Christian Science Monitor - By Mark Trumbull - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Global concern about inflation, which was widespread just a few months ago, has given way to worries about an opposite and potentially more dangerous problem: deflation.

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Associated Press - By Christopher Sherman - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The grand jury traced a sketchy line between Cheney's influence over the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency, which oversees the county's federal immigrant detention center, and his substantial holdings in the Vanguard Group, which invests in private prison companies. Combining those interests, the grand jury accused Cheney of a conflict of interest because the more the prison companies were paid to hold inmates, the better he did financially.

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Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Looking back over the past three decades, the cost of the Left’s complacency on media – i.e. its failure to create a reliable way to get important facts to the public and to counter the Right’s propaganda machine – has been almost beyond calculation. America’s right-leaning media imbalance was a big reason why George W. Bush was able to misgovern the United States for eight years, leaving the nation in two bloody wars and wallowing in the worst financial crisis since World War II. Hundreds of thousands are dead and millions may soon be out of work.

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Associated Press - By Christopher S. Rugaber - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The government said new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 from a downwardly revised figure of 515,000 in the previous week. That's much higher than Wall Street economists' expectations of 505,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

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New Yorker - By Peter J. Boyer - Nov. 20 (Special Report) - Fatheree had already handled one forcible eviction that day, and the little white house was next on his list. The prospect made him a bit uneasy. In only the rarest cases—maybe one in a hundred—did eviction day arrive without his having had some contact with the resident of the home.

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AlterNet - By Trudy Lieberman - Nov. 20 (News Analysis) - Truly educating the public seems a pretty remote goal for journalism when consumerism reigns. There's no consumer movement to make news; there are no leaders to be newsmakers, and few local government agencies left dedicated solely to the consumer cause. Heads of regulatory agencies rarely are invited to appear on the Sunday morning news shows, as they once were. There are only advocacy groups, including what remains of the old Nader organization, that get quoted here and there but have little clout.

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New Yorker - By Steve Coll - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - We are now not only abutting the limits of my knowledge of bankruptcy law; we have passed well into the wilderness.

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Mother Jones - By - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - If Democrats are looking for a crusader to clean house at the Justice Department and elsewhere in the federal government, Holder might not be their man.

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Los Angeles Times - By - Nov. 20 (Editorial) - The legal challenge to Proposition 8 has six lawsuits going for it, a host of influential friends of the court and the governor's opinion that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Whether the challenge has a chance is another matter.

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New York Times - By Bill Vlasic, David M. Herszenhorn - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Mr. Wagoner testified Wednesday that G.M. had not prepared a contingency plan for a bankruptcy filing if federal aid is not forthcoming. He said t G.M.’s advisers had concluded that it could not obtain credit to operate in a bankruptcy, and instead would have to consider liquidating its assets.

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New York Times - By - Nov. 20 (Editorial) - It is galling to think that Mr. Gonzales, whose department trampled over the rights of so many people, is having taxpayers pay for private counsel, but it may be appropriate.

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Aljazeera - By - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Fears of deepening economic trouble in the US has sent global stock markets diving again.

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Financial Times - By Lindsay Whipp - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Asia-Pacific stocks fell steeply on Thursday as anxieties about the US economy and the global outlook heightened amid worsening data and prospects for US carmakers.

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National Review - By - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Americans seem to think such folk wisdom is obsolete. First came the $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. Such a one-time federal guarantee was perhaps necessary to restore liquidity for the failed banking system, but it sent a terrible message.

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Mother Jones - By Fara Warner - Nov. 20 (Special Report) - For a decade, Bill Ford Jr. talked up fuel economy while his company peddled gas-guzzling SUVs and monster trucks. Is it too late for the automaker to shift gears to alternative fuels?

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New America Media - By Jean Melesaine - Nov. 20 (Editorial) - Mormonism has made heavy inroads in the Polynesian community and in the recent battle over Proposition 8, the anti-gay message of the church caused painful rifts for author Jean Melesaine, who is queer, Polynesian--and raised Mormon. Video by Tiburon accompanies the essay.

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Op Ed News - By Michael Richardson - Nov. 20 (Investigative Report) - "Platner explained 'hard-core militants' had been active in Omaha for two years."

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BBC News - By Jonathan Amos - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Member states of the European Space Agency (Esa) will decide at a gathering in The Hague how to fund the next phase of the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, also known as Kopernikus. Britain will have to put up well in excess of 100m euros if it wants to have a major influence on the project. At previous opportunities, Britain has declined to play a major role and the researchers fear the outcome of the Dutch meeting will be the same.

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New York Times - By Matt Richtel - Nov. 19 (News Report) - The backlog at the port is just part of a broader rise in the nation’s inventories, which were up 5.5 percent in September from a year earlier, according to the Commerce Department. The car industry has been hurt particularly, with sales down nearly 15 percent this year. General Motors has said it would run out of operating cash by the end of the year if it does not receive a government bailout.

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Columbia Journalism Review - By Bree Nordenson - Nov. 19 (Special Report) - The idea that news consumers, even young ones, are overloaded should hardly come as a surprise. The information age is defined by output: we produce far more information than we can possibly manage, let alone absorb. Before the digital era, information was limited by our means to contain it. Publishing was restricted by paper and delivery costs; broadcasting was circumscribed by available frequencies and airtime. The Internet, on the other hand, has unlimited capacity at near-zero cost. There are more than 70 million blogs and 150 million Web sites today—a number that is expanding at a rate of approximately ten thousand an hour. Two hundred and ten billion e-mails are sent each day. Say goodbye to the gigabyte and hello to the exabyte, five of which are worth 37,000 Libraries of Congress. In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent of three million times the information contained in all the books ever written. By 2010, it is estimated that this number will increase to 988. Pick your metaphor: we’re drowning, buried, snowed under.

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