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The Kicker

What Warren Buffett sees in local newspapers
May 18, 2012 01:26 PM
On Thursday, Warren Buffett announced he will spend $142 million to purchase 63 local and regional newspapers from the Richmond, Virginia-based Media General chain--and the Berkshire Hathaway chairman says he's ready to buy more. "Any time we can... Continue reading
Short Takes

Old Time, Real Time
March 30, 2012 06:00 AM
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Swing States Project

Repaving the Trail
March 14, 2012 11:08 AM
In January, I visited New Hampshire and Florida to report on the media coverage of the GOP presidential primaries there. A lot of people complain about the blandness and inadequacy of much campaign reporting—its focus on momentum and appearances; its... Continue reading
Swing States Project

In Florida, the GOP Woos Hispanic Voters
January 27, 2012 01:48 PM
MIAMI, FLORIDA — The Hispanic Leadership Network is a center-right political advocacy organization that, in its single year of existence, has attracted considerable support from the Hispanic-American political establishment. Tonight—Thursday—the group is co-sponsoring, along with CNN, the latest Republican... Continue reading
Swing States Project

Waiting for Newt in Naples
January 26, 2012 06:56 AM
NAPLES, FLORIDA — It is late Tuesday afternoon in Naples, and a few thousand people have gathered around the Cambier Park bandstand to express their support for Newt Gingrich, who is leading the polls with a week to go before... Continue reading
Swing States Project

Primary Night on Elm Street
January 11, 2012 12:44 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Rich Girard, former Manchester alderman, is the host of Girard at Large, a Manchester-based current events talk show that broadcasts every weekday on 1250 AM. Tonight—primary night—Girard is hosting a fifteen-hour broadcast that's simulcast on Manchester Public... Continue reading
Swing States Project

Twenty-Nine Hours on the Campaign Trail
January 10, 2012 04:00 PM
NEW HAMPSHIRE — When covering New Hampshire, as with any primary, the general journalistic strategy is to trail the candidates around the state, cameras and microphones out, as they visit as many restaurants, grade school auditoriums, and American Legion halls... Continue reading
Swing States Project

A Night Out with National Review
January 8, 2012 04:21 PM
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE — Last night, finding myself unable to get tickets to the monster truck rally in the downtown Verizon Wireless Arena, I did the next best thing and attended a National Review-sponsored debate party in the Grand Ballroom... Continue reading
Behind the News

Movement Man
December 31, 2011 09:53 PM
The week before Occupy Boston changed Chris Faraone's life, grassroots revolution was already on his mind. Faraone, who covers rap music and social injustice for the Boston Phoenix, had filed a 2000-word story about a progressive group called... Continue reading
Essay

A Mad Libs Keynote
December 6, 2011 06:00 AM
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Essay

On Facebook and Freedom
November 17, 2011 06:00 AM
In September of this year, the Internet briefly burbled with the news that Facebook, the market leader in workday-wastery, would soon debut several fundamental changes to its site. For some of the more excitable online pundits, this was akin... Continue reading
Behind the News

Jim Romenesko Leaves Poynter
November 11, 2011 02:11 AM
The most frustrating thing about the Jim Romenesko affair is the way that so many people who should know better are insisting that there is no Jim Romenesko affair. Romenesko, the seminal media blogger, resigned from the Poynter... Continue reading
The Kicker

The Other Rogue
September 8, 2011 05:28 PM
Is Joe McGinniss a jerk? Sarah Palin certainly thinks so: she didn't like it when McGinniss rented the Wasilla house next door to hers while researching and writing The Rogue, his recent book about Palin. But my friend Matt Harwood... Continue reading
The Kicker

Read Jim Sleeper’s Essay on Ressentiment
May 20, 2011 03:58 PM
Before it gets too late, I want to take a moment to recommend Jim Sleeper's excellent essay that ran at TPM last week, expanding on his recent Washington Monthly review of William McGowan's Gray Lady... Continue reading
The Kicker

Outdated Promotional Material, Volume One
October 19, 2010 04:00 PM
Found in the office this afternoon, circa (I think) 2000/2001: I guess "CJR: Ladder to Nowhere" doesn't have the same ring to it... Continue reading
The Kicker

Washington Post: Fenty Defeats Gray!
September 15, 2010 11:44 AM
Yesterday, city council president Vincent Gray defeated abrasive incumbent Adrian Fenty in D.C.'s Democratic mayoral primary. (Gray is all but guaranteed to take office in November.) Fenty's defeat was hard to take for many—including, apparently, The Washington Post. CJR contributor... Continue reading
The Kicker

Ayn Rand: “A Greatness Stunted by Hate”
August 31, 2010 04:35 PM
In the August 30 issue of National Review, Jason Lee Steorts has a good and thoughtful piece on "The Greatly Ghastly Rand." Ayn Rand, that is—the artless Objectivist harridan who wrote The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and other books... Continue reading
The Kicker

Are Disclaimers Enough for WaPo When it Comes to Kaplan?
August 30, 2010 04:01 PM
On August 22, The Washington Post ran an editorial about the Obama administration's plans to further regulate for-profit colleges--a move that could harm schools like Kaplan University, which is owned by the Washington Post Company. To its credit,... Continue reading
Second Read

The Ordinary Jungle
July 8, 2010 08:00 AM
In April 1925, a fifty-seven-year-old British explorer named Percy Harrison Fawcett trooped into the Brazilian jungle for the last time. Fawcett had spent much of his adult life under mosquito netting there, and he had become convinced that the... Continue reading
Feature

Stayin’ Alive
May 20, 2010 05:00 AM
Christopher R. Weingarten reviews records on Twitter under the name “1000TimesYes.” In January, he decided to make a full set of his 2009 tweet-reviews, neatly typed out on cards, available for purchase. Potential buyers had many options.... Continue reading

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