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    A Shakeup in the Evening News?

    The long-stable world of evening network news looks a bit jostled just three week's into Katie Couric's tenure in the CBS Evening News anchor chair. She may not be in first place anymore but compared to other anchor debuts, Couric has at least temporarily disrupted the long-consistent one, two, three finish among NBC, ABC, and CBS. Is it a long-term change or just a ripple?

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    A New Day at the Newsweeklies?

    Faced with declining circulation and softening ad pages the big newsweeklies are shaking things up. Both Time and Newsweek recently appointed new editors, and the former is changing its publication day and possibly pruning circulation. Are they in the midst of a mere tweaking, or is it the beginning of a major reinvention?

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    ABC: Good Morning America

    Robin Roberts: I have a lot of topics we want to get to, but first I want to start with the perception of America around the world. A recent survey in the respected Pew organization found that America’s global image has slipped in the past year. So what can the President say and do today […]

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    Phone Calls on the Net

    That’s the percentage of online adult Americans who have some type of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service in their home as of December 2005.

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    Newcomers in the Illegal Workforce

    That’s the number of unauthorized workers currently in the U.S. labor market who arrived after 2000. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that these workers constitute about 35% of the total 7.2 million unauthorized workers now in the United States.

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    Birth Control and “Conscience Clauses”

    That’s the percentage of Americans who oppose allowing pharmacists to refuse to sell birth control pills for religious reasons. Fewer than one-in-five (17%) express support for this type of “conscience clause” exemption.

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    Negotiating with Iran

    That’s the percentage of the American public who favor direct negotiations with Iran over the issue of its nuclear program

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    Measuring Online Traffic

    In the media business, there’s a raging debate about the accuracy of the numbers that purport to track visitors to the major news web sites. But some analysts say that when it comes to the economics of the Internet, the traditional reliance on audience size may just not be that important to advertisers.