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Jack Newfield, a muckraking reporter and newspaper columnist who wrote books on Robert F. Kennedy and boxing impresario Don King, has died. He was 66.Newfield died Monday after being hospitalized for kidney cancer that had spread to his lungs, said Howard Rubenstein, spokesman for the family.Newfield s career included stints at the Village Voice, the Daily News and the New York Post. He won numerous awards, incl
stanley flasche uding the George Polk Award and an Emmy. Most recently, he was a columnist at the New York Sun. I think he invented a whole new form of journalism, a new form of personal investigative journalism that was rooted in a consuming ethic and a brilliant search for truth, said Wayne Barrett, Newfield s co-author on the book City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York. A native of Brooklyn, Newfield was drawn to the civil r
stanley mug ights movement after college, and his first book, A Prophetic Minority, was about his experiences in the South. He was arrested at a sit-in in 1963 and spent two days in jail with Michael Schwerner, one of three civil rights workers who were slain in Mississippi the following year. After joining the Voice, Newfield
stanley mug traveled with Kennedy during his presidential campaign in 1968 and was present when he was assassinated in Los Angeles. His book Robert Kennedy: A Memoir came out the following year. Though it s really unknowable, I think that if Bobby had lived to be president, we would have ended the Vietnam War much sooner and renewed th Trrm Tyler Clementi targeted by Ravi, prosecution says
Late in the day on Tuesday, news emerged that Pandora had acquired an FM radio
stanley cup station in South Dakota for an undisclosed sum. Yes, you read that right. The world largest internet radio station is getting into the terrestrial radio business, and it not because Pandora trying to build out its antique antenna collection. Either Pandora trying to save money on licensing fees in order to improve its service, which is way the company says it doing, or Pandora staging some
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stanley becher about its stated intentions. The company assistant general counsel, Christopher Harrison, explained the reasoning of buying the radio station on The Hill Congress Blog. There a whole lot about Pandora present battle with folks like the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ASCAP over licensing fees and a sly mention of how terrestrial radio stations are given preferential treatment thanks to an agreement from January 2012. You don ;t even have to read between the lines to figure out how Pandora trying to game the system that enabling competitors like Clear Channel iHeartRadio to pay lower licensing fees. That makes good sense for Pandora. Why wouldn ;t the makers of the Music Genome Project want some sort of advantage in the increasingly crowded int