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Ghost of democracy in the media machine

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			  __license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2011, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
pressthink.org
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class PressThink(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                  = 'PressThink'
    __author__             = 'Darko Miletic'
    description            = 'Ghost of democracy in the media machine'
    oldest_article         = 60
    max_articles_per_feed  = 100
    no_stylesheets         = True
    use_embedded_content   = False
    encoding               = 'utf8'
    publisher              = 'Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute'
    category               = 'news, USA, world, economy, politics, media'
    language               = 'en'
    publication_type       = 'blog'
    extra_css              = """
                                body{ font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif }
                                img{display: block; margin-bottom: 0.5em}
                                h6{font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: bold}
                                .post-author{font-family: Georgia,serif}
                                .post-title{color: #AB0000}
                                .says{color: gray}
                                .comment {
                                    border-bottom: 1px dotted #555555;
                                    border-top: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;
                                    margin-left: 10px;
                                    min-height: 100px;
                                    padding: 15px 0 20px;
                                }
                             """

    conversion_options = {
                             'comments' : description
                            ,'tags'     : category
                            ,'language' : language
                            ,'publisher': publisher
                         }

    remove_tags       = [dict(name=['form','iframe','embed','object','link','base','table','meta'])]
    keep_only_tags    = [dict(attrs={'class':['post-title','post-author','entry','postmetadata alt','commentlist']})]

    feeds = [(u'Articles', u'http://pressthink.org/feed/')]

    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
            del item['style']
        for item in soup.findAll('img', alt=False):
            item['alt'] = 'image'
        for alink in soup.findAll('a'):
            if alink.string is not None:
               tstr = alink.string
               alink.replaceWith(tstr)
        return soup