The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.

Of this trend, it has been said that the concept of a pure accident is no longer permitted in a news item.

* Grinder's Switch Gazzette: This skit featured Minnie Pearl as a newspaper worker who often insisted that her mute secretary, Miss Honeydew, take down an " important " news item which was always nonsense.

The item, offered as a news story, reported, " A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, ' Ambiguities ," between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman.

On 11 January 2008, Jay Kay himself posted a news item in which he thanked everyone who wished him the best for his birthday, and announced that the writing process for the new album had just begun.

According to the news item, eleven tracks had already been written for the new album, with more to come.

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

In the first season, the Muppet Newsman read out news items that occasionally featured the guest star for that week playing a character that was somehow involved in the item.

The news media reported on the experiments widely, and it was a front-page item on many newspapers around the world ( see science by press conference ).

As with English, most uncountable nouns are grammatically treated as singular, though some are plural, such as les mathématiques (" mathematics "), and some nouns that are uncountable in English are countable in French, such as une information (" a piece of information "), or une nouvelle (" a piece of news, a news item ").

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According to a July 13, 2010, news item by journalist Elizabeth Weise, a 2008 outbreak of Salmonella in the U. S. was traced back to the peppers used in salsa.

The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written.

* BBC news item about the sale to Wakefield Council

He believed Biggs should not be released after returning to the UK in 2001 and he often appeared in the media to comment on any news item connected with the robbery before his death on 24 August 2005 at the age of 81.

Announcements of similar losses are becoming a common item in news reports.

The monologue was written by Marriott Edgar, who based the story on a news item about a boy who was eaten by a lion in the zoo.

The text in the ticker can then be clicked to reveal more about the news item.

The most famous legend associated with Marathon is that of the runner Pheidippides / Philippides bringing news to Athens of the battle, which is described below.

Before departing for Bennington with the news, Allen was visited by Duane, who offered Allen payments which Duane described in his diary as payment " for going among the people to quiet them ".

On ITV's regional news show London Tonight, Brooks was described as " a top-selling, rooting tooting, cotton picking, Country and Western star, yeeha!

In 2008 the German news magazine Der Spiegel described Himmler as one of the most brutal mass murderers in history, and the architect of the Holocaust.

In addition to the above, some scientific journals such as Science will include a news section where scientific developments ( often involving political issues ) are described.

The extraordinary potential of radio news showed itself in 1930, when CBS suddenly found itself with a live telephone connection to a prisoner called " The Deacon " who described, from the inside and in real time, a riot and conflagration at the Ohio State Penitentiary ; for CBS, it was " a shocking journalistic coup.

News sources, collectively, described as alternative media provide reporting which emphasizes a self-defined " non-corporate view " as a contrast to the points of view expressed in corporate media and government-generated news releases.

The Allied governments usually described their bombing of cities with other euphemisms such as area bombing ( RAF ) or precision bombing ( USAAF ), and for most of World War II the Allied news media did the same.

DVCPRO50 was introduced by Panasonic in 1997 for high-value electronic news gathering and digital cinema, and is often described as two DV-codecs working in parallel.

The show, as described by Anthony Hayward of The Independent, was " a cocktail of comedy sketches, playlets, songs and parodies, a long-winded Corbett monologue and a singing star, sandwiched between the opening and closing news summaries.

The site has been described as " a free-for-all of news and opinion written by readers ".

Eliade's Romanian disciple Ioan Petru Culianu, who recalled the scientific community's reaction to the news, described Eliade's death as " a mahaparanirvana ", thus comparing it to the passing of Gautama Buddha.

Since 2009, numerous news reports from the popular media have incorrectly described these systems as the long-awaited discovery of the magnetic monopoles, but the two phenomena are only superficially related to one another.

The smallness of the station, once described as ' television in miniature ', while having implications for the profitability of the company, has on the whole been to its advantage: it has an extremely close relationship with its viewership, reflecting daily life and government in the islands, and while not producing large numbers of programmes for the ITV Network at the start of the 21st century, it does produce some five-and-a-half hours a week of programmes for its own area, including the local nightly news magazine Channel Report.

Its organizers were summoned to court for inquiry after an Iranian news agency blasted the classic drama in a review and described it as " vulgar " and " hedonistic " with symbols of " sexual slavery cult ".

Contemporary Western news reports described the orbital mission of Soyuz 3 in the same manner as the Soviets, referring to a successful " rendezvous " with Soyuz 2, but characterizing it as a test with no actual ship-to-ship docking planned.

In early 2007 National Italian television La7 resounded Belladonna's web popularity in a news story that described them as " the most listened to Italian band on MySpace ".

Pareene composes the site's Hack 30: The Worst Pundits in America, a list of people described as " the most predictable, banal, intellectually dishonest and all-around hacky newspaper columnists, cable news shouting heads and political opinion-mongers working today.

In 2001, he co-founded ( with Stan Persky ) the website www. dooneyscafe. com ( named after a restaurant on Toronto's Bloor Street West ), which is described as " a news service " and to which he is a regular contributor.

On Saint Patrick's Day, 2010, a local music group, the Willis Clan, and a group of friends, clothed the statues in oversized Celts | Celtic kilts and blouses they had made for the event, in what one local news source described as an " epic " prank.

Robot Wisdom Weblog acquired a large and enthusiastic following: after a computing newsletter had celebrated the weblog as " offbeat ," Village Voice described it as " one of the best collections of news and musings culled from the Web ," The Guardian called Barger " a highly observant and thoughtful surfer at work " and named his site " one of the most popular weblogs.

Earlier, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Johnson — who has described himself as " pretty much center-left before 9 / 11 "— transformed his blog's discussion of bicycle racing, programming, web design, and the occasional humorous news item into a very active discussion of the War on Terror, Islam and Islamism, Eurabia, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.

The news media have long described the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year.