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Behind the News
Flack Defrocks Press, Anoints … Blogs?
March 9, 2006 11:40 AMIt must have stung a little, what Richard W. Edelman, president and chief executive of the public relations firm bearing his name, said to the New York Observer's Jason Horowitz. "You're not God anymore," Edelman informed the reporter, sounding... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Press Exercised by Exercising White House
March 1, 2006 05:01 PMThe beauty of mainstream journalists hopping on the blogging bandwagon -- if there is beauty to be had -- is that these blogs provide a place to turn for more information, for explanation, and to get the... Continue reading
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The Audit
‘Fed Watchers’ Feed Reporters Something Like News
February 24, 2006 10:22 AMRoger W. Ferguson Jr., the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, resigned Wednesday. So, what does it all mean? For interpretation, we turn to the reporters watching the Federal Reserve (not to be confused with "Fed... Continue reading
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The Audit
Market Survey: Business Executives Prefer Cosmo
February 22, 2006 12:35 PMWhen it comes to inane career advice, it's a buyer's market. You can't crack (or click on) a business publication without encountering Columnist A's Ten (Painfully Obvious) Career Tips or some variation thereon. Surely consumers are not... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Dan Steinberg on Covering Curling, and How to Spot American Reporters in Turin
February 17, 2006 05:00 PMCourtesy Washington Post Dan Steinberg is blogging about the 2006 Winter Games for the WashingtonPost.com. Steinberg described the blog, Tales From Turin, as "a blog about... Continue reading
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Blog Report
All Cheney All the Time
February 16, 2006 01:44 PMOur aim was true. We set out to write a Blog Report free of any mentions of the Cheney Hunting Incident. Alas, the blogosphere refused to play along. It's all, Media is bad, Cheney is good ... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Hunting for Blame (And a Place to Pee)
February 15, 2006 02:06 PMForget about Harry Whittington's assorted injuries, let's talk about the enormous purple shiner the MSM is sporting! It's "another black eye for the MSM," according to Hugh Hewitt, referring to the way the White House press... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Newsweeklies Thwarted By Publishing Cycle, and New York Discovers Blogs
February 14, 2006 03:54 PMFresh off its finger-on-the-pulse report two weeks ago about "students with everything going for them engaging in orgy lite," as one irate reader described New York's magazine's recent cover story about "ambisexual heteroflexible teens" at a prestigious New... Continue reading
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Behind the News
A Barrage of Cringe-Worthy Valentine Stories
February 9, 2006 04:26 PMThis time of year, a certain amount of cringe-worthy Valentine's Day-related reporting is to be expected from practitioners of "service journalism." (After all, the hundreds of Valentine-themed press releases that come up in a Google News search this week... Continue reading
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Behind the News
It’s Getting Awfully Loud in This Tunnel
February 7, 2006 02:53 PMAt first we thought Reuters and CNN.com were making a confession of sorts with their report today (it's a Reuters original which CNN.com picks up) referring to the "crazed media" having "reached the point of insanity." But... Continue reading
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Politics
Pinning Down the President About - What?
February 2, 2006 04:12 PMThe Associated Press calls itself "the essential global news network." Might we suggest an added tag: "The official home of the 2008 election-related non-story." It's a well-earned title, if a tad unwieldy for a... Continue reading
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Politics
The State of State of the Union Reporting
February 1, 2006 04:09 PMSome reporters must call a "certified movement analyst" to decipher politicians' expressions and gesticulations. Others dispense with expertise and perform this sort of analysis all by themselves. The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley and the Washington Times'... Continue reading
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Politics
Handicapping the State of the Union Address
January 31, 2006 06:05 PMPresident Bush will spend tonight addressing the nation. So how did the press spend today? Why, by producing endless (and pointless) State of the Union preview pieces. Many news outlets stuck with the typical recipe:... Continue reading
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Politics
Couric Leads With Chin, Then With Butt
January 26, 2006 01:54 PMThis morning, NBC's Katie Couric conducted a five-minute interview with Howard Dean touching on a range of timely topics. At one point, Dean spoke about "corruption scandals in Congress" and Republicans getting money from Jack Abramoff. Couric -- no lefty,... Continue reading
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The Audit
Marriage Boosts Income, Says Media Because Someone Said It
January 19, 2006 04:04 PMOn a slow news day, reporting on the results of some scientific study or another can make for quick, easy filler. (Plus, if the study or its results are quirky enough or counterintuitive enough or "gee, men are from... Continue reading
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The Audit
Who Needs a Brochure When We Have the New York Times?
January 18, 2006 04:57 PMAbout one-third of the way into her piece in the business section of Tuesday's New York Times, Stephanie Saul, it seems, ran out of skepticism. And things were looking so promising for a while, there. ... Continue reading
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The Audit
Times to Expose “Bloggers With Fingers”
January 18, 2006 11:03 AMWe're guessing it went something like this: New York Times reporter pitching story to editor: Everyone has a blog. In the past few months alone, we've reported that: teens blog; subjects of newspaper articles blog; <a... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Gabriel Sherman on Getting Thin-Skinned Journalists to Talk
January 13, 2006 04:30 PMGabriel Sherman is a media reporter at the New York Observer, where he has covered Judith Miller's resignation from the New York Times, Newsweek's retracted report on Koran desecration at Guantanamo... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Saved by the Sobs
January 12, 2006 12:06 PMHad Martha-Ann Bomgardner not begun to weep in the middle of her Supreme Court nominee-husband's confirmation hearings yesterday, we're not sure that poli-bloggers would have had anything to get bloggy about today. But she did, so questions... Continue reading
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Blog Report
On Alito, Blogging from the Right and White-on-White Magazine Mastheads
January 11, 2006 12:56 PMThe Alito nomination may fall "low on the public's list of priorities," but it's tip-top on the list of many a blogger this week, proving once again that bloggers are not like regular people. Also not like... Continue reading
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