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		<title>My Idea to Save The 24-Hour News Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, I spent a good chunk of my career working on the concept of moving the 24-hour News Channel concept pioneered by Ted Turner&#x2019;s CNN, back in 1980, to the local television level. It was a pretty cool gig, and we built a half-dozen amazing newsrooms around the country, before the usual kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Radio Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy few weeks in my life.  All of which has culminated in a pretty big life change on this Monday. After nearly nine years of leading the newsroom at News 8 here in Connecticut, I have announced that I will be stepping down from that post on December 17th of this year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Price of Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiple sources are reporting that MSNBC&#8217;S Keith Olbermann will be suspended from his primetime anchor gig until Tuesday. If you&#8217;re counting at home, that&#8217;s a whopping two day suspension for breaking NBC&#8217;s policy banning political contributions by news anchors. Two days, and he even interviewed one of the candidates he gave money to? Seems a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Some Truth in Labeling the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few random thoughts collided when I was pondering the curious case of MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, who was suspended indefinitely without pay from his primetime gig on &#8220;Countdown&#8221; after the website Politico outed him for making personal contributions to three political campaigns.  Doing so was a violation of the policy of MSNBC&#8217;s parent, NBC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle Murrow Foresaw May Well Finally Be Upon Us</title>
		<link>http://kirkvarner.com/2010/07/22/the-battle-murrow-foresaw-may-well-be-finally-upon-us/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-battle-murrow-foresaw-may-well-be-finally-upon-us</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Context is Everything. In this piece you will see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient&#8230;&#8221; - Andrew Breitbart, 7/19/2010 &#8220;That is simply unacceptable, and Ms. Sherrod must resign.&#8221; - Bill O&#8217;Reilly, 7/20/2010 “We here at Studio B did not run the video and did not reference the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious Case of Jason Chen</title>
		<link>http://kirkvarner.com/2010/04/27/the-curious-case-of-jason-chen/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-curious-case-of-jason-chen</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a chilly night for journalists, and not because of the cool temps and rain falling here in Southern New England on this Monday evening. No, the chill to which I refer is from the latest turn in the story about a popular technology blog named Gizmodo, after it got its hands on a prototype [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Graphic For Whom?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has gotten to the point that we are going to have to start putting those warning symbols up before the newscasts because some people think that what we are showing is too graphic or too violent. Probably not a week goes by without some viewer complaint about how some video we have shown in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have You Gone, Dennis Miller?</title>
		<link>http://kirkvarner.com/2009/12/20/where-have-you-gone-dennis-miller/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=where-have-you-gone-dennis-miller</link>
		<comments>http://kirkvarner.com/2009/12/20/where-have-you-gone-dennis-miller/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my true guilty pleasures is the &#8220;Raw Dog&#8221; comedy channel on SiriusXM radio. It&#8217;s guilty because paying for radio in my car just seems like such an extravagance these days, and pleasure because the uncensored rants of great stand up comedians makes me laugh out loud. Often I really need the laugh. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Dan Rather Deserves Some Respect</title>
		<link>http://kirkvarner.com/2009/11/30/why-dan-rather-deserves-some-respect/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-dan-rather-deserves-some-respect</link>
		<comments>http://kirkvarner.com/2009/11/30/why-dan-rather-deserves-some-respect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just watched Dan Rather on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; talk very pointedly about having recently spent time on the ground with the American military in Afghanistan. He went on to explain what the additional troops that the President is about to send to this part of the world likely will&#8211;and won&#8217;t&#8211;accomplish. Whatever you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Must Read for Those Working In The Media</title>
		<link>http://kirkvarner.com/2008/11/23/a-must-read-for-those-working-in-the-media/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-must-read-for-those-working-in-the-media</link>
		<comments>http://kirkvarner.com/2008/11/23/a-must-read-for-those-working-in-the-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you read something that is so prescient, so absolutely right on target&#8211;that it changes the way you think as if someone had taken the proverbial “two by four” to the side of your head. I woke up on this Sunday morning and as I usually do&#8211;I flipped open my laptop and began scanning the [...]]]></description>
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