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New Republic
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Jul 14, 08 3:44 PM CDT
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Barack Obama is the same man on Iraq he was 6 months ago and 2 years ago, the New Republic editors say—so how come the press keeps saying he’s gutted his own policy? Sure, Obama recently “shifted the accent in his Iraq talk,” but talking with the commanders before definitive action has always been part of his careful “fine print”—and the press, once again, is just vilifying nuance.
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New York
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Jul 14, 08 12:19 PM CDT
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Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican congressman who gained office in the 1994 House sweep that launched Newt Gingrich. His MSNBC show Scarborough Country was initially devised as a like-minded answer to Bill O’Reilly. But, as Mark Binelli puts it in New York magazine, "Scarborough never quite mastered the voice of perpetual outrage." Which could be why his new show, Morning Joe , has a surprisingly liberal following.
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New York Times
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Jul 14, 08 9:50 AM CDT
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The press tries to treat politicians’ offspring, particularly younger ones, with kid gloves, writes David Carr of the New York Times —so it’s no wonder there was a furor when Barack Obama let Access Hollywood interview his 10- and 7-year-old daughters. Many reporters were irked by the beyond-puff piece, and Obama swiftly said he wouldn’t do it again, drawing the curtain back over his family.
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USA Today
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Jul 14, 08 9:35 AM CDT
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At just 2 days old, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are the world's most sought-after celebrity pair—and parents Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in managing mode. Just Jared reports the Brangelina lawyers bought out all domains with the bambinos' names—and experts tell USA Today that a photo shoot will occur in the next few weeks to deter rogue paparazzi.
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Politico
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Jul 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT
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Barack Obama's campaign has ripped an "offensive" New Yorker cover illustration depicting the candidate in a turban, fist-bumping his afro-sporting, AK-47-toting wife, Politico reports. The cover, intended by the magazine to lampoon the cartoonish image of Obama propagated by some of his right-wing critics, has sparked a flurry of denunciations.
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New York Times
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Jul 10, 08 10:14 AM CDT
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Enemies of Tehran, prepare to be 25% less intimidated—and perhaps more amused. An image of three missiles being test launched yesterday was doctored by Iranian state media to add a fourth, the New York Times reports. Agence France Presse picked up the photo, which made front pages around the world before it was discovered that one weapon was merely a digital composite of its neighbors.
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Wired
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Jul 9, 08 12:22 PM CDT
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The Wired Listening Post blog names its favorite digital music websites based on how they benefit music fans, as well as their impact on the industry. Imeem: for music embedding IVideoSongs: for guitar lessons Omnifone: unlimited access on the go Mog: for music blogs Muxtape: create MP3 mix "tapes" in minutes
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New York Times
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Jul 9, 08 10:55 AM CDT
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Wendy Williams, the blunt, compulsively personal, sometimes snarky radio host whose syndicated morning show reaches 12 million people, mostly in New York, is about to debut on TV. Next week, Williams launches an hour morning show on Fox stations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Detroit, directly competing with more staid programs she's enjoyed shaking up in guest appearances, the New York Times reports.
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Columbia Journalism Review
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Jul 8, 08 4:03 PM CDT
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Sports columnists are leaving behind their local teams and newspaper readership in droves for the greener pastures of the online and television worlds, and it's "something to be lamented," writes Robert Weintraub in the Columbia Journalism Review . “The gifted sports columnists often delivered the best writing in the entire paper,” serving as an insightful cheerleader or investigative instrument of a city’s frustration.
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Washington Post
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Jul 8, 08 1:30 PM CDT
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Lara Logan is sick of being tabloid fodder, CBS’ star reporter tells the Washington Post . But in the same interview, she acknowledged a nugget sure to keep gossip hounds at her heels: She’s pregnant. Having generated a slew of press over a romantic triangle in Iraq—said to have provoked a fistfight between a CNN correspondent and a US contractor in Baghdad—Logan says she plans to marry the child's father.
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Broadcasting & Cable
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Jul 8, 08 10:43 AM CDT
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Dan Patrick will join NBC's Football Night in America this fall, in a move that reunites him with Keith Olbermann. The two men changed the field of sportscasting with their 1992 debut on ESPN's SportsCenter , writes Broadcasting & Cable . Patrick will keep his radio show and Sports Illustrated column while joining host Bob Costas at Football Night .
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New York Times
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Jul 7, 08 3:21 PM CDT
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The Washington Post has picked Marcus Brauchli, a former top editor at the Wall Street Journal , as its executive editor, sources tell the New York Times , with a formal announcement coming later today or tomorrow. The 46-year-old Brauchli replaces the outgoing Leonard Downie, 66, and represents a dramatic generational shift under the new, 42-year-old publisher.
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USA Today
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Jul 7, 08 1:03 PM CDT
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Still reeling from the writers strike and dealing with the threat of an actors strike, network TV faces an uphill battle for viewers this fall. On the eve of the annual dog-and-pony show to introduce new shows to critics, USA Today TV expert Robert Bianco looks at the uncertainty plaguing the once-reliable fall TV season and the straws the networks are grasping.
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New York Times
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Jul 7, 08 8:31 AM CDT
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The Fox News public relations machine makes no bones about skewering those it perceives as foes, writes David Carr in the New York Times . “At Fox News, media relations is a kind of rolling opposition research operation intended to keep reporters in line by feeding and sometimes maiming them,” Carr notes. It deals with the press “more like a political campaign” than a news organization, says one reporter.
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TPM Cafe
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Jul 2, 08 7:12 PM CDT
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Despite David Brooks' attempts to “muddy” the mathematical waters, Barack Obama’s tax plan doesn’t hit the wealthy very hard—and it’s the one that helps the middle class, Jared Bernstein writes in Talking Points Memo Café. Brooks wrote in the Times that moneyed Americans would pay “over 50% of their income” under Obama, but Bernstein says the top 1% would fork over 36%, the top 0.1% only 39%—comparable to rates under Clinton.
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Salon
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Jul 2, 08 4:00 PM CDT
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With rhetoric on Iran escalating almost daily, Glenn Greenwald reviews recent charges that Israel's agenda is what's behind all this agitation for war. When Joe Klein argued last week in Time that some war proponents are “motivated by their allegiance to Israel,” reaction was "as vicious, furious and dishonest as it was predictable," Greenwald writes in Salon.
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New York Times
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Jul 1, 08 2:45 PM CDT