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Florida Firm Cites BMW Posts in News Release

May 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie detectors in combat: Two-Part Investigative Series: Military ‘Turf War’ Places Americans at Increased Risk In a recently-published two-part investigative series, a [...]

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Book Published for Soon-to-be-Axed Workers

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I was surprised to find a news release for Budweiser in the rotation of ads featured today in “THE HOLIDAY SPOTLIGHT” on PRNewswire.  Why?  Because the ad appeared on the same day that ABInBev, the beermaker’s parent company as of Nov. 18, used another news release to announce it would slash approximately 1,400 U.S. salaried [...]

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U.S. Attorney Outlines Charges Against Blagojevich

December 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Office of the U.S. Attorney in Chicago just posted a 12-page news release outlining the charges against Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) who, along with his chief of staff John Harris, was arrested this morning on federal corruption charges: (Headline) ILLINOIS GOV. ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH AND HIS CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN HARRIS ARRESTED ON FEDERAL [...]

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News Conferences Set to Discuss Obama Lawsuit

October 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Andy Martin, a man self-described as “the leader of the national anti-Obama movement, legendary Chicago corruption fighter, internet columnist and Obama author,” will hold three Honolulu news conferences today, according to a news release posted on his blog, Contrarian Commentary.  Martin claims that, during these news conferences, he will make public “major news” on what [...]

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House Republicans Send Letter to Nancy Pelosi

August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

In a news release this afternoon, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives provided members of the news media with the text of an open letter they delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on behalf of the American people and the Republican Conference requesting that she reconvene the House and allow a vote to provide relief [...]

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Blogger Searches for ‘Dirt’ on Barack Obama

July 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

This afternoon, I came across a news release about a web site named Dirt Search. The name alone led me to believe the site might be ideal for conducting research on political candidates. As things turned out, however, I was wrong. I went to the site and typed in the name, Barack Obama, in the [...]

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‘Weighty’ News Release Provides Big Laugh

June 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I couldn’t help but laugh at the words used in the opening paragraph of a news release I came across today: In what was the largest gathering in the history… If not for the cause being touted in the news release, those words would not have seemed so funny. Read the rest of the opening [...]

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