With the recent release of reams of phone records from a woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring, bloggers and others online have taken up the cause of hunting for links to elected officials and other prominent people. Bloggers, many of them liberal, are scouring the records and publishing what they find.
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/ 9 September 2006
When Discovery Communications launched the Animal Planet television channel in 1996, network executives hunted for a star to help distinguish it from the staid, narrated documentaries that were the hallmark of animal shows. What they found was Steve Irwin, a hyper and sometimes bug-eyed Australian unafraid to trade body blows with powerful crocodiles.