Katharine Graham

C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Woodward and Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, Walter Cronkite, Paul Fahri, Newton Minnow, Vast Wasteland, Civil War, New Deal, Ronald Reagan, Book Tv, C-Span, Ernest Hemingway, Democracy, Televising the Supreme Court, Free Press, Brian Lamb, George Washington, Citizens United, Abraham Lincoln, Rob Kennedy, Edward R. Murrow, Susan Swain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John F. Kennedy, Freedom, Supreme Court, News Cycle, Informed Citizenry, Katharine Graham, Ted Turner, Franklin Roosevelt, Media News
Brent Budowsky

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

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Vanity Fair's Coverage of the White House State Dinner: A Namedropping Guide

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra. David Geffen, Carlos Allen, Katharine Graham, Michael Ovitz, Jane Fonda, Michaele Salahi, Mark Rothko, Leonard Bernstein, Claudette Colbert, Brooke Astor, Anne Cox Chambers, Jeffrey Immelt, Indra Nooyi, Ted Turner, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Colacello, Mort Zuckerman, Julie Harris, Peter Jennings, David McCullough, Steven Spielberg, John Kerry, Bob Casey, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Edward Albee, William Paley, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Trumka, Richard Lugar, Saul Bellow, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Robin Roberts, Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair, George Balanchine, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Washington DC, Barbra Streisand, Tennessee Williams, State Dinner, Brian Williams, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, David Rockefeller, Tareq Salahi, Oprah Winfrey, Charles Lindbergh, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Salahis, Judith Jamison, Sanjay Gupta, Media News
Danny Groner

The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.

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Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers is Important Stage Documentary

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Brian Kelly, Larry Bryggman, George Wilson, Katharine Graham, The Power of Yes, George W. Bush, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, Ben Bradlee, Via Dolorosa, Lucy Prebble, New York Theatre Workshop, Peter Strauss, Richard Nixon, All the President's Men, Anna Deavere Smith, Fire in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Matt McGrath, Jack Gilpin, L. A. Theatre Works, Enron, The New York Times, Neil Sheehan, Susan Albert Loewenberg, Daniel Ellsberg, Larry Pine, H. R. Haldeman, David Hare, The Exonerated, John Mitchell, Let Me Down Easy, Kathryn Meisle, The Washington Post, Brooklyn and Other Identities, Entertainment News
David Finkle

The intent behind these stage documentaries is to inform. Although billed as plays, these theatrical entries aren't that. They're news reports outfitted with theatrical accoutrements.

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We Need Heroes in American Journalism

Nancy Snow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, American Journalism, Katharine Graham, Warren Buffett, Washington Post, Death of Newspapers, Media, Media Heroes, Death of Mainstream Media, Journalism, Media News
Nancy Snow

Truth is, we need heroes in American journalism, and I'm less than optimistic that my journalistic hero is going to be a Facebook friend or someone I'm following on Twitter.

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HBO To Develop Katharine Graham Biopic

Reuters | Kimberly Nordyke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Katharine Graham Biopic, Washington Post, Katharine Graham, Hbo Katharine Graham Biopic, Hbo, Media News

HBO Films is developing a biopic about Katharine Graham, the late publisher of the Washington Post who oversaw the paper's Watergate coverage leading ...

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Warren Buffett Opens Up About Love Affair With Katharine Graham

New York Daily News | Rush & Molloy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Katherine Graham, Katharine Graham, Alice Schroeder, Warren Buffett Biography, Business News

The world's richest man is finally opening up about his complicated love life. Warren Buffett, whose shrewd investing has swelled his Berkshire Hatha...

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