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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Howard Kurtz is still going on about what he claims is a double-standard in which the media pays more attention to Republican sex scandals than those involving Democrats. And he's still doing so without addressing the fact that -- to pick just one of many examples -- media coverage of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign often focused on her husband's decade-old infidelity, but Rudy...
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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Howard Kurtz on CNN, yesterday : Friday night, a new scandal story emerged involving Senator Max Baucus, leading -- one of the leading Democrats in the health care debate. It turns out that he recommended to the U.S. attorney, the top federal prosecutor in his home state of Montana, his girlfriend, a woman who had been on his Senate payroll and suddenly was being -- she did not get the...
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The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
In today's Washington Post , Howard Kurtz brings to your attention: New York magazine . While it seems like a big, fat, pegless loveletter to Adam Moss' New York (it's sexy, it's smart, it's local, it's broadly appealing) , the piece ends on a melancholy note: By conventional standards, New York is a success. It won five National Magazine Awards in 2007, including one for general excellence....
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
On the Sunday, December 6, Reliable Sources, CNN’s Howard Kurtz brought up the scarcity of media attention to the revelation that Democratic Senator Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend to be a U.S. attorney for his home state of Montana, and even took to task CNN for ignoring the scandal as a "stunning lapse in judgment," recounting that he had monitored the news channel...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
NEW YORK -- When Adam Moss put "The Sex Diaries" on the cover of his magazine -- explicit jottings from such hot- to-trot folks as "The Polyamorous Paralegal" and "The Trader Who Will Fly for Sex" -- it hardly seemed like a subject fit to print for the New York Times.
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THE BLOGGING JOURNALIST (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Washington Post columnist and staff writer Howard Kurtz reminded Post readers in a December 4, 2009, Media Notes column that, “The raging debate over who should lead the [U.S.] Republican Party isn't the only passionate argument on the right.” See...
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The Other McCain (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... necessary. However (a) I feel like taking a nap, and (b) why should I have all the fun? Y'all fisk Howard's analysis in the comments. Or not. Maybe you feel like taking a nap, too.
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Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Hey, remember when Howard Kurtz praised The Washington Times , saying it "has always been a legitimate newspaper" and made "an effort to be fair" to both parties during the 2008 presidential election? Or the time he said the paper "is far more balanced since John Solomon took over last year"? Well, since Kurtz's former Washington Post colleague John...
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Soup Cans (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Cue the "By George, He's got it!" jokes. Here's some news for all of you anxiously taking bets on w ho will taker over for Diane Sawyer : Howard Kurtz has scooped everyone and is reporting that George Stephanopoulos has been offered the highly sought after job on "Good Morning America." One interesting note is that, according to Kurtz, "Stephanopoulos...
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BetaNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
... partners, although which paper came first is a matter for some debate -- naturally, the Post 's Howard Kurtz reported this morning that the Post was first. As Google News product manager Josh Cohen implied in a blog post yesterday, the question of which came first isn't as important as who's providing the platform: "This project sprang from conversations among senior executives...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | yesterday
... talking about movies and toys and vacation ideas. But according to the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz , “Stephanopoulos, now ABC's chief Washington correspondent, had told network executives he wanted to inject GMA with a harder-news focus as a condition of taking the job.” ABC, of course, has aided in the transformation of Stephanopoulos from political spinmeister...
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RIGHTWINGSPARKLE (Free subscription) | yesterday
... change the way we live and spend trillions of dollars doing so. Read Sarah's entire article . Howard Kurtz tweeted that the Washington Post is getting pure h*ll for printing Sarah's piece. I can never get over the left's willingness to silence anything they don't agree with. They bring a whole new meaning to censorship . Al Gore rebuts Plain in an interview to air Wednesday by asking...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Washington Post is getting grief for, as Stanley Fish, might put it, publishing Hitler in 1939 -- publishing a Sarah Palin Copenhagen oped piece. This is in The Huffington Post : Shortly after the op-ed was published online, Post media reporter Howard Kurtz tweeted that his paper was being "ripped for running Palin op-ed." Kurtz highlighted a blog post whose author...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
... to run it in the first place. Shortly after the op-ed was published online, Post media reporter Howard Kurtz tweeted that his paper was being "ripped for running Palin op-ed." Kurtz highlighted a blog post whose author refused to link to the op-ed because "[t]hey shouldn't be rewarded with the clicks, which is pretty much what this is about, I figure." Politico's...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Washington Post The idea of "Living Stories" is to simplify things for readers by grouping developing stories about a hot topic on a single Web page, with updates automatically highlighted at the top of the screen. "Google executives are touting it as their contribution to the beleaguered newspaper business," writes Howard Kurtz . || Related NYT story .
