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Iran on Today’s Front Pages

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…

... 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?”

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

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?

"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

According to Associated Press writer Sally Buzbee: Iranian authorities criticized international media reports and took steps to control the flow... More

When Novelists Report

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

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.

Without any further ado: STATEMENT OF SEN. HOWELL HEFLIN HANDKERCHIEF JULY 19, 1994 I mistakenly picked up a pair of... More

Huffy HuffPo

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”

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…”

...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

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

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?

I'm not sure why any of this is news (what Dave Letterman said about Gov. Sarah Palin; what Palin said... More

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