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The Al Jazeera Revolution – Newsweek

Great article about Al Jazeera coming to America…

then–secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifying on the Hill in 2011: “You may not agree with it,” Clinton said, “but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news, which … is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.”

via The Al Jazeera Revolution – Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

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The Pain of Mary Bono

Sonny Bono was a great record producer. He was also…nah, that’s pretty much it.

Mary Bono served in Congress after her husband Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident. It was bad enough California sent Sonny Bono to Washington. But then Sonny Bono’s wife? How does this happen? Oh yeah, she’s a Republican. In the GOP you don’t have to be smart. You just have to know how to follow orders.

They were married in 2007 after dating for two years and stirring Washington buzz. Connie Mack is the son of the former U.S. senator and Mary Bono had been married to late singer-turned-politician Sonny Bono.

via Divorcing: Connie Mack and Mary Bono Mack | Tampa Bay Times.

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