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How Newspapers Are Wording Their Own Obituaries
12:03AM Ephraim Gadsby | If anyone else is weirded out by newspapers trying to dispassionately report news of their decline, look away now. More »
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BusinessWeek : Wasserstein Out, Layoffs Coming
3:56AM Hamilton Nolan | In your revenue-generating Tuesday media column: the BusinessWeek bidding draws to a close, Americans would pay only a pittance for newspaper websites, Peter Shankman’s getting rich somehow, and the WaPo is determined not to write about dwarves. More »
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Blogger Has Sex
3:52AM Hamilton Nolan | In your picturesque Thursday media column: Journalism used as a tool to obtain sexual satisfaction, WaPo libelously ponders libel, the homeless intern speaks words of hope, and FAIR is cutting writers’ pay. More »
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Washington Post Empathises With Family “Sqeaking By” On $300K
9:15AM Foster Kamer | How does the other-other half live? You know, the families who are now forced to “squeak by” on $US300K a year? Leave it to the Washington Post to not only find out, but to attempt to elicit empathy! More »
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Arianna Huffington Seduces Journalist Over Email
6:55AM Ryan Tate | The Huffington Post has hired its fourth ex-Washington Post reporter, young Jose Antonio Vargas. How did Arianna pull of this latest bit of poaching? Emails of “passion” and “exploration.” Oh, my, Ms. Huffington! More »
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Sarah Palin, Washington Post Op-Ed Columist
6:50PM the cajun boy | In what is possibly the most bizarre coupling since Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley married, Sarah Palin and the Washington Post have come together as one and given birth to a Sarah Palin Washington Post op-ed piece. Yeah. More »
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WaPo Ombudsman Calls His Newspaper A Dirty Whore, Basically
2:47PM the cajun boy | Recently the Washington Post has taken a beating for attempting to sell access to its newsroom via fancy, elistist “salons.” The New York Times has been positively giddy over it. Now the Post’s ombudsman has spoken. More »
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‘The Printed Blog’ Was Not Deceptively Brilliant
4:05AM Hamilton Nolan | In your failure-prone Tuesday media column: The Printed Blog does not revolutionise the media, the Washington Post investigates endlessly and the American newspaper industry declines more than 100%. More »
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Dan Froomkin Becomes Latest Refugee At Huffington Post
1:37AM Ryan Tate | The trail between the Washington Post and Huffington Post is becoming something of a pipeline: ousted liberal WaPo columnist Dan Froomkin has landed at Arianna Huffington’s well-funded website. His new home may be worse than the old one. More »
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