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Newsmaker Speakers Raise Concerns about Fake Voter Registration
Fraudulent voter registration threatens to create problems in this year’s presidential campaign that will dwarf the “hanging chad” controversy in 2000 over the Florida vote, according to the leaders ofan organization created by Republican nominee John McCain to prepare for the voting. “The issue could be whether the election is fair at all,” former Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., said at an Oct. 14 Newsmaker. “This is a potential nightmare.” Danforth and former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., head McCain’s Honest and Open Election Committee. They highlighted their concerns by citing several examples…
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New Media Changes Election Coverage, NPC Panel in NYC Says
NEW YORK – The future has arrived in new media covering this presidential campaign and in how the politicians are reaching the voters, leading journalists told an NPC forum here Thursday. Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, described how she was able to watch Wednesday night’s debate live on the Times’ Web site while reading instant real-time commentary blogged by Times reporter Katharine Seelye. “She is able to write, not just on deadline, but in the instant moment, absorb, analyze and write about the debate in a way that holds up,” Abramson said of Seelye. “All of the…
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Finnish Official Says Firm Date, Resolve Help Digital Switchover
Setting a firm date and holding consumers to the deadline will help make the switch over to digital television next year in the United States a smooth operation, according to a Finnish official who guided his country through a similar process. Mikael Jungner, director general of the Finnish Broadcasting Company, was the point person for Finland’s transformation, which occurred on March 1. On that date each of the country’s 2.5 million households had to be geared up for digital TV, a change that would provide more channels and higher quality reception. Most of the transformation did not happen…
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Awareness, Education Can Keep 'Digital Natives' Safe on Net
Because kids are "digital natives" to the Internet, that makes them more open to revealing personal information while online, attorney Christopher Wolf told an Oct. 16 Newsmaker audience. Wolf was one of three panelists talking about online safety. When kids put personal information online, it creates a digital dossier, he said, adding that teens who expose personal information online are most at risk. Wolf noted that a culture of intolerance has been created because kids are exposed to information from racist groups, and parents have abdicated their responsibility to monitor the sites their…
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Filibuster-proof Senate Possible, Agree Schumer, Ensign
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and his Republican counterpart, John Ensign, R-Nev., agreed at a rare NPC breakfast "luncheon" Oct. 21 that Democrats likely will add to their Senate majority in the Nov. 4 election. But will Democrats win the required 60 seats that would enable them to override a GOP filibuster? Neither campaign chief would predict. Using the same words, both said, “It is possible.” But Ensign indicated that there’s a good chance that his party could win as many as 45 or 46 seats, despite what he called “a tough…
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Concentrate on What You Do Best, Panelists Say
PORTLAND – News organizations cannot be all things to all people, even if they have the technology to provide it, leading Oregon journalists told a National Press Club Centennial Forum here Tuesday. Instead, they said, to attract an audience in this time of turmoil in the news business, they must concentrate on being the most authoritative voice in those areas they do best. “We are much more about the why and the how and who has the power and how are they using that power and influence than about recording everything that moves,” said Sandra Rowe, editor of the Portland Oregonian, which has…
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Freedom of Information Hurt by Newspaper Revenue Losses, Panel Says
SEATTLE – All types of news media depend on a robust newspaper industry to take the lead in defending freedom of information against state and local government, leading Oregon journalists told a National Press Club Centennial Forum here Tuesday. And when newspapers can no longer afford those legal costs, they said, the public’s access to information suffers. “We’re spending less on legal fees,” said Ryan Blethen, associate publisher of the Seattle Times and a member of the fifth generation of the family that has run the Times since 1896. The paper cannot abandon freedom of information…
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Billy Joel Dazzles Sold-Out Luncheon Crowd
He was supposed to talk about celebrity endorsements of political candidates at his sold-out Press Club Luncheon appearance on Thursday, but Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and pianist Billy Joel dispensed with all that right away in two or three comments. And he wasn’t there to endorse anybody for president, either, although he recently performed at a fundraiser for Barack Obama. He went straight for the questions, of which there were many, from Club President Sylvia Smith and an audience full of long-time fans. “I get insulted when I’m at a show and somebody starts talking to me…
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It's a Rebuilding Time for Papers, Panel Says
SPOKANE – With the latest round of staff reductions, Gary Graham, the new editor of the Spokane Spokesman-Review, hopes he has hit “ground zero” and can start regrouping and rebuilding the newspaper staff, he told a National Press Club Centennial Forum here Thursday. “We’re going to have to make some decisions on things we are no longer going to cover any more because we simply don’t have the staff,” said Graham, who was seeing 20 of his veteran news staff depart this week, leaving him with 80. “But the foundation of all that is still a journalistic mission where local news is our franchise…
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Sprint's OK, But Don't Regulate Internet, CEO Says
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told an Oct. 24 NPC luncheon that despite the Wall Street meltdown, his company has a positive cash flow and "plans to revolutionize the wireless industry," but he warned against moves toward "net neutrality" proposed by some Democrats. "Regulating the internet has horrendous implications," the 33-year veteran of AT&T told the crowded ballroom. Reacting to current economics, he said a friend told him the financial nosedive is worse than divorce. "I lost half my wealth but still have my wife," which brought gales of laughter. But he said, "We can get through this as…
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