Kurtz: MJ Coverage “an Embarrassment to the News Business”

Kurtz: MJ Coverage “An Embarrassment To The News Business” – “Washington Post” media critic Howard Kurtz thinks the news networks, including his own CNN, are going “overboard” with their excessive coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, calling it “an embarrassment to the news business.” Syracuse University Professor Robert Thompson agreed, saying of the coverage, “This shouldn’t have surprised us.”

Report: Military failing to rein in alcohol, drug use

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Such prescription-drug abuse is rising faster within the military than among civilians, and it is perhaps more common than the use of illegal drugs such as cocaine or marijuana. Yet the military's drug-testing regimen, created in the post-Vietnam era …
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Cuts 'threaten drug abuse progress'

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Funding cuts and reforms to public services risk reversing the declining trend in drug abuse among young people, campaigners have warned. NHS reforms, the introduction of police and crime commissioners and the growing use of payment by results could …
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Strategies would help against drug abuse

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Rampant drug use is, in no doubt, one of the most critical issues currently plaguing the citizens of Putnam County. One could simply turn on the nightly news or read the daily newspaper any given day and almost certainly see a story outlining a new …
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