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   Secret’s Out!

   April 16, 2008 09:14 AM

   Obligatory quote from Stephen Colbert's interview with Michelle Obama last night. Wherein Colbert let the (campaign press) cat out of the bag: Colbert: Are you ready to fight this thing out all the way to the convention? Michelle... Continue reading

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   Whadda Ya Mean, Elite?

   April 16, 2008 08:29 AM

   The final sentence in today's New York Times "Political Memo" telling the "back story" of BitterGate, that campaign controversy that has all of cable considering, Is There An Elitist Amongt Us?: "We are a news site," said Ms. [Arianna]... Continue reading

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   When Online Stories “Evolve”

   April 15, 2008 01:18 PM

   When and how should news organizations alert readers that changes have been made to a story after it has been published online? Is it ever ok not to? When does something like "Updated, Date/Time" at the bottom of a Web... Continue reading

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   Blasts in Baqubah, Ramadi

   April 15, 2008 12:17 PM

   Dozens of Iraqis were killed in multiple bombings across Iraq earlier today, including a car bomb that claimed at least 35 in Baqubah. You can't miss this news at the LA Times' home page (as of 1:00pm EST). Not... Continue reading

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   Scolds and Salutes For TV Suits

   April 15, 2008 10:10 AM

   "Show me Night Rider drunk on the floor and I won't care about a lack of health care for my kid." So said Tim Robbins yesterday to a roomful of broadcast suits gathered in Vegas for the... Continue reading

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   Flattery Will Get You…

   April 15, 2008 09:23 AM

   Reading the transcript of Sen. McCain's speech at the AP annual meeting yesterday, I was struck by how much time and effort McCain (even for this venue) devoted to stroking journalists' egos-- at the expense of stump speechifying and... Continue reading

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   Better Bitter Bit

   April 15, 2008 08:28 AM

   TV news folks have had five days now -- the duration thus far of BitterGate-- to hone their headlines in order to best capture this latest campaign kerfuffle (and viewers). So what works of chyron-ic genius have we seen on... Continue reading

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   No Coverage, Not “So Startling?”

   April 14, 2008 03:17 PM

   "[President Bush] was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding and other widely-condemned interrogation techniques," writes The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin in his "White House Watch" column... Continue reading

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   Us Versus Us

   April 14, 2008 02:56 PM

   Writers vs. editors! (Michael Kinsley describes that "Battle For the Ages). Print reporters vs. TV reporters! (Charles Gasparino on how the former regards the latter.) Continue reading

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    Not to Nitpick, But…

    April 14, 2008 01:35 PM

    A List, for people who like that sort of thing: TV Week's annual ranking of the "10 Most Powerful People in TV News" has Tim Russert at number 4 (up one in the ranks from last year!). Each ranking... Continue reading

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    MSNBC’s BitterGate Update

    April 14, 2008 12:18 PM

    Keeping cable viewers current on the latest exchange in the Campaign Gaffe of the Week is hard work. From the campaign trail by phone just now, NBC's Ron Allen moved the BitterGate ball forward for the MSNBC audience: I... Continue reading

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    Should The Press Report…

    April 14, 2008 09:38 AM

    Via Michael Calderone, in the wake of recent Spitzer (and Paterson) news, Crain's New York Business polled New York voters and asked them, among other things: "Do you think the press should report limited illegal drug use... Continue reading

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    “W(h)ither the Cable Blowhard?”

    April 14, 2008 08:37 AM

    The most memorable moment in Mark Leibovich's New York Times magazine cover piece on Chris Matthews -- in which we learn that Matthews "craves [Tim] Russert's approval like that of an older brother" and that the Meet the... Continue reading

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    You Read Us! You Really Read Us!

    April 8, 2008 01:59 PM

    Know how Us Weekly sometimes runs pictures of famous people - and they’re candid photos, of course - studying the latest issue of Us Weekly at their local newsstand or trendy outdoor café? I guess this is sort of like... Continue reading

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    If You Don’t Cut That Hair…

    April 8, 2008 01:14 PM

    Wondering what it takes to break into CNN? It may be a hair thing. U.S. News reports that former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, back in the day and at the suggestion of an agent helping her... Continue reading

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    WaPo, NYT Liveblogging “Petraeuspalooza”

    April 8, 2008 10:06 AM

    Both The Washington Post (military beat reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Tom Ricks) and The New York Times (The Lede's Mike Nizza) are liveblogging the Petraeus-Crocker testimony (and promoting their liveblogging on... Continue reading

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    Voting Clinton? But Mooooom!

    April 8, 2008 09:20 AM

    Mom. C'mon, Mom. Please? Vote for Obama. Okay? Mom? You're voting for Obama, right? Why do you hate hope? Mooooom! MOM! Young people are apparently nagging their parents into voting for Obama, we learn from the front page of... Continue reading

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    Obama on “100-Years-War Calumny”

    April 8, 2008 08:50 AM

    Obama defended (dialed-back? clarified?) his McCain's for a 100-years-war statement on the Today Show this morning (hat tip, Michael Calderone): Meredith Vieira: Senator, both you and Senator Clinton have said that Senator McCain favors 100 more years of... Continue reading

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    High School Newsical

    April 8, 2008 08:17 AM

    Says Amanda, the bespectacled copy editor for Cyprus Bay High School's "award-winning" newspaper, The Circuit, and star of MTV's upcoming "reality" show, The Paper: Being a journalist is the most important job in the world. And a tease from... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Previewing (Coverage of) Petraeus Hearing

    April 7, 2008 02:55 PM

    The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman previews the inevitable politicization of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker's Capitol Hill testimony tomorrow. Writes Weisman: "[Petraeus and Crocker] might be the ones before the microphones, but the... Continue reading

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