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   Riding Herd

   March 18, 2009 01:22 PM

   Dana Milbank reports that moments ago in the halls of the Rayburn House Office Building a scrum of reporters mistook a man named Zippy Duvall (president of the Georgia Farm Bureau) for Edward Liddy (Chairman of A.I.G.). Writes... Continue reading

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   Gibson: Sports Journalism “So Difficult”

   March 18, 2009 12:40 PM

   From the (New York) Daily News: ABC's World News anchor Charles Gibson at one point considered being a sports reporter. However, he ultimately realized the job was more difficult than it looked. "I began to realize... Continue reading

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   mine Can Be Yours (For Free)

   March 18, 2009 11:40 AM

   Per the AP, Time Inc.: is experimenting with a customized magazine that combines reader-selected sections from eight publications [Time, Sports Illustrated, Food & Wine, Real Simple, Money, In Style, Golf, and Travel + Leisure] as it tries to mimic... Continue reading

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   On Bedstands At NYT’s Baghdad Bureau

   March 18, 2009 10:50 AM

   For anyone who ever wondered what New York Times war correspondents read in their spare time, Rod Nordland at the Times's Baghdad Bureau blog provides some answers today. Apparently, Campbell Robertson is "reading Herodotus’ Histories avidly," Nordland reports,... Continue reading

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   Which Magazines Deserve[d] To Die?

   March 18, 2009 08:54 AM

   "Badly motivated" magazines are dying off, Gabriel Sherman writes, meaning publications created to capture a sudden and temporary flurry of ad dollars in a specific category (such as shelter publications launched during the housing bubble or niche lifestyle magazines... Continue reading

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   Fallows’s Advice For “Young Interviewers”

   March 17, 2009 04:16 PM

   "Interviewing Tips" from James Fallows: The "let the silence stretch out" approach...can be a surprisingly valuable interviewing technique. The truth is that most people who are being interviewed would like to think that they are providing you with... Continue reading

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   Isn’t She “Pretty” In Her “Big-And-Tall-Gal Wear?”

   March 17, 2009 03:31 PM

   New York magazine invited sixteen writers to, in a series of 350-ish-word pieces, ponder "the many meanings of a new American icon," Michelle Obama. Terry McMillan (author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back) is "especially" "excited" by... Continue reading

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   Two Dowds (And an O’Dowd) Walk Into a Bar

   March 17, 2009 01:08 PM

   Niall O'Dowd of Irish News spent "a few hours in the back of a midtown Manhattan restaurant with Maureen [Dowd] and her sister Peggy" and pronounces it, in a flattering profile, "akin to catching up with relatives in a... Continue reading

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   And…It Wasn’t “Greta Cameras”

   March 17, 2009 12:06 PM

   Last week, when news broke that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston had called off their engagement, the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez called on the media to leave Palin and Johnston alone, writing, "[P]lease, no Greta cameras this time,"... Continue reading

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    Fox & Friends On The Rhetoric Beat?

    March 17, 2009 09:59 AM

    Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, sat for an interview recently with Der Speigel Online. The following exchange in that interview had the folks at Fox & Friends talking this morning: SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony... Continue reading

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    Farewell From “A Gut-Punched Newsroom”

    March 17, 2009 08:53 AM

    David McCumber, the managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, says so long and thanks in the paper's final print issue today. At Slate, Jack Shafer has some advice for the online-only P-I including: have [the homepage] change... Continue reading

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    Time For One More Cramer/Stewart Analysis?

    March 16, 2009 04:26 PM

    On Friday, my colleague Ryan wrote up what was wrong with the insta-coverage of Cramer v. Stewart (Last Thursday Night's Edition), including what Ryan called the "superficial" take by New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley. For a thoughtful... Continue reading

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    “What Does That Mean, ‘Outrages Upon Human Dignity’?”

    March 16, 2009 03:21 PM

    Mark Danner, at The New York Review Of Books, finds answers (to the question in the above headline, posed by President Bush in reference to language in the Geneva Conventions, during a September 2006 press conference) in The International... Continue reading

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    Mocking A1…In Styles

    March 16, 2009 11:07 AM

    How do you know it might be time to revisit your Official Standards For Front-Page Story Placement? When readers complain that too much "bad news" appears there? What about when you read a dig at your news judgment... Continue reading

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    Seattle P-I Globe Speaks

    March 16, 2009 10:15 AM

    The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's rooftop mascot pleads his case in an opinion column. (Can we all try to keep our cringing in check and hear him out, given the circumstances)? Sure, I'm rusted out, my lights are broken, I'm covered... Continue reading

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    “Keeping Abreast of Internet Chatter Not The Same As Bearing Witness”

    March 16, 2009 09:44 AM

    The Internet (and, of course, Twitter) is changing (ruining? improving?) foreign reporting, observes Anand Giridharadas in the New York Times "Week In Review." Until fairly recently, Giridharadas notes, "the vast populations that foreign correspondents wrote about remained... Continue reading

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    The Break-Up Will Be Televised?

    March 12, 2009 11:07 AM

    So. Bristol Palin and her fiance, Levi Johnston -- parents of infant Tripp -- have, reportedly, broken up. News which has The National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez calling on the media to exercise restraint-- namely, Fox News's Greta... Continue reading

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    Three Years For Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist

    March 12, 2009 10:54 AM

    Thirty-year-old Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi television reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush back in December, has been sentenced to three years in jail. Continue reading

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    Carney, (R)evolved

    March 12, 2009 10:01 AM

    Jay Carney used to think, as he said last year on MSNBC, that Joe Biden is "incredibly prone to say the wrong thing." Now, having transitioned from Time Washington bureau chief to Biden's communications director, Carney understands that, as... Continue reading

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    Is This “Healthful?”

    March 12, 2009 09:25 AM

    Yesterday, the New York Times Dining section ran a piece headlined, "Michelle Obama's Agenda Includes Healthful Eating." Which reminded me of when, back in January, MSNBC got its hands on the Sidwell Friends School lunch menu and reported... Continue reading

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