Fed Up: Foxes Charged With Guarding Financial Coop
By Danny Schechter
Bush/Paulson Plan To Give The Fed More Power Over Wall Street
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/31/
fed-up-foxes-charged-with-guarding-financial-coop/

Opening Bell: The Fed’s Blank Check
By Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review
The Wall Street Journal fronts news that a plan is taking shape within the Bush administration to turn the Federal Reserve into a regulatory “supercop” in what would be the most sweeping changes in financial regulation since the Depression.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/
31/opening-bell-the-feds-blank-check/

Disillusioned Of Doha
By Ben Dowell, The Guardian
Key staff quitting, discontent among the ranks – the channel that attracted star names has gone from broadcasting darling to a state of upheaval. So what’s going on at al-Jazeera English?
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/
03/31/disillusioned-of-doha/

The Love Affair Between McCain And The Press Sprains The Brain Of The Liberal Blogosphere
By PressThink
Pushing big media to bring equal skepticism to McCain is an intelligent demand; and there’s plenty of material for bloggers to work with. But this requires war? It seems to me to require good blogging.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/31/the-love-affair-
between-mccain-and-the-press-sprains-the-brain-of-the-
liberal-blogosphere/

Are Always-Connected Consumers Really Virtual Crackheads?
By Simon Dumenco, Advertising Age
A Prominent Doctor Considers the Mental State of Internet Addicts. But, Hey, What About the Dealers?
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/31/are-
always-connected-consumers-really-virtual-crackheads/

Classified Memo Reveals Government Strategy For ‘Managing’ Foreign Journalists
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has obtained a classified memo from Chinese sources that sets out the behaviour that government officials should adopt with foreign journalists before and during the Beijing Olympic Games.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/31/classified-
memo-reveals-government-strategy-for-%e2%80%9
cmanaging%e2%80%9d-foreign-journalists-2/

Real Hero Of The Killing Fields, Dith Pran, Dies
By Suzy Jagger, Times Online
Mr Dith, who worked as a translator and journalist assisting Mr Schanberg in Cambodia for The New York Times, died yesterday morning in a New Jersey hospital of pancreatic cancer, aged 65.
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/
31/real-hero-of-the-killing-fields-dith-pran-dies/

VIDEO: Sunday Show Roundup: Should She Stay or Should She Go
Talking Points Memo recaps the Sunday news shows.
Watch Here:
www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/03/31/sunday
-show-roundup-should-she-stay-or-should-she-go/

NEWS DISSECTOR: Did Dick Cheney’s Visit Stir Lastest Round of Iraq Violence?
Can The Fed Save Us? | Charge: Cheney Triggered Latest Iraq Violence | Israelis Give Condi Small Gift in “Peace Quest” | Foreclosure-Crime Link Grows | Germans Worry About Sub Prime Fall Out | AFTRA-SAG Unity Melts in Hollywierd | Comments on CNBC | Much More
www.newsdissector.com/blog/

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