Buddy Jo Rishel was born in a man's body but lived as a woman named Jennifer Pate. She was found dead, apparently having been dragged behind a pickup truck after a night spent drinking with two long-haul truckers. The two men were cleared by a coronor's jury of any criminal acts, but the death haunts Jennifer's mother. “They got away with killing her. That’s how it looks to me,” she tells Missoula Independent's Mike Keefe- Feldman. "And I will never rest until I think justice is done.”
n an ironic twist, Nielsen Media Research this week began informing clients it will test a series of ad campaigns intended to boost cooperation from people it wants to recruit for its TV ratings panel, especially Hispanics, African American and young adult segments that are more difficult to recruit through conventional means.
A new advertising campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union has been rolling out to oppose the tactics of the Bush administration.
Senators opposed to new media ownership rules pressed their attack Thursday, hoping to build on victories in the House and the courts and roll back changes they say will give large media companies too much control.
Steve May, who sold the Times of Acadiana to Thomson in 1996, tells Gambit Weekly it was subsequent acquirer Gannett that brought him out of retirement. May says he started his new paper, The Independent, because Gannett is "on the verge of owning Louisiana. They are two markets away from total ownership concentration." Ted Power, who serves as publisher of both the Times of Acadiana and Gannett's local daily, The Advertiser, admits the weekly has declined in quality since Gannett's acquisition. "The Times has been neglected," he says, promising to revamp the paper, moving it further away from its alternative-weekly roots
