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Is A College Degree Worth The Money? (Part 2)
A couple of weeks ago the hardworking staff did a compare-and-contrast of dueling op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times about the value of a college education. New grist for the mill from the Weekend Wall Street … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Bialik, college degree, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
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Opening Pandora’s (Political) Box
First it was Hulu offering political candidates a digital platform. Now it’s digital-music service Pandora. Via the Wall Street Journal: Pandora Tells Candidates It Can Help Locate Voters Pandora will unveil Friday a new targeted ad product aimed at political … Continue reading
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Tagged hulu, Pandora Music, political ads, Targeted Victory, Wall Street Journal
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Why Is The Wall Street Journal Giving Karl Rove A Free Ride?
Former House of Bush consigliere and current GOP gunsel Karl Rove has two day jobs: 1) Co-founder of Super PAC American Crossroads and 501(c)4 Crossroads GPS (for the difference see here); 2) Weekly columnist for the Wall Street Journal. (Oh, yes … Continue reading
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Tagged American Crossroads, Crossroads GPS, Fox News, Journalniks, Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
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The Happiest Blogs On Earth
About 200 Mommy bloggers just got a new Daddy (via the Wall StreetJournal): Disney Buys ‘Mom’ Blogs, Plans to Integrate Content In a deal that could further blur the line between advertising and blogs, Walt Disney Co. is buying Babble Media Inc., whose … Continue reading
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Tagged Babble Media, Disney, Kaboose, Sneak ADtack, Tomorrowland, Wall Street Journal
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Nation (Tina Brown Tantrum Edition)
(Note: The hardworking staff started writing this post last night, but then Verizon crashed its Internet service and it’s still not working but we’re elsewhere now, so . . . ) Things are getting downright beastly at NewsBeast, the shotgun … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, NewsBeast, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown, Wall Street Journal
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This Is What’s Wrong With The News Media’s Political Coverage (II)
Enough with the “familiar” references to U.S. Senate wannabe Elizabeth Warren’s life story! Two months ago (as the hardworking staff duly noted) it was a Boston Globe report that included this: In an hourlong interview, [Warren] spoke often of the now-familiar story … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, chin-strokerati, Elizabeth Warren, New York Times, Scott Brown, Wall Street Journal
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For Mitt Romney, 2005 Was A Very Flip-Flop Year
The Wall Street Journal did no favors for presidential hypeful Mitt Romney (R-Newt Gingrich? Really?) in this Friday front-page piece: To win election as governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Mitt Romney made a truce with liberal activists and cast himself … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, Oxymoron Watch, presidential hypeful, Total Moron Watch, Wall Street Journal
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NYT, WSJ Handicap The 2012 Election
Somebody please get the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz and the New York Times’s Nate Silver into the same room. In Wednesday’s Journal, Rabinowitz makes a compelling case for Newt Gingrich as a viable alternative to Mitt Romney in the … Continue reading
Yogi Berra Has A Gay Old Time At ‘Moneyball’
Scene: A movie theater in Montclair, N.J. Yogi Berra is here to see “Moneyball.” Berra didn’t earn a ton of money playing baseball. The game was different then. When Yogi was a 17-year-old prospect from St. Louis, he signed with … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Gay, Moneyball, Wall Street Journal, Yogi Berra
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