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TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!:

 

* Village Voice Shakeup: Top Investigative Journalist Fired,

Prize-Winning

 

Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media *

 

 

We focus on the shakeup at the Village Voice, where one of the paper's

top investigative reporters was fired and two of its prize-winning

writers resigned following a merger with the New Times Media - a chain

of weekly newspapers based in Phoenix. In this week's issues, about 20

staffers wrote an open letter protesting the dismissal of James

Ridgeway - the paper's Washington correspondent and one of its chief

investigative reporters covering national news.

 

Ridgeway had written for the paper for over 30 years. We speak with

Ridgeway as well as Village Voice reporters Nat Hentoff, Tom Robbins,

Sydney Schanberg - who recently resigned from the paper - and two

reporters who have been following the story closely,

Mark Jacobson and Tim Redmond.

 

Listen/Watch/Read

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/145245

 

 

 

 

 

* The End of the Internet?

Net Neutrality Threatened by Cable, Telecom Interests *

 

The vital concept of net neutrality - universal and non-discriminatory

to the Internet - is at risk. Phone and cable companies are lobbying

Congress for legislation that would permit them to operate Internet

and other digital communications services as private networks, free of

policy safeguards or governmental oversight. We speak with Jeff

Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy.

 

Listen/Watch/Read

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/146201

 

 

 

* Headlines for April 13, 2006 *

 

- 65,000 Iraqis Displaced By Violence

- Patrick Cockburn on Iraq: ³I Have Never Seen the Situation So Grim²

- Fourth Retired General Calls For Rumsfeld to Resign

- AT & T Seeks Return of Leaked Documents Exposing NSA Spying

- Report: 15,000 Suffer From Medical Problems in NYC Post 9/11

- Powell Admits He Did Not Believe Iraq Posed Imminent Nuclear Threat

- Italy Won¹t Seek Extradition of CIA Agents Involved in Kidnapping

- Rev. William Sloane Coffin, 81, Dies

 

Listen/Watch/Read

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/145239

 

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