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   Can We Hear From David Brooks on Michelle’s Shorts?

   August 19, 2009 01:57 PM

   Knowing that today is a Maureen Dowd Day in the New York Times, I was hoping to learn What David Brooks Thinks About Legs-Gate*. After all, it was in a Dowd column where we learned Brooks's take on Arms-Gate*. While... Continue reading

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   In Afghanistan: “We Are Going To Continue With Our Normal Reporting”

   August 19, 2009 11:00 AM

   The AP on the Afghan Foreign Ministry's recent "demand" ("request?") that Afghan journalists "avoid 'broadcasting any incidence of violence' between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. on election day 'to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people':"' Afghan journalists... Continue reading

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   Please Be Kidding This Time, Daily Show

   August 19, 2009 09:50 AM

   I have seen MSNBC's cringe-making segment called No Way! during which Donny Deutsch and Tamron Hall discuss wacky, way-out news stories as some high-pitched voice-over (think, morning radio) can be heard moaning, "No Waaay!" (It's baad). But I was hoping... Continue reading

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   Novak’s “Empty Chair Approach”

   August 18, 2009 04:45 PM

   When I hear "Robert Novak" and "empty chair," I think of that moment in 2005 when Novak cursed on-air on CNN and then abruptly exited the set, leaving just.... his empty chair (the one HuffPo is highlighting today). But,... Continue reading

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   Colleagues Remember Robert Novak

   August 18, 2009 02:09 PM

   Lynn Sweet on her Chicago Sun Times colleague (headline: "Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist, 'Prince of Darkness' died Tuesday"): Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak, one of the nation's most influential journalists, who relished his "Prince of Darkness" public... Continue reading

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   Just In: “What Will Happen With Michael Jackson’s Body”

   August 18, 2009 12:55 PM

   CNN had the news first, at 11:17 AM: This just in to us here in the newsroom. Michael Jackson hasn't been buried yet, but now we're getting word from Los Angeles that his burial will be Saturday, August 29th. It... Continue reading

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   Kostric On “Irresponsible Reporting,” “Hoplophobia”

   August 18, 2009 11:23 AM

   From Part 1 of The Faster Times's Q&A with William Kostric, a.k.a, The Man Who Brought The Loaded Gun to that Health Care Town Hall in Portsmouth, NH thereby causing, per TFT, "an explosion...of media coverage" (including that... Continue reading

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   The Future of All The News That’s Fit to Print…

   August 18, 2009 09:48 AM

   ...will be crowdsourced? Shaped by an ongoing, online marketing survey? The New York Times Insight Lab wants you -- Times readers 18 and older-- to provide "feedback about the future" of the paper. All you have to do is... Continue reading

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   “I Want To Know What You Think…”

   August 18, 2009 08:26 AM

   Deep thoughts from last night's Daily Show on those unavoidable cable news polls -- Are health care town halls making a difference? Text us! -- and how they "might not reflect public opinion so much as the ability of viewers... Continue reading

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    Match the Ombud to the Offense!

    August 17, 2009 04:15 PM

    Three newspaper ombuds. Three recent columns. Below are excerpts from the work of the following reader representatives: Siobhan Butterworth of the (UK) Guardian, Andrew Alexander of the Washington Post, and Clark Hoyt of New York Times. Can you match the... Continue reading

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    Not Since Tucker Carlson…

    August 17, 2009 11:52 AM

    ... doffed his bow tie to compete* on ABC's Dancing With The Stars in 2006 (only to be declared "an awful mess!" by one judge and become the first contestant voted off) will Beltway folks have a better reason to... Continue reading

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    “Unemployed Copy Editors” to the Rescue?

    August 17, 2009 11:37 AM

    On MSNBC this morning, I caught a bit of a discussion between Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and guest Pete Hamill about the challenges of covering/communicating the fundamentals of health care reform: SCARBOROUGH: We throw these terms around and The... Continue reading

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    Who Could “Spring For” Clinton’s Africa Trip

    August 17, 2009 09:44 AM

    The New York Times' East Africa bureau chief, Jeffrey Gettleman, joined the traveling press accompanying Sec. of State Clinton around Africa last week and, in yesterday's "Week in Review," offered these thoughts on that experience: Traveling with [Clinton] was... Continue reading

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    Could You Be (Are You Being) “Coerced” Into Reading Time?

    August 13, 2009 10:47 AM

    In response to (sigh, must we? really? apparently so) Sarah Palin's latest Facebook post on "death panels," (particularly the part about what she calls "the coercive effect" of advanced care planning consultations), Time's Michael Scherer (long ago of... Continue reading

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    “We Have a [CNBC] Request For…Lots of Anger”

    August 13, 2009 10:08 AM

    In case you haven't seen this, CNBC apparently spelled out/sought out what other cable channels have been merely courting for days. Via TPM: CNBC approached Tea Party activists, looking for angry protest events that would make good television, according... Continue reading

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    Town Hall Highlight Reel Star Explains Herself on Hannity

    August 12, 2009 04:11 PM

    Here is Katy Abram explaining to Fox News's Sean Hannity last night how she was transformed from an unthinking Bill Clinton voter (who "believed in abortion... and all of that") to someone who doesn't "want this country turning into Russia,... Continue reading

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    Choose Your Own Interviewer on 60 Minutes?

    August 12, 2009 02:21 PM

    An online commenter helps Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik distill his argument that having James Brown (a CBS Sports host) interview Michael Vick (a recently-reinstated NFL quarterback who missed two seasons while serving time for participating in a... Continue reading

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    Now You Can Impulse-Purchase The Economist…

    August 12, 2009 12:38 PM

    ... and have it in your hands the next day! Via The Guardian: The Economist has launched a single copy subscription service that allows readers to order just one copy of the magazine for home delivery the next day.... Continue reading

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    Clinton’s “Nothing Job”

    August 12, 2009 11:05 AM

    From today's New York Post: HILL HATH A FURY OVER NOTHING JOB While Bill Cavorts in Vegas Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's fury over a question about her husband's views shows she's clearly not loving the... Continue reading

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    “Scores of” Reporters Arriving In Afghanistan; 2 From AP Injured

    August 12, 2009 10:09 AM

    While "casualties among reporters have been relatively unusual in recent months in Afghanistan," per the New York Times, two AP reporters embedded with the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan were injured by a roadside bomb yesterday. Per the... Continue reading

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