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• NBC's Meet the Press : Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), NYT 's David Brooks , WaPo 's E.J. Dionne , MSNBC's Rachel Maddow , Republican strategist Ed Gillespie and NBC's Tom Brokaw • CBS' Face the Nation : Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Republican...
we move to canada (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
On a cold March night in southwestern Virginia in 2003, one week prior to the United States invasion of Iraq, I filed into a packed auditorium of 2,000 students, including the entire corps of Virginia Tech military cadets dressed in white pants, white gloves, and navy blue hats. Tim Russert, host of Meet the Press, a weekly news magazine that airs on U.S. network television, was to speak on the topic...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It was the fall of 1979, and Iranian militants had seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 53 Americans hostage. The late Roone Arledge , then president of ABC News, wanted extended network coverage. "Roone had decided a long time before," Ted Koppel tells TVNewser, "that any time a big news story [broke], ABC News was going to do a special broadcast at 11:30 at night. And one day,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Oprah Giving Up Syndicated Talk Show, Moving It To Her Cable Network In 2011 (Deadline Hollywood Daily) In the coming days Oprah Winfrey and Discovery will announce OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated daytime talk show when her current deal runs...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Osama Bin Laden As Responsible For The 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based On Evidence? By David Ray Griffin Posted on October 30, 2009 Courtesy Of Veterans Today The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the one hand,...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Remember the period between the 2008 Republican Convention, but before the Katie Couric interview, when Sarah Palin was widely seen as a new politico dynamo who had breathed life into the McCain campaign? I wrote a column pointing out the the reaction to Palin eerily recalled the early reaction to Dan Quayle in 1988: [S]omewhere in the recesses of my mind, this admiring appraisal of the prospective...
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
“If someone tells you he is going to make ‘a realistic decision,’” Mary McCarthy wrote, “you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.” Calling a course of action "realistic" is, of course, a rhetorical strategy. Everyone, after all, thinks they're being realistic. You make a point out of how realistic you are being only if you're...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I have been following the current debate about sending troops to Afghanistan. I have no idea of how many troops are needed but in our rush to stop the violence, we should not forget that the basic problem is lack of education and development. I feel we should fight insurgencies with laptops, not guns. We are spending a billion dollars per week there using guns; we could have a long lasting and positive...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I've credited Digby for the term "Village" before (and use it all the time, hell I have an entire category of posts dedicated to the damn thing ) but here she explains the story behind the sobriquet which is actually something I wasn't 100% aware of. I have been getting a huge number of hits today from Greg Sargent's old blog post about the genesis of the term "the Village" which...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Le Hameau de la Potomac by digby I have been getting a huge number of hits today from Greg Sargent's old blog post about the genesis of the term "the Village" which I eventually traced to this post today by John Aravosis, who hadn't heard the term and didn't know where it came from. I have explained this before but I think it's worth repeating once in a while since the term is actually fairly...
Outside Counsel (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Interesting piece by Joan Walsh in Salon today on the way the media treated Clinton . "[F]rom start to finish, President Clinton was besieged by a vicious just-say-no GOP abetted by the perversely, inexplicably, cruelly anti-Clinton leaders of the so-called liberal media -- from the New York Times' lame crusades against Whitewater and Chinese donors and Wen Ho Lee, to the integrity-free "opinion"...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
This week in celebrity dining: Katie Couric and Mario Lopez brought their mutual friends to Tao, home of the big Buddha, while T-Mom kept it real with simple sushi on St. Marks. Mayor Bloomberg, meanwhile, rolled ten deep to Brooklyn for Japanese cuisine, and Michael’s began tweeting its boldface diners. The well-heeled are well fed, below. Barbuto : Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg dined with...
Thighs Wide Shut (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
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Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
If I were David Gregory right now, I'd certainly be looking behind my shoulders to see if I could spot any Rachel Maddow sightings. For a few weeks now there has been a quiet, simmering push that Rachel Maddow -- one of the most popular television journalists on the block -- might be the medicine necessary to help NBC's "Meet the Press" emerge from rather slumpish ratings in the wake of...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Meet the Press has been pretty lame since Tim Russert died. No offense to David Gregory, who’s done respectable work, but he was always the safe choice, "and he's made the show just that: safe," writes Brian Donovan. NBC's Sunday morning stalwart needs its fire back, and fortunately, sister network...
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