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   “I Am Now On The Other Side of This War”

   April 6, 2009 12:50 PM

   Two Iraqi translators for the New York Times, Mudhafer al-Husaini and Sahar S. Gabriel, have received refugee visas to come to the United States. They are blogging about their experiences at nytimes.com. Writes Gabriel, of her recent arrival... Continue reading

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   To Cable, With Love

   April 6, 2009 12:09 PM

   "[Sarah Palin] is the gift that keeps on giving to cable television and certainly the supermarket tabloids," said John Decker, of Reuters, to MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell during a segment this morning about some recent "Palin Family Drama" (here's a... Continue reading

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   Michelle, In The Eye of the Beholder

   April 6, 2009 11:41 AM

   Michelle Obama: "The New Oprah?" The New... President? (The New Director of Your Local Daycare Center?) Continue reading

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   “There Will Still Be News”

   April 6, 2009 10:17 AM

   In a Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501733.html">column, Michael Kinsley shrugs off The Death of Newspapers As We (Used To) Know Them: We're in a transition, destination uncertain. Arianna Huffington may wake up some morning to find The Washington Post... Continue reading

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   18-Year Media Ban Ends

   April 6, 2009 09:35 AM

   New organizations were on hand late last night at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, for the first time since 1991, to document the return of a fallen soldier, 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of... Continue reading

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   Still Don’t “Get” Twitter?

   April 2, 2009 10:56 AM

   "TRULY GROUNDBREAKING MARKETING RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING TWITTER." (h/t Andrew Sullivan) Continue reading

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   Snub Is In The Air

   April 2, 2009 09:31 AM

   Are American reporters adopting that perceiving-slights-around-every-corner thing that some British reporters seem to have? (When in London...) The New York Times's Helene Cooper is miffed that President Obama broke from the "standard form" of "'joint press availabilities'... Continue reading

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   I Covered The G20 And All I Got Was This Lousy…

   April 1, 2009 03:23 PM

   A report on President Obama's overseas trip devolved into swag talk on CBS News's The Early Show this morning: BILL PLANTE (in London): Now, of course, no meeting like this would be complete without a gift bag. [Holds aloft a... Continue reading

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   Look Kids! Big Ben! Parliament!

   April 1, 2009 12:09 PM

   If President Obama is in London, no need to ask, Where in the world is Brian, Charlie and Katie? All three network nightly news anchors broadcast from across the pond last night -- because, I guess, that's the way they've... Continue reading

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    Hey, Fox Nation!

    April 1, 2009 11:38 AM

    I assume, this being launch week, that the content aggregators at The Fox Nation are pretty busy. So, in case they'd like to link to Oprah Winfrey's interview of Michelle Obama (in the current issue of O, The... Continue reading

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    The Ballad(s) Of Glenn Beck

    April 1, 2009 11:15 AM

    Behold: "The Poetry of Glenn Beck," Volumes 1 and 2. Continue reading

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    “Top 10 April Fool’s Day Fake News Items”

    April 1, 2009 10:02 AM

    PC World has compiled what it regards as today's ten best fake news items. Wireless wolfpigeon "news" aside, here's my favorite among them (complete with Jeff Jarvis quote!): "Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink"... Continue reading

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    In Reporters’ Briefing Book, Brits See “Snubs”

    April 1, 2009 09:42 AM

    Are American reporters accompanying President Obama overseas geographically challenged? Is the self-worth of some British reporters too easily challenged? Are we "parochial?" Are they prickly? From from today's (UK) Telegraph: G20 summit: Barack Obama lands on "small island... Continue reading

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    No Twittering In The Soloist

    March 31, 2009 12:56 PM

    Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel's movie reviewer, was "touched by the grim state-of-the-newspaper subtext" in the film The Soloist (based on the work of the LA Times columnist Steve Lopez who is portrayed in the film by Robert Downey,... Continue reading

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    “I Know That’s English Online, But…”

    March 31, 2009 10:11 AM

    ... it's not the same," Carol Banas, 56, a retired city planner and longtime reader of the Detroit Free Press, told the New York Times which gathered a sampling of Detroit residents' (well, 50- and 60-something residents) reactions to... Continue reading

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    “A Liberal’s Conservative” for the NYT

    March 31, 2009 09:27 AM

    Selected bits from Michael Calderone's profile of Ross Douthat, soon to join the New York Times op-ed page: Micheal Barbaro, a Times City Hall reporter and a former classmate of Douthat's at Hamden Hall Country Day School in... Continue reading

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    Krugman’s Warning

    March 30, 2009 04:00 PM

    "The magazine cover effect" (in short, short the stock of any CEO you see on a magazine cover) "presumably.. applies to, say, economists" as well, writes Paul Krugman on his blog, presumably referring to this: <img... Continue reading

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    Interview “Tinkering”

    March 30, 2009 02:48 PM

    On Sunday the New York Times Magazine ran a profile of playwright Neil LaBute in which readers learn of LaBute's tendency to tinker with his own words, to revisit and rewrite lines even after they've been published and performed.... Continue reading

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    What Would “A Mix Between The Huffington Post and Drudge” Look Like?

    March 30, 2009 01:05 PM

    (Besides, um, aesthetically challenged?) This. A HuffPo/Drudge blend is how Fox News regards its new site, The Fox Nation, Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Shine tells Howard Kurtz. The Fox Nation launched today with a declaration... Continue reading

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    Chyron, Misunderstood

    March 30, 2009 12:46 PM

    Chyron (on-screen headline) on MSNBC just now: "Fmr Wall Street Professionals Trade Laptops For Lap Dances." No, the news is not that out-of-work Wall Streeters, unable to break their expensive Scores habits, are now hawking their computers in order to... Continue reading

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