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That’s Rich! (GOP 75% Edition)
Ever since Frank Rich exited the New York Times and entered the Richness Protection Program at New York magazine, the hardworking staff has worried about him dropping off the chin-strokerati radar screen. So we’re launching our That’s Rich! series (pat.pending), … Continue reading
Olbermann & Rich: Rupert Payboch
The Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider has been swamped with compare-and-contrast exercises lately (see here and here and here). Here’s another one: Keith Olbermann (in The Guardian) and Frank Rich (in New York) whacking their former employer Rupert Murdoch. … Continue reading
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Tagged Current TV, Fox Sports, Frank Rich, Keith Olbermann, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York, New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian
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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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That’s Rich: Why The Times Columnist Bolted To New York Magazine
By one reading, New York Times columnist Frank Rich is just another pawn in the chess smackdown between the Times and New York magazine. Via MediaWeek: Since September, the New York Times Magazine has had New York magazine editor Adam … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Moss, Frank Rich, MediaWeek, New York, New York Times
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Two-Handed NYT Coverage Of Social Media In Egypt
Sunday’s New York Times is its own compare-and-contrast exercise regarding the power of social media to “[fuel] the fires of the Egyptian protests.” In the news pages, there’s this report: Anger and a Facebook Page That Gave It Voice It … Continue reading
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Tagged Egypt protests, Frank Rich, Khaled Said, New York Times, social media, We Are All Khaled Said
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New York Times Op-Odds Page
There seems to be a Birther Gap at the New York Times op-ed page. Sunday’s Frank Rich column: So many Republicans don’t know Obama is a natural citizen — 41 percent in a poll last week— that we must (charitably) assume … Continue reading
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Tagged birthers, CNN poll, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Obama born in US, op-ed pages
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