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November 19th, 2009 - by: danny

Was it something Sarah Palin told her? Perhaps she wants to run for office but foiks, hold on to your TV remotes:

WP: Oprah to end her television talk show: After more than two decades on the airwaves, the trendsetting TV talk show host is stepping down.

MEET THE REAL TERMINAL MAN

Feng Zhenghu is the real life story of the Stephen Spielberg’s movie “The Terminal” (see the LA Times article below). Feng, an activist, has been trying to return to China since June but was refused entry eight times. He has been stuck at the Narita airport terminal in Japan since Nov 2.

Man unable to enter China languishes in Tokyo airport

Activist Feng Zhenghu has been sitting near the customs booths at Narita International Airport for nearly three weeks, refusing to enter Japan in hopes his protest will gain him entry back home.

He is a man caught between two countries, a political protester who has stubbornly steeled himself inside the sterile purgatory of Tokyo’s Narita International Airport.

Each day, Feng Zhenghu sits on a bench in front of the Japanese customs booths, calmly looking on as tens of thousands of arriving passengers go by, resigning himself to residence in a diplomatic no man’s land.

He refuses to pass through government customs because that would mean entering Japan — something Feng has decided he simply will not do. He wants to go home to China.

Eight times since June, the 55-year-old activist has been rebuffed by Chinese officials in his attempts to reenter his homeland, with no reason being given.

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FOX NEWS DOES IT AGAIN

YAHOO BLOG: For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a “production error.”

Wednesday’s incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is “continuing to draw huge crowds while she’s promoting her brand-new book,” adding that the images being shown were “some of the pictures just coming in to us…. The lines earlier had formed this morning.”

However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett’s report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, “This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn’t alert the control room to update the video.”

On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued an on-air apology delivered by host Jane Skinner:

Yesterday we told you about Sarah Palin kicking off her book tour and then we spoke to Sean Hannity about an interview that he did with former Governor Palin. When introducing the segment we showed you footage of people lining up in Michigan for a book signing that evening. In the tease before the segment, the tease to commercial, we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is we didn’t show you the video we were actually referencing. Instead we mistakenly aired what’s called “file tape” of Sarah Palin. We didn’t mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake, and for that we apologize.

The current mishap comes on the heels of a controversy sparked last week when footage from a conservative rally held over the summer was played on “Hannity” during a segment on a more recent rally. During the clip, host Sean Hannity marveled over the large turnout for a Washington, DC protest. The Daily Show later pointed out that there seemed to be some inconsistencies with the video shown on Hannity’s show, namely that the atmospheric conditions seemed to vary from shot to shot. Hannity later apologized on the air for what he called “an inadvertent mistake.”

AP Layoff Update: Four Bureaus Closed, Says Union

Today, the News Media Guild, which represents 1,300 Associated Press employees, provided an update on this week’s layoffs. According to the union, 14 more people lost their jobs yesterday, bringing the grand total of unionized AP staffers laid off during this week to 71. Four bureaus are also being closed due to the cuts.

ATTORNEY LYNNE STEART JAILED AFTER LOSING APPEAL

AP: As she walked slowly toward the courthouse, holding the arm of her husband, Ralph Poynter, she paused to greet friends. More than 100 people chanted “Free Lynne Stewart.”

Then she stood behind metal barricades and gave a farewell speech. She said she would not change much about the past if she could, and urged younger lawyers to defend clients zealously.

“They can put me in jail, but my love, my ideas, my forcefulness I hope will remain with all of you,” she said. “And I will return.”

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