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Blog Report
Current Criticism, Intelligent Design, and Having it All
August 3, 2005 01:14 PM"The challenge for Current [TV]," we suggested yesterday, "will be to walk the delicate line between cool and worthwhile." According to James Wolcott, Current is already stumbling. Wolcott wonders if "young [is] the new tired," because Current strikes... Continue reading
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Politics
Time’s “Minor Wrinkle” Is the New York Post’s Mountain Range
July 27, 2005 01:11 PMThose who turn first to the New York Post for their PlameGate news can be excused for feeling confused (or even abused) this morning. "Plame's Anti-W Money" is the headline on Deborah Orin's Post article today (picked up by... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Jude Law, Judge Roberts and a Fashion Statement
July 26, 2005 12:53 PMIt's News of the Week word association time. We say "Law" and you think first -- admit it -- of a certain British actor with a thing for a nanny, and then, only moments later, of a certain Supreme Court... Continue reading
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Politics
It’s Clement! No, It’s Roberts! No, It’s a Mariachi Band!
July 20, 2005 03:48 PMWhat's a Cable News Talking Head to do when he has spent all afternoon on air next to a blow-up headshot of Judge Edith Brown Clement and an on-screen bullet-pointed biography of Clement -- and suddenly he gets wind that... Continue reading
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Politics
A Fifty Percent Chance of News
July 19, 2005 11:26 AM"It Could Rain This Morning." "The Red Sox Could Win Tonight." "Bush Could Name Nominee As Early As Today." Helpful headlines? Not really. Real headlines? Nope, but for the last one which runs on Deb Reichman's Associated Press piece... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Andrew Marshall on Security in Iraq, Relying on Iraqi Staff, and Turning a Baghdad Bureau Into a Bunker
July 15, 2005 06:00 PMAndrew Marshall Andrew Marshall served as Reuters' Iraq bureau chief, based in Baghdad, from August 2003 until June 2005. There, Marshall spent much of his time protecting... Continue reading
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Politics
Reporters, Bored, Manufacture Marital Discord
July 13, 2005 03:08 PMIf you believe what you read in the news, Laura Bush on Tuesday made an urgent, public plea to her husband to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court. When reporters informed President Bush about his wife's strident appeal, the... Continue reading
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Politics
CNN: “We Decide, You Do a Doubletake”
July 12, 2005 04:56 PMOn any given day, you're bound to see something on cable news that boggles the mind. (And we're not talking about "Mom Charged After Kids Take Turns in the Trunk.") This afternoon, the following exchange transpired between CNN <a... Continue reading
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Blog Report
With Miller Behind Bars, the Knives Come Out
July 7, 2005 11:44 AMWith Judy in jail -- a development that yesterday left even Wonkette "sort [of] out of glib right now" -- the blogosphere bubbles with a range of reactions (including, in case you missed it, ours). There is, of... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Summer Reading to Keep You Slim
July 6, 2005 01:46 PMLooking for a light summer read? An "important book," maybe, but also "a funny book, in a lot of parts"? That's how Bernard Goldberg hypes his latest, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37), in... Continue reading
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Politics
Media Speculate That Media Will … Speculate!
July 5, 2005 04:21 PMThe headline on Elisabeth Bumiller's New York Times piece yesterday read as follows: "Bush's Decision: Speculation on Contenders Begins Despite Entreaties." And so begins the SupremeStakes. A close cousin to the Veepstakes (which we frequently complained about... Continue reading
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Politics
Who Were Those Masked Men?
June 29, 2005 04:44 PMSix-year-old Charlee Liebers was among the "war protesters" gathered yesterday afternoon near Fort Bragg, the site of President Bush's speech last night. So reports the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer this morning. While Liebers was observed by the Observer drawing a... Continue reading
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Behind the News
NBC Flogs a Lame Horse
June 28, 2005 04:58 PMSurely CJR Daily was not alone this week in our perhaps child-like hope that Cruise v. Lauer was, as Dick Cheney would say, "in its last throes." Alas, our hopes were dashed this morning, as the producers of NBC's "Today... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Vote on This, Wolf
December 13, 2004 10:53 AMOn CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, Wolf Blitzer presented viewers with the "Web Question of the Week," and invited them, as he does several times throughout his show, to vote online. This week's question? "Do U.S. troops in Iraq have... Continue reading
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Politics
Revised Forecast: Snow! Lots and Lots of Snow!
December 9, 2004 04:46 PMRemember what the New York Times told you on Monday about Treasury Secretary John Snow's certain doom, as "signaled" by anonymous insiders? Scratch that. The Bush administration announced yesterday that Snow will stay on. So, are certain publications today... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Why Draft a Press Release When AP Will Do?
December 8, 2004 01:51 PMPlease excuse us for thinking we were reading an NBC corporate press release rather than a news story when we came across David Bauder's Associated Press piece yesterday about Brian Williams' first three days as NBC's new Tom... Continue reading
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Politics
… Who Shall Remain Anonymous Because He Doesn’t Want You to Know Who He Is …
December 6, 2004 02:25 PMCabinetstakes, as CJR Daily noted recently, is the new default choice of Washington reporters who no longer have a veepstakes to write about. As assorted members of President Bush's Cabinet have announced their departures in recent weeks, the... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
David Brancaccio on Self-Serving TV News, Jon Stewart Comparisons, and Being a Bill Moyers Pod Person
December 3, 2004 04:44 PMDavid Brancaccio (Courtesy "NOW") David Brancaccio joined PBS's weekly newsmagazine, "NOW," in the fall of 2003 and will take over for Bill Moyers as the show's... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Modems, Beers and Bathrooms
December 2, 2004 03:36 PMToday, yet another member of the mainstream media waxes colorful on that vexing question, how to regard bloggers and the relative influence they wield. "Bloggers are like basketball fans, ready to spray beer on pampered stars whenever they make... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Triumphalism Here, Triumphalism There, Triumphalism Everywhere
December 1, 2004 02:01 PMFor a man who anchors a network newscast -- which, any blogger will remind you, is a dying breed -- Tom Brokaw (and his successor) continue to consume an inordinate amount of space in that proudly ascendant medium, the blogosphere.... Continue reading
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