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January 5, 2006 - Posted by R. Neal When I first heard about this, I wasn't sure what to think:

January 5, 2006 - WBIR, our local NBC affiliate here in the Knoxville/East Tennessee area, is deciding whether to cave in to pressure from the American Family Association, local clergy, and dozens of angry callers and e-mailers and pull the plug on NBC's new comedy/drama "The Book of Daniel".According to CNN, at least two other local NBC affiliates have already decided not to air the apparently controversial program. KARK in Little Rock, and WTWO in Terre Haute, Indiana will pre-empt the back-to-back episodes scheduled to premier Friday night at 9:00 PM Eastern.

January 4, 2006 - Kevin Drumm relays an interesting post from Ellen Smith, editor of Mine Safety and Health News, about the unfolding mining disaster in West Virginia:

January 4, 2006 - The votes are in: Katrina and hurricanes were the media stars of 2005. Katrina and Rita made it onto almost every top-five list of the last year's "big news stories" -- which makes it all the more shocking and tragic how poorly key stories about the hurricanes were covered.

January 4, 2006 - Facing South kicked off 2006 with a glitch over our domain name. Karl Rove has been mentioned as the culprit, but this is not confirmed.

December 30, 2005 - Tricolored Heron

December 25, 2005 - Holiday greetings, y'all. Blogging will be extra light over the next week as Facing South takes some much-needed R&R. See you in the New Year!