CBS Sees Better News in Pelley’s Ratings
Date: 14 June 2011
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CBS News said Tuesday that Scott Pelley should get credit for improving the ratings for the CBS Evening News in his first week when compared to Katie Couric’s results during the same week last year.
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S.E.C. Seeks to Halt Sales of Stocks of 2 Chinese Companies
Date: 14 June 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Investigators said that the companies failed to disclose that their independent auditors resigned after questioning the accuracy of financial statements.
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Faces on Film Add Humanity to the News
Date: 15 June 2011
By Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
Human Rights Watch Festival at Film Society of Lincoln Center attaches real people and stories to world trouble spots.
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In Montreal, Glitz, Glamor and Sponsorship News
Date: 14 June 2011
By Brad Spurgeon
Brad Spurgeon
Lots of stars attended the Formula One race, and new sponsorship deals have been reported.
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In Montreal, Glitz, Glamor and Sponsorship News
Date: 14 June 2011
By Brad Spurgeon
Brad Spurgeon
Lots of stars attended the Formula One race, and new sponsorship deals have been reported.
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Expanding the Internet; finding free music, books and movies; news.
Date: 15 June 2011
The Internet is vast but it's also running out of addresses. Bettina Edelstein speaks with Times contributor Verne Kopytoff about IPv6, a successor to the IPv4 protocol that allows many more addresses to be created — around 340 undecillion. Who doesn't love free? J.D. Biersdorfer and Pedro Rafael Rosado chat about ways to find free books, music and movies on the Web. The news roundup includes a suit against Apple over the name iCloud; Apple changing In-App subscription policy; new console from Nintendo called the Wii U; and a report of defections from Facebook. J.D.'s tech tip, about quick answers from search engines for trigonometric functions, among other things.
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America’s Favorite Talking Hothead
Date: 15 June 2011
By David Carr
David Carr
The Keith Olbermann career plan: Clash with employer. Get new job for millions. Repeat as necessary.
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The Uneasy Media-Military Relationship
Date: 15 June 2011
By Tim Hsia
Tim Hsia
There is perhaps only one thing worse than losing a war, and that is fighting a war that people at home have forgotten or have no interest in.
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In Debt Crisis, E.U. and Markets Stuck in a Dialogue of the Deaf
Date: 15 June 2011
By Stephen Castle
Stephen Castle
Government ministers play to their domestic audiences back home while preparing to compromise, as markets try to make sense of the Byzantine decision-making process.
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One Voice or Many for the Taliban, but Pegged to a Single Name
Date: 14 June 2011
By Rod Nordland
Rod Nordland
Zabiullah Mujahid, mouthpiece of the Taliban in Afghanistan, may be one man or many but in either case the insurgents are effective at spreading their message.
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