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Broadcast television still reaches more people in a single hour; 6 million viewers at a time will tune in to the CBS Evening News. 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What if there was a robot that could tell people things they didn't want to hear?]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>88</score><crdate>7/25/2008 12:54:42 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-25T12:54:42+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>26983</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26983/1/</url><title><![CDATA[News site introduces user recommendation]]></title><description><![CDATA[A news aggregation site will start letting its users influence the placement of articles by voting on items they like or dislike.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>168</score><crdate>7/11/2007 12:58:59 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-11T12:58:59+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135090</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/135090/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Daily News readers have offered their World Series tickets  to Injured Soldier.]]></title><description><![CDATA[After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>193</score><crdate>10/25/2009 7:11:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-25T19:11:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47393</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/47393/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Top 25 Censored news stories of 2007]]></title><description><![CDATA[News stories from around the world that got little attention.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>179</score><crdate>1/15/2008 9:46:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-15T21:46:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>127144</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127144/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Police To Investigate News Corp Phone Tapping]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following the revelations about <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/127094/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">phone tapping</a> by The News Of The World made in the Guardian, police are now investigating 3000 potential incidents perpetrated by the scandal rag.  Luckily for them, most of the work will have been done in the investigation they previously suppressed.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>284</score><crdate>7/9/2009 7:40:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-09T07:40:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14267</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14267/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Onion News Network]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Onion News <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.theonion.com/content/video/onion_news_network_promo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Network</a> has set the standard for globe-encompassing 24-hour television news since it was founded in December, 1892. The network boasts channels in 171 languages and can be viewed in 4.2 billion households in 811 countries.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>51</score><crdate>3/27/2007 11:58:27 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-27T11:58:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9009</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9009/1/</url><title><![CDATA[No Bad News: Good News Blog]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;If you&#8217;re looking for some good news in these days of hurricanes, insurgency and high oil prices, go to goodnewsblog.com for links to stories that are uplifting but not maudlin.&quot; - Newsweek Blog Watch, Sep. 12, 2005]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>0</score><crdate>1/14/2007 12:34:22 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-14T00:34:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28286</id><url>http://www.plime.com/sports/l/28286/1/</url><title><![CDATA[SportsTipsOnline Beta - Sports Delivered]]></title><description><![CDATA[SportsTipsOnline is a website community that allows you to submit links to sports articles, video, pictures and other online content that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the front page. When a user submits a news item it will be placed in the &quot;Queued&quot; area until it gains sufficient views and will be automatically promoted to the top of the front page.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-45</score><crdate>7/21/2007 3:31:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-21T03:31:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62853</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62853/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Courthouse News Service]]></title><description><![CDATA[Site is filled with legal stories, lawsuits, photos and more. Most articles have links to pdf files of legal filings. 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Did I miss it?<br/>A couple of very important factors are mentioned...]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>171</score><crdate>5/18/2009 2:11:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-18T14:11:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7401</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7401/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Papers battle online news sites]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;All the news that's fit to print&quot; was once the newspaper man's slogan. 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