In the news world, the goal of every journalist is to find and break a huge story that would be headline news for weeks. Some journalists keep close tabs with important public figures. Other journalists stay close with high ranking executives and men and women who work behind the scenes to get the inside scoop when big events first happen. There are also those who do their best to report to the scene as quick as humanly possible to be the first to report the event of interest to the public. But apparently there is another way.

It has been revealed that the News Of The World in England has been very deceiving about how it has gotten some of its inside information. It has been made public that the company headed by Rupert Murdoch is guilty of hacking into the phones and emails of many public figures. Those who the news company are reported to have hacked include celebrities, members of the royal family, and even military officials and soldiers.

Furthermore, it is being alleged that the officials at News Of The World have tried to pay off law enforcement officials to not make the news of their hacking public.

Because of the scandal, the newspaper has essentially shut down. About two hundred men and women are now unemployed due to the scandal as News Of The World has ceased production for the moment.

To make matters worse, it is estimated that to pay back the approximately four thousand men and women who had their phones and emails hacked, News Corp is going to pay just under two billion dollars. Wednesday alone the company lost just under nine billion dollars in value due to the fallout of the scandal.

For years, the British media has been blasted for its tabloid style and apparent lack of ethics. Even the Prime Minister is launching an investigation into the ethics of the British media.

News Of The World has been around for 168 years. Rupert Murdoch, who is the owner of the newspaper, is now in the middle of a huge corruption scandal and is without a doubt going to lose a lot of credibility and money.

In a world where the news media is ridiculed and labeled as misleading and full of bias, the disgusting lack of ethics displayed by News Of The World does not just hurt the company it represents, but casts an ugly shadow over the entire world of news media.

San Francisco (Obama.net)- After the American economy crashed two years ago, few would have wondered that it would take this long to rebound. While the stock market has recovered to a degree and many industries are on the cusp of becoming profitable once again, the economy is still down. Even with the hard work of President Barack Obama that has helped America and the economy recover as much as it possibly could by this point, one result of the recession has yet to make the strides expected: unemployment.

For the last year and two months, the average unemployment rate in the United States has been at least 9.5 percent without fail. In order to help Americans in this time of need where standards of living are also higher than ever, the House of Representatives and the Senate collectively decided to extend benefits to the unemployed for an unprecedented 99 weeks. The cost of the extension ended up being greater than $100 billion.

While the move was well received by Americans who needed the extension desperately, now there is a problem. For an estimated 1.5 million citizens, their 99 weeks are up and they are still jobless. Even though jobs have been created in the past 14 months, most of the jobs set to be available via Obama’s initiatives have yet to become open.

Even California’s Silicon Valley has suffered. Widely regarded at the technological capital of the world, even this innovative area is not creating jobs nearly as much as it was just a couple of years ago.

The job crisis has highly impacted the lives of countless Americans.

There are numerous tales of hard working Americans who have been at their jobs for years and were then laid off once the crisis hit. While some saved enough money to last them years and others were able to find new jobs, others weren’t at lucky.

There are too many stories about people who did not have much money saved up and thus ran through it quickly, ended up losing their homes and belongings, and found themselves either living in their cars or on the couches and in the spare rooms of friends who were lucky enough to not be hit by the recession.

To make matters worse, for some of these people, there is very little if any hope in sight, as there appear to be no jobs opening up in their lines of work.

Marianne Rose is one of the people. In her experience, the fight for a job is extremely difficult. She told reporters that she had applied for a job with the county, but she soon learned that she was one of more than two thousand people going after the same four job openings.

In Silicon Valley, the members of the community have joined together in weekly meetings called “Job Connections” where they received advice on how to locate job openings and get to network with each other.

Most of the attendees of these meetings are in their 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. Most all of them also have not only college degrees, but master’s degrees and Ph.D.’s as well. Furthermore, due to the crisis, many of those well-educated, highly qualified men and women have also spent all of their 401k’s just to survive.

There is much worry for this demographic of the unemployed. Those in their 40’s and 50’s are not old enough to retire, but also old enough to where many potential employers might not hire them because they would rather hire a younger worker who would be with the company for years to come.

These men and women are losing homes that they have spent decades living in. They are going from high-level jobs, to jobs that high school kids get so they can afford nice shoes for prom. As in the case of Jim Wild, he went from being a fiber optics engineer manager to a job at a local Target. But in this economic situation, a job is a job and as long as it pays the bills, Americans will take them.

Today, numerous buildings sit empty without workers in them. College graduates sit on the unemployment line. Unemployment sits at 9.5 percent. But another 7.5 percent of the population have had their hours rolled back at work or who have completely gave up hope and stopped looking for jobs.

For the first time since the days of the Great Depression 80 years ago, these people are not only out of work, but have been for over a year.

To make matters worse, 4.5 million have had to take money out of their 401k’s.

With the benefit extensions exhausted, many are now forced to take charity. Because of the crisis, former business executives and the homeless are now one of the same when it comes to where they get their food from in many instances.

With no new extension in sight, the hope is for the jobs set by the Obama administration to come into fruition sooner rather than later.

Until that day, millions of Americans can do nothing more but fight and hope to survive another day.

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• Official Rolling Stone Story “The Runaway General” about Stanley McChrystal’s comments that landed him in hot water.

Gov. Blagojevich, who is currently under the process of being impeached, yesterday appeared on Good Morning America, The View, and Larry King Live to plead his case to the public. Blagojevich made a claim that was full of preposterousocity claiming that he was not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing. No no, you’re eyes are fine, you read that right, the man who attempted to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama proclaimed his innocence. Yeah, I know, but hold on, it takes another step toward loony land.

The major gearbox known as Gov. Blagojevich went on and grabbed the proverbial hammer, then proceeded to nail his own coffin shut. Put all beverages and food down, as you are about to either laugh hysterically or scream out in disgust and anger. Blagojevich actually compared himself and his situation to the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mahatma Gandhi. Yeah. That actually happened. I KNOW! What a dorkchop he is!

Blagojevich claims that other politicians who plan to raise taxes in Illinois are persecuting him. He went on to proclaim that he was simply trying to find the best possible replacement for Obama. Blagojevich said that one of his top considerations for the senate seat was Oprah Winfrey, who said she had no idea of her name even being in the running. In addition, Oprah said that she would have turned down the offer anyway.

The man who Blagojevich did choose to replace Obama in the senate was Roland Burris, the former Illinois Attorney General.

Blagojevich’s impeachment trial went under way on Monday and he has chosen to not be present at the trial proceedings. Having already been impeached earlier this month by the House of Representatives, Blagojevich still refuses to resign gracefully because he does not want to disgrace his children. HOLY JURASSIC PARK!!! We have officially discovered a live Reekasaurus Rex!

After attempting to sell Barack Obama’s old senate seat, Blagojevich is now under trial and doing exactly what he said he didn’t want to do; he is being a disgrace.

According to the Associated Press, Obama plans on holding the salaries of roughly 100 White House employees who make over $100,000 a year at the current level.  Some of those who fall within that 100 include the White House chief of staff, the national security adviser and press secretary.  Being that many Americans now are being cautious of how they spend their money, Obama believes Washington should do the same as well.

Additionally, Obama has tightened the lobbying rules in the White House by banning aides from influencing the administration when they leave his staff.  Lobbyists are not to give any gifts of any size to any member of his administration, and aides leaving his staff are not allowed to influence any former friends or colleagues within two years of leaving.

Obama said he hopes to “do something to make government trustworthy in the eyes of the American people, in the days and weeks, months and years to come.”  It looks like Obama has started off strongly in his first day in office.   Hopefully his deeds will continue to earn the trust and support of the American people, especially in the economic turmoil we are now facing.