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Pundit Boxscore for Tuesday 4 January 2005

MEDIA BLOGGERS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES TSUNAMI VIDEO HOSTING INITIATIVE: Here's an important effort from the MBA:

The Media Bloggers Association, in partnership with Zubr Communications, launched today the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative, a public service offered in response to concerns over bandwidth issues facing bloggers doing a tremendous public service by providing video of the tsunami to the world.

The Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative is a "distributed content-broker" system that matches web hosts willing to donate server space and bandwidth with bloggers and other Tsunami video sources looking to defray their cost of hosting Tsunami video. ZubrCom has led the way by donating its services in development of the Content-Broker system as well as server space and transfer capacity.

"When the word went out that bloggers needed help dealing with the high cost of bandwidth from hosting Tsunami video," said Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association, "the MBA saw an opportunity to fulfill its mission by supporting citizen's media and hyperlocal news reporting by bloggers. Rather than leave it to bloggers to beg for cost reductions from their ISPs, the MBA is matching willing ISPs with willing bloggers and other video sources."

Web Hosts can donate specified amounts of storage and bandwidth. All donors will receive a mention on the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative home page.

Check out the Tsunami Video Hosting Initiative home page.



Lines in yellow indicate a substantive crossover column, meaning that the column is of opposite sign to the pundit's Normalized Total PI for the season, and contains at least five non-neutral partisan references.
Lines in gray indicate that the pundit has been classified as inactive, meaning that their columns are not currently being evaluated for partisanship.
Democratic references in blue, Republican in red, positive references in bold, negative in italics.
Author/
Affiliation
Title/
Date
words PI Partisan References
Brendan Miniter
WSJ OpinionJournal
We Are the World
4 January 2005
880 100 6R+
Colin Powell: Colin Powell, Jeb Bush
By responding: President Bush
Which brings: Bush, Bush
There are: Bush
Paul Krugman
New York Times
Stopping the Bum's Rush
4 January 2005
822 100 4R-
In the: administration
Politically, that: Bush administration
There are: President Bush
As a: Bush
Richard Cohen
Washington Post
Ugly Truths About Guantanamo
4 January 2005
886 86 12R-,2R=
Orwell, however,: Bush administration
The administration's: administration, John Ashcroft, White House, Alberto R. Gonzales
Now we: Bush administration, Gonzales
The elevation: Gonzales, Bush, the president
The Bush: Bush administration, Gonzales, the president, Bush
Thomas Oliphant
Boston Globe
The legacy of two pioneer Democrats
4 January 2005
980 77 21D+,1D-,4D=
The legacy: Democrats
WASHINGTON THE: DEMOCRATIC Party
Shirley Chisholm,: Shirley Chisholm, Bob Matsui
They were: Democrats
When Chisholm: Chisholm, Chisholm
When Matsui: Matsui, President Clinton
At a: Chisholm, Matsui, Tip O'Neill
A fearless: Chisholm, O'Neill, Hale Boggs, John Conyers, Democratic, George Wallace, Wallace
Matsui was: Matsui, Matsui, Matsui
His career: John Moss
Politics is: Democrats, Shirley Chisholm, Bob Matsui
Molly Ivins
Creators Syndicate
Three days down, 362 to go
4 January 2005
942 62 2D+,1D=,2R+,13R-,3R=
01.04.05 -: Republicans
House "Republican: Republican, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert
They also: Republicans
Then there's: Republicans, Democrats, Tom DeLay, Republicans, Tom DeLay
At least: Richard Nixon, administration
For example,: administration
Nice to: Bushies
That noted: Dick Lugar, R-, Carl Levin, D-
Just to: Al Gonzales
Further, the: Gonzales
Now, I'm: administration
E. J. Dionne Jr.
Washington Post
The Matsui Generation
4 January 2005
1023 45 21D+,5D-,8D=,1R+,2R-,1R=
The Matsui: Matsui
When Bob: Bob Matsui
In the: Democrats, Richard Nixon, Democrats
In 1976: Jimmy Carter, Carter, Democrat, Democrats
Two years: Matsui, Ronald Reagan
Matsui's death: Matsui, Democrat, President Bush, Matsui
Born on: Matsui, Matsui, Matsui
What we: Matsui, President Clinton, Matsui, Clinton, Matsui, Matsui
"I don't: Matsui
My difference: Matsui, Matsui, Democrats, Clinton, Republican Congress
Over the: Matsui, Democrats, Matsui
Another cause: Matsui, Democrats, Matsui
When Matsui: Matsui, Matsui
David Brooks
New York Times
A Tale of 2 Systems
4 January 2005
846 0
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
God and suffering
4 January 2005
838 0
David Ignatius
Inactive
More Water Bottles, Fewer Bullets
4 January 2005
871