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   Douthat To Fill Kristol’s NYT Op-Ed Slot

   March 11, 2009 03:01 PM

   Word has it that the Atlantic's Ross Douthat will be picking up where Bill Kristol left off at the New York Times's op-ed page. Here's the email the Times's Andrew Rosenthal sent to colleagues announcing the hire: Folks:... Continue reading

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   Meghan McCain Sees You “Sit[ting] Around,” WH Press Corps

   March 11, 2009 02:19 PM

   On Hannity last night, Fox News's Sean Hannity aired "a little highlight reel" from Robert Gibbs' "first 50 days as White House Press Secretary." Gibbs was seen saying things like "I'm not an economist," "I have not read the article... Continue reading

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   NYT Corrects Itself (102 Years, 11 Months On)

   March 11, 2009 01:49 PM

   The New York Times published a correction today to an article from April 30, 1906. Apparently, an 84-year-old watch repairman, whom the Times back in the day credited with having "a remarkable memory," misremembered (big time) what he had... Continue reading

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   Joan, The Teenage Socialist

   March 11, 2009 10:59 AM

   Salon's Joan Walsh (who "used to be a socialist, I think") is "honestly ambivalent" about whether the New York Times's Peter Baker "was wrong" to have asked the "Are you a socialist?" question of President Obama last Friday.... Continue reading

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   Where Was The NYT on Freeman?

   March 11, 2009 10:43 AM

   Greg Sargent at The Plum Line asks why big news organizations, particularly the New York Times "didn't touch" the "Chas Freeman saga" until "it was already over." Today The Times finally ran a story about the whole mess...But... Continue reading

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   First Lady On The Catwalk (Covered and Not)

   March 11, 2009 09:31 AM

   The New Yorker this week http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2009-03-16">places Michelle Obama on a runway (cover illustration by Floc'h) smilingly showcasing assorted sherbet-colored fashions. (David Brooks would approve, "Thunder and Lightning" are safely sleeve'd; Mrs. Obama is "covered" on this... Continue reading

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   Credit The Airbrushers!

   March 10, 2009 01:26 PM

   The New York Times has a video op-ed in which a filmmaker named Jesse Epstein makes a case (and, really, who could argue?) that "magazines should let readers know if images have been retouched," even if only by crediting... Continue reading

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   The More We Twitter…

   March 10, 2009 12:11 PM

   ... the less we, probably, blog -- and comment directly on others' blogs, and, generally, muse in the blogosphere about blog content --observes Brian Solis at TechCrunch, which throws into question "the future of blog authority in the era... Continue reading

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   “Maybe Jon Stewart Can Tell Us What The Markets Are Going To Do”

   March 10, 2009 10:26 AM

   Where to begin? So much to discuss about the discussion just after 7:30 this morning around the crowded Morning Joe table. Yes, Joe guest and CNBC host Jim Cramer "fire[d] back at critics," as MSNBC is ">promoting... Continue reading

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    Buckley’s Good News

    March 9, 2009 04:29 PM

    "Tired of bad news," Christopher Buckley provides at The Daily Beast what the "universe will not:" "good news," in the form of imagined headlines (and, in some instances, ledes). Happy headlines, to Buckley, would be, for example: FORMER... Continue reading

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    The Headline You’re Dealt

    March 9, 2009 03:58 PM

    Maybe I was distracted by something in Howard Kurtz's piece about how the Obama administration is reaching out to "minority [media] outlets." (Something like... when Rahm Emanuel confirms for Kurtz that "Hispanic outlets cover much of the same ground... Continue reading

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    Still Fighting The Last Battle

    March 9, 2009 01:05 PM

    The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash, who confesses that "early adoption isn't my thing," explains for the magazine's cover story why "I hate Facebook" and summons all his descriptive powers to show that the social networking site is actually "mind-numbingly... Continue reading

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    The President Likes “The Feel Of A Newspaper”

    March 9, 2009 10:58 AM

    "Are you a socialist?" may be the most-discussed of the questions the New York Times posed during its first formal sit-down with President Obama Friday afternoon, but it looks like the paper also went with a version of... Continue reading

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    Taxicab Confessions: Dowd & Brooks

    March 9, 2009 09:28 AM

    Some days, one finds a screenplay or some Latin text beneath Maureen Dowd's byline on the New York Times op-ed page. Yesterday, Dowd just typed up a conversation she had with a fellow Times columnist en route... Continue reading

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    Shafer Praises the NYT’s “Anti-Kristof”

    March 5, 2009 11:34 AM

    At Slate, Jack Shafer writes "In Praise of Jeffrey Gettleman," the East African bureau chief for the New York Times. Per Shafer: As a reporter, Gettleman can't editorialize or finger the worry beads, which makes him the paper's anti-Kristof.... Continue reading

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    Gray Day (No, Not The Economy!)

    March 5, 2009 10:33 AM

    Looks like Zariff, President Obama's barber, had a recent press avail to address the urgent matter of All The President's Grays. (There have been, apparently, Internet rumors). How else to explain the appearance today of two articles analyzing the president's... Continue reading

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    Are All (Crushes On) First Ladies Alike?

    March 4, 2009 04:53 PM

    As Megan just noted, CNN's Jack Cafferty has written a column confessing to being "smitten" with Michelle Obama. I can't decide which line is creepier: Mrs. Obama has blown away the stale air in a White House musty... Continue reading

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    Movie Star! (Misery)

    March 4, 2009 12:51 PM

    "Matt Damon Moved by Plight of Zimbabwean Refugees," the AP reports today (proving once again that a humanitarian crisis in a faraway place can be snuck into the news with the proper Hollywood bait). Readers learn,... Continue reading

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    Suck-Ups, Hook-Ups

    March 4, 2009 11:34 AM

    In a piece titled "How media sucks up to White House," Politico's Michael Calderone writes about the recent flurry of "beat sweetners" (profiles of lower-level White House folks written by political reporters hoping to curry favor and woo sources),... Continue reading

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    On The Shoulders of a “Has-Been*”

    March 4, 2009 10:14 AM

    In an TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/male_to_the_chief_where_are_tvs_women_chief_white_house_correspondents_109869.asp">article pointing out that currently "all the major TV nets and cablers - ABC, CBS, NBC/MSNBC, CNN, FNC - have male Chief White House Correspondents," ABC News's Sam Donaldson describes how he once... Continue reading

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