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JounoList Members

This is a partial overview of the members of the once-secret JournoList mailing list.

These are the people who used their influence in the media to help elect Obongo and then suppress any scandals which might have hurt his ratings.

Reads like a Tel Aviv phonebook, doesn't it?


"I think this has also brought out another very important issue which can now be pointed to with some authority, namely the suppression of news by the corporate media.  We should not let this go."

--- Excerpt from an October 16, 2000 posting by Eric Corley on the New York City Indymedia mailing list.

How much do you want to bet that $2600 Magazine will be helping to suppress this JournoList story?


"The concept of neutral, objective journalism is no longer.  Watergate of epic proportion in the newsroom.  If they go after Dave Weigel and Ezra Klein, they are going to have to go after the whole list because it is not just the sins of commission...  It is the sins of omission of the rest of the people on the group to watch that strategy play itself out.  These people aided in that crime."

--- Quote from Andrew Breitbart, one of the few journalists with the balls to cover the suppressed "JournoList" scandal.


From: dailycaller.com/2010/07/21/obama-wins-and-journolisters-rejoice/2/

On November 7, 2008, shortly after Obongo won the election, a thread on the JournoList mailing list asked others to name those who they were "grateful we no longer have to listen to."  Eric Alterman (Jew), author of the book What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News, responded with: "Fucking Nascar retards."


Just remember - there is no liberal bias in the media!

LOL!  Change!


First they lowered the standards for non-Whites in school.  Then they lowered the standards for non-Whites in law enforcement.  Now they are lowering the standards for medical students!  LOL!  Get ready for Obama DeathCare!

Getting Into Med School Without Hard Sciences

July 29, 2010 - From: www.nytimes.com

By Anemona Hartocollis

So it came as a total shock to Elizabeth Adler when she discovered, through a singer in her favorite a cappella group at Brown University, that one of the nation's top medical schools admits a small number of students every year who have skipped all three requirements.

Until then, despite being the daughter of a physician, she said, "I was kind of thinking medical school was not the right track for me."

Ms. Adler became one of the lucky few in one of the best kept secrets in the cutthroat world of medical school admissions, the Humanities and Medicine Program at the Mount Sinai medical school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

The program promises slots to about 35 undergraduates a year if they study humanities or social sciences instead of the traditional pre-medical school curriculum and maintain a 3.5 grade-point average.

For decades, the medical profession has debated whether pre-med courses and admission tests produce doctors who know their alkyl halides but lack the sense of mission and interpersonal skills to become well-rounded, caring, inquisitive healers.

That debate is being rekindled by a study published on Thursday in Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.  Conducted by the Mount Sinai program's founder, Dr. Nathan Kase, and the medical school's dean for medical education, Dr.David Muller, the peer-reviewed study compared outcomes for 85 students in the Humanities and Medicine Program with those of 606 traditionally prepared classmates from the graduating classes of 2004 through 2009, and found that their academic performance in medical school was equivalent.

"There's no question," Dr. Kase said.  "The default pathway is: Well, how did they do on the MCAT? How did they do on organic chemistry? What was their grade-point average?"

"That excludes a lot of kids," said Dr. Kase, who founded the Mount Sinai program in 1987 when he was dean of the medical school, and who is now dean emeritus and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.  "But it also diminishes; it makes science into an obstacle rather than something that is an insight into the biology of human disease."

Whether the study's findings will inspire other medical schools to change admissions requirements remains to be seen.

Because MCAT scores are used by U.S. News and World Report and others to rank schools, the most competitive ones fear dropping the test, admissions officials said.  And at least two recent studies found that MCAT scores were better than grade-point averages at predicting performance in medical school and on the series of licensing exams that medical students and doctors must take.

"You have to have the proper amount of moral courage to say `O.K., we're going to skip over a lot of the huge barriers to a lot of our students,' " said Dr. David Battinelli, senior associate dean for education at Hofstra University School of Medicine.

But, Dr. Battinelli added, "Now let's see how they're doing 5 and 10 years down the road."  The Mount Sinai study did not answer the question.

There are a few other schools in the United States and Canada that admit students without MCAT scores, but Mount Sinai appears to have gone furthest in eschewing traditional science preparation, said Dr. Dan Hunt, co-secretary of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the medical school accrediting agency.

The students apply in their sophomore or junior years in college and agree to major in humanities or social science, rather than the hard sciences.  If they are admitted, they are required to take only basic biology and chemistry, at a level many students accomplish through Advanced Placement courses in high school.

They forgo organic chemistry, physics and calculus -- though they get abbreviated organic chemistry and physics courses during a summer boot camp run by Mount Sinai.  They are exempt from the MCAT.  Instead, they are admitted into the program based on their high school SAT scores, two personal essays, their high school and early college grades and interviews.

The study found that, by some measures, the humanities students made more sensitive doctors: they were more than twice as likely to train as psychiatrists (14 percent compared with 5.6 percent of their classmates) and somewhat more likely -- though less so than Dr. Kase had expected -- to go into primary care fields, like pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology (49 percent compared with 39 percent).  Conversely, they avoid some fields, like surgical subspecialties and anesthesiology.

But what surprised the authors the most, they said, was that humanities students were significantly more likely than their peers to devote a year to scholarly research (28 percent compared with 14 percent).  They scored lower on Step 1 of the Medical Licensing Examination, taken after the second year of medical school, which generally correlates with scientific knowledge.  But over all, they ranked about the same in honors grades and in the percentage in the top quarter of the class.

Humanities students were also more likely to take a leave of absence for personal reasons, which could reflect some ambivalence about their choices, the study authors said.

Typically, 5 percent to 10 percent of the class drops out before getting to medical school.  Those students cannot handle the science or they have changed their minds about their intention to be a doctor, said Miki Rifkin, the program director.  One who dropped out was Jonathan Safran Foer, who became an acclaimed novelist.

Dr. Kase founded the Mount Sinai program shortly after a national report on physician preparation questioned the single-minded focus onhard science.

He began with a few students from five colleges and universities that did not have their own medical schools -- Amherst, Brandeis, Princeton, Wesleyan and Williams -- because, he said, "we did not want to poach."

It has been going full tilt for the past 10 years, and received nearly 300 applications last year from more than 80 colleges across the country, though admissions heavily favor elite schools.

Among undergraduates accepted in 2009, the mean SAT math and verbal score was 1444, and the mean freshman G.P.A. was 3.74. About a third of the class had at least one parent who was a physician; among all medical schools, about one in five has a parent who is a doctor.

Among the current crop is Ms. Adler, 21, a senior at Brown studying global political economy and majoring in development studies.

Ms. Adler said she was inspired by her freshman study abroad in Africa.  "I didn't want to waste a class on physics, or waste a class on orgo," she said. "The social determinants of health are so much more pervasive than the immediate biology of it."

She added that her parents, however, were "thrilled when I decided to go the M.D. route, because they were worried about my job security."

A classmate in the program, Kathryn Friedman, 21, graduated from the Chapin School in New York City, before going to Williams, where she is a senior, majoring in political science.  Her mother and uncle are doctors at Mount Sinai; her father, Robert Friedman, who works in the entertainment business, is on the Mount Sinai Medical Center board.

The humanities program has allowed her to pursue other interests, like playing varsity tennis and going abroad, she said. When her pre-med classmates hear about the program, she said, "a lot of them are jealous."

She added, "They are, like, `Wow, I wish I had known about that.'"









A firefighter entrance exam discriminated against minorities?

How can a test discriminate against hard-working White people whose parents are married and who took an extra job to help pay their college tuition?

Oh...  Wait...  It's those kinds of "minorities."

Hope your shitty, disease-ridden, overpriced NYC apartment complex doesn't catch on fire!

Keep listening to Eric Corley!  Keep voting Democrat little sheep!  LOL!  Change!

Judge Blocks FDNY Hiring

August 4, 2010 - From: www.myfoxny.com

NEW YORK (AP) - The mostly white Fire Department of New York is temporarily barred from hiring more than 300 rookie firefighters because it used an entry exam that discriminates against blacks and Hispanics, a judge ruled Wednesday.

In a written decision in federal court in Brooklyn, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis said the city had not come up with a good explanation for wanting to hire a new class of firefighters based on an "invalid" test.

"Before the court can permit the city to use (the current exam) in any manner, the city must explain what has changed and why the need to appoint a few hundred rookie firefighters outweighs the need to avoid racial discrimination in municipal hiring," the judge wrote.

The judge's order prohibits any new hiring until Oct. 1.  The judge said he would soon schedule a hearing to consider "remedial measures" to meet the city's needs.

A city lawyer, Georgia Pestana, warned in a statement Wednesday that the city will be forced to pay $2 million per month in overtime to make up for understaffing at the 11,000-member fire department.

"We are extremely disappointed in today's decision and are evaluating all legal options," Pestana said.

The ruling follows earlier setbacks for the city in the lengthy legal dispute with the federal government over discrimination claims.  The judge previously found the FDNY had deliberately discriminated against minorities and ordered it to revamp its hiring practices.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the city in 2007, alleging the fire department was using exams that were littered with SAT-like questions that failed to fairly measure an applicant's ability to fight fires.  The lawsuit was prompted by what critics describe as the department's woeful record on minority recruitment when compared with other big city departments.







Your Future

From: angrywhitedude.com

"Today in Atlanta, 30,000 moochers camped out instead of working to get on a waiting list with 400 openings for Section 8 housing.  Well, you can safely bet none of these moochers has or wants a job.  Section 8 housing is a program that forcibly extracts earnings from producers in America and subsidizes 70% of rent payments for underclass moochers like those in Atlanta.  Isn't America great?  Productive Americans who have made quality life decisions, gotten educations, exhibit responsibility and work hard can have the government reach into their pockets and take their earnings to give to those who commit crimes, drop out of school, have out of wedlock chirren at 12 years of age.  Can anyone say reparations?"

From: projects.ajc.com/gallery/view/metro/atlanta/east-point-housing081210/4.html

Niggers are always begging for never-ending taxpayer handouts for housing, food, schooling, etc., yet they seem to have no problems paying for the fancy rims on their cars!  LOL!  Change!

Still don't believe "global warming" evidence is based on fudged data?

Well, official NOAA water surface temperature maps of northern Lake Michigan and the Bay of Green Bay show several points reaching temperatures of over 400° Fahrenheit!

The always reliable (hehe...) New York Times just recently ran this story:

Lake Superior, a Huge Natural Climate Change Gauge, Is Running a Fever
www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/07/19/19climatewire-lake-superior-a-huge-natural-climate-
change-83371.html

LOL!  Change!