From the TimeSelect FAQ: Why is TimesSelect ending? Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered significantly. Readers increasingly find news through search, as well as through social networks, blogs, and other online sources. In light of this shift, we believe offering unfettered access to New York Times reporting and analysis best  Read more »

Robert Greenwald’s FoxAttacks.com site has a new video summarizing Fox News coverage of David Patraeus’s  testimony before congress last week.  Check it out. To laugh at the ridiculousness, to scream at the outrageous or to… Well fox went to new lows in their analysis of Petraeus’ testimony last week.  When our friends at Media Matters  Read more »

Speaking of Privatization… Blackwater License Being Revoked in Iraq (From AP Report) Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf said eight civilians were killed and 13 were wounded when contractors believed to be working for Blackwater USA opened fire in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of western Baghdad. “We have canceled the license of Blackwater and prevented them  Read more »

BBC NEWS | Americas | Greenspan attacks Bush on economy: Greenspan attacks Bush on economy. The former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan has said President George W Bush pays too little attention to financial discipline. In a book to be published next week, Mr Greenspan says Mr Bush ignored his advice to  Read more »

From the Center for Science in the Public interest: Congress is currently considering national legislation to improve the nutritional quality of foods and beverages in schools.  Please sign the petition below to ask your members of Congress to take junk food out of schools by requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update its  Read more »