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		<title>Twitter Breaks Story on Discovery Channel Gunman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I continue to be astonished when reporter/editor colleagues tell me with a roll of their eyes that they &#8220;don&#8217;t use Twitter.&#8221;  
&#8220;I don&#8217;t really have the time,&#8221; they will say. 
Right, I find myself thinking.  Good luck to you, then.
Another illustration why if one expects to continue to make one&#8217;s living in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herman Atkins and the Weight of Innocence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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INNOCENCE FACT OF THE DAY:  Before exoneration, 54 DNA exonerees claimed ineffective defense counsel. Appeals courts threw out 81% of those claims.
&#8211;courtesy of the Innocence Project

With 697 people awaiting execution in our fair state, California has the largest death row population in the nation. 
Despite this pile up of the condemned, the CDCR&#8217;s attempt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Homeless: Rodger Jacobs and a Tale of Two Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homelessness]]></category>
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Today, LA Weekly&#8217;s  J. Patrick Coolican writes about the startlingly divergent reactions to LA writer Rodger Jacobs&#8217; account of his slide toward homeless. 
Coolican rightly notes that it is probably simplistic and unfair to draw any kind of conclusion about the differences between Los Angeles and Las Vegas based on the fact that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Suicide, The Virginia Quarterly Review&#8230;.and the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A highly respected American literary magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, announced Tuesday that it was going on &#8220;indefinite hiatus,&#8221; pending an internal investigation by the University of Virginia following the suicide of the VQR&#8217;s managing editor, a man named Kevin Morrissey. 
It seems that the tragedy of Morrisey&#8217;s death was followed by allegations of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD Audit Alleges Nearly $3 Million in Fraud at Canoga Park Charter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, this story on the $3 Million in fraud and mismanagement accusations leveled at the principal of a San Fernando Valley charter school, New Academy Canoga Park Elementary School, is a doozy.  It seems that the man allegedly deposited more than $1 million in his own investment account, misplaced a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweet or DIE! (Says CBS Radio News)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, on Monday when CBS radio head, Harvey Nagler sent out the memo to all of the network&#8217;s reporters, he didn&#8217;t actually use the word &#8220;DIE,&#8221; but he was pretty emphatic.
Below you&#8217;ll find a copy of the emailed memo itself:
From: Nagler, Harvey
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:09 PM
To: @CND Radio
Subject: Twitter
Field reporters, beat reporters &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Homeless: LA Writer Rodger Jacobs Gets Short Term Relief</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Monday night I got an email from writer Rodger Jacobs in which he delivered good news about his seemingly imminent plunge into homelessness that  I posted about Monday. 
His email read in part:
&#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to be okay, Celeste, for a few months at least; some kind (and mostly anonymous) benefactors have stepped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Says LA County Neglected to Report Child Deaths</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/foster-care/2010/admin/new-report-says-la-county-neglected-to-report-child-deaths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A report released on Monday by Michael Gennaco and the LA County Office of Independent Review, found that Los Angeles County officials have, in multiple cases, ignored state law that requires them to publicly disclose child deaths resulting from abuse or neglect.
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky told the LA Times that dozens of such cases may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Million Women v. Walmart&#8230;&amp; 9000 Women v. Pfizer</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2010/admin/a-million-women-v-walmart-9000-women-v-pfizer/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2010/admin/a-million-women-v-walmart-9000-women-v-pfizer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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DID WALMART DISCRIMINATE AGAINST A MILLION WOMEN?
It&#8217;s an really, REALLY unfun month for big corporations trying to dodge lawsuits from gaggles of angry women.
First Walmart.  Monday&#8217;s New York Times editorial explains the matter well.
For nine years, Wal-Mart has fought to stave off a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company has long discriminated against its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Homelessness: Writer Rodger Jacobs Fears Being on the Streets</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/homelessness/2010/admin/the-new-homelessness-writer-rodger-jacobs-fears-being-on-the-streets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American voices]]></category>
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Rodger Jacobs, a wonderfully erudite, warm and funny California writer, author and documentary producer is teetering on the edge of homelessness and is frightened of what life will hold if he falls off that edge&#8212;a possibility that, at the moment,  is looking all but inevitable.  
At the request of editors at the Las [...]]]></description>
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