Amazing Prophecy in Ogden?
New outlets are now reporting that Hazmat teams have been called to an IRS office near Ogden, Utah, with one or two workers taken out on stretchers and others undergoing de-contamination showers after...
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Tuesday Linkage
Financial Times' paid online subs rose 15% last year.Two corrections on NYT's Charles Blow's Saturday column appear, including getting wrong that mother in Precious is a crack addict.Roger Ebert is on...
View ArticleRick Sanchez: Too Much Bull, or Red Bull?
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View ArticleFavre Out -- Or Not?
A Minnesota Viking fan, from Wisconsin no less, wants Vikings quarterback Brett Favre to return for another season so badly he took out a full-page ad in Favre's hometown paper to make his case. The ad...
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What's Up, Murdoch? A New York Edition
Rupert Murdoch confirmed Tuesday in remarks before the New York Board of Realtors that The Wall Street Journal will launch a New York metro edition in April.This confirms news reported earlier this...
View ArticleYes, We Mexican-can-can
Love this Media Matters tweet: Murdoch reportedly doesn't believe rumor of NYT sale, "least of all to a Mexican," but doesn't "mean that racially." http://bit.ly/cre8OP
View Article'NYT' Names Accuser
After shielding name of woman who accuses aide of New York Gov. Patterson in domestic attack, the Times published it tonight, saying others had brought it out. It also provided new testimony against...
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Wednesday Linkage
ProPublica has updated its county-by-county "recovery tracker."San Jose Merc brings back stand-alone biz section -- but Wash Post defends putting biz in section A.For month or February, E&P Exile...
View ArticleOh, Caption!
Howard Kurtz tweeted today that this is worst caption foulup in NYT history. Well, that's saying a lot, but it's got to be close. Don't miss this screen capture from yesterday afternoon.
View ArticleDavid Brooks, "The Bi-Sexual" at 'NYT'
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View ArticleFacebook Drives More Traffic to Broadcast....
...than to newspaper sites. Editor's Weblog reports the findings from a new Hitwise report on its site. But it also says Google, the highest traffic site on the Web, still sends more of its links to...
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Steiger on Murdoch's NY Push
I asked former Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Paul Steiger what he thought of the Journal launching a New York metro report next month."Rupert Murdoch is a billionaire and I am not," was his first...
View ArticleRove Over the Cliff?
The upcoming Karl Rove memoir is now getting revealed a few days before pub date--AP might have had the first scoop earlier today. Now NYT's Peter Baker has a copy and weighs in. Excerpt:Mr. Rove...
View ArticleNoting the Beatles
Bizarre editor's note in tomorrow's NYT, obviously after legal action, going back to 2008 article on guy who worked with Beatles, at center of their controversy with Maharishi--Times agreed to post on...
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Thursday Linkage
Kelly Kennedy's book on Iraq unit just out and getting press. She's the fine Military Times reporter.Long Island Press alleges Cablevision, new owner, is "destroying"Newsday. Alan Mutter: web copyright...
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Rove Spins War (Again)
Both AP and NYT came out yesterday with extracts from Karl Rove's upcoming memoir, in which he writes that, yes, he made a major mistake on Iraq--not defending Bush more vigorously against charges that...
View ArticleAfter the Fox
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View ArticleCIR vs. FBI
The Center for Investigative Reporting, which recently launched an effort to focus on unsolved civil rights cases, today criticized the FBI's decision to close dozens of such unsolved cases."So the...
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'Exile' in Exile?
Note to readers: Little or no posting for a few days, with one of us out of the country and so forth. But we might still get some stuff up. In either case, see you soon.
View ArticleStrupp in New Job
Joe Strupp started a new job with Media Matters for America.He will be doing investigative reporting on the media, so send any and all tips, source ideas and story ideas to him at...
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