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Blog Report
�Best Speech Ever� or �Root Canal�?
June 29, 2005 12:49 PM"Best Speech Ever." "Excellent Speech." "Clear, confident, substantive." "[N]othing new...inaccurate." "Ho hum." "[A]bout as enjoyable as a root canal." We'll let you guess which of those set of quotes comes from liberal bloggers,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Sharks Circling Network News Directors
June 28, 2005 02:48 PMAre we on the precipice of our second "Summer of the Shark" of the 21st century? In 2001, Time announced the first such summer on its cover. Cable outlets devoted countless hours to the epidemic. People stayed in front... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Another Pew Survey and a New Brain Drain
June 27, 2005 12:49 PMThink you might be a liberaltarian? The Locust Fork has a list of ten beliefs that might mean you are. We direct your attention to number eight: "you believe there should be more bars than churches in the world."... Continue reading
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Behind the News
CNN Blows Non-Story
June 24, 2005 04:22 PMAs we all know, CNN likes to give non-stories prominent placement on its Web site -- at the moment, for example, the fact that Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer argued on "The Today Show" this morning has one of the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Giant Popsicle As Rorschach Blot
June 22, 2005 03:16 PMWant to understand the fundamental difference between the New York Times and the New York Post? Ignore the political differences, ignore the quality of the coverage, ignore the headlines, ignore the level of discourse. You can even ignore "columnist... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Training Young Christians, Disillusioned Older Christians - and CNN
June 21, 2005 02:08 PMHanna Rosin's New Yorker piece on Patrick Henry College, which "trains young Christians to be politicians," is a piece of cultural anthropology -- a look at the rituals and mating habits of a group of people whom the author... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Open Door, Watch House Fill with Flies
June 20, 2005 03:39 PMAdmittedly, we're a little late in commenting on the Los Angeles Times' Wikitorial experiment. Our excuse is that we never quite understood the thing in the first place. Best we could tell, the Times would write an editorial and post... Continue reading
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Behind the News
It’s Friday Afternoon
June 17, 2005 03:06 PMIn the most stunning example of the disintegration of the barrier between news and entertainment since Sean Penn went to Iran, Fox News this afternoon offered viewers a report from Afghanistan by what appeared to be the stars of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Riding a Wave of Contempt
June 15, 2005 05:04 PMThe Michael Jackson acquittal provides a golden opportunity to consider the phenomenon that is Nancy Grace. Grace, who has enjoyed relatively high ratings and sudden stardom as host of her eponymous prime-time show on CNN Headline News, held up on... Continue reading
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Behind the News
No-Win “Situation”
June 14, 2005 03:05 PM"The Situation With Tucker Carlson," the first show developed at MSNBC under new president Rick Kaplan, debuted last night. And while "The Situation" had many of the same problems as other cable news shows, it did have one significant, and... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Mommas, Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Journalists
June 10, 2005 04:02 PMThe latest embarrassment to the political press began harmlessly enough when Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean met privately yesterday morning, as they do every month. Afterwards, the pair emerged for a photo op.... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Rewriting Science and Rewriting History
June 9, 2005 02:27 PMBlogger Chris Mooney credits journalists for sticking it to Scott McClellan in the wake of the publication of "internal White House documents that show that a White House official that was formerly a lobbyist for the oil industry has doctored... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Hard Day on the Rim
June 8, 2005 05:12 PMImagine you're a frustrated copy editor. A lot of your peers really enjoy their work at the copy desk, but you find it unfulfilling -- you only took the job in the first place, after all, because you thought it... Continue reading
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Blog Report
We’d Like to Teach the World to Sing
June 8, 2005 12:47 PMIt's been a bad morning for John Cole. "Sometimes I wake up and read the papers and just want to scream," he writes. Why? Because a "White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Atlantic Runs Worst-Case Scenario, Patents Run Amok, Hersh Runs With Kissinger
June 7, 2005 02:14 PMWhy is it that the Atlantic these days often seems like the highbrow equivalent of local TV news? On your typical 10:00 news, if it bleeds, it leads, and Your Carpet Is Trying To Kill You!; in the Atlantic, if... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Chewing On and Spitting Out Amnesty International, Howard Dean, Ken Mehlman
June 6, 2005 12:49 PMHappy Monday to all you good folks out there on the Internets. Our favorite voice of moderation in the blogosphere -- the, uh, Moderate Voice -- starts us off with a discussion of the head of Amnesty International USA's... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Suffer the Little Children …
June 3, 2005 04:15 PMIf you're the sort of media junkie we are, you're probably checking in with Jim Romenesko's column more often than you'd like to admit. Which means you've likely seen the Baltimore Sun story on how, as Romenesko put... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Mythic Figures Dissolve, Mortal Men Emerge
June 1, 2005 12:52 PMFor once, we agree with Washington Post chief ruminator Hank Stuever: On one level, it's kind of depressing to know who Deep Throat is. Not because we didn't want to know, but because what we've found out takes... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Should One Word Deep-Six a Career?
May 27, 2005 12:07 PMWe woke up this morning to discover a minor journalistic coincidence: Two separate columns in New York newspapers lamenting the firing of Arthur Chi'en, a reporter for the local CBS affiliate. A week ago, Chi'en was let go for uttering... Continue reading
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Behind the News
We Read Playboy for the Articles
May 25, 2005 04:08 PMToday's subject is Paris Hilton. Or rather, the flurry of stories that have greeted the recent emergence of the, um, notoriously-camera shy Ms. Hilton. The reality television/b-movie/amateur pornography star is hawking Carl's Jr. hamburgers in a new commercial these... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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