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   The Munsters of MSNBC

   January 8, 2009 09:40 AM

   While interviewing MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart likened the characters of MSNBC to the characters of The Munsters, that family of monsters who starred in the 1960s sitcom by the same name, with Maddow... Continue reading

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   Supposed Senate Run? Just Hardball

   January 8, 2009 09:29 AM

   Chris Matthews told his Hardball colleagues at MSNBC last night that he will not run for Senate next year. "There has been speculation," reports the Times, "that Mr. Matthews, 63, was flirting with a Senate run as a way... Continue reading

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   Gupta Plays One On TV. (Also: He Is One).

   January 7, 2009 04:30 PM

   Word that Obama wants to tap CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General has been met with some goofing from, as the New York Times's Mark Leibovich puts it in his own contribution to the "parlor game,"... Continue reading

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   “Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich)”

   January 7, 2009 01:29 PM

   Dana Milbank on Roland Burris's trip to the Senate. Continue reading

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   Where In The World Is Joe The Plumber?

   January 7, 2009 01:14 PM

   On his way, apparently, to Israel "to report for the conservative Web site pjtv.com." Take it away, Jennifer Taylor of WNWO-TV ( NBC24, Toledo, OH): He intends to get the, often lost, Israeli reason for the offensive against... Continue reading

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   Babo’s Bird and Baked Fries

   January 7, 2009 10:11 AM

   How should news organizations cover the Obama girls? Join that discussion in our ongoing news meeting. Meanwile, a taste of how MSNBC has been covering them. Yesterday, MSNBC viewers learned critical details about the girls' First Day of School... Continue reading

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   Journalist, Fig Leaf

   January 7, 2009 09:37 AM

   From today's New York Times: [F]or an 11th day of Israel’s war in Gaza, the several hundred journalists here to cover it waited in clusters away from direct contact with any fighting or Palestinian suffering, but with full access... Continue reading

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   Paging…Surgeon General Gupta?

   January 6, 2009 02:04 PM

   CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta thisclose to accepting the job of Surgeon General, according to Howard Kurtz. Inspiring this reader comment: Not a huge fan, but I'll grudgingly admit it makes total sense to appoint a professional cable news... Continue reading

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   “Most Used” Network Reporter of 2008

   January 6, 2009 01:40 PM

   If 2008 felt like The Year You Couldn't Escape Andrea Mitchell, that's in part because she was the year's "most used" network reporter (excluding the anchors), clocking 355 minutes of air time for NBC, according to Andrew Tyndall's "Year... Continue reading

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    MSNBC Cringes For Making Itself Cringe

    January 6, 2009 10:03 AM

    Yesterday, I posted about Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's negative insta-reaction on Morning Joe to their colleague's report about the Obama girls' first day of school. This morning, those hosts rowed back what Brzezinski called their "organic," disapproving reaction... Continue reading

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    Perception (Pet-ception?) Analyzers

    January 6, 2009 09:24 AM

    My colleague Katia was no fan of CNN's debate night "perception analyzers." Perhaps she'd prefer the adaptation of the doodad unveiled last night on The Daily Show as Anderson Cooper moderated a 2008 Puppendential Debate between the furry contenders... Continue reading

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    Tweet What?

    January 5, 2009 03:00 PM

    Twitter accounts at CNN and Fox News were apparently hacked earlier today resulting in a couple of especially candid faux-Tweets (one "from" CNN's Rick Sanchez and one "about" Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.) Could be part of a phishing... Continue reading

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    (Not) Getting Into Gaza

    January 5, 2009 12:51 PM

    Dion Nissenbaum, Jerusalem bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, reports that "the Israeli military has once again barred the first small group of international reporters from getting into Gaza" even as "more and more journalists continue to arrive every day... Continue reading

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    MSNBC Makes Itself Cringe

    January 5, 2009 12:24 PM

    Early this morning MSNBC's Tom Costello filed a report from outside the Sidwell Friends School, awaiting the Obamas. It was, as far as these things go, a fairly standard report --almost sensitive, even, in that Costello twice conceded that this... Continue reading

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    First Day Of School Reports

    January 5, 2009 11:16 AM

    From the AP's report on Sasha Obama's first day at Sidwell Friends school: Sasha carried a Trans by JanSport pink, magenta and gray backpack and wore bluejeans and a brown jacket with a hood and her hair was pulled... Continue reading

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    Photojournalists On Working Iraq

    January 5, 2009 09:58 AM

    From the Baghdad Bureau blog at the New York Times, part 1 of a http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/01/world/middleeast/20090101_iraq_photogjnl/index.html ">conversation between Stephen Farrell (a Times Baghdad correspondent) and photographers Joao Silva, Max Becherer and Franco Pagetti, "who have covered every... Continue reading

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    Sign of the Times: A1 Ads

    January 5, 2009 09:23 AM

    From today's New York Times: In its latest concession to the worst revenue slide since the Depression, The New York Times has begun selling display advertising on its front page, a step that has become increasingly common across the... Continue reading

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    Yes, He Does

    December 30, 2008 09:20 AM

    This, from today's Wall Street Journal, struck me as (unintentionally) funny: "Claiborne's CEO Crams Into Coach to Cut Costs" And there's even photographic evidence. ("Crammed," but still cheerful!) Continue reading

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    Governor, Grandmother

    December 29, 2008 11:27 PM

    Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, Gov. Sarah Palin's grandson, is born. People Magazine, according to MSNBC, has won the bidding war for the first photos of the infant. The bidding started well before the baby was born, but... Continue reading

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    Kennedy (Huffs)

    December 29, 2008 08:53 PM

    Did you read that Caroline Kennedy article in yesterday's New York Times, based on an interview the Times's Nicholas Confessore and David M. Halbfinger conducted with Kennedy at a diner? Sense a little tension all around? (Like, in the... Continue reading

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