(2007-11-08) — In a major breakthrough, MSNBC announced it had signed comedian Rosie O’Donnell to create a talk show for the news network, and that the two parties agreed that her show will run “for as long as MSNBC shall continue operations.”

Talks had deadlocked when Ms. O’Donnell refused to sign a contract for longer than [...]

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(2007-10-29) — With the success of last week’s simulated news conference on the California wildfires by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), mid-level bureaucrats at the disaster-relief agency have reportedly initiated plans to stage “natural” disasters as well.
The imitation news briefing, which featured FEMA employees pretending to be genuine journalists, was “just a test run [...]

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(2007-10-13) — Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who generated headlines this week by calling the Iraq war “a nightmare with no end in sight,” today released a list of the “least newsworthy remarks” from that same speech to a convention of military journalists.
“While my critique of our government’s failure to formulate a ‘grand strategy’ for [...]

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