Friday, July 8, 2011

Friday's Daily Brief

Friday, July 8, 2011
UK
Coulson Arrested As Phone Hacking Scandal Deepens
POLITICS
John Boehner Backs Obama's Call For Far-Reaching Debt Ceiling Plan
BUSINESS
JPMorgan Close To Overtaking BofA As Biggest U.S. Bank
CRIME
Seven People Killed In Shooting Spree
WOMEN
WATCH: 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua And Anne Ackerley Talk Female Friendship, Jewish Men, Perms
BLOG POSTS
David Lohr: Caylee Anthony Case: 'I Was There When The Search For Caylee Began'
It has been almost three years since I sat down at the computer and typed my first article on Casey Anthony. Little did I know, then, that I was about to be sucked into something that would hover over my life like a dark cloud for years to come.
Marianne Schnall: Be the Change: Inspiration and Advice from Activists and Celebrities
Media and society in general no longer inspire us or appeal to our own individual power to improve the world. In fact, we have been conditioned to leave that messy business to our elected officials. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Jeff Jarvis: A Real Threat to Privacy
Among the most deliberate and abhorrent mass violations of privacy committed in recent memory did not come as a result of technology, social services, databases, hackers, thieves, leakers, or governments. It was an act of a news organization, News Corp.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Horrible Bosses
Most viewers will get some laughs from Horrible Bosses -- and they may not think it's horrible. But saying it's not horrible is another way of saying that this movie is consistently disappointing.
Will Bunch: Murdoch's American Sins: Less Sensational, But More Dangerous
If you are outraged tonight by what the Rupert Murdoch empire was up to in Great Britain all these years -- and you should be -- than you should be doubly outraged by what they've pulled off here.

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