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WCVB Ripped Off By North Carolina Station?
Via MediaBistro’s TV Spy: The Highest Form of Flattery? WNCT Airs Nearly Identical Promo as WCVB Handy side-by-side video comparison: Weird, eh? TV Spy explanation: In February, WCVB’s Sean Kellytraveled to Kabul and reported on the work of a Massachusetts National … Continue reading
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Tagged Assignment: Afghanistan, Chris Brown, MediaBistro, Sean Kelly, TV Spy, WCVB, WNCT
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Edward R Murrow On ‘What’s My Line?’
Via RTNDA: Don’t miss the last two minutes.
The Redemption Unit, VII
(Previously on The Redemption Unit: I, II, III, IV, V, VI) Pay It Backward When the last claimant’s benefits had been redetermined and the government added up its losses, it immediately decided to recoup them by initiating the Overpayment Recovery Program. Letters went out – … Continue reading
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Tagged overpayments, Pay It Backward, Social Security Administration, SSI, The Redemption Unit
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RomneyFare®: Not So Good In NYT
Front-page piece in Sunday’s New York Times about the jobs-based focus of once and future presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R-Pretzel Logic), who undoubtedly wishes he’d been relegated to page A23. Nut graf: The message is well suited to Mr. Romney’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, New York Times, ObamaCare, R-Pretzel Logic, RomneyCare, RomneyFare
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MoDo Grabs The Big Chair At NYT
Before Frank Rich’s laptop is even cold, New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd has slipped into the paper’s Week in Review Spotlight Column (see dead-tree edition for what they call in D.C. “the optics”): Governor Brown Redux: The Iceman … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Rich, Jerry Brown, Maureen Dowd, MoDo, New York Times, Op-It Girl, standowd-issue
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WSJ NOT The Assignment Desk For NPR
Yesterday the hardworking staff wondered if there was any relationship between the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Interview with Paul Johnson and a segment on Weekend All Things Considered, since both compared the current Middle East uprisings with the widespread European … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 revolutions, All Things Considered, Guy Raz, Middle East, NPR, Paul Johnson, Wall Street Journal
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Lit Crit At The Back Bay Borders
The Borders on Boylston/Newbury Street is one sad-assed retail outlet, what with its STORE CLOSING banners and “This Fixture Not For Sale” signs (not yet, anyway). But the mood was lightened Saturday afternoon by a gaggle of girls sitting alongside … Continue reading
WSJ The Assignment Desk For NPR?
From the Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview with British historian Paul Johnson: Mr. Johnson says he doesn’t follow politics closely anymore, but he quickly warms to the subject of the Middle East. The rash of uprisings across the Arab world … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848, All Things Considered, Guy Raz, Jonathan Sperber, Middle East, NPR, Paul Johnson, revolution, Wall Street Journal
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Peggy Noodnik Gets It Right
Peggy Noonan routinely misfires in her Wall Street Journal column, but this week she’s entirely on target in her piece about the public-union rumpus currently raging from Wisconsin to New Jersey. Here’s what she says about the latter: If the … Continue reading
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Tagged New Jersey, Peggy Noonan, Printers Union, public unions, teachers unions, Teamsters, Wall Street Journal, Wisconsin
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Southie-Based ‘Good People’ Gets Good/Bad Reviews
The Missus and I saw David Lindsay-Abaire’s new play “Good People” in previews last month and loved it. As did New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley: Don’t make the mistake of thinking you understand Margaret Walsh from the get-go, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Brantley, Boston Globe, David Lindsay-Abaire, Good People, New York Times, Southie, Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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Campaign Outsider 