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   Great National Reporters Thinking Alike

   April 20, 2010 10:30 AM

   Via Twitter, CNN political producer Peter Hamby shares these nuggets about a conference call this morning with reporters, Marco Rubio (Florida Republican Senate candidate), and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (who today endorsed Rubio): Notoriously press averse Rubio has... Continue reading

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   Chthonic, Guttate, and Tennis, To Name a Few

   April 15, 2010 11:17 AM

   What are "Words That David Foster Wallace Circled in His American Heritage Dictionary," Alex? Slate publishes a complete list of words that were circled in the late writer's personal dictionary and is asking readers/"DFW enthusiasts" to Take a... Continue reading

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   What Networks Didn’t Mention About WV Mining Disaster

   April 15, 2010 09:50 AM

   Andrew Tyndall noticed something about the nightly newscasts' (ABC, CBS, NBC) coverage of the recent disaster at Upper Big Branch mine: All that coverage--the tick-tock rescue, the stoic families, the Dickensian boss--was just as expected except for a single... Continue reading

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   All About Bob: A Beat Sweetener

   April 14, 2010 03:45 PM

   You may know Robert F. ("Bob") Bauer as Gregory Craig’s successor as White House counsel. But, really, who is Bob Bauer? Because he sounds to die for, in Mike Allen’s telling (way dreamier than that Craig guy). If you don’t... Continue reading

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   Bumper Music Gunfire

   April 13, 2010 01:58 PM

   From the AP: As many as a dozen Mogadishu-based radio stations stopped playing music on Tuesday after the insurgent group Hizbul Islam gave the order [banning music on Somali radio] earlier this month... The ban on music... Continue reading

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   Cover Your Access

   April 13, 2010 09:31 AM

   The Washington Post today has a front-page piece about White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speculating that Gibbs might -- indeed, "sounds eager to" -- some day leave his press secretary position to become a full-time strategic adviser... Continue reading

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   On Fox News, Introspection…

   April 12, 2010 12:43 PM

   ...by chyron? Continue reading

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   “Experiment and Fail Quickly”…

   April 12, 2010 09:42 AM

   ... is "our mantra this year," says one newspaper news executive, according to a new PEJ survey of newspaper and broadcast news executives, "News Leaders and the Future." In other words, says the exec, “Don’t be afraid of change... Continue reading

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   “Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories” Number 11!

   April 8, 2010 10:19 AM

   Yes, Salon's "10 Dumbest Tiger Woods Stories" list could no doubt be four times as long, but I'll limit myself (for this morning, at least) to one addition, in which People magazine asked (of course!) a body language... Continue reading

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    “Surreptitious Reporting”

    April 8, 2010 09:43 AM

    The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof reports from Zimbabwe (where's the "know-it-all's bias"?): In a week of surreptitious reporting here (committing journalism can be a criminal offense in Zimbabwe), ordinary people said time and again that life had... Continue reading

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    Know-It-All’s Bias

    April 7, 2010 09:32 AM

    Over at The Atlantic, Lane Wallace ("author, pilot, and entrepreneur" ) describes how she came to realize that sometimes reporters (particularly, she notes, veterans of a particular beat) don't ask certain seemingly key or critical questions, questions that might... Continue reading

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    “Which Is Presented as an Essay By [Levi] Johnston…”

    September 3, 2009 10:43 AM

    The Anchorage Daily News reports today on Levi Johnston's Vanity Fair piece, and goes out on a limb to suggest that maybe it isn't 100% Johnston's own work (emphasis mine): Excerpts of the article, which is presented as... Continue reading

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    Farewell, Kind Uncle Charlie

    September 3, 2009 09:50 AM

    Charles Gibson, in a word? LA Times: ... the abrupt end of the Bob Woodruff-Elizabeth Vargas pairing that led the network to put the avuncular Charles Gibson in the anchor chair. Philly Inquirer: Sawyer, who will turn... Continue reading

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    “If Michael Jackson Hadn’t Died…”

    September 2, 2009 03:52 PM

    In an online Q&A, Vanity Fair special correspondent Maureen Orth explains what might have been this summer for "The Craigslist Killer" (and, presumably, her story on same), as far as media coverage, if only: VF Daily: What is... Continue reading

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    Advice for Diane Sawyer

    September 2, 2009 12:13 PM

    Advice for Diane Sawyer for her inaugural outing, reportedly to take place in January, as the new anchor of ABC's World News: Whatever you do, don't wear white that first night. (Nor should you wear an "oatmeal-colored... Continue reading

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    Ling and Lee on Their Detention in N. Korea

    September 2, 2009 11:16 AM

    Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee write, for the first time, about their reporting, capture, and detention in North Korea: We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on... Continue reading

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    “Free-For-All Internet Media Culture” is a Euphemism For…

    September 2, 2009 09:50 AM

    ..., apparently, the Washington press corps. The New York Times's Peter Baker today writes about the rumored "nuptials that never were," Chelsea Clinton's, how the rumor that the former first daughter would marry (in August in Martha's Vineyard)... Continue reading

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    Today’s Number 1 and Number 2 Headlines…

    September 1, 2009 04:46 PM

    ... thematically, anyway. From the Wall Street Journal: "In Paris, Behavior Brigade Battles to Make Oui-Oui a Non-Non" And, from the Associated Press: "The Poop on White House Dog Bo" Beyond the headlines, the Journal piece is, actually,... Continue reading

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    Breaking: Bernie Madoff’s Beach House Has (Ew!) “Formica Countertops”

    September 1, 2009 01:59 PM

    Reporters have been given a video walk-through of Bernie Madoff's Montauk, New York beach house. And? Not so impressed. This morning CNN's Christine Romans sniffed: Not very glamorous for the disgraced Ponzi schemer... ...as if she were showing viewers... Continue reading

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    DePaul U. Delivers On McSweeney’s “Internet-Age Writing Syllabus?”

    September 1, 2009 11:58 AM

    At McSweeney's back in April, Robert Lanham unveiled his "Internet-Age Writing Syllabus and Course Overview" for (wink, wink) "ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era, (one of the pre-reqs: "ENG: 232WR—Advanced Tweeting: The Elements of Droll.") Today,... Continue reading

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