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Iran on Today’s Front Pages
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2009 at 09:34 AM
Well. Here's how the New York Post today plays the news from Iran. I'm guessing they're alone with that headline,... More
“Off-The-Record,” Explained Through Role Play…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 04:33 PM
... for the benefit of "angry bloggers," by Choire Sicha at The Awl. Bringing, er, total clarity to one of... More
Keller in Tehran: Admirable? Useful? “Creeping Meachamism?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 01:37 PM
The New York Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, is filing A-1 election-related reports from Tehran, a co-bylined "news analysis" today... More
FiveThirtyEight on Iran’s “Fishy” Election Results
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Working on a longer post about Iran election coverage, but for now here's FiveThirtyEight's Renard Sexton on the "fishy" election... More
Twitter’s Time Has (Now Officially) Come?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM
"Is Twitter no longer an ultra-hip refuge for the perpetually plugged-in?" wonders the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz today. How might... More
The News From Iran
By Clint Hendler Jun 15, 2009 at 09:27 AM
According to Associated Press writer Sally Buzbee: Iranian authorities criticized international media reports and took steps to control the flow... More
When Novelists Report
By Jane Kim Jun 12, 2009 at 03:31 PM
In the name of experimentation...send out novelists to report the news! Well, no, actually, it was in honor of Israel's... More
Going Digital Today
By Katia Bachko Jun 12, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Today is the day that TV stations cut analog signals, and American television goes fully digital. For those unclear about... More
Best. Press Release. Ever.
By Clint Hendler Jun 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Without any further ado: STATEMENT OF SEN. HOWELL HEFLIN HANDKERCHIEF JULY 19, 1994 I mistakenly picked up a pair of... More
Huffy HuffPo
By Jane Kim Jun 11, 2009 at 03:43 PM
The headline of a post on the Washington City Paper’s City Desk blog reads, “HuffPo Scolds Washingon City Paper for... More
The NYT’s “Aged News”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 11, 2009 at 08:04 AM
Seeking, perhaps, a high-profile way to appear the "good sport," the New York Times granted The Daily Show a tour... More
“I Admire [Maureen Dowd’s] Writing But…”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 04:16 PM
...not so much the stuff in today's column about President Bush. Fox News's Karl Rove on the New York Times's... More
FOIA’s New Ombudsman
By Clint Hendler Jun 10, 2009 at 04:06 PM
The National Archives and Records Administration has just announced that Miriam Nisbet will be the first director of the Office... More
On Michelle Obama’s Westminster Abbey Outfit
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 01:47 PM
From the (London) Times: While Mrs. Obama is "correct" to wear her bright colors "stacked," and the colors themselves are... More
What? You Expected Intelligent Discussion Roses?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM
I'm not sure why any of this is news (what Dave Letterman said about Gov. Sarah Palin; what Palin said... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
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