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Pentagon Spokesdrone: You knew this was coming

Fully equipped to deploy effectively vague responses.
Pentagon’s Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission

Bhutto Assassination News via Blogs, Twitter

The Teeth announcement on Twitter of Bhutto’s assassination, viewed via Snitter.

This morning as I was making tea, I learned via NPR that Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Google News already offers a slew of mainstream news coverage of the assassination — based almost [...]

Proposed Federal Shield Law: Who Would It Really Cover?

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OpenCongress

This OpenCongress widget shows what’s happening with the proposed federal shield law.

(NOTE: I’ve cross-posted this from Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits.)
Today the U.S. Congress is slated to act on H.R. 2102, a proposed federal “shield law” [...]