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NPR Drives Anchor To Drink
It all started a couple of weeks ago with a piece about salmon vodka. All Things Considered anchor Michelle Norris, during an interview with vice president of Alaska Distillery Scotti McDonald, brought in some folks to do a taste test. NORRIS: … Continue reading
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Tagged Dogfish Head, Guy Raz, Jiahu, Michelle Norris, No Proxy Rumpots, NPR, salmon vodka
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Y, Oh Y?
The Young Men’s Christian Association, universally known as the YMCA, has decided to outstrip the acronym-minded folks at KFC, AARP, and – most recently – NPR by stripping down to one letter. New York Times headline: Y.M.C.A. Is Downsizing to … Continue reading
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Tagged AARP, KFC, New York Times, NPR, Village People, Y, YMCA, Young Men's Castoff Association
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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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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
Campaign Outsider Outstanding Warrants (2)
Our post about NPR’s new language guidelines when referring to abortion rights supporters and opponents generated this auto-reply: Dear John, Thank you for contacting the Office of the Ombudsman at NPR. Every message is read by Ombudsman Alicia Shepard and her … 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 You Serious?
I meant to mention this last night before I got caught up in Muskie-mania. Newsflash! NPR Changes Abortion Language. National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard wrote this week about a “lively debate” among NPR editors concerning the use of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Shepard, Kiss Me I'm Liberal, NPR, pro-choice, pro-life
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Boston Is Zinn City
Thursday’s Boston Globe front-paged its obituary of Boston University historian and political activist Howard Zinn, and it was surprising that for such a controversial figure there was no, well, controversy in the piece. As the Globe turns, apparently, no one … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, David Horowitz, glowbituary, Howard Zinn, NPR
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