Monday, December 14, 2015

RSN: ABC World News Tonight Has Devoted 81 Minutes to Trump, One Minute to Sanders




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ABC World News Tonight Has Devoted 81 Minutes to Trump, One Minute to Sanders 
Bernie and Jane Sanders. (photo: David Becker/Reuters) 
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters 
Boehlert writes: "81:1. Does that ratio seem out of whack? That's the ratio of TV airtime that ABC World News Tonight has devoted to Donald Trump's campaign (81 minutes) versus the amount of TV time World News Tonight has devoted to Bernie Sanders' campaign this year. And even that one minute for Sanders is misleading because the actual number is closer to 20 seconds." 
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Donald Trump Really Doesn't Want Me to Tell You This, But... 
Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair 
Bowden writes: "I spent a long, awkward weekend with Donald Trump in November 1996, an experience I feel confident neither of us would like to repeat." 
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States Expanded Gun Rights After Sandy Hook Massacre 
Ryan Foley, Associated Press 
Foley writes: "The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, served as a rallying cry for gun-control advocates across the nation. But in the three years since, many states have moved in the opposite direction." 
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Indiana's Limited LGBT Protections Under Fire by Lawsuit 
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress 
Ford writes: "The Indiana Family Institute (IFI) and American Family Association of Indiana (AFA-I) have filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to overturn the legislative 'fix' passed last year to ensure that the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) did not enable anti-LGBT discrimination." 
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Why DC Has a Uniquely Bad Record on Helping the Unemployed Get Jobs 
Robert McCartney, The Washington Post 
McCartney writes: "Bureaucratic obstacles and other dysfunction at the District's workforce agencies have blocked the spending of tens of millions of dollars in recent years to provide job training that could have helped thousands of the unemployed find work, according to officials and city contractors." 
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Former Chilean Soldier Confesses to 18 Murders on Live Radio 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "In an extraordinary tale of events Guillermo Reyes Rammsy, 62, was arrested Friday and charged with the 1973 murders of Freddy Taberna Gallegos and German Palomino Lamas who were members of Chile's Socialist Party." 
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Here's What You Need to Know About the New Paris Climate Agreement 
Ben Adler, Grist 
Adler writes: "Rich countries like the U.S., Canada, and the European Union upped their pledges for climate finance slightly, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the hugely outsized share of the global carbon budget they have devoured. Still, the Paris Agreement builds the architecture for greater progress in the next decade. Here is your guide to the basics of what the deal does, what it contains, and what it doesn't." 
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