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1. The Kicker

   NPR goes Gaga

   May 6, 2010 02:52 PM

   OK! Internets, are you ready to take this viral? What's "this," you ask? Well, of course, it's video of National Public Radio employees dancing, vamping, singing, and reading along to Lady Gaga. Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Unproductive Outrage

   May 4, 2010 10:15 AM

   This morning's Politico Playbook has some advance excerpts from Jonathan Alter's The Promise, our next big Obamabook. Here's one: When Obama picked up the New York Times and learned that Justice Department lawyers had invoked the Bush-era 'state... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   An Attempted FOIL

   April 29, 2010 06:59 PM

   Late this afternoon I got an email from the New York governor’s office initially denying a pair of requests I filed in March under the state’s Freedom of Information Law. The subject of said requests? All emails between the... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Three way

   April 29, 2010 10:49 AM

   The political world is awaiting Florida Governor Charlie Crist's press conference, slated for 5:30 today. (Why then? I'd guess to big foot the local evening news.) It's widely expected that he'll announce that he will bolt his state's Republican... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Next Slide, Please

   April 28, 2010 01:41 PM

   We are, apparently, a nation whose Army marches on PowerPoint. As detailed in Elisabeth Bumiller’s Tuesday front page New York Times story, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other senior military leaders routinely fly around the world, only to... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Unremarked

   April 26, 2010 03:26 PM

   Last Wednesday, General Jim Jones spoke before the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Just after thanking his hosts for the introduction, Jones launched into a two-minute jokey anecdote--though with a showman’s flare, he prefaced it by claiming it “happened... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Pleading with a fifth

   April 20, 2010 02:25 PM

   And now for a payment-for-access story from another era of journalism: Let Ralph Morse, then a photographer for Life, tell the story of how he gained access to Einstein's office on the day of his death in 1955:... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   TOTES HuffPo

   April 20, 2010 11:21 AM

   Yesterday saw the premier of "HuffPost Hill" a new email blast from the Huffington Post that promises to be, according to Arianna herself, a both "breezy and useful" "afternoon fix for political junkies craving to know more, from... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   No We Scan’t

   April 16, 2010 10:50 AM

   Carl Malamud, the always serious but never boring man behind Public.Resource.Org, a California non-profit which has made countless pages of government records available online for free download, will not be appointed the next Public Printer of the United... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Dare Not Know His Name

    April 15, 2010 01:24 PM

    Today an indictment was revealed in a Maryland federal court charging Thomas A. Drake, a former official with the National Security Administration with a variety of charges stemming from leaking classified information to an unnamed reporter with a... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    The Chicago Tribune Walks

    April 14, 2010 06:42 PM

    High above the summit of Chicago’s Tribune Tower, the clouds are clearing and the light is shining through. A just-revealed document, laying out the federal government’s evidence against former Governor Rod Blagojevich, has given the Tribune Company a... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    A Quote Unfit to Print

    April 13, 2010 10:10 AM

    This quote--in an interesting for its own sake New York Times article on a new generation of clean incinerator power plants popular in Europe--caught my eye: Nickolas J. Themelis, a professor of engineering at Columbia University and a... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    The “Full” WikiLeaks video

    April 9, 2010 09:56 AM

    Gawker has a post up noting that 20 minutes of footage are missing from the 39-minute version of the WikiLeaks-released Army video depicting a 2007 aerial attack that killed two Reuters staffers, among others. (The post builds upon a catch... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    “Too vital to ignore,” perhaps?

    April 8, 2010 12:42 PM

    Forget about Confederate history--it's STD awareness month! And fittingly, here's an excerpt from a press release that just landed in my inbox flacking a campaign by Planned Parenthood of New York City to encourage testing: ... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    WikiLeaks Releases Video Showing Death of Reuters Staff

    April 5, 2010 10:37 AM

    This morning at an event at the National Press Club, WikiLeaks screened a video depicting a missile strike on a van in Baghdad that killed a Reuters driver and photographer in 2007. WikiLeaks is a non-profit supported entity that offers... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Thin Ice

    April 1, 2010 04:38 PM

    It was certainly alarming when Julian Assange, a board member for the secret document sharing site WikiLeaks, alleged in a statement last week that his organization was “currently under a US and Icelandic aggressive surveillance operation.” WikiLeaks, a non-profit, has... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Knoller Knows, Part II

    March 31, 2010 10:56 AM

    This morning Mark Knoller, CBS Radio's longstanding White House correspondent, has a well deserved profile in the Wall Street Journal (stipple included, natch) highlighting the body of interesting and revelatory Presidential statistics he's been collecting since the Clinton... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Russian Honeypot

    March 26, 2010 11:32 AM

    Micheal Idov of The Daily Beast has an alternately funny and chilling--but really, mostly chilling--tale of how several men who've given the Russian government a bit of trouble, including the editor of Newsweek's Russian version, found apparently surreptitiously... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Congressional Transparency Caucus Launched

    March 25, 2010 04:29 PM

    Today Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) launched a new bipartisan Congressional Transparency caucus. Quigley's office has a seven point statement of principles up in .pdf format, laying out some laudable goals, starting from a keystone... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    No Handouts

    March 25, 2010 04:00 PM

    In July 2005, the White House News Photographers Association took a big step. The Bush administration, much more so than its predecessors, was declining press photographers access to events that they could have easily been open and instead releasing official... Continue reading

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