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PBC News & Comment Thursday, May 24

[Next report 5/29]  US media finally covers student protests in Quebec over 75% tuition increase;  no breakthrough at Iran talks in Baghdad, but they will keep talking;    Also:

–Senate panel’s symbolic cuts in Pakistan aid

–official criticism of prosecutors in case of Sen. Ted Stevens–same is overdue in Siegelman case

–Rachel Maddow does great job depicting history of GOP lawbreakers, but fails to mention Obama’s transgressions, including failure to investigate and prosecute Republicans

–CNN ratings hit 20 year low as Piers Morgan is implicated in British phone hacking scandal

–10 years later, victim recants testimony that falsely convicted Long Beach basketball star