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Bloggers Lash Out Against Santa Barbara Lawsuit
December 20, 2006 12:51 PM
On Monday, the Associated Press reported that the publishers of the Santa Barbara News-Press had filed a lawsuit against Susan Paterno, a writer for the American Journalism Review. Paterno's article, which appears in the December/January issue of AJR, "recounts events... Continue reading
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Time Names POY, Bloggers Not Tickled
December 18, 2006 01:09 PM
In an apparent attempt to elicit witty puns and sarcastic punditry from bloggers, Time magazine has announced that its much-anticipated Person of the Year is "You." "[F]or seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and... Continue reading
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Snow Offers Olive Branch, Bloggers Remain Partisan
December 15, 2006 12:20 PM
Last week, in a testy exchange that received much attention on political blogs and talk shows, Tony Snow dismissed an ISG-related question from NBC News White House correspondent David Gregory as "partisan." But on Thursday, the day after Dana Milbank... Continue reading
Politics

‘Way Forward’ Unveiled, Bloggers Not Impressed
December 6, 2006 01:55 PM
The Baker-Hamilton Report, entitled "The Way Forward," finally made it to President Bush's desk this morning, and is already rapidly circulating on the Web (the complete report can be found here). The report calls for launching a "diplomatic offensive,"... Continue reading
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The Atlantic’s Top 100 List Is Lazy, Boring
December 5, 2006 11:45 AM
The December issue of the Atlantic Monthly hit newsstands last week, confronting readers with a cover story befitting of Time or Entertainment Weekly: "The 100 Most Influential Americans of All Time." Indeed, Time has already run its annual... Continue reading
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Of Phone Books and Reporters
November 29, 2006 12:06 PM
For the federal investigation that refuses to go away, proceedings continued to roil the press this week. On Tuesday, the Washington Post reportedon how the Supreme Court had recently refused a request from the New York Times to keep... Continue reading
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Bloggers Revel in New Legal Immunity
November 22, 2006 12:30 PM
The California Supreme Court's ruling on Monday of Barrett v. Rosenthal, which grants immunity to those who repost defamatory material on the Internet, is giving bloggers around the country a sense of both relevance and security. The unanimous decision upheld... Continue reading
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Bloggers Doubt TVNewser’s Abilities as Trade Columnist
November 21, 2006 12:42 PM
On Monday, the New York Times' Julie Bosman printed a gushy profile of the unassuming editor of the blog TVNewser, "a seven-day-a-week, almost 24-hour-a-day newsfeed of gossip, anonymous tips, newspaper article links and program ratings." The piece ran on... Continue reading
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The Juice is Loose, and That’s a Problem
November 17, 2006 12:30 PM
In a statement published on the Drudge Report Thursday evening and printed in the New York Post this morning, publisher Judith Regan describes her own motivation for deciding to publish O.J. Simpson's forthcoming book in which he reportedly... Continue reading
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Tierney Gives Bloggers What They Want to Hear
November 14, 2006 01:20 PM
New York Times Op-Ed scribe John Tierney finally gave readers what they wanted to hear on Tuesday. Tierney filled most of the space in his column with grumbling and speculation that the 110th Congress will be even less productive than... Continue reading
Politics

Bloggers Confront Exit Polls, Pollsters, Each Other
November 7, 2006 02:12 PM
Today's Wall Street Journal reports that, "Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be... Continue reading
Politics

Rumsfeld Takes Editorial Fire, Bloggers Take Sides
November 6, 2006 01:23 PM
The Military Times Media Group published an editorial in all four of its daily newspapers (Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, and Marine Corps Times) today, calling for the immediate resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. ... Continue reading
Politics

Bloggers Critical of Media’s Handling of Hotel Scuffle
November 1, 2006 01:55 PM
A scuffle in a hotel lobby in Charlottesville, Va. yesterday between a liberal blogger and supporters of Republican Senator George Allen has made the pages of the Washington Post today, adding more attention to an incident that has been widely... Continue reading
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NY Post’s Circ Surge: Fuzzy Math or Election Weather Vane?
October 31, 2006 01:14 PM
When the Audit Bureau of Circulations released the latest circulation figures for U.S. daily newspapers yesterday, a surprising statistic emerged: Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has catapulted in front of the (New York) Daily News in daily circulation while also... Continue reading
Politics

Bloggers in a Spin About Dubious Paraguay Land Deal
October 25, 2006 01:39 PM
On Monday, the Guardian published a story under this unexpected headline: "Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway." The unconfirmed report, which finds its dubious source in the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina, suggests that President... Continue reading
Politics

Emotions Flare as Bloggers Judge CNN’s ‘Unvarnished Truth’
October 24, 2006 01:33 PM
On October 18, during a segment of Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN aired footage from a videotape made by Iraqi insurgents, which showed themselves targeting and killing American troops in Iraq. The segment featured a conversation between CNN's Gary Tuchman... Continue reading
Politics

Media Stokes Obama Drama, Bloggers Less Coy
October 23, 2006 12:45 PM
During a five-day span last week, the New York Times published four Op-Ed columns speculating about Illinois Senator Barack Obama's presidential potential. At the same time, the senator's face popped up on the cover of Time magazine. Finally, the... Continue reading
Politics

‘Gay Activist Blogger’ Sets Off ‘Spheric Furor
October 18, 2006 01:30 PM
On Tuesday evening, while interviewing left-wing radio host Ed Schultz, self-described "gay activist blogger" Michael Rogers announced his intention to "out" GOP Senator Larry Craig of Idaho as a closet homosexual. "It's my conclusion that Senator Larry Craig... Continue reading
Politics

Tony Snow Hits the Road, Blogosphere Hits Back
October 17, 2006 11:31 AM
In yesterday's New York Times, White House reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported on the newest development in Tony Snow's evolving duties as White House Press Secretary. Noting the "conspiratorial gleam in his eye," Stolberg launched into an embellished depiction... Continue reading
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Uncertainty and Bloggers Surround Blast in North Korea.
October 10, 2006 12:28 PM
Today's Washington Times leads with a provocative piece by Bill Gertz, stating that the explosion in North Korea on Sunday might have been triggered by little more than conventional explosives. "US officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said... Continue reading

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