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The Froomkin Affair: A Roundup of ‘Terrible Disappointment’

Here's the official reason for White House Watch blogger Dan Froomkin's unceremonious dismissal from The Washington Post, courtesy of Washington... More

The First Time as Tragedy, the Second as Farsi

Status: Persian!!! Yep, take that, Twitter: Last night, Facebook--this week's second-most-talked-about social networking site--released a test version of its site... More

Stephen Knows Why…He Swatted That Fly…

This Colbert Report clip is belated (it's from Wednesday night's episode)--but it's a Friday, and the clip's hilarious...so here it... More

Photog Arrested in Iran Speaks Out

Photo District News has a fascinating Q&A with a photographer (European) who was arrested on Tuesday while covering the events... More

“It’s Like an Electronic Leash to Yank Me Back In”

...is how Contessa Brewer described her work-issued BlackBerry on MSNBC just now. (The comment came as Brewer was readying herself... More

More Op-Charts, Please

There's something about getting straight data --presented on a pretend clip-board, in the middle of an opinion page-- that I... More

“First Line of Surveillance of All The News…”

... is how Josh Marshall described the role of TalkingPointsMemo.com's readers on last night's Colbert Report. (From Colbert's intro: "Here's... More

Twitter Karma

Beware, Jack Shafer ("Doubting Twitter. Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations"). When you speak ill... More

Who Remains To Report In Iran

From the New York Times: After the visas of most visiting journalists expire [including, today, NPR's correspondent and the Times's... More

NYT’s “Coy” Iran Coverage?

From Time's James Poniewozik, via Twitter: Is it just me or does nytimes #iranelection coverage seem strangely coy? As if... More

President Harms Fly; TV News Harms America

CNBC's John Harwood had a sit-down with President Obama yesterday during which they discussed.... during which the president addressed... um,... More

CNN’s “Unverified Material”

A segment from last night's Daily Show mocking a new on-screen ID that's popped up on CNN during reports on... More

(Where To) Get Your Iran News

Both The Nation's iran_s_twitter_revolution?rel=emailNation">Ari Berman and Politico's Ben Smith offer recommendations for where to get news (and commentary) about Iran.... More

Twitter Triumphalism? (“CNNFail” and All I Got Was This T-Shirt)

For just $17.99, you can be the proud (triumphant) owner of this #CNNFail ringer T. Probably you've heard of #CNNFail?... More

Kristof’s Elite Tweets

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweacts to making The Twitter Elite (or Twitter's "suggested user list," on which the... More

Old TNR vs. New TNR

In one tweet

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