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Journalists’ Dilemma Makes Good TV
Haiti has been a petri dish of journalistic quandaries in the to-be-or-not-to-be-involved category. Especially for the TV doctors (via TVNewser): Bob Steele, a journalism values scholar at the Poynter Institute, tells the LA Times’ Matea Gold, “I think it’s very hard for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Steele, Poynter Institute, Richard Besser, TVNewser
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Cave Drawings
Just about anything Damien Cave writes for the New York Times is worth reading, but this piece is downright riveting. Lede: TITANYEN, Haiti — A few miles north of the busted-down buildings in Port-au-Prince, up a hillside where cows graze, … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Election
All day Tuesday, you got the sense that only the Ladies Who Lunch in the People’s Republic of Brookline still believed that Martha Coakley could actually win the U.S. Senate race. It was special, alright: • When the polls closed … Continue reading
Cable Vision
Striking contrast on the cable news networks at 10 p.m. Monday: • Fox Newsie Greta van Susteren was in Boston to view the remains of Martha Coakley • Thrillin‘ Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s video savant, was in a TV town hall … Continue reading
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Tagged Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Greta van Susteren, MSNBC video savant
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Mish-M*A*S*H
From today’s Inside Track in the Boston Herald: WE HEAR: That Oscar-winning filmmaker Robert Altman and Elliot Gould are headed to Boston University on Friday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “M*A*S*H” at the alumni association’s annual Winterfest . That I’ve got to see.
Typo o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Headline of Bill O’Reilly’s column in Sunday’s Boston Herald op-ed page: Palin’s back and bigger then ever It was corrected on the Herald website, but still . . . The same edition of the Herald featured a piece about the … Continue reading
Ads o’ the Day™
1) Scott Brown buys the Boston Globe Scott Brown’s full-page “Open Letter to the People of Massachusetts” in the Sunday Boston Globe is yet another example of his campaign’s pitch-perfect media effort in the current U.S. Senate race. Here’s how … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe ad, fit him to a Tea, Scott Brown, Tea Party Express
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Eternal Journalists’ Dilemma
From Time’s Swampland blog: Another Dispatch From Haiti Posted by KAREN TUMULTY Friday, January 15, 2010 at 8:35 pm Please follow Jay Newton-Small on Twitter. Her tweets are heartbreaking: 2late, 2late, they say. I tell myself that i’m doing more good writing … Continue reading
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Tagged Haiti, Jay Newton-Small, Kevin Carter, Sanjay Gupta, Sudan vulture
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The Weakly Standard
The current edition of The Weekly Standard includes a piece headlined, “The Facilitating Leaks Act.” Lede: The title of the legislation is innocent enough: the Free Flow of Information Act. The motivation behind it is a seemingly worthy one. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Flow of Information Act, Standardniks, Weekly Standard
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Beauty Call, Part 2
Well the Missus got a phone call from a former president on Saturday and here’s what he said (in a surprisingly lackluster way; then again he does have some other things going on): Hello. This is Bill Clinton. I’m calling … Continue reading
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Tagged chin-stroking racket, Martha Coakley, Massachusettes, Scott Brown
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