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Tag Archives: C-Span
When Journalists Rent Out Their B(u)ylines . . .
. . . nothing good can come of it. There’s a growing trend among journalists of co-authoring books with subjects they probably would be better off covering. Exhibit Umpteen, from Sunday’s New York Times. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and … Continue reading
Romney Wants To NASCAR Big Bird
Mediabistro’s FishbowlDC passes along this C-Span video from this afternoon in which Mitt Romney (R-Oscar the Grouch) says that he’d defund PBS if elected president. “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird has to have advertisers,” he said, explaining … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bird, C-Span, FishbowlDC, KFC, MediaBistro, Mitt Romney, PBS
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Brian Lamb Gets C-Spun
C-Span’s Brian Lamb is the Joe Friday of TV interviewers – straight as Gibraltar, traditional as figgy pudding. So you could understand his befuddlement during an hourlong interview with Daily Caller diva Michelle Fields on last night’s Q&A. (See it … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Lamb, C-Span, Daily Caller, Matt Damon, Michelle Fields, Occupy Wall Street, Patriotic Millionaires, Q&A
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C-Spin: NYT’s Jill Abramson Dodges NSA Bullet
Sunday’s C-Span Q&A featured an interview with recently minted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson. During said interview, Abramson and Q&A host Brian Lamb talked about the controversial 2005 Times investigation into warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency. What they … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Lamb, C-Span, C-Spin, New York Times, NPR, NSA, Q&A
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Noise Of The World: Prime Minister’s Questions
One of the most excellent sidebars to the Rupert-Murdoch-Goes-Chernobyl saga has been the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions donnybrook in the British House of Commons, which C-Span has blessedly broadcast lo these many years. Especially lively – yesterday’s proceedings: PM David … Continue reading
