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NYT’s “Coy” Iran Coverage?
June 17, 2009 12:58 PMFrom Time's James Poniewozik, via Twitter: Is it just me or does nytimes #iranelection coverage seem strangely coy? As if reluctant to directly say protestors believe vote stolen. Granted, this is a tweet (insta-thought, shorthand), but in the... Continue reading
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President Harms Fly; TV News Harms America
June 17, 2009 09:40 AMCNBC's John Harwood had a sit-down with President Obama yesterday during which they discussed.... during which the president addressed... um, I have no idea. What I do know is that the president killed-- with a single swat! -- a... Continue reading
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CNN’s “Unverified Material”
June 17, 2009 09:10 AMA segment from last night's Daily Show mocking a new on-screen ID that's popped up on CNN during reports on the situation in Iran (reports including such things as eyewitness photos, tweets, and cell phone footage): "Unverified Material." CNN should... Continue reading
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(Where To) Get Your Iran News
June 16, 2009 04:30 PMBoth The Nation's iran_s_twitter_revolution?rel=emailNation">Ari Berman and Politico's Ben Smith offer recommendations for where to get news (and commentary) about Iran. Both lists include Tehran Bureau, Andrew Sullivan, Nico Pitney, Twitter. Smith... Continue reading
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Twitter Triumphalism? (“CNNFail” and All I Got Was This T-Shirt)
June 16, 2009 02:57 PMFor just $17.99, you can be the proud (triumphant) owner of this #CNNFail ringer T. Probably you've heard of #CNNFail? That's the Twitter hashtag (and related Web site) created over the weekend and <a... Continue reading
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Kristof’s Elite Tweets
June 16, 2009 10:59 AMNew York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweacts to making The Twitter Elite (or Twitter's "suggested user list," on which the Times reported Sunday): Wow! I just made the Twitter suggested user list. Now I'm going to have to... Continue reading
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Iran on Today’s Front Pages
June 16, 2009 09:34 AMWell. Here's how the New York Post today plays the news from Iran. I'm guessing they're alone with that headline, but I'll take a look at other papers and report back on what I find: <img src="http://cjrarchive.org/img/posts/nypst.jpg"... Continue reading
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“Off-The-Record,” Explained Through Role Play…
June 15, 2009 04:33 PM... for the benefit of "angry bloggers," by Choire Sicha at The Awl. Bringing, er, total clarity to one of those ever-confused and confusing "terms of interview" terms. Continue reading
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Keller in Tehran: Admirable? Useful? “Creeping Meachamism?”
June 15, 2009 01:37 PMThe New York Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, is filing A-1 election-related reports from Tehran, a co-bylined "news analysis" today and an impressionistic "Memo from Tehran" yesterday. We were torn, during our news meeting this morning, over... Continue reading
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FiveThirtyEight on Iran’s “Fishy” Election Results
June 15, 2009 11:40 AMWorking on a longer post about Iran election coverage, but for now here's FiveThirtyEight's Renard Sexton on the "fishy" election numbers: Although widespread allegations of fraud, manipulation, intimidation and other all too common elections tactics have been common, statistically... Continue reading
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Twitter’s Time Has (Now Officially) Come?
June 15, 2009 10:24 AM"Is Twitter no longer an ultra-hip refuge for the perpetually plugged-in?" wonders the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz today. How might we know? How might we measure this? Kurtz answers: Now that Time's cover has certified it as part... Continue reading
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The NYT’s “Aged News”
June 11, 2009 08:04 AMSeeking, perhaps, a high-profile way to appear the "good sport," the New York Times granted The Daily Show a tour of headquarters and a sit-down with Bill Keller, resulting in last night's segment titled, "End Times:" <table style='font:11px arial;... Continue reading
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“I Admire [Maureen Dowd’s] Writing But…”
June 10, 2009 04:16 PM...not so much the stuff in today's column about President Bush. Fox News's Karl Rove on the New York Times's Maureen Dowd: Continue reading
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On Michelle Obama’s Westminster Abbey Outfit
June 10, 2009 01:47 PMFrom the (London) Times: While Mrs. Obama is "correct" to wear her bright colors "stacked," and the colors themselves are "bang on the money," the "three-dimensional flowers, that strange orange snake working its way around her middle and the... Continue reading
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What? You Expected
June 10, 2009 12:59 PMIntelligent DiscussionRoses?I'm not sure why any of this is news (what Dave Letterman said about Gov. Sarah Palin; what Palin said about what Letterman said; and, perhaps most of all, what John Ziegler, a radio host and director of a documentary... Continue reading
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Covering Abortion
June 10, 2009 10:50 AMAt the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Eyal Press, who wrote a book on the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, offers tips for journalists covering events like the recent murder of Dr. George Tiller. Among them, a... Continue reading
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Saberi’s Advice For Lee and Ling
June 10, 2009 09:58 AM"Try to turn the challenges you are facing into opportunities...No one can hurt your soul," are among the bits of advice Roxana Saberi, the American journalist recently released from an Iranian jail, has for Current TV reporters Laura Ling and... Continue reading
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Lede of the Day
June 9, 2009 04:08 PMVia Reuters (h/t James Downie of Foreign Policy's Passport blog): A man who tore the wig off a telegenic Taiwan legislator last year was sentenced to five months in jail for depriving the MP of his freedom... Continue reading
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“Finally.” (As You Were)
June 9, 2009 01:02 PMCoverage of American Idol almost-winner Adam Lambert coming out in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone: Is there a lede among them that doesn't include the word "finally?" ABC News: "After months of speculation about his sexuality, American... Continue reading
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Reilly Fingers Times Co. For Guild Vote
June 9, 2009 12:12 PMThe Boston Phoenix's Adam Reilly finds it remarkable that the New York Times Co.'s contract proposal to the Boston Newspaper Guild, the paper's biggest union, lost as narrowly as it did,...not because the proposal itself was... Continue reading
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