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What DID They Mean by That? A Week of Truthiness and Media

Tracy Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Polls, Verizon, Save KPFA, Gulf Oil Spill, Net Neutrality, Offshore Oil Drilling, Googlezon, Community Radio, Corporate Sellout, Corporate Greed, Pacifica, Oil, Bloomberg, Deepwater Horizon, Savekpfa, Save, Media News
Tracy Rosenberg

Ever had one of those weeks where the distance between what was said and what was done stretches way out into the blue yonder? In my job as director o...

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All For One and One For Some?

Martin Maidenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Judge Walker, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, New York News
Martin Maidenberg

Mayor Bloomberg now has an opportunity to stand up for the equality of all groups, including gays and lesbians, with regard to the separation of church and state.

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Obama Supports 'The Right' To Build Ground Zero Mosque

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: September 11, Bloomberg, White House, Islam, Ground Zero Mosque, Religion, Charlie Crist, John Boehner, 9/11, Freedom of Religion, Palin, New York City, Barack Obama, Video, Politics News

Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New Y...

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Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Debt, White House, Proposition 8, Stier, Pentagon, Narrative, China, Perry, Jerrold Nadler, Deficit, Jeffrey J Zarrillo, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Tax Cuts, Katami, Kyl, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Reid, August, Court, Federal, Michael Bloomberg, Perry v Schwarzenegger, Democrat, Congress, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Narrative, Democrats, Barack Obama, Silly Season, Judge, Mddotw, Zarrillo, Harry Reid, Effigy, Teachers, Dnc, Friday Talking Points, Gay Marriage, Senate, Kristin M Perry, Wonk, President Obama, Firefighters, Prop 8, Police, John Boehner, Kagan, Elena Kagan, Democratic, Obama, Scotus, Mosque, Paul T Katami, Republican, California, Bush, Bush Tax Cuts, Pelosi, Marriage, New Yorker, Gay Rights, Wallace, Chris Wallace, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Taxes, House, Sandra B Stier, Gay, Jon Kyl, Olympics, Gay Olympics, Chris Weigant, Deficit Hawk, Bloomberg, Fox News, Special Interests, Boehner, Nadler, Ground Zero, Politics News
Chris Weigant

August in Washington means the beginning of the official "silly season" of politics. This is because Congress takes the whole month off, and politica...

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Willow Bay Interviews Tesla CEO Elon Musk (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Automakers, Bloomberg, Video, Tesla Motors, Electric Cars, Ceo Elon Musk, Willow Bay, Auto Industry, Elon Musk, Tesla, Business News
Huff TV

Huffington Post senior editor Willow Bay interviewed Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on Bloomberg Television this morning. Tesla, which engineers and manuf...

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Diverse Perspectives in Mayor Bloomberg's Office

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Political Comedy, Comedy and Satire, Comedy and Humor, Humor, Satire, Mayor Bloomberg, Bloomberg Hiring, Political Satire, Diversity Bloomberg, Humor and Satire, Diversity, Comedy, Comedy News
Jilly Gagnon

My fellow New Yorkers: I write to you today because it has recently come to my attention that certain concerns have arisen about the diversity.

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Bloomberg News Refuses to Correct Blatantly False Drilling Ban Story

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: BP Oil Disaster, Bp, Politics, Media, Congress, British Petroleum, Green, Oil, Barack Obama, Offshore Drilling, Deepwater Moratorium, Media Bias, Oil Spill, Minerals Management Service, Bloomberg, Dept of Interior, Offshore Drilling Polling, Media Criticism, Energy, Media News
Josh Nelson

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the answer is no. On Thursday I documented a blatantly false Bloomberg news story designed to mislead readers ab...

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Gov. Paterson Ends Database on Innocent NYers, But Stop-and-Frisks and Low-Level Marijuana Arrests Still Need to Be Drastically Reduced

Ethan Nadelmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gov. Paterson, Drug Policy Alliance, Ethan Nadelmann, Marijuana, Racist, Nypd, Bloomberg, Stop-and-Frisk-Nypd, Racial Profiling, New York News
Ethan Nadelmann

David Paterson has signed legislation to limit the NYPD practice of storing personal information on innocent New Yorkers who are stopped-and-frisked but not charged with any crime.

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Mayor Bloomberg To Marty Markowitz: Keep Those Asser Levy Park Concerts Down!

brooklynpaper.com | The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asser-Levy-Park, Asser Levy Park Concerts, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Marty Markowitz Concerts, New York News, Marty Markowitz, Nyc Events, Nyc Culture, Nyc Around, New York News

On the eve of the first summer concert in Asser Levy Park, Mayor Bloomberg warned Borough President Markowitz that if the music gets too loud, Thursda...

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New York WINNERS Of The Week (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, New York Winners of the Week, Joseph Bruno, Anna Wintour, Poll, Lance Orton, Pharrell, New York News

New York is full of winners... and of losers. Each week HuffPost New York will be praising those who ended up ahead and calling out those who fell be...

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New York's LOSERS Of The Week (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Shahzad Faisal, New York Losers of the Week, Steve Levy, Poll, Lawrence Taylor, New York News

New York is full of winners... and of losers. Each week HuffPost New York will be praising those who ended up ahead and calling out those who fell be...

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Dan Froomkin

Bloomberg 'Terror Gap' Argument Shot Down By Pro-Gun GOP Senators

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Mike Bloomberg Guns, Faisal Shahzad, Shahzad Terror, Terror Gap, TImes Square Bombing, Bloomberg Terror Gap, Bloomberg Shahzad, Politics News

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's appeal to what he called "common sense" at a congressional hearing Wednesday morning failed to sway two Rep...

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Rahm Emanuel's Top Aide QUITS: Sarah Feinberg Heading To Bloomberg

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Feinberg, Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Aide, Emanuel Aide, Bloomberg, Bloomberg News, Sarah Feinberg Bloomberg, Sarah Feinberg Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Feinberg Emanuel, Politics News

Sarah Feinberg, a top White House staffer and aide to Rahm Emanuel, will be leaving the Obama Administration for a position at Bloomberg. (Feinberg is...

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Dan Froomkin

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Outraged; Will Call Congress Out On 'Terror Gap'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg Terror, Bloomberg, Terror Gap, Times Square Terror, TImes Square Bombing, Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg Terror Gap, Politics News

With his city still on edge over this weekend's attempted truck-bombing in Times Square, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg heads to Capitol Hill on ...

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Economist sans buts

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Wall Streett, Businessweek, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Bloomberg Businessweek owes Lloyd Blankfein a very big, wet kiss. When the first issue of the redesigned magazine hit newsstands a few weeks back, Go...

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New York is Burning: Let's Put the Fire Out

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Consumerism, Advertising, Climate Change, F Train, New York, Save Trees in New York, Preventing Climate Change, New York News
Reverend Billy

Our assignment, should we choose to take it, is to interrupt New York's conversion into the New Fake Europe.

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No ifs, ands and Certainly no buts at Bloomberg's BusinessWeek

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Bloomberg Business Week, Journalism, Rules, Mergers, Media News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

At Bloomberg's Business Week writers are now discouraged from using words like "but". What would the world be like without "but"? "I love you, dear," you might say. Then you would be unable to add, "But I'm marrying your sister."

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Video: How Else to Spend Goldman's $5.5 Billion in Bonuses

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Ferrari, Poverty, President Obama, Homeless Hunger, Vampires, Financial Reform, Twilight, Sally Kohn, Goldman Sachs, Organizing, Political Humor, Satire, Showdown on Wall Street, Bloomberg, Foreclosure, Bank Bailout, Bonuses, Showdown in America, Wall Street, Tarp, Pez, Politics News
Sally Kohn

What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of 2010? You'd think that after r...

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Boulder Is Bloomberg Bussinessweek's Best Town For Startups

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Boulder Colorado, Technology, Start-Ups, Denver News

An influx of entrepreneurs like these has changed the face of this Colorado city of 98,000, making it a destination for Internet startups. With the Un...

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part Two)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Law, Digital Media, Wall Street Bailout, Newspapers, Reed Elsevier, Wall Street Reform, Information Age, Future of Publishing, Media, Wall Street Journal, Gannett, Lexisnexis, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, News, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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Peter Orszag Leaving? Budget Director May Exit Soon, Bloomberg News Reports

Posted 05.25.2011

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White House Budget Director Peter Orszag may become the first member of Barack Obama's cabinet to leave, Bloomberg reports. Orszag will make his deci...

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Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part One)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Media, Thomson Reuters, Law, Wall Street Bailout, Reed Elsevier, Information Age, Wall Street Reform, Future of Publishing, Media, Gannett, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Westlaw, Publishing, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, New York Times, Washington Post, Media News, Newspapers, News, Lexisnexis, Business News
Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

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2010 Elections: New Leaders or New Faces on Status Quo?

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Politics, Albany, Gustavo Rivera, Pedro Espada, 2008 Elections, New York State, Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter, Bronx 33, New York News
Sally Kohn

It is still remarkably difficult to be a challenger. Consider Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter's race to unseat New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada.

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Dow Hovers Near 11,000: This is Obama's Market

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2004 Election, 11, Gop, The Christian Science Monitor, Obama, Wall Street Journal, Democrats, Recession, Bush, 2000 Election, Clinton, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Inauguration, 000, Bloomberg, Stock Market, Djia, Drudge, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

A Democratic president's success is due to the policies of his Republican predecessor, and his failures are a consequence of his own policies.

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The Quiet Deception of Community Control

Will Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charter Review Commission, Scandal, Charter Review, Bloomberg, Malcolm Smith, NY State Senate, New York, Community Control, New York News
Will Schwartz

But while the call for localism before the Charter Review Commission is a seductive one given the state of the city, in the end I think it really boils down to a cheap kind of populism.

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