With its $500 million purchase of left-leaning Current TV, the pan-Arab news channel Al-Jazeera will soon be seen in tens of millions of U.S. homes. It’s a steep price, but the acquisition helps the network in its aim to quickly spread its message to more Americans.
The purchase will create a news channel called Al-Jazeera America, coming to U.S. homes 90 days from now with a distinctly non-American view of the world.
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Alameda actress and environmentalist Jessica Robinson — who made the short film “Recycle Woman” — recently joined Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps in hopes of expanding her knowledge of climate change.
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Gavin Newsom will soon become the first sitting politician to host a show on San Francisco-based Current TV.
The television and online network announced the new show Wednesday, just weeks after the high-profile firing of Keith Olbermann, who had worked for the company for less than a year.
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An announcement by Apple about the iPhone is coming next week, but there is already one glaring detail: the unveiling is not being held in San Francisco.
For several years, Apple has used the Moscone Center or the Yerba Buena Gardens area in downtown San Francisco for its new-product announcements.
The announcements that were sent out Tuesday for the Oct. 4. iPhone-related event, however, says "let's talk iPhone" at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino.
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Former Vice President Al Gore has weighed in on the San Francisco mayoral race, and he wants you to vote for one of his former policy aides -- Michela Alioto-Pier -- one of 11 primary candidates vying for The City’s top post.
“I’ve known Michela for a long time,” Gore said in press release from Alioto-Pier’s campaign. “She is an innovative and creative policymaker, and I know she is the right choice to be the next mayor of San Francisco.”
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By:
Deroy Murdock
06/23/11 9:58 PM
Will the real Willard Mitt Romney please stand up?
Republicans re-cently have watched multiple Romneys at war with each other over numerous confrontational issues. Alas, this is nothing new.
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Reading"Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts' magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take.
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Reading"Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts' magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take.
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In August, The Examiner reported that the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) was laying off employees.
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Did you know that every time Washington issues a new environmental regulation somebody loses and somebody profits? Did you know that being an activist working for new environmental regulation can be a very lucrative way to make a living?
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