the absence in his work of the superfluous sarcasm that marks that of a number of his colleagues.That said, I offer up Herbert's lament of this morning, "Where Are the Big…
Maher: Why Didn’t Rush Die from Drugs Instead of Heath Ledger
The hatred from supposedly compassionate and open-minded Hollywoodans is something to behold, isn't it? After all, just imagine despising a radio talk show host so much that you would suggest, on national television, that he should die of a drug overdose. Alas, such was the case Friday evening when HBO's Bill Maher actually asked guest P.J. O'Rourke, who was talking about Rush Limbaugh's use…