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December 2, 2012 | The Federal Communications Commission is charging ahead with its plan to let Rupert Murdoch gobble up more media outlets. And we've just learned that the FCC may try to hold a secret vote to allow more media consolidation in the U.S. — possibly within the next two weeks.

Murdoch has set his sights on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune — the major papers in the nation's second- and third-largest cities (where, incidentally, he already owns several TV stations).

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• A senior fire department official said the death toll was so high because the factory had no fire exit on the outside of the building.
• Accounts, clothing show Disney, Wal-Mart, Sears used Bangladesh factory in fire

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A man takes photographs inside a garment-factory where a fire killed more than 110 people Saturday on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012.

November 25, 2012 | More than 100 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a clothes factory in Bangladesh - in one of the worst industrial accidents in the country's history.

The blaze in the multi-floor Tazreen Fashion factory outside Dhaka reportedly started on the ground floor in the warehouse and quickly spread.

A number of people trapped inside died after jumping from the building to escape the inferno. It took firefighters nearly six hours to extinguish the blaze.

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Workers who survived the fire say exit doors were locked, and a fire official has said that far fewer people would have died if there had been even one emergency exit. Of the dead, 53 bodies were burned so badly they could not be identified; they were buried anonymously.

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Let’s face it, the agencies and advertisers are how we survive. So to tell them that their clients are stupid for not staying in an atmosphere in which they don’t want to be is akin to the Republicans not reading the tea leaves about changing demographics.

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• “Don’t think that the people in Bangladesh who perished didn’t want or need those jobs as well,” Charles Payne, who called himself a “spokesperson for capitalism and the American Dream,” said. “It’s a tragedy, but I think it’s a stretch, an amazing stretch to pin this on Walmart.”
• Accounts, clothing show Disney, Wal-Mart, Sears used Bangladesh factory in fire

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The workers who died in Bangladesh’s worst-ever factory fire were thankful to be toiling away making garments, according to Fox Business host Charles Payne.

More than 100 garment workers died after a blaze swept through the factory outside of Bangladesh’s capital Sunday. The incident had the highest death toll of any factory fire in the country's history, which is notorious for its garment industry’s poor working conditions; 84 people died during a 2006 factory fire in which the fire exits had been blocked.

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Workers who survived the fire say exit doors were locked, and a fire official has said that far fewer people would have died if there had been even one emergency exit. Of the dead, 53 bodies were burned so badly they could not be identified; they were buried anonymously.