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   Jackson Coverage: Too Much? Not Enough (About “Exercise Regimen”)?

   July 1, 2009 03:12 PM

   Sixty-four percent of people polled for a Pew News Interest Index survey said there has been "too much" press coverage of Michael Jackson's death. MarketWatch's Jon Friedman, in his critique today of both Jackson and Madoff coverage, focuses... Continue reading

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   Thomas: “Pattern of Controlling The Press”

   July 1, 2009 01:04 PM

   Helen Thomas, a White House briefing room vet and Hearst News Service columnist, to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just now (according to tweets from both the Washington Times's Chrisina Bellantoni and The Nation's David Corn...... Continue reading

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   “Michael Jackson Will Only Die Once…”

   July 1, 2009 09:30 AM

   ... is the number one "stupidest comment" uttered on TV (so far, I'd add) about Jackson's death, according to Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show. Congrats, NBC News's Michael Okwu, on your "Rippy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Obitutainment."<br... Continue reading

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   Explainer: What’s This About U.S. Troops In Iraq?

   June 30, 2009 03:58 PM

   Brookings Institution's Michael O'Hanlon helped Fox News viewers just now get their heads around what's going on with U.S. troops in Iraq today (withdrawl? pullback? handover?): [I]t's the equivalent of having bases in Staten Island but not Manhattan... So after... Continue reading

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   Last Week’s Newshole: 19% Iran; 18% Jackson

   June 30, 2009 11:09 AM

   According to PEJ (emphasis mine), For the week, the protests in Iran ended up being the biggest story, totaling 19% of the newshole studied during June 22-28 by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Though... Continue reading

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   Purdum on the “Pheromonal Reality” of the “Palin Phenomenon”

   June 30, 2009 10:59 AM

   Courtesy of, often, unnamed "McCain aides," "McCain friends," and "persons familiar with," Todd Purdum explores at length "the Sarah Palin phenomenon" for Vanity Fair. (And just about a year after Purdum's lengthy exploration, courtesy of unnamed “former... Continue reading

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   Shadid: “We Are Disengaged From Iraq”

   June 30, 2009 10:43 AM

   The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau chief, Anthony Shadid, describes at foreignpolicy.com why in Iraq, "as U.S. troops pull out, it's starting to look an awful lot like 2003:" Like 2003, everything is in play, as the country's forces... Continue reading

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   Putting Faces to the Dead and Detained in Iran

   June 30, 2009 09:36 AM

   The Guardian online is trying to "put a face to each of the hundreds -- possibly thousands-- killed or arrested since the Iranian election," as identified by news reports and human rights groups, and is asking readers to contribute... Continue reading

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   Keller “Celebrates” Iran Coverage

   June 29, 2009 04:54 PM

   Iran is the subject of this week's nytimes.com Q&A, "Talk to the Newsroom" (so far, it's just Bill Keller, recently back from Tehran). One Times reader is annoyed that "the Michael Jackson death ... has completely kicked Iran... Continue reading

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    Cable, Torn

    June 29, 2009 03:28 PM

    Which to carry live: Rev. Al Sharpton and Michael Jackson's father holding a news conference about Jackson's funeral arrangements; Or, high-speed police chase in Dallas. Cable? Fox News interrupted the former and has been with the latter for several... Continue reading

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    Rutten: Jackson Coverage Bad

    June 29, 2009 01:10 PM

    Just because "America's serious news media -- whether print, broadcast or cable -- are in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown," writes the LA Times's Tim Rutten, doesn't mean we should allow website hits and social media... Continue reading

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    A “News Blackout” in Honduras

    June 29, 2009 12:38 PM

    From Reporters Without Borders, on the situation in Honduras: President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster was followed by a curfew during which the broadcasts of several radio and TV stations were suspended... [T]he National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL)... Continue reading

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    How To Get (Re)Booked On Cable

    June 29, 2009 12:03 PM

    Chris Cillizza's contribution to YouTube's Reporters' Center is a video he calls "How To Not Sound Like An Idiot on TV," but which I'd rename "How To Get (Re)Booked on Cable." Why? For one, The Washington Post's... Continue reading

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    The NYT’s Sports Icon/Daddy Beat

    June 29, 2009 10:41 AM

    On June 13th, with golf's U.S. Open approaching, the New York Times's Karen Crouse reported that golf star Tiger Woods is "Embracing Fatherhood!" (his "nine-month injury-induced hiatus" from golf, Crouse mentions towards the article's end, has left Woods "with... Continue reading

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    Yesterday in Inter-Media (Intra-Media?) Name-Calling

    June 29, 2009 09:52 AM

    Have you heard? After some heated exchanges between The Washington Post's Dana Milbank and The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney during yesterday's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz on CNN (see footage below)? Pitney says Milbank called him a "dick." <a... Continue reading

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    Collaborative News Gathering, Embraced

    June 29, 2009 09:10 AM

    The New York Times's Brian Stelter on reporting from and about Iran: [M]any mainstream media sources, which have in the past been critical of the undifferentiated sources of information on the Web, had little choice but to throw open... Continue reading

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    More Op-Charts, Please

    June 18, 2009 10:20 AM

    There's something about getting straight data --presented on a pretend clip-board, in the middle of an opinion page-- that I find both appealing and valuable. Like today's "The States of Iraq and Afghanistan" in the New York Times. Continue reading

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    “First Line of Surveillance of All The News…”

    June 18, 2009 09:52 AM

    ... is how Josh Marshall described the role of TalkingPointsMemo.com's readers on last night's Colbert Report. (From Colbert's intro: "Here's a memo: I'll do the pointing and the talking"). Continue reading

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    Twitter Karma

    June 18, 2009 08:31 AM

    Beware, Jack Shafer ("Doubting Twitter. Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations"). When you speak ill of Twitter, Twitter hears you. So suggests CBS News's Mark Knoller with this tweet just now: Perhaps the... Continue reading

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    Who Remains To Report In Iran

    June 17, 2009 02:34 PM

    From the New York Times: After the visas of most visiting journalists expire [including, today, NPR's correspondent and the Times's Bill Keller], some will be able to remain. The BBC’s permanent correspondent in Tehran, Jon Leyne, recently had his... Continue reading

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