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Pondering the Sudden Death of Ken Lay
July 6, 2006 01:41 PMThe death yesterday of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay sparked plenty of blogofication -- about the death itself, about the White House press secretary's reaction to it and about the media's treatment of it. Joy-Ann Reid at Reidblog... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Sibling Rivalry, Guantanamo, Iran and the War on the Press
July 5, 2006 01:30 PMYou are no doubt still thumbing through last week's ad-thick double issues of Newsweek, New York and U.S. News. But among the weekly magazines not enjoying a post-double-issue breather this week is Time, which weighs in... Continue reading
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Behind the News
This Word Just In From the Leisure Pursuits Beat …
June 27, 2006 02:43 PMSome newspaper columnists chronicle appalling injustices in faraway places. Others find them right under their noses. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore called attention to a home-grown outrage that the rest of the press has... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Mannies Return After Four-Year Absence
June 21, 2006 10:55 AMAccording to Foxnews.com's Michael Y. Park yesterday, male nannies (aka, mannies) are the "hot new thing" -- there is a "sudden craze" for them. Indeed, Parks reported, since a strapping young man was recently snapped by the paparazzi pushing... Continue reading
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Politics
CJR Daily Traces the Birth of a Narrative
June 15, 2006 10:24 AMTide turning. On a roll. Turning point. Resurgence. Turnaround. Bounce. Pendulum swinging. Bump. However they choose to phrase it (and the above are all examples of how they... Continue reading
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The Audit
Vanity Fair Covers Wall Street’s Vainest
June 9, 2006 03:50 PMThis month, along with a cover story on Sandra Bullock's married life and Christopher Hitchens' "Oral History of the Blow Job," Vanity Fair runs an "exclusive report" by Nina Munk about hedge fund muckity-mucks descending (Johnny-come-latelies!) with... Continue reading
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The Audit
Biz Press Teaches Teens to Heed Dumb Statistics
June 8, 2006 12:00 PMPerhaps it's a good thing teenagers these days aren't reading newspapers -- it can be confusing enough as it is to be 17 or 18. And any Massachusetts-dwelling teen who happened to peruse two area newspapers this week can be... Continue reading
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The Audit
Magazine Makes News by Having a Name
June 6, 2006 05:45 PMKudos to the people behind the rollout of Condé Nast's new business magazine for landing a friendly 1457-word piece on the front of the New York Times business section yesterday -- just as, to quote said article, Condé Nast's... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism
June 2, 2006 05:32 PMBen Bradlee and Jim Lehrer Jim Lehrer is the executive editor and anchor of PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Lehrer joined PBS in 1972,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The MSM Blogs Up a Storm
June 1, 2006 05:03 PMMay 31, 2006 may forever be known at NBC, and around the world, as Katie's Last Day. But all the hoopla surrounding Couric's final Today Show appearance yesterday overshadowed another champagne-and-collage-worthy NBC milestone: The first anniversary of the Daily Nightly!... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Tears and Jeers for Katie’s Farewell
May 31, 2006 01:44 PMOn this, Katie's Last Day!, Ms. Couric is receiving shout-outs from all over the 'sphere -- some syrupy, some surly, and several served with a soupcon of journo-scolding. Nebraska-based Sarah at My Freaking Blog confesses that "it... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Newsweek Discovers Doomed Spinsters Marrying
May 30, 2006 02:48 PMIt's not often that we have to wait 20 years for a correction, but this is one of those times. Thus does Newsweek revisit a 1986 cover story on "The Marriage Crunch" with a new... Continue reading
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The Audit
Mindreaders Befuddled by Enron Jury
May 26, 2006 01:37 PMWord came late yesterday morning that the Enron verdict would be announced at noon -- just the sort of biding-time, hurry-up-and-wait situation that inevitably brings out the best in cable news. So how, exactly, did cable news reporters fill the... Continue reading
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Politics
Prefrontal Cortexes Fuel Talk Radio?
May 24, 2006 02:04 PMAs you read this, experts are hard at work studying the brains of people suffering from myriad ills, from Alzheimer's to dyslexia ... to, apparently, political passion. On Monday, USA Today's Dan Vergano reported on a recent... Continue reading
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Politics
Wanted: “Un-Journalists” to Cover the 2008 Election
May 24, 2006 12:09 PMThere is, as is sometimes the case, a certain familiarity to the front of this week's New York magazine. The cover? An unflattering, too-close photograph of former Vice President Al Gore, the large red words "The Un-Hillary,"... Continue reading
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Politics
Aliens: A Topic Made for Blogging
May 18, 2006 02:30 PMThe blogosphere is busy dissecting the media's (mis)handling of the immigration debate -- and in most cases, amnesty is not being offered. The Not So Free State, for one, feels misrepresented (and made to feel like... Continue reading
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Politics
Morning Shows Buried By Snowstorm
May 18, 2006 10:48 AMYou've heard of a "Full Ginsburg" (that is, when one guest appears back-to-back on a single day on each of the Sunday morning chat shows -- a la Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, William Ginsburg). Wednesday morning, President Bush's new... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Spooks Have Your Phone Bill; Daughtry Tossed Off Idol
May 11, 2006 05:32 PMTwo major pieces of domestic news broke overnight. We mean, of course, USA Today's report that the National Security Agency has a compiled a "massive database of Americans' phone calls" and, Chris Daughtry's elimination on last night's American... Continue reading
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Politics
New York Times Goes Medieval On Us
May 10, 2006 04:06 PMWhat with all the "jousting" and "skirmishing" going on in the New York Times' story today about appeals court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, the reporting of certain basic facts, it seems, fell through the cracks. From... Continue reading
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The Audit
Man Porn! Bites Porn! Dog Porn!
May 5, 2006 11:19 AMThe word "porn," when used in a headline, tends to catch the eye (and, when used online atop a story in a decidedly unsexy publication, many of these eyeballs will be what marketers call "unqualified"). Overall, though, we... Continue reading
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