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Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:

I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.

Parents voted their fears.

Another writes:

I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.

The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.

Another:

Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.

Another:

I am a long-time San Francisco resident.  I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time.  Then I checked some of the county results.  The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters.  In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.

I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board.  That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust.  I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.

Thanks growers.  And screw you.

(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)

The British broadcaster shamefully tarred Bob Geldof’s landmark charity efforts. This week, they finally set the record straight. Martyn Gregory on his time backstage with Geldof as history was made.

It’s about time the BBC got around to apologizing.

Last spring, the network aired a radio documentary featuring allegations—by no less a figure than the Africa editor of the BBC World Service—that in the 1980s, funds from the humanitarian aid effort known as Band Aid had been diverted to Eritrean “rebels.” The idea that money meant to help people had been diverted to fund murder and mayhem infuriated Band Aid’s founder, Bob Geldof, who claimed the documentary had done “appalling” damage to his cause.

London, England, 13th July 1985, The Prince and Princess of Wales are pictured with a waving Bob Geldof at the "Feed the World" Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium. (Popperfoto / Getty Images)

For the first time in its history, the BBC, acknowledging that the allegations had also seeped into other areas of its coverage, this week apologized simultaneously across its three platforms: TV, radio and online. The BBC “wishes to apologize unreservedly to the Band Aid Trust for the misleading and unfair impression which was created,” it announced, conceding that the report “should not have been broadcast.”

This recognition of error was particularly sad for generations of BBC staff who had worked with the combustible but mercurial Irish singer since the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As Geldof always made clear, it was Michael Buerk’s seminal BBC News reports from Ethiopia that had inspired him to found Band Aid. In March this year, however, a volcanic Geldof, speaking from Nairobi condemned the documentary as soon as it was broadcast, saying it had not “a shred of evidence.” He said that he would sue the Ethiopian government if any of the BBC report was true. (The Ethiopian “rebels” of the 1980s  overthrew the Derg regime in 1991 and now form the government in Addis Ababa.)

It is difficult to think of a lower point in the BBC World Service's history.

Former BBC chairman and current Band Aid Trust board member Michael Grade reacted with cold fury to the apology, which took the corporation’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) eight months to produce. Grade described the documentary as an “outrageous” and  “pretty sick” piece of work, that had used Geldof’s Band Aid to “sex up” allegations for which there was no proof.

It is clear that the BBC team which made the offending radio documentary failed to meet with or speak to Geldof before broadcast.

If cowardice were a factor in the BBC documentary team’s failure to put their allegations to Geldof, it would be understandable, if not excusable.  “Force of nature” is a frequently misused term, but it applies to Geldof. I witnessed and filmed it at the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As a BBC TV news producer, my task had been to live in Geldof’s pocket for a month before the show, making news reports about his ambitious and extraordinary bid to stage “The Greatest Live Concert of All Time.” Skeptics anticipated the greatest flop of all time, but come July 13, 1985, with 100,000, including Princess Diana, crammed into Wembley Stadium and a TV audience of billions watching, Geldof had assembled a stellar line-up for the concerts in London and Philadelphia. Among the acts on stage: David Bowie, the Who, U2, Madonna, and Queen. In London, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney had agreed to play live for the first time since John Lennon’s murder in New York in 1980.

My BBC team was the only media given an “access all areas” pass. With a brief from BBC TV News Chief Ron Neil not to let Geldof out of my sight, my job was to film his every move.

As the concert hit its stride, I nipped into the artists’ backstage area in mid-afternoon to speak to Live Aid’s inspiration. Geldof surprised me when he asked me how I thought it was going. “It’s OK, but it’s a bit like a Radio 1 road show,” I replied. (For many years, the BBC’s pop station Radio 1 has run live summer concerts known to generations of listeners as “road shows.”)  “What do you mean by that?!” barked Bob. “Well the music is fine, but no one is mentioning Ethiopia or the famine,” I replied.

“Fokkin’ hell!” roared Geldof as he shot out of the artists’ compound, leaving myself and my cameraman, Ian Pritchard, dizzy in his wake. Comically, however, Bob had no idea where he was going. “Where are you fokkers broadcasting from?” he bellowed. Geldof wanted to find the BBC’s live point and strangle some of my colleagues, and he required me to be his accomplice!

“No idea, Bob!” I replied honestly but inadequately, feeling momentarily disoriented myself.

“Might be somewhere up there,” I added, pointing to the “Gods” above the stadium. I had rarely been so nervous as we all crammed into one of the old Wembley’s tiny lifts. As it creaked upward, painfully slowly, Pritchard filmed a seething Geldof.  I was just praying that we had picked the correct lift! Geldof appeared to be near exhaustion but was glowing with indignation as he feared the fate of the whole Live Aid project was in the balance. Through the lift walls we could hear the sound of Freddie Mercury and Queen’s show-stopping performance, but no one was mentioning the famine—and the sole purpose of Live Aid was to raise money. The U.S. concert in Philadelphia was just beginning, but the London concert seemed to going awry.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:

I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.

Parents voted their fears.

Another writes:

I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.

The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.

Another:

Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.

Another:

I am a long-time San Francisco resident.  I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time.  Then I checked some of the county results.  The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters.  In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.

I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board.  That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust.  I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.

Thanks growers.  And screw you.

(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)

The British broadcaster shamefully tarred Bob Geldof’s landmark charity efforts. This week, they finally set the record straight. Martyn Gregory on his time backstage with Geldof as history was made.

It’s about time the BBC got around to apologizing.

Last spring, the network aired a radio documentary featuring allegations—by no less a figure than the Africa editor of the BBC World Service—that in the 1980s, funds from the humanitarian aid effort known as Band Aid had been diverted to Eritrean “rebels.” The idea that money meant to help people had been diverted to fund murder and mayhem infuriated Band Aid’s founder, Bob Geldof, who claimed the documentary had done “appalling” damage to his cause.

London, England, 13th July 1985, The Prince and Princess of Wales are pictured with a waving Bob Geldof at the "Feed the World" Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium. (Popperfoto / Getty Images)

For the first time in its history, the BBC, acknowledging that the allegations had also seeped into other areas of its coverage, this week apologized simultaneously across its three platforms: TV, radio and online. The BBC “wishes to apologize unreservedly to the Band Aid Trust for the misleading and unfair impression which was created,” it announced, conceding that the report “should not have been broadcast.”

This recognition of error was particularly sad for generations of BBC staff who had worked with the combustible but mercurial Irish singer since the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As Geldof always made clear, it was Michael Buerk’s seminal BBC News reports from Ethiopia that had inspired him to found Band Aid. In March this year, however, a volcanic Geldof, speaking from Nairobi condemned the documentary as soon as it was broadcast, saying it had not “a shred of evidence.” He said that he would sue the Ethiopian government if any of the BBC report was true. (The Ethiopian “rebels” of the 1980s  overthrew the Derg regime in 1991 and now form the government in Addis Ababa.)

It is difficult to think of a lower point in the BBC World Service's history.

Former BBC chairman and current Band Aid Trust board member Michael Grade reacted with cold fury to the apology, which took the corporation’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) eight months to produce. Grade described the documentary as an “outrageous” and  “pretty sick” piece of work, that had used Geldof’s Band Aid to “sex up” allegations for which there was no proof.

It is clear that the BBC team which made the offending radio documentary failed to meet with or speak to Geldof before broadcast.

If cowardice were a factor in the BBC documentary team’s failure to put their allegations to Geldof, it would be understandable, if not excusable.  “Force of nature” is a frequently misused term, but it applies to Geldof. I witnessed and filmed it at the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As a BBC TV news producer, my task had been to live in Geldof’s pocket for a month before the show, making news reports about his ambitious and extraordinary bid to stage “The Greatest Live Concert of All Time.” Skeptics anticipated the greatest flop of all time, but come July 13, 1985, with 100,000, including Princess Diana, crammed into Wembley Stadium and a TV audience of billions watching, Geldof had assembled a stellar line-up for the concerts in London and Philadelphia. Among the acts on stage: David Bowie, the Who, U2, Madonna, and Queen. In London, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney had agreed to play live for the first time since John Lennon’s murder in New York in 1980.

My BBC team was the only media given an “access all areas” pass. With a brief from BBC TV News Chief Ron Neil not to let Geldof out of my sight, my job was to film his every move.

As the concert hit its stride, I nipped into the artists’ backstage area in mid-afternoon to speak to Live Aid’s inspiration. Geldof surprised me when he asked me how I thought it was going. “It’s OK, but it’s a bit like a Radio 1 road show,” I replied. (For many years, the BBC’s pop station Radio 1 has run live summer concerts known to generations of listeners as “road shows.”)  “What do you mean by that?!” barked Bob. “Well the music is fine, but no one is mentioning Ethiopia or the famine,” I replied.

“Fokkin’ hell!” roared Geldof as he shot out of the artists’ compound, leaving myself and my cameraman, Ian Pritchard, dizzy in his wake. Comically, however, Bob had no idea where he was going. “Where are you fokkers broadcasting from?” he bellowed. Geldof wanted to find the BBC’s live point and strangle some of my colleagues, and he required me to be his accomplice!

“No idea, Bob!” I replied honestly but inadequately, feeling momentarily disoriented myself.

“Might be somewhere up there,” I added, pointing to the “Gods” above the stadium. I had rarely been so nervous as we all crammed into one of the old Wembley’s tiny lifts. As it creaked upward, painfully slowly, Pritchard filmed a seething Geldof.  I was just praying that we had picked the correct lift! Geldof appeared to be near exhaustion but was glowing with indignation as he feared the fate of the whole Live Aid project was in the balance. Through the lift walls we could hear the sound of Freddie Mercury and Queen’s show-stopping performance, but no one was mentioning the famine—and the sole purpose of Live Aid was to raise money. The U.S. concert in Philadelphia was just beginning, but the London concert seemed to going awry.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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Some thoughts from Dish readers. One writes:

I knew Prop 19 was going down weeks ago when a friend of mine and his wife voted against. They are parents of two small kids, and did so with the reasoning ''I don't care if other people do it but I don't want it to be illegal.” Another father, whose 21-year-old son has had a drug problem, grew emotionally angry when we discussed it. “At least you can tell your kids it's illegal.” I didn't want to engage him by pointing out his son had the problem when drugs were ILLEGAL.

Parents voted their fears.

Another writes:

I think proponents made the same mistake as that made a few years ago with Prop 8, i.e. not actually making the clear case and hammering away at it.

The correct vote on these props seemed self-evident to some of us, but apparently not to the majority. A lot of people in my generation (60s) who should have voted yes on 19 were swayed by the "gateway drug" rhetoric. We've all lived long enough to know people whose kids have lost their way on the drug road, that argument needed a clear response. The Mexico cartel connection had great potential but then the Rand study sort of put it away, without a cogent, repeated counter from proponents.

Another:

Last night I asked my girlfriend's 18 year-old son if he was going to vote for Prop 19, in what is his first opprtunity to vote. He surprised me with a no. His reasoning? It's more exciting if it's illegal.

Another:

I am a long-time San Francisco resident.  I just saw that Proposition 19 lost - big time.  Then I checked some of the county results.  The measure was approved by about 65% of San Francisco voters.  In Humboldt County, on the other hand - one of the points on the Emerald Triangle - only about 47% of voters approved the measure.

I know some growers up north, and there is no doubt in my mind that this measure lost (or at least lost by as much as it did) because of greedy growers in northern California who are making bags of money selling cannabis to medical dispensaries, and who know that their bottom line would suffer were cannabis legalized across the board.  That puts those growers in league with big alcohol, tobacco, and other unsavories for whom personal monetary gain is worth a few young kids getting thrown in some hell-hole prison for the rest of their lives as the result of a pot bust.  I really should cease to be amazed by the power of money to corrupt people.

Thanks growers.  And screw you.

(Photo: Mark Ralston/Getty.)

The British broadcaster shamefully tarred Bob Geldof’s landmark charity efforts. This week, they finally set the record straight. Martyn Gregory on his time backstage with Geldof as history was made.

It’s about time the BBC got around to apologizing.

Last spring, the network aired a radio documentary featuring allegations—by no less a figure than the Africa editor of the BBC World Service—that in the 1980s, funds from the humanitarian aid effort known as Band Aid had been diverted to Eritrean “rebels.” The idea that money meant to help people had been diverted to fund murder and mayhem infuriated Band Aid’s founder, Bob Geldof, who claimed the documentary had done “appalling” damage to his cause.

London, England, 13th July 1985, The Prince and Princess of Wales are pictured with a waving Bob Geldof at the "Feed the World" Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium. (Popperfoto / Getty Images)

For the first time in its history, the BBC, acknowledging that the allegations had also seeped into other areas of its coverage, this week apologized simultaneously across its three platforms: TV, radio and online. The BBC “wishes to apologize unreservedly to the Band Aid Trust for the misleading and unfair impression which was created,” it announced, conceding that the report “should not have been broadcast.”

This recognition of error was particularly sad for generations of BBC staff who had worked with the combustible but mercurial Irish singer since the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As Geldof always made clear, it was Michael Buerk’s seminal BBC News reports from Ethiopia that had inspired him to found Band Aid. In March this year, however, a volcanic Geldof, speaking from Nairobi condemned the documentary as soon as it was broadcast, saying it had not “a shred of evidence.” He said that he would sue the Ethiopian government if any of the BBC report was true. (The Ethiopian “rebels” of the 1980s  overthrew the Derg regime in 1991 and now form the government in Addis Ababa.)

It is difficult to think of a lower point in the BBC World Service's history.

Former BBC chairman and current Band Aid Trust board member Michael Grade reacted with cold fury to the apology, which took the corporation’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) eight months to produce. Grade described the documentary as an “outrageous” and  “pretty sick” piece of work, that had used Geldof’s Band Aid to “sex up” allegations for which there was no proof.

It is clear that the BBC team which made the offending radio documentary failed to meet with or speak to Geldof before broadcast.

If cowardice were a factor in the BBC documentary team’s failure to put their allegations to Geldof, it would be understandable, if not excusable.  “Force of nature” is a frequently misused term, but it applies to Geldof. I witnessed and filmed it at the 1985 Live Aid concert.  As a BBC TV news producer, my task had been to live in Geldof’s pocket for a month before the show, making news reports about his ambitious and extraordinary bid to stage “The Greatest Live Concert of All Time.” Skeptics anticipated the greatest flop of all time, but come July 13, 1985, with 100,000, including Princess Diana, crammed into Wembley Stadium and a TV audience of billions watching, Geldof had assembled a stellar line-up for the concerts in London and Philadelphia. Among the acts on stage: David Bowie, the Who, U2, Madonna, and Queen. In London, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney had agreed to play live for the first time since John Lennon’s murder in New York in 1980.

My BBC team was the only media given an “access all areas” pass. With a brief from BBC TV News Chief Ron Neil not to let Geldof out of my sight, my job was to film his every move.

As the concert hit its stride, I nipped into the artists’ backstage area in mid-afternoon to speak to Live Aid’s inspiration. Geldof surprised me when he asked me how I thought it was going. “It’s OK, but it’s a bit like a Radio 1 road show,” I replied. (For many years, the BBC’s pop station Radio 1 has run live summer concerts known to generations of listeners as “road shows.”)  “What do you mean by that?!” barked Bob. “Well the music is fine, but no one is mentioning Ethiopia or the famine,” I replied.

“Fokkin’ hell!” roared Geldof as he shot out of the artists’ compound, leaving myself and my cameraman, Ian Pritchard, dizzy in his wake. Comically, however, Bob had no idea where he was going. “Where are you fokkers broadcasting from?” he bellowed. Geldof wanted to find the BBC’s live point and strangle some of my colleagues, and he required me to be his accomplice!

“No idea, Bob!” I replied honestly but inadequately, feeling momentarily disoriented myself.

“Might be somewhere up there,” I added, pointing to the “Gods” above the stadium. I had rarely been so nervous as we all crammed into one of the old Wembley’s tiny lifts. As it creaked upward, painfully slowly, Pritchard filmed a seething Geldof.  I was just praying that we had picked the correct lift! Geldof appeared to be near exhaustion but was glowing with indignation as he feared the fate of the whole Live Aid project was in the balance. Through the lift walls we could hear the sound of Freddie Mercury and Queen’s show-stopping performance, but no one was mentioning the famine—and the sole purpose of Live Aid was to raise money. The U.S. concert in Philadelphia was just beginning, but the London concert seemed to going awry.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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ABC Has Most Broadcast <b>News</b> Viewers Election Night (While Fox <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

The broadcast ratings are in, and ABC News had the most watched coverage overall among networks. NBC finished 2nd in total viewers, followed by CBS. But in the younger demographic, NBC finished 1st. Oh, and Fox News averaged more ...

Australian <b>News</b> Site Issues Apology and Correction For Inaccurate <b>...</b>

On Tuesday Australian news site news.com.au (Australia's 3rd biggest news site) ran an article about the new Haynes Guide to the USS Enterprise (reviewed at TrekMovie on Monday). The news.com.au article contained this passage: ...

Fox <b>News</b> Ratings on Election Night Beat Networks - NYTimes.com

The Fox News Channel's midterm election coverage attracted more viewers than any of the broadcast networks' coverage, according to the Nielsen Company.

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At picture nation you can upload your photos and make money on each one downloaded and you can get money from images sold at 123rf.com

Sell Your Unwanted Items on Ebay

Set up an Ebay account and it won't take long to get your head around this system of buying and selling. Many people make a steady income from selling on Ebay. A good way to start is to wait for eBays '10p listing' days and that way even if your things don't sell, you won't be out of profit.

Amazon is probably one of the best sites to sell second-hand books while at music magpie you can get cash for your old CDs, DVDs and Games.

Check your accounts

Often people subscribe to magazines or internet sites annually and forget to cancel their subscriptions when they stop using these. You could save money through going through your bank and credit card statements to check for subscriptions you no longer use. Cancel these immediately. If you have cable or satellite TV contact the company and they may renegotiate your account and perhaps will drop the number of channels you receive as a way of reducing your bill.

Get Paid for Spending

Cashback credit cards pay you back a proportion of what you spend whenever you use them.

Are you claiming your full benefit entitlements?

Could it be you aren't aware of benefits you could claim if you're struggling to pay your bills or cope with everyday expenditures? At the direct gov web site you will find a calculator that will give you an idea of what you may be eligible to claim.

Join a police ID Parade

At one time volunteers would stand on ID parades along with the suspects of a crime. ID parades now take the form of a short video clip that shows people on screen. To ensure the database remains current, West Yorkshire Police are constantly recording new volunteers. Volunteers are paid a fee of £15 for their time and they promise no volunteer's identity will be disclosed. Further details can be found at Yourkshire Police

With a little research you will find there are ways to make money on-line and off-line and some of these will bring a quick response depending on the money-making venture you might choose.


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