Left Gears Up to Fight Media Warsby Michael Calderone From a glitzy new office in downtown Washington, the ideological war over the media is fully engaged. Six years after its founding to counter what it said was \"conservative misinformation,\" Media Matters for America employs a staff of 70 that spends 19 hours a day monitoring newspapers, magazines, broadcast and cable television, talk radio, and the Internet to counter ...Shoppers refusing to pay full priceSAVVY shoppers are forcing retailers into a profit-crunching spiral of continued discounting.Cumberland County HappeningsSTUDENT ART EXHIBIT, 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 5, D'Ippolito Elementary School, 1578 North Valley Ave., Vineland. CUMBERLADS, 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 8, HealthSouth, Sherman Avenue, Vineland. Call 856-825-0511.Alexandria a potential test site for new Google technologyAlexandria is on the cusp of joining a nationwide bidding brawl to become one of just a handful of cities plugged into a new, supercharged form of Internet technology.USA TODAY's Board of ContributorsUSA TODAY's board of contributors, which was launched in 1996, is composed of more than 25 contributing writers, whose interests range from education to religion to sports to the economy. Their charge is to chronicle American culture by telling the stories, large and small, that collectively make us what we are. The writers many of them well-known columnists, authors and thinkers come from all ...Woman dies in crash near AlexandriaA 32-year-old woman was killed in an auto accident just after midnight Sunday morning north of Alexandria.Local Leads: Guns and Lattes, Speeding CrackdownNeed a quick look at D.C.-area news? Local Leads is your one-stop shop. Read it. Use it. Love it.Talia Introduces iDirect-Based VSAT Consumer Internet Service for Middle East, Africa and EuropeHERNDON, London and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 02 March 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- VT iDirect, Inc. (iDirect), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), today announced that Talia Limited, a market-leading provider of satellite and communications services, has launched Talia Home, a consumer-focused Internet and telephone communications service for subscribers in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Issues Call for PapersPISCATAWAY, N.J. : The IEEE’s Broadcast Technology Society issued a Call for Papers for its fall symposium. The event, in its 60th year, will be held at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Va., Oct. 20-22.In Brief - March 4, 2010Pandora hires George Lynch for auto ad push
