UVa center to record history of Bush presidency

The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will record an oral history of President George W. Bush's presidency.

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Audit finds military support program badly managed

A Defense Department public affairs program intended as a short-term effort to publicize groups and businesses supporting U.S. troops grew into a multimillion-dollar project run in a "questionable and unregulated manner," the Pentagon inspector general reported Friday.

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Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign

John McCain supporters who believe they haven't gotten a fair shake from the media during the Republican's candidacy against Barack Obama have a new study to point to.

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Social media tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter are forcing Army officials to rethink how they share information with traditional and new media providers, an Army public affairs official said today at a workshop about social media.

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Asserting that Stars and Stripes "refused to highlight" good news in Iraq that the U.S. military wanted to emphasize, Army officials have barred a Stripes reporter from embedding with a unit of the 1st Cavalry Division that is attempting to secure the violent city of Mosul.

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WASHINGTON – As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human terrain" of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law.

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"Newsnight editor Peter Barron is to leave the BBC to join Google as head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland and Benelux regions. Barron joins Google after a restructure of the US search engine giant's communications operation earlier this year."

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Will Florida & Michigan Seat Their Delegates? Will Both Parties Self-Destruct?

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The Senate Whip, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., gives a preview of what's likely to be in Gen. David Petraeus' upcoming Sept. 15 report on progress in Iraq. He also gave his opinion of how the war was coming along, and it isn't pretty.

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When he was elected mayor in 2005, Antonio Villaraigosa was just what Los Angeles needed.

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Howard Dean and the DNC have apparently hired the RIAA's top shill, Jenni Engebretsen, as a "Deputy CEO for Public Affairs" for the upcoming convention in Denver.

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This sounds really cool. I will have to check this out. Let me know if any of you find anything interesting on here.

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