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Tag Archives: All Things Considered
Dead Blogging Jonathan Franzen At The BPL
America’s Litt-It Guy Jonathan Franzen entered a banged-out Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library Saturday afternoon and tried to move the podium to the center of the stage. Unsuccessfully. Undaunted, Franzen proceeded to read the “Mistakes Were Made” … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, Boston Public Library, Bright Eyes, Freedom, Guy Raz, Jonathan Franzen, Litt-It Guy, Time, Tina Fey
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Pot Is Hot
All of a sudden, weed is the new black. Exhibit A: NPR’s All Things Considered umpteen-part series The New Marijuana. (Their “Seeds & Stems” installment should air in the next week or two.) Exhibit B: Sunday’s New York Times Business … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, NPR, seeds & stems, The New Marijuana
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William Fakespeare
If you liked last Saturday’s All Things Considered story about the 18th century Shakespeare forger William-Henry Ireland (as well you should have), you’ll love the book excerpt of Doug Stewart’s The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare in the June edition … Continue reading
Small Things Considered
I know it’s summer and all but really, NPRniks, is “All Things Considered Lite” a necessary response? Start off with last week’s Windy the Blogging Plastic Bag in a Tree, which admittedly was filed under Categories: Fun, but nonetheless was lighter … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, Living Oprah, NPRniks, Seventeen magazine, Windy the Plastic Bag
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Joe Biden’s Hair(cut) Plugs
From our You Can’t Make This Stuff Up desk: In a speech on Friday about the beneficial results of the Obama administration’s Recovery Act, vice president Joe Biden had this to say (via Politics Daily): “It means a lot more … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, Good Morning America, Joe Biden, plugs, Politics Daily, Recovery Act
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Campaign Outsider Update Event™
Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, anti-Israel, Bogus Promises, Boston Globe, BP, Facetime, Mark Zuckerberg, Marty Peretz, New Republic, NPR, Update Alert
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Of Facetime
For the past few days, Mark (“I’m CEO . . . bitch“) Zuckerberg has launched an all-out media blitz to tell Facebook users that he’s tightening up the social networking site’s privacy controls, while insisting that’s not what they really … Continue reading
Deval Patrick’s MisStart
Very nice segment on Saturday’s All Things Considered in which Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick talked about donating his father Pat’s musical archive to the Berklee College of Music. Over the course of his career, Pat Patrick accompanied many jazz greats: John … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, Berklee College of Music, Deval Patrick, I Can't Get Started, NPR, Pat Patrick
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NPR’s Mortal Zinn
Thursday’s Howard Zinn obit on NPR’s All Things Considered included, as the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider noted, this brickbat from the always-unpleasant David Horowitz: There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn’s intellectual output that is worthy of any kind … Continue reading
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