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Reuters: Cash-Strapped Fools to Drown Sorrows — Yeah!
September 28, 2006 06:29 PMIn a development that would seem to bode well for the annual Reuters holiday party, Reuters cheerfully reports today that “a pullback in U.S. consumer spending should not dampen holiday parties or sales of distilled spirits in the liquor... Continue reading
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Politics
Clinton’s Leg-acy: “Unsightly Man-Calf”
September 27, 2006 05:03 PMTip to politicians and other public figures: want to distract at least some media types from talking too much about timely topics? Show some leg. It worked for Katie Couric (television reviewers noted the fact that Couric's... Continue reading
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The Audit
The Smell of Marketing in the Morning
September 20, 2006 04:53 PMIf you're an anxious marketing manager in an industry desperate for a hit holiday-season product, where in the media might you go to hype your newest ware? It would have to be somewhere welcoming and collegial, with people who are... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Chandler Burr Brings a Point de Repère to Perfume Criticism
September 8, 2006 01:22 PMReading Chandler Burr on perfume is like being trapped in a complex weather system, like looking down into a well of cool, black water; it is at once warming and cooling, and instantly mesmerizing, like a compulsively listenable rock album.... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Critics on Couric: She’s Got Legs! But Will Her Broadcast?
September 7, 2006 12:52 PMAfter a single broadcast of The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, the verdicts were in -- although, no doubt, some verdicts were in well before Couric appeared on-air Tuesday evening. As USA Today's Robert Bianco wrote yesterday: "It's... Continue reading
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Behind the News
What Couric Left Behind
August 31, 2006 04:08 PMHazing happens in many a fraternity -- journalism included. And, with five days until Katie Couric's debut as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Couric's hazing at the hands of her peers (nit-picking inspections, dire predictions, unsolicited advice) continues apace.... Continue reading
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Politics
Roger Weisberg on Waging a Living and How the Press Covers Poverty
August 25, 2006 04:00 PMProducer/director Roger Weisberg joined public television station Thirteen/WNET New York in 1976. He produced dozens of programs on subjects including aging, domestic violence, juvenile justice, consumer fraud, health care, the environment, and urban poverty. Since 1980, he has written, produced,... Continue reading
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The Audit
With Analysis, Anything Is Possible
August 17, 2006 09:26 AMThe sub-hed on a story this week in the Chicago Tribune about potential upcoming consolidation in the airline industry reads as follows: "Speculation Unites United, Continental." We know "speculation" is a powerful force capable of many things... Continue reading
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The Audit
News Flash: Some People Want to Be Rich
August 16, 2006 10:28 AMThough August has a reputation for being a quiet news month, "the truth is it has never been true," Rome Hartman, producer of The CBS Evening News, told USA Today on Sunday. How, then, to explain <a... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Neil Vigdor on Joe Lieberman and Living in Greenwich on a Reporter’s Salary
August 11, 2006 04:55 PMNeil Vigdor covers Connecticut politics for Greenwich Time and The (Stamford) Advocate, sister daily newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing Co. He has written more than 30 articles about the state's Democratic Senate primary. Vigdor, 29, joined the two papers in... Continue reading
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Politics
Code Red, Fear-Mongering and Fat Babies
August 10, 2006 02:37 PMToday's punching bags in the blogosphere? The media. Politicians. Fellow bloggers. In other words, business as usual. Nathan Goulding of National Review's Media Blog isn't surprised that the Associated Press is, in his words, "baffled" by the... Continue reading
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Politics
Lamont Wins, and the Breast-Beating Begins
August 9, 2006 01:56 PMNed Lamont has won the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut. Joining Lamont in a victory dance? Some bloggers. And joining Joe Lieberman in Loserville, according to some in the 'sphere? You guessed it: the MSM. Feeling his oats... Continue reading
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Politics
Contemplating Hell … Heaven … And the End of the War on Terror
August 8, 2006 02:07 PMOne man's life "in hell." One man's thoughts on heaven. These and other goodies in this week's newsmagazines. First, the dark side: Time devotes its cover this week to "Life in Hell: A Baghdad Diary," a first-person... Continue reading
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Behind the News
It’s Gonna Be a Long Morning
August 2, 2006 01:25 PMOn all three major networks yesterday morning, the news stories that kicked off the seven o'clock hour were, not necessarily in order: Fidel. It's hot as hell. Mad Mel. Now, we're... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Trend-Hunters Scooped on Hunting Trend
July 27, 2006 03:47 PMPerhaps it's time for the New York Times once-arch Styles section to consider just running wire copy. Today, while the trend-spotters at Thursday Styles brought us stale stories like "Parents Sometimes Play Matchmaker for Their Kids"... Continue reading
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Behind the News
CNN Discovers … Book of Revelation!
July 27, 2006 10:48 AMNot so long ago, we thought "Could you catch fire during surgery?" was a sensational, scare-mongering title for a television news segment. And then we saw the following on-screen caption during Monday night's Paula Zahn Now on... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Could You Spontaneously Combust During Sex?
July 21, 2006 11:50 AM"Could you catch fire during surgery?" This question was actually posed -- and answered -- Thursday morning on ABC's Good Morning America. GMA's Robin Roberts teased the "Medical Alert" segment thusly: "Imagine you're on... Continue reading
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The Audit
Deep Thoughts on Sun, Rain and Bare-legged CEOs
July 14, 2006 12:02 PMIt's that time of year again, when business reporters remind us how much they have in common with their red carpet-pacing peers from the celebrity rags. Allen & Company's (closed to the media) annual investment conference in Sun Valley, Idaho,... Continue reading
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The Audit
A Reporter Tries to Make Himself Obsolete
July 12, 2006 02:35 PMPoliticians aren't the only ones hanging on to the blogosphere's every word these days, in awe of what they see as bloggers' vast influence and clout. Reporters are doing it, too. (And plenty of business types are moving in, getting... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Jemele Hill on Being Black, Female, Young - and On the Sports Page
July 7, 2006 05:14 PMJemele Hill Jemele Hill, 30, is a sports columnist for the Orlando Sentinel, where she has worked since February 2005. Before moving to Orlando, Hill covered Michigan State football... Continue reading
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