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old news

October 18, 2008 – 3:24 am

On Xark! this week, eloquent media blogger Dan wrote what I think is the best article yet as to why the business of metro newspaperin’ is soon to be obsolete.
I remember attending convention after convention in the wake of the brand new brand of journalism: The Weblog. Frantic press junkies asked the same question over [...]

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media war on war

March 17, 2008 – 2:43 am

The danger of a presidential election as monumental and central as the 2008 presidential election is that the American public loses sight of everything else going on in the world. The Iraq War, for example, was on everybody’s radar just a year ago — the annual anti-war rally I went to in Portland, Ore. last [...]

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election

February 1, 2008 – 6:31 am

I’m burned out. Are a lot of people burned out? Does this happen every election year, or are we all just uniquely DONE with G.W. to the extent that don’t know what to do rather than turn the ‘08 election into a veritable Us Weekly special edition? As the kind of person who eats up [...]

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heeding headlines

August 16, 2007 – 2:43 pm

I opened the newspaper today and here were the leading headlines:

The New York Times: Powerful Earthquake Rocks Peru; Parents Warned Cough Medicines May Imperil Infants; Iraq Toll at 250 In The Deadliest Attack of the War
The Washington Post: Rattled Stock Markets Continue to Fall; Use of Spy Satellites to Widen; Texas Bracing for Floods as [...]

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americans suck

July 21, 2007 – 4:33 pm

Check out my list of My 10 Least Favorite (Living) Americans…
by clicking here

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newspaper, news again

July 5, 2007 – 3:35 pm

Today Slate.com ran an editorial on the plummeting profits of the print journalism industry, and optimistically touted the idea that “If we’re lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past.”
That would take a lot of luck.
The article examined case studies of copies of the Washington Post and the New York Times since [...]

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