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King Kong vs. Godzilla

"People within the media gossip world [may] want to put [Arianna Huffington and Tina Brown] at each other's throats," the... More

Where Soledad Soaks (So?)

After all those hours on debate nights interviewing the Perception Analyzer People? Who among us could begrudge CNN's Soledad O'Brien... More

“My Friends,” An Explanation

"My friends," McCain began, with a verbal tic that conveys a sense of closeness with his audience.... Oh, that's what... More

“Captivating” Doesn’t Cut It

While "Palin's rise captivates" the Anchorage Daily News, the paper on Saturday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama: Gov. Palin's nomination clearly... More

School of Talk

From the New York Times' Styles section yesterday (next to the article explaining that "fashionistas" are now to be called... More

And You Will Know Us By…

That Ukranian ship stocked with weapons? Still being held by Somali pirates. The BBC has an update today and some... More

Brokaw’s “Ideal Debate”

NBC News's Tom Brokaw was on The Daily Show last night talking about his experience moderating the third presidential debate.... More

I Am Reporter

Stock market's down. Party-crashing in New York City is up. So reports amNewYork. Also? Some party crashers are posing as... More

Closet Confessionals

One of CoutureGate's coattails? Political reporters and talking heads feeling moved to air their own dirty laundry to the world... More

Be the Change You Want To See

Halloween-hooked election stories. Election-hooked Halloween stories. It's time. The (Torrance, CA) Daily Breeze is "Handicapping the winners in the Halloween... More

13 Days Out: What, Now?

We know what the campaign press, in general,is doing with its time now, today, thirteen days before election day. But... More

AP’s Extended Teaching Moment

Yesterday, Megan offered some suggestions for reporters for how to cover the McCain campaign's recent cries of socialism, including: "add... More

“Palling Around With Haberdashers”

So, WardrobeGate (CoutureGate? FashionPlateGate?) Politico reports that the Republican National Committee apparently has spent over $150,000 on clothing and accessories... More

Props, CNN

Yes, CNN's Dan Lothian did file a report this afternoon standing next to a canon on a Civil War battlefield... More

“David The Journalist,” “Tito The Builder”

Perhaps you've heard Gov. Palin refer to"Tito the Builder" on the trail recently (in the same bit where she calls... More

Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges

A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe

Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010

Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case

The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime

How to legalize pot

“At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law”

This is water

David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech as a short film

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