| March 1, 2013 | -
Paul Harvey died.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 26, 2009 | - The Rocky Mountain News ceased publication.
| Source:
Rocky Mountain News
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| September 23, 2008 | - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, visited New York City and met with world leaders from Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Colombia, as well as Henry Kissinger and Bono, and agreed to speak to the press. “It was great,” she said.
| Source 1:
CNN
Source 2:
MSNBC
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| June 4, 2008 | - Senator John McCain delivered a speech to a crowd of a few hundred in Kenner, Louisiana, in which he tried to rebuff Obama's charges that a McCain presidency would be a continuation of Bush policies. “That's not change we can believe in,” said McCain repeatedly. Pundits were surprised by McCain's clumsy rhetoric, by his lack of teleprompter skills, and by the fact that he stood in front of an ugly green backdrop. “Content better than delivery,” said Karl Rove. “John McCain,” said Mort Kondracke of “Roll Call,” “sounded old.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Talking Points Memo
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| July 25, 2007 | - The publisher of Weekly World News announced that the publication would end its 28-year print run next month.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| July 24, 2007 | - A Washington, D.C.,
newspaper ranked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi number four on a list of the “50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.” Other honorees included congressional aides, a Washington Redskins cheerleader, and a police officer.
| Source:
The Hill
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| July 19, 2007 | - A Beijing
journalist was detained for fabricating a story about street vendors stuffing their dumplings with cardboard.
| Source:
CNN
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| June 25, 2007 | - The Gaza kidnappers of British
journalist Alan Johnston released a video of Johnston wearing an explosives vest, which he says will be detonated if force is used to try to free him.
- The Gaza kidnappers of British
journalist Alan Johnston released a video of Johnston wearing an explosives vest, which he says will be detonated if force is used to try to free him.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 15, 2007 | - Thomson Corp. agreed to buy Reuters for $17.2 billion.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 27, 2007 | -
David Halberstam and Jack Valenti died.
| Source 1:
The New Yorker
Source 2:
Washington Post
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| March 23, 2007 | - After two black Labrador retrievers sniffed out a shipment of nearly a million black-market
DVDs in Johor, Malaysian disc pirates offered a bounty to anyone who kills the dogs, which were on loan from the Motion Picture Association of America. Lucky and Flo were subsequently moved to a safe house.
| Source:
AP via Canadian press
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| March 5, 2007 | - The New Republic, a 93-year-old independent American liberal weekly, was sold to a Canadian
media conglomerate that will publish it half as often.
| Source:
New York Observer
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| February 20, 2007 | -
Satellite
radio companies XM and Sirius announced plans to merge but faced opposition from the National Association of Broadcasters. “In coming weeks,” said Dennis Wharton, a NAB spokesperson, “policymakers will have to weigh whether an industry that makes Howard Stern its poster child should be rewarded with a monopoly platform for offensive programming.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 8, 2007 | - And “farcical, saucy, and somewhat tragic, man-breasts” were deemed ideal “fodder” for the British tabloid media.
| Source:
Times online
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| February 7, 2007 | - Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, said he wasn't sure if the paper would still be printed in five years. “And you know what?” Sulzberger added. “I don't care.”
| Source:
Haaretz
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| January 18, 2007 | - Columnist Art Buchwald died at the age of 81.
| Source:
BBC
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| November 29, 2006 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wrote a letter to the American people claiming that Jews have inordinate control over international finance, media, and culture.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 17, 2006 | -
Tony Blair told Al Jazeera that western intervention in Iraq had been “pretty much of a disaster.”
| Source:
Times Online
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| November 10, 2006 | -
Ed Bradley and Jack Palance died.
| Source 1:
CBS News
Source 2:
Los Angeles Times.
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| October 31, 2006 | - A French
newspaper declared the death of Halloween.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 7, 2006 | -
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who criticized Russia's Chechnya policy, was found shot to death in an elevator.
| Source:
InterFax
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| September 20, 2006 | -
Ted Turner called the Iraq war one of the “dumbest moves of all time.”
| Source:
CNN
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| July 19, 2006 | - The president of Vietnam told reporters to “stick to their principles” and to “do their utmost in the fight against wrong-doing and crime.”
| Source:
Vietnam News
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| July 5, 2006 | -
North Korea launched six rockets over the Sea of Japan, including a Taepodong-2 intercontinental ballistic missile, which apparently was aborted after just 40 seconds. One thing we have learned, said President George W. Bush, who strongly dislikes North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, “is that the rocket didn't stay up very long.” The president, who expressed annoyance when a reporter pointed out that Kim Jong Il had on all accounts increased his nuclear potency since Bush took office, claimed that his antimissile system, which has failed repeated tests, had a “reasonable chance” of intercepting the Taepodong.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 30, 2006 | - The library of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, cancelled its subscription to the
New York Times
.
| Source:
MySA.com
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| June 27, 2006 | -
Rush Limbaugh was detained at an airport when authorities found Viagra in his luggage.
| Source 1:
Hamilton Spectator
Source 2:
local6.com
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| June 26, 2006 | -
President Bush said that it was “disgraceful” for newspapers to report on a secret intelligence program to trace bank records.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 26, 2006 | -
China announced that media outlets would be fined up to $12,500 if they reported on any “sudden events” without prior authorization.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 22, 2006 | - Vice President Dick Cheney discussed his similarities to Darth Vader, and said that reporters offend him.
| Source:
CNN
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| May 27, 2006 | - In Iraq over 66 people were killed in attacks, including two CBS News employees when their convoy was struck by a car bomb; a CBS correspondent was seriously injured in the same attack. In Baghdad two tennis players and their coach were killed for wearing shorts, and a Marine helicopter was shot down over the Anbar province.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
AP via Forbes.com
Source 3:
ABC News
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| May 17, 2006 | -
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly warned that "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad."
| Source:
Media Matters
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| May 16, 2006 | - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked newspapers to refrain from publishing pictures of women.
| Source:
AP via MyWay.com
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| May 15, 2006 | - It was reported that the United States was analyzing phone call records of reporters from ABC News, the New York Times, and the Washington Post to determine the identities of CIA employees who leak information to the press. "It's time," a federal law enforcement official told a reporter for ABC News, "for you to get some new cell phones, quick."
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 10, 2006 | - It was announced that five journalists had been killed so far this month in Iraq.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 8, 2006 | - It emerged that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand jury that when he leaked classified information favorable to the case for war in Iraq to New York Times reporter Judith Miller, he was acting under the specific authorization of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Bush authorized the leak even though the intelligence in question (regarding Saddam Hussein's
nuclear ambitions) was considered unreliable by key administration members such as then Secretary of State Colin Powell.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 5, 2006 | - The case against Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein, an Iraqi cameraman for CBS who was arrested in April 2005 after filming the wreckage of a car bomb, was finally dismissed for lack of evidence.
| Source:
ABC News
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| April 5, 2006 | -
Katie Couric announced that she would leave NBC's "Today" show to become the anchor of "The CBS Evening News."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 3, 2006 | - In Iraq
a suicide bomber killed 50 people and a car bomb killed 10 people. At least 15 U.S. troops were also killed. Hostage Jill Carroll was freed.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
CNN.com
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| March 9, 2006 | - The Sheaf, a University of Saskatchewan campus newspaper, was criticized for publishing a cartoon showing Jesus Christ
fellating a talking pig.
| Source:
The Gateway
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| February 9, 2006 | - Author Michael Crichton received a journalism award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for his novel State of Fear, which criticizes the theory of global warming. "It is fiction," said a spokesman for the petroleum geologists, "but it has the absolute ring of truth."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 5, 2006 | - Riots erupted over newspaper cartoons, printed first in Denmark and subsequently throughout Europe, that caricatured the prophet Muhammad. Demonstrators rallied in Syria, where they attacked the Danish and Norwegian embassies, and in Lebanon, where they set the Danish embassy on fire. "They should have respected our religion," said a Lebanese protester. Iran recalled its ambassador from Denmark, and protesters outside the United Nations in New York City chanted, "shame, shame."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Newsday
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| February 4, 2006 | - The Boston Globe was in trouble for accidentally delivering bundles of newspapers wrapped with 215,000 credit-card numbers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 1, 2006 | - The Joint Chiefs of Staff complained to the Washington Post about a cartoon that showed Donald Rumsfeld telling an armless and legless soldier: "I am listing your condition as battle-hardened." "Using the likeness of a service member who has lost his arms and legs in war as the central theme of a cartoon," wrote the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "is beyond tasteless."
| Source:
The Washingtonian
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| January 30, 2006 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States would cut off aid to Palestine if Hamas assumed power without changing its policies. "I've asked why nobody saw it coming," said Rice, even though publications like The Guardian and the The New York Times had, since at least 2003, published regular reports on the increasing popularity of Hamas in Palestine. "It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse."
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
Source 3:
Gawker.com
Source 4:
The Guardian
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| January 29, 2006 | -
ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were severely injured in an explosion in Taji, Iraq.
| Source:
ABC News
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| January 24, 2006 | - The UPN and WB television networks were slated to merge.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| January 16, 2006 | -
Walter Cronkite called for the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq.
| Source:
CBC.com
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| December 31, 2005 | - The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation into who leaked information about the NSA's domestic wiretapping program to the New York Times. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and Times editor Bill Keller refused to answer any questions about the leak, even though the questions came from their own public editor.
| Source 1:
The Washington Post
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| December 22, 2005 | - Investigators in New York City were trying to find out who stole Alistair Cooke's bones.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 19, 2005 | -
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered that all western music be banned from state-controlled radio and TV stations.
| Source:
AP
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| December 16, 2005 | - Columnist Doug Bandow resigned from his position as a Cato Institute Fellow after it was revealed that he had accepted money from lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing between 12 and 24 newspaper columns favorable to Abramoff's clients. Peter Ferrara, a senior policy advisor at the Institute for Policy Innovation, said that he had also taken money from Abramoff to write op-ed pieces, but felt no remorse. “I do that all the time,” he explained.
| Source:
Business Week
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| December 9, 2005 | - The probe into the U.S. policy of paying Iraqi newspapers for positive coverage widened to include the Baghdad Press Club, a military-created P.R. organization; the military admitted that the club compensated reporters, but made clear that it did not insist on positive coverage. An Iraqi journalist said that the club paid $25 for each story that ran ($45 for stories with photos), and $50 for television reports.
| Source:
USA Today
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| December 7, 2005 | - Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld criticized the media in a speech, claiming that news is “reported and spread around the world, often with little context and little scrutiny, let alone correction or accountability after the fact.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 6, 2005 | - In Iran a military plane crashed into an apartment building, killing at least 115 people, most of them journalists.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| November 30, 2005 | - It was revealed that the U.S. Army was writing positive news stories about the Iraq war, and was then paying to have the articles translated into Arabic and published in Iraqi newspapers. Abdul Zahra Zaki, editor of the newspaper Al Mada, said that if he had known the stories—with titles like “Iraqis Insist on Living Despite Terrorism” and “More Money Goes to Iraq's Development”—were written by the Army he would have “charged much, much more.”
| Source:
LA Times
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| November 22, 2005 | - It was reported that President George W. Bush had, on April 16, 2004, revealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair a plan to take “military action” against the headquarters of the Al Jazeera news network in Doha, Qatar. According to a leaked transcript, Blair talked Bush out of attacking the television station. The White House called the report “outlandish and inconceivable,” and Blair called the report a “conspiracy theory.” David Keogh, a former U.K. Cabinet Office official, was charged under the Official Secrets Act with leaking the memo, and U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned British media that any further reporting based on the leaked memo could be subject to criminal charges. Al Jazeera demanded an inquiry.
| Source 1:
The Daily Mirror
Source 2:
The Toronto Star
Source 3:
The Guardian
Source 4:
News.Telegraph
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| November 16, 2005 | -
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward admitted that a “senior administration official” had revealed the identity of Valerie Wilson to him one month before administration officials revealed Wilson's identity to anyone else. The official is apparently neither I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. nor Karl Rove. Condoleezza Rice denied any involvement.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
UPI
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| November 13, 2005 | - Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, said that history was repeating itself.
| Source:
Common Dreams
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| November 9, 2005 | - Judith Miller retired from The New York Times after 28 years as an employee. “Judy participated in some great, prize-winning journalism,” said Times Editor Bill Keller.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| November 9, 2005 | -
Kentucky Fried Chicken was creating a series of ads, to be broadcast during a bird-flu epidemic, to reassure customers that its chicken is safe to eat.
| Source:
Great Falls Tribune
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| November 7, 2005 | -
Judith Miller was expected to return to her job at the New York Times.
| Source:
The New York Observer
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| October 16, 2005 | -
The New York Times
finally published an account of reporter Judith Miller's involvement in the Valerie Plame Wilson case. At issue in the case is a notebook in which Miller had written the name “Valerie Flame”; Miller said she could not recall the source of the name, even though she had used the same notebook to interview I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff. “We have everything to be proud of,” said Miller. It was reported that both Libby and Karl Rove would probably resign if indicted.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Time
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| October 6, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney's chief of staff I. “Scooter” Libby wrote a letter to New York Times journalist Judith Miller, giving Miller permission to testify about their confidential conversations. “Out West,” wrote Libby, “where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work--and life.” Many felt that Libby was writing in some kind of code.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
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| September 30, 2005 | -
Journalist Judith Miller was released from jail and said she wanted to hug her dog.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
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| September 11, 2005 | -
Yahoo! admitted that it had helped China track down a journalist, Shi Tao, who had anonymously redistributed a message from the Chinese government suggesting journalists be careful about what they write. Shi is serving a 10-year sentence for revealing "state secrets."
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| September 3, 2005 | - “I don't think,” said President George W. Bush, “anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the disaster “exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight.” The flooding had been anticipated by National Geographic magazine, Scientific American magazine, the Times-Picayune newspaper, FEMA, and Mr. Bill.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
CNN.com
Source 3:
The Times-Picayune
Source 4:
The Independent
Source 5:
National Geographic
Source 6:
Scientific American
Source 7:
Mr. Bill
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| August 8, 2005 | - At least sixty-one people were killed in Iraq, including fourteen Marines killed in a roadside bombing, many members of the Iraqi army, and journalist Steven Vincent. Condoleezza Rice said that the Iraqi insurgency was "losing steam."
| Source 1:
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
Source 2:
BBC News
Source 3:
In the Red Zone
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| August 7, 2005 | -
Peter Jennings died.
| Source:
ABC News
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| July 23, 2005 | - The Pentagon was stalling to avoid the release of more photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison. The videos are said to show young boys shrieking as they are anally
raped.
| Source:
Editor & Publisher
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| July 8, 2005 | -
New York Times journalist Judith Miller was sent to jail in Virginia for refusing to appear before a grand jury in connection to the Valerie Plame case. At the jail, where Zacarias Moussaoui is also an inmate, she had to sleep on the floor. Karl Rove's lawyer acknowledged that Rove spoke about Valerie Plame to Time Magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Rove released Cooper from his promise of confidentiality, allowing the journalist to testify and avoid jail.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
AFP
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| May 18, 2005 | - Before he testified, Galloway called journalist Christopher Hitchens “a drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay.”
| Source:
Guardian
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| May 1, 2005 | - Laura Bush told jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. She accused her husband of attempting to milk a male horse and compared her mother-in-law to a Mafia don. “I am a desperate housewife,” she said.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 25, 2005 | -
Walter Cronkite was planning to start a blog.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 6, 2005 | -
Peter Jennings announced that he has lung cancer.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 13, 2005 | - Twenty U.S. federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, were found to have prepared hundreds of video news releases favorable to the government, many of which were inserted into local television news broadcasts without attribution.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 10, 2005 | - Dan Rather left the CBS Evening News. “Courage,” he said.
| Source:
CTV
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| March 4, 2005 | -
Italy paid the ransom for a journalist kidnapped in Iraq; U.S. forces then fired on the journalist's escape car, killing an Italian military intelligence agent and wounding the journalist.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 3, 2005 | -
FOX News had over twice as many viewers as CNN.
| Source:
New York Post
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| February 25, 2005 | - At a summit in Bratislava, Vladimir Putin accused George W. Bush of firing Dan Rather.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 3, 2005 | -
Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold their Watergate reporting notes for $5 million.
| Source:
Reuters
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