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Blog Report
Bloggers Focus on France Aflame
November 7, 2005 01:12 PMWhat began as civil unrest in the northern suburbs of Paris a week and a half ago is now spreading in a "shock wave" of rioting across France. During the eleventh night of violence, gangs of young men burned 1,408... Continue reading
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Behind the News
We Were Promised There Would Be No Math
November 3, 2005 05:49 PMIt's been a big week for pandemic flu news junkies. On Tuesday, President Bush gave a major speech at the National Institutes of Health, declaring he would ask Congress for $7.1 billion to prepare the country for a possible global... Continue reading
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Politics
Concentrating on Pyrotechnics, Not Results
November 2, 2005 04:16 PMThe Democrats' startling move to put the Senate into a rare closed session yesterday provided great drama and partisan scuffling -- and reporters eagerly jumped for the bait. In his Washington Post column today, Dana Milbank writes, "It was... Continue reading
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Behind the News
No Raise for the Herald
November 1, 2005 02:33 PMIt is often said that journalism is the first draft of history. Yesterday, the Boston Herald managed to goof on the second draft. In a story about renewed labor tension at Harvard, the Herald reported in its lede, "Just... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Connecticut - It’s a Strange and Wondrous Place
October 31, 2005 11:51 AMIn its stories filed from the American hinterlands beyond New York or Washington, the New York Times can take on a certain high-minded voice. Often, in dispatches on either the weighty or evocative, the Times will bring us news of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
AP’s Overexposure
October 28, 2005 04:19 PMJanet Jackson can't catch a break. Last week brought a wave of stories after a former brother-in-law accused her of having a "secret" child 18 years ago, which she has steadfastly denied. Now comes a cheap shot from the Associated... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Trying to Turn a Pumpkin Into a Carriage
October 27, 2005 02:08 PMIf you thought it'd be cool to get a big old traditional pumpkin for your kid to carve this Halloween, the AP wants you to think again. Yesterday, the wire service brought us word that the boring orange gourds proffered... Continue reading
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Behind the News
So It Begins: Outsourcing the Newsroom
October 24, 2005 05:02 PMIn the face of continued economic pressures, the San Jose Mercury News announced Friday that it is shutting down two weekly niche publications and selling a third. Its Spanish-language Nuevo Mundo and a set of five neighborhood sections called... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Some People Are Racist
October 21, 2005 02:53 PMThe lead story of ABC News' "Primetime" last night was an expose of what it calls "the Olsen twins of the white supremacist movement," 13-year-old entertainers Lamb and Lynx Gaede of Bakersfield, Calif. Unlike the faces... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Bird Flu Walkback Begins
October 20, 2005 12:27 PMOn Tuesday, the Toronto Star led off a front-page story, headlined "Flu pandemic 'catastrophe' for Canada," with these words: A bird flu pandemic could paralyze Canada's manufacturing sector for more than a year and cost the country hundreds... Continue reading
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Behind the News
A Tale of Living Life Below the Line
October 18, 2005 05:49 PMBeing a media critic is a sweet gig. But it's deceptively easy, while traversing the byways of countless news sites and blogs, to get caught up in the media bubble of the big story of the day or week and... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Anders Gyllenhaal On A Big Redesign, ‘Lost’ Readers, and Finding New Ones
October 14, 2005 06:07 PMAnders Gyllenhaal Anders Gyllenhaal is the editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which unveiled a major redesign of its newspaper and Web site... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Preposterous Speculation or Conventional Wisdom?
October 13, 2005 03:20 PMThe Judith Miller saga moved one step closer to some sort of resolution yesterday when federal district judge Thomas Hogan lifted a contempt order against the New York Times reporter after she testified one final time in the CIA leak... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Blogs Report on Post Report on Blogs
October 12, 2005 01:56 PMThe Washington Post tackles blogdom today with a front-page story examining the widespread use of the medium "to chronicle intensely personal experiences, venting confessions in front of millions of strangers who can write back." The Post reports that "Nearly... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Miers: The Piling On Continues
October 11, 2005 03:08 PMAs the Miers brouhaha continues to swirl around the nation's capital, all things Harriet have exploded onto the pages of the major magazines this week. Miers, Miers everywhere -- but who will give us a drop to drink? Ms. Miers... Continue reading
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Blog Report
QuagMiers Break Out Everywhere
October 10, 2005 02:51 PMIt's a dreary Monday -- a perfect time in the blogosphere to pick up where last week's debate left off and further dissect the GOP divide brought on by Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court. The 'sphere is relatively... Continue reading
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Politics
Again, Underreporting from Africa
October 7, 2005 05:41 PMSix sub-Saharan Africans died yesterday while trying to enter Spanish territory on the northern border of Morocco -- the latest of a half-dozen human avalanches of desperate men to rush high, razor-wire fences along the border in the last week.... Continue reading
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The Audit
How to Set Off a Frenzy With Three Words
October 6, 2005 05:42 PMA corporation sent out an email out yesterday, a cryptic invitation to an October 12 press conference which contained only the words "One more thing ..." printed over a background photo of theater curtains.And with that, the technology... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Keeping the Focus Where It Should Be
October 5, 2005 05:49 PMPresident Bush yesterday raised the possibility that the U.S. military should be used to quarantine parts of the country if a dreaded outbreak of bird flu occurs. "The policy questions for a president in dealing with an avian flu outbreak... Continue reading
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Behind the News
We Knew That
October 4, 2005 05:39 PMWe came across a story from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel today, headlined "Katrina may have been a Category 3 hurricane, not 4, when it struck New Orleans": Hurricane Katrina might have battered New Orleans and the Gulf Coast as... 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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