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Newsday's Monopoly Control Warps Coverage, Critics Saynew
Newsday is accused of using its position as Long Island's only daily paper to strong-arm county officials, nonprofit directors, local leaders and rival publications, and even to influence pieces of legislation to further its political or commercial agenda.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
01-03-2005 |
Media
Insurgency Draws In Ordinary Iraqis Angered By Occupationnew
Interviews with Iraqis paint a picture of an insurgency fueled not only by foreign extremists and Saddam loyalists, but also by an intensely nationalist political agenda aimed at removing the U.S.-led occupation force and its allies.
Long Island Press |
Borzou Daragahi |
11-19-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
U.S. Media Not as Free as Latvia'snew
In a new report ranking press freedom around the world, the U.S. comes in at a cool 22, behind Latvia, Lithuania and a slew of Nordic countries. And for a country that tries to lead by example when it comes to democracy, 22 is not the greatest place to be in.
Long Island Press |
Lauren Wolfe |
11-19-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Unbelievable! Newsday Continues Its Circulation Fraudsnew
Even with federal agents and Long Island Press hot on its trail, Newsday continues to dump ad circulars directly at dumps and recycling centers. It also reactivates deadbeat customers to inflate its circulation figures, the Long Island Press reports.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski and Timothy Bolger |
11-10-2004 |
Media
Flavor Flav Speaks on His Surreal Lifenew
Flav's decision to go on Surreal Life, a show for celebrity has-beens, is confounding to longtime fans. As much as Public Enemy's current relevance has waned in recent years, its legacy is enough to make Flav more than some nostalgic figure from pop culture's past.
Long Island Press |
Kenny Herzog |
11-04-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
In Prison, Infamous Inmate Felt Isolated and Unfairly Treatednew
At Albion Correctional Facility, the young Amy Fisher spent years in solitary for dying her hair with lye soap or for growing her fingernails too long. She passed the time plucking the hairs from her legs one by one.
Long Island Press |
Amy Fisher and Robbie Woliver |
10-04-2004 |
Excerpts
Jihad! Iraqis' Holy Men Make Bold Declaration Of Warnew
If Sunni clerics are a window into the soul of the violent resistance to U.S. aims in Iraq, the landscape they reveal couldn't be bleaker for U.S.-led forces.
Long Island Press |
Borzou Daragahi |
10-04-2004 |
International
Man Serving Time May Not Be the Silver-Gun Rapistnew
A New York City police officer was charged, and acquitted, of two assaults that have some similarities to those committed by the silver-gun rapist more than a decade ago. (Second of two parts)
Long Island Press |
Amy Fisher |
09-24-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Dean's New Campaign: Recruiting Neophytes to Liven Up the Partynew
Most of the unsuccessful Democratic presidential hopefuls have quietly gone back to their day jobs. Not Howard Dean. He's still on the road five or six days a week vigorously promoting the political action committee Democracy for America.
Long Island Press |
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
09-24-2004 |
Politics
Iraqis Slow to Embrace Democracynew
As Iraq's interim National Assembly begins its work, many Iraqis express a profound alienation from the political process that's supposed to pave the way to their first democratic government.
Long Island Press |
Borzou Daragahi |
09-24-2004 |
International
Immigrants Chase Green Cards on Reality Shownew
Seen on Spanish-language stations in L.A., San Diego, Houston and Dallas, Gana la Verde is basically Fear Factor, only instead of blondes in bikinis competing for money, the contestants are Latinos competing for a year's worth of counsel from an immigration lawyer.
Long Island Press |
Todd Hyman |
09-09-2004 |
TV
Tags: TV
Ragtag No More: Battling Bush Has Made Left Savviernew
One sign of the left's increasing sophistication is that even the anarchists are taking media training sessions.
Long Island Press |
Elizabeth Cady Brown |
08-30-2004 |
Politics
Newsday Distribution Company Overcharges Retailersnew
DSA Direct, a subsidiary of Newsday parent company Tribune, is jacking up its bills by a dollar here and a dollar there, effectively earning an extra ten or twenty dollars per retailer each week, according to documents obtained by the Long Island Press.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
08-27-2004 |
Media
Nassau County Dumps Trash on a Public Beachnew
The county is using one of its public beaches as an illegal landfill. File cabinets, old auto parts, rusty oil drums, and home appliances are piled ten feet high behind massive walls of sand, apparently created to disguise the trash behind them.
Long Island Press |
Christopher Twarowski |
08-07-2004 |
Environment
Newsday Is Accused of Circulation Fraudnew
In a class-action lawsuit, four advertisers sued Newsday, claiming the daily paper had inflated its circulation figures.
Long Island Press |
News Team |
08-07-2004 |
Media
