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   Read My Lips: No Purebred Puppies

   April 14, 2009 12:30 PM

   The AP asks: Is Bo a rescued dog or not? Did President Obama keep or break a campaign promise in picking the purebred as the family's new pet? Apparently pressing questions for "political junkies," "the highly opinionated dog world,"... Continue reading

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   Maureen Dowd: Not Kidding

   April 14, 2009 10:02 AM

   A New York Times reader from Vermont used the "Talk to The Editor" feature at nytimes.com to ask the op-ed page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, the following question: Q. I love the editorial page; it is the first thing... Continue reading

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   Muzzling Media in Iraq?

   April 14, 2009 09:31 AM

   Per the New York Times: The Iraqi military put local journalists on notice on Monday that their organizations could be shut down for misquoting officials, while the Iraqi government accused the news media of deliberately seeking to promote sectarian... Continue reading

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   Frugal and Fabulous!

   April 13, 2009 03:11 PM

   From Saturday's New York Times Business Section (another one for Katia's NYT- Revels-in-Bad-Times File): Millions of Americans have trimmed expenses because they have had their jobs or hours cut, or fear they will... But who wants to... Continue reading

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   NYT Finds Evidence of Twitter’s “Utility”…

   April 13, 2009 02:42 PM

   ...including this, which alone should totally convince Twitter skeptics: Corey Menscher, a graduate student at New York University, developed the Kickbee, an elastic band with vibration sensors that his pregnant wife wore to alert Twitter each time the baby... Continue reading

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   Crediting Obama For Captain’s Rescue?

   April 13, 2009 11:53 AM

   Michael Crowley, writing at TNR yesterday, on press coverage of The Pirate Story : Predictably if somewhat absurdly, news commentary this weekend (the Stephanopoulos roundtable, for instance) was beginning to suggest that Barack Obama would be held accountable by... Continue reading

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   A (Sort of) Disclosure

   April 13, 2009 10:38 AM

   In defense of a recent New York Times op-ed about Bernie Madoff written by Daphne Merkin, the editor of the Times op-ed page said that they asked Merkin to write the piece "'in some respect because of her brother,'... Continue reading

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   CNN’s On-Air Editorial Meeting?

   April 13, 2009 09:24 AM

   Heard on CNN last night: DON LEMON (CNN anchor): Listen, let's talk about this, guys. [The Obamas are] getting a dog. Everyone is excited. Mark, I mean, are we really making too much of this? MARK PRESTON (CNN... Continue reading

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   Fox News’s “Military Analyst” on How To Fight Pirates

   April 9, 2009 11:43 AM

   Gawker's Mike Byhoff and Ryan Tate spotted on Fox News yesterday one of the retired military officers cited in David Barstow's Polk Award-winning New York Times series (the one about those -- turns out, very "conflicted" -- retired... Continue reading

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    Noah: “Who The Hell Wrote This Crap? His Mother?”

    April 9, 2009 09:55 AM

    At Slate, Timothy Noah holds forth on the beat sweetener, a "gratuitously flattering profile that a reporter writes about a government official in the hope that it will encourage (or, at the very least, not impede) that reporter's access... Continue reading

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    Got A Nose for News?

    April 8, 2009 04:05 PM

    No? Better go get one. "Plastic surgery is latest accessory for job seekers,"reports Reuters. When the going gets tough, some of the tough get going to the plastic surgeon's office. The recession clearly took a cut out... Continue reading

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    TPM’s Slideshow of Newspaper Deaths

    April 8, 2009 02:42 PM

    Supply your own soundtrack. UPDATE: TNR's (less comprehensive) version. Continue reading

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    Another Endorsement

    April 8, 2009 02:20 PM

    Moving on from Oprah: Would you pay for Alec Baldwin-endorsed news? Continue reading

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    Would You Pay For Oprah-Endorsed News?

    April 8, 2009 01:13 PM

    Others are stepping in to save newspapers. Colleges are creating newspaper cooperatives with their local paper to bolster dwindling resources. In Washington, one senator wants to allow newspapers to have a non-profit status. Heck, France is even considering government funding... Continue reading

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    It’s Ok to Mock Madonna (Randy Cohen Says So)

    April 8, 2009 12:46 PM

    Nytimes.com launches a new blog, Moral of the Story, where Randy Cohen (of the "The Ethicist" column in the Times Magazine ) will each week "examine a news story from an ethical perspective." Cohen's inaugural issue? The "ethics of... Continue reading

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    Parker On The President’s “Group Hug” “Diplomacy”

    April 8, 2009 12:33 PM

    From Kathleen Parker's Washington Post column in praise of President Obama's "Unmacho Diplomacy" (in reference to those who question "whether he was quite manly enough" during his overseas tour): We now know that he is without qualm when... Continue reading

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    They Don’t Cry?

    April 8, 2009 10:46 AM

    The latest in Glenn Beck-inspired coverage, from a New York Observer piece about how tears are all the rage in TV news: With the Big Three rapidly losing prominence in the American consciousness, a fractured network... Continue reading

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    News As Bottled Water

    April 8, 2009 09:32 AM

    From a who will pay for news piece in the business section of today's New York Times: How do you get consumers to pay for something they a have grown used to getting for free? Some industries... Continue reading

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    Virginia Heffernan Hates Her iPhone…

    April 6, 2009 04:37 PM

    ...iPhone lovers hate Heffernan's piece (scan the comments section). Continue reading

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    Pat Kiernan Goes National

    April 6, 2009 03:32 PM

    Pat Kiernan, the man who reads aloud on TV from New York-area newspapers ("In the Papers" on NY1) is now reading aloud online from a broader range of newspapers, reports the New York Times. Kiernan today launched patspapers.com,... Continue reading

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