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In Other News from “The Rape Capital of the World”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Congo. You may know it as, most recently, that place where Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said (when asked "What... More
Bosom Buddies
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Yet another way that Hillary Clinton has blazed a trail: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again stirring up discussion... More
President: We Won’t “Pull the Plug On Grandma”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 01:43 PM
Best? Most eye-catching-est? chyron thus far during the president's health care town hall in Portsmouth, NH, on MSNBC just now:... More
You Had A Bad (Hair) Day, Tabloids Edition
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Megan noted earlier Andrea Mitchell's take on "what insiders are saying" about Sec. of State Clinton's annoyed "I'm the Secretary... More
The Missing Link — How Not to Launch a Web Site
By Alexandra Fenwick Aug 11, 2009 at 12:05 PM
File this one under: Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks. Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune officially launched its ChicagoNow.com site, which brings... More
No, ABC News, This Isn’t “The Way to Reform Health Care”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 AM
ABC News's constructive contribution to health care reportage this morning on Good Morning America, above the unintentionally(?) maddening chyron "THE... More
Andrea Mitchell Attributes Clinton’s “Lost in Translation” Response to a “Bad Hair Day”
By Megan Garber Aug 11, 2009 at 08:02 AM
So Hillary Clinton displayed a rare show of public anger yesterday during a town hall in Kinshasa, Congo--after a university... More
On the Etymology of ‘Dogwasher’
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 04:29 PM
Elizabeth Rubin’s long, detailed New York Times Magazine article about Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, mentions in passing that... More
Media: You’ve Got Kurtz’s Go-Ahead to Pronounce Palin “Wrong”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 04:13 PM
From Howard Kurtz's Q&A today at washingtonpost.com: Portland, Ore.: Is there a point when the media should simply say a... More
Froomkin’s First Huffington Post
By Megan Garber Aug 10, 2009 at 02:55 PM
Dan Froomkin has officially started his tenure as Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post, and he has now published... More
O’Reilly ❤s Obama, but Not his Parents
By Greg Marx Aug 10, 2009 at 02:50 PM
Based on the evidence of his peculiar backhanded mash note to the president, published yesterday in Parade, it seems that... More
About Today’s NYT A-1 Trend Story…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 02:17 PM
... the one about how "people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging... More
You Should See His Classical Music Reviews…
By Justin Peters Aug 10, 2009 at 02:00 PM
From the Bizarrely Incongruous Ledes Department, here's how Washington Post reporter Steve Yanda leads his recap of yesterday's Nationals/Diamondbacks game... More
Message Received? Advertisers (and Air Force) Turn to Twitter
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Today in Twitter news: The New York Times Bits blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/tweeting-for-dollars/?scp=1&sq=twitter%20izea&st=cse ">reports on one marketing company's introduction of "'Sponsored Tweets,'... More
“The New Equivalent of a Full-Page Newspaper Ad?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 10, 2009 at 09:48 AM
According to Nieman Lab (citing the following specifics from an LA Times profile of Hollywood gossip blogger Perez Hilton), it... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
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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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