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Nader Calls on Liberals, Progressives to Make More Demands on Obama
Ralph Nader does not agree with the right-wing of the Republican Party on any issue. But he does admire the way that it makes GOP presidential nominees pay attention to their agenda. The liberal and progressive portions of the Democratic Party don’t make the same demands of their candidates for the White House, which sets back the causes that have inspired Nader to run as an independent candidate for the third election in a row. “Votes have to be conditioned,” Nader said at an Oct. 24 Newsmaker. In Nader’s view, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is getting the support of liberals…
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Reporters Getting Burned with New Technology, Panelists Say
COLUMBIA, Mo. – News organizations are burning out reporters by demanding that they use more and more different types of technology to tell their stories, leading journalists said at a National Press Club forum at the University of Missouri Monday. Yet there is scant evidence that this new technology is bringing in enough revenue to save journalism jobs and support the news business, they said. “I have been blogging for years,” said Tony Messenger, a state capital bureau correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I have yet to have a discussion in my newsroom about why we’re blogging and…
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Banker Urges US to Spend Less
The stimulus program is working, but there's a need for new programs to save America from budget deficit fallout, Bob Kelly, chairman and CEO of BNY Mellon said at a Newsmaker March 11. “We walked right to the edge of global depression and made it back,” he said. “Most banks are now back and healthy again except a few.” But he predicted a recession in five to seven years caused by the federal deficit. Asked if there is a safe proposal to ward off that eventuality, Kelly said, “No. There is no plan yet, and we need a credible plan and budget for our country to avoid that. We are spending too…
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Please Welcome 25 New Club Members
The Board of Governors approved 25 membership applications Nov. 23, bringing the total so far this year to 393, compared to 397 for the same period last year.The new members are: Active:Georgie Anne Geyer - Universal Press Syndicate, Columnist; E. Drake Lundell – Kiplinger, Editor; Peer Meinert - German Press Agency – DPA, Correspondent; Amena Husein Saiyid - Platts Inc., Associate Editor; Philipe-Joseph Salazar - University of Cape Town, Professor, Director of Graduate Program in Rhetoric (Media) Active Non-Resident:Arline Kaplan, Huntington Beach, CA – Self - Independent Writer, Freelance…
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Rage Over Mammography Guidelines Justified, Cancer Charity Leader Says
Guidelines issued lby an independent government panel declaring that annual breast-cancer screenings are unnecessary for women in their 40s “have resulted in mass confusion and justifiable outrage” among women said Nancy G. Brinker, chairwoman of largest global breast cancer charity at a Speakers Comittee news conference Nov. 23.The controversial guidelines, released by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force “have taken a tremendous toll,” said Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that has raised more than $1 billion for cancer research and education…
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NEH Chairman Says Cultural Understanding Critical to Military Strategy, Politics, Social Discourse
James A. Leach, a 30-year veteran Republican Congressman appointed by President Obama to be chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities, underscored the importance of the humanities when “the world is in flux and the judgments of its leading democracy is in question” at a Club Luncheon Nov. 20. In a speech titled “Bridging Cultures,” he underscored the importance of understanding and respecting other cultures globally and locally. He cited specific instances in military strategy, in politics and in general discourse. Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet , in which Durrell recounted…
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Prince Albert Encourages Action on Global Warming; Reception Photos Available
To order photos taken at the VIP reception, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yb5p8xa Environmental concerns are alarmingly bigger today than when his great-grandfather spoke at the National Press Club on the same topic, Monaco's Prince Albert II said at a sold-out Nov. 30 Luncheon. Prince Albert I spoke at the Club in October 1913. “With Theodore Roosevelt, he was one of the first heads of state to understand the importance of conservation, of large areas and species,” Albert said. “He was known as the Scholar Prince. Albert I was curious about his times, and indefatigable traveler who…
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Tannen Discusses "Sisters" Book
Sometimes sisters are at odds, author Deborah Tannen said, but “despite terrible hurts you can come back together again.” Tannen, author of "You were Always Mom’s Favorite, Sisters in Conversation Throughout their Lives" discussed her book at the Club Dec. 2. She writes and speaks from experience because she has two older sisters. But to put together this book, she said, “I interviewed over 100 women with sisters.” The theme that ran through all of her accounts involved connection and relationships with implications of closeness and competition. Some of the thoughts that came from her…
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Future of Theater Is Bright, Says Retiring DC Theater Pioneer
Despite increasing competition, an uncertain economy and predictions of its demise, theater is alive and well in both the nation and in Washington, said Joy Zinoman, a prime mover of the Washington theater scene, in a retirement speech at the Club Dec. 4. “For all its impracticalities, serious theater still stubbornly persists. It will not go away. … It may even thrive,” said Zinoman, whose co-founding of Studio Theater 35 years ago on a $1,000 shoestring spurred the transformation of the once-rundown Logan Circle area of Washington into a bustling urban neighborhood. Theater’s future is…
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Tulane, New Orleans Officials Discuss City's Rebuilding
The recovery of New Orleans is "a work in progress," Tulane University President Scott Cowen said at a Dec. 3 Newsmaker. He and New Orleans City Council President Arnie Fielkow discussed the five things the public should know about New Orleans today. Cowen and Fielkow are co-founders of the Fleur de Lis Ambassador Program, which is made up of more than 30 New Orleans residents who go around the country to, as Cowen put it, dispel the myths and misperceptions surrounding New Orleans's recovery. "Some people still think we're underwater," Cowen said. Cowen and Fielkow, both transplants to New…
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