Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s not really extraordinary or newsworthy that a young white girl, working away from home, fabricated a story about being attacked and sexually assaulted by a larger black man she invented in a bid to get attention. It is newsworthy that her sketchy story garnered so much outrage and political spin before being almost immediately recanted. What is most newsworthy however is that John McCain’s campaign worked to make it newsworthy in an effort to divide Americans, bait racial conflict, and inflame outrage at great risk to Americans themselves.
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Daniel Eran Dilger

While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple as an insignificant company with less than 5% of the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the company now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and over three fourths Microsoft’s revenues.
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