Senator demands probe of Corps workers’ attacks on critics

Sen. Mary Lan­drieu (D-​LA) fired off a let­ter to the Pen­ta­gon on Tues­day, demand­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into activ­i­ties by New Orleans Army Corps of Engi­neers pos­ing as Joe Six-​Pack cit­i­zens, attack­ing crit­ics of the Corps on web forums and blog com­ments in the wake of levee fail­ures in Hur­ri­cane Katrina.

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Adopt a hungry newspaper pro today!

For just pen­nies a day, you can feed and clothe your very own news­pa­per journalist

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Desperate newspapers lobby for online gag order

A respected judge, a Pulitzer-​winning colum­nist, and a newspaper-​industry attor­ney have stoked a fiery debate over the past cou­ple of weeks with a pro­posed change in U.S. copy­right law, the lat­est bid to bail out dying print factories.

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RFID chips, Facebook and you">Behavioral Targeting — RFID chips, Facebook and you

RFID — an explod­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used for every­thing from cus­tomiz­ing shop­ping to worst-​case-​scenario Big Brother sur­veil­lance — is one of the promis­ing trends in behav­ioral tar­get­ing, as mar­keters push the lim­its in get­ting the biggest bang for their adver­tis­ing bucks.

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