Kurtz: MJ Coverage “an Embarrassment to the News Business”

Kurtz: MJ Coverage “An Embarrassment To The News Business” – “Washington Post” media critic Howard Kurtz thinks the news networks, including his own CNN, are going “overboard” with their excessive coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, calling it “an embarrassment to the news business.” Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson agreed, saying of the coverage, “This shouldn’t have surprised us.”

Armed drug addict shot dead, hostage saved

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… dead, hostage saved. By Zhao Wen | 2012-10-15 | NEWSPAPER EDITION … AN ARMED drug addict who held a woman hostage at gunpoint on a highway in southwest China's Sichuan Province was shot dead yesterday morning. One other person was …
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Worthington | Anti-drug effort seeks to sober up city, schools

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About 17 percent of American high-school students say that, on any given day, they drink, smoke or use drugs during school, according to a recent survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.Drug Safe will host …
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