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Grieving over the grim result of Tuesday's presidential election, Newsmakers harks back to an astute adage about living through hard...

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By Dan Froomkin Press Watch One of the biggest journalistic failures of the last decade has been to insufficiently rebut the massive...

On Oct. 28, the student-run online newspaper at Santa Barbara City College reported that the California state agency governing community...