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Just in Time for Wedding Season: Love and Romance Break Free of their Contemporary Moorings

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.11.2008 | Life

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Social Justice, Friends, Weddings, Meaning, Partners, Soulmate Mythology, Lyrics, Matrimania, Sabbatical, Singles, Passion, Music, Intimacy, Newsweek, Louisa May Alcott, John Mayer, Relatives, Marriage, Singlism, Social History, Solitude, Juilliard, Paul Erdos, Nature, Ted Sorensen, Scientific Discovery, New York Times, Body Language, Singled Out, Love, Life News
Bella DePaulo

A few weeks ago, Ted Sorensen - husband, father, and renowned speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy - was interviewed by Deborah Solomon of the N...

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NYT's Front Page Obama Profile: "The Ultimate Pragmatist"

New York Times | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics

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In August 1999, Barack Obama strolled amid the floats and bands making their way down Martin Luther King Drive on Chicago's South Side. Billed as the ...

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The Military Analyst Scandal Dies -- Even on NPR?

Harry Shearer | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Military Analysts, Journalism, Npr, National Public Radio, New York Times, Pentagon Propaganda, Media News
Harry Shearer

Maybe we're not surprised anymore when hidden motives paraded before us are ignored by the corporate media. Have we also moved beyond public radio being held to a higher standard?

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Cindy McCain: I Will Never Release My Tax Returns

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE: Howard Dean has released the following statement: "What is John McCain trying to hide? Throughout this campaign, he has acted like his own ...

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New York Times Layoffs Update: 15 Newsroom Staffers Get The Ax

Huffington Post via New York Post, New York Observer | Posted 05.08.2008 | Media

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The New York Post's Keith Kelly reports that the New York Times wielded the ax yesterday, laying off 15 involuntary staffers after not enough people a...

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A Growing Brain Fitness Market for the Cognitive Age

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 05.07.2008 | Life

Read More: Exercise Your Brain, Neurosoftware, Cognitive Training, Baby Boomers, Sharpbrains, Cognitive Age, Brain Health, David Brooks, New York Times, Globalization, Healthy Aging, Brain Fitness, Brain Exercise, Life News
Alvaro Fernandez

Huge medical advances over the last 100 years have enabled longevity, improved quality of life overall. But, they have focused more on how to maintain "healthy bodies" than on "healthy brains."

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NBC News' Bad Week: Russert, Williams, and Huffington

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.07.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

By so obviously snubbing Huffington, NBC looked petty. By stubbornly refusing to acknowledge its role in the Pentagon propaganda program, NBC looked weak.Behold your liberal media at work.

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Hezbollah Is in Iran, Michael Gordon Says American Officials Say

David Bromwich | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Lebanon, Bush, Surge, Iran War, New York Times, Hezbollah, Michael Gordon New York Times, Iran, General Petraeus, Obliterate Iran, Michael Gordon, Politics News
David Bromwich

This was perhaps the most opaque, elaborately qualified, antiseptically cleansed and institutionally begged-off story ever published by a major newspaper anywhere.

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Reading The Pictures: All The Obama-Wright That Can Be Fit Into Print (Or Digital, And Now, Broadcast)

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Primaries, N. Carolina, New York Times, Obama, Election, Indiana, Wright, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-05-06-shaw_wright_obama.jpgEight days after the Times starting milking the Wright story for all its color, they are still working this linkage.

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Stephen Colbert, will.i.am, New York Times Win Webby Awards

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert's use of the Internet to connect with fans earned the Comedy Central host special recognition as recipients of the an...

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Howell Raines, Ousted New York Times Editor, Reflects Five Years After Jayson Blair Scandal

Editor & Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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It is clearly a coincidence that former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines will be in town this week, exactly five years after the notoriou...

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New York Times, MSNBC Team Up For Special Primary Edition

Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

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The New York Times and MSNBC are teaming up to deliver a special series of cable shows hosted by John Harwood and featuring several Times staffers, th...

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Law & Order Does Good

Julia Moulden | Posted 05.05.2008 | Entertainment

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Julia Moulden

Ronnie Abrams appointment as special counsel for pro bono to one of New York's prestigious law firms (Davis Polk & Wardwell) is big enough news that i...

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Jason Linkins

'Mission Accomplished' Anniversary: NYT Celebrates With Panel Who Largely Got It Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, New York Times, Success of the Surge, Mission Accomplished, War in Iraq, Iraq Five Years Later, Politics News

This past Sunday, the New York Times presented a symposium of sorts on the future of the Iraq War, titled "How To See This Mission Accomplished." Hav...

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So Now The Press Tells Candidates When To Quit?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

Until this election cycle, journalists simply did not consider it to be their job to tell a contender when he or she should stop campaigning.

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The Labor Movement's Principled Position on Colombia FTA

Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Collective Bargaining, President Uribe, Labor Union, Central Union of Workers (CUT), United Steelworkers (USW), New York Post, U. S. Labor Movement, New York Times, Paramilitaries, Colombia, Free Trade Agreements, Colombia FTA, FARC Guerillas, Miami Herald, Politics News
Dan Kovalik

The U.S. labor movement is telling the truth about the dire labor situation in Colombia, and it is opposing the Colombia FTA based upon its principled solidarity with its union brothers and sisters.

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40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

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Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

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Arianna Huffington

The near-complete blackout on the Pentagon propaganda story, self-imposed by the culpable news organizations, is a despicable abdication of their role as a constitutionally protected check on our government. Read More Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate How is it that the 28 percent of the population that continues to support George W. Bush no matter how many bodies pile up in Iraq, how many jobs disappear overseas, or how high gas prices get, continues to dominate our politics? Read More Watch Arianna On: Good Morning America, 20/20, Charlie Rose, Real Time, The Situation Room, AC 360, CNN's Election Center, and MobLogic TV

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New York Times Upgrades — To Microsoft Office 2003

New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 04.30.2008 | Media

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One year after the New York Times moved into its shimmering new tower, the paper is ready for a dramatic software upgrade. Welcome to Microsoft Office...

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The Times Gets Revenge on Jeremiah Wright

Warren Goldstein | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Warren Goldstein

A television critic, of all people, gets to carry the heavy political water at the Times these days. It makes you wonder what Kool-Aid the editors are knocking back.

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"Normal" Gay People in the New York Times

Joan Garry | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Joan Garry

My biggest issue with the cover story of this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine -- the story called "Young Gay Rites" -- is not the piece itself. It's the placement.

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New York Times Takes Back Miley Cyrus Headline: "She Was Not Topless"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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The New York Times treated yesterday's Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair story as a business one, running the headline "A Topless Photo Threatens a Major Disney...

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Is This the Last Newspaper Stand?

James Boyce | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Huffington Post, Newsladder, Boston Globe, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Newspaper Industry, New York Times, Media News
James Boyce

Every six months, the large city newspapers are reporting circulation declines of 3% to 8% and the cumulative effect of those declines is stark, and foretells the coming end of the newspaper era.

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Brian Williams Decries The NYT, Praises Peggy Noonan

Daily Nightly | Brian Williams | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

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I read that the New York Times Sunday (and weekday) circulation is down. I must admit that on Sundays it becomes a tough paper to figure out. While th...

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Jason Linkins

Times Let 'Pentagon Pipeline' Story Die On Its Front Page

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Pentagon Analysts, Howard Kurtz, Pentagon Pundit Scandal, Pentagon PR, New York Times, Pentagon Military Analysts, Washington Post, Retired General, Pentagon Propaganda, Politics News

The aftermath of the story, for the Times, has been one of scant follow-up, lost scoops, and poor comparison when set alongside similar journalistic efforts.

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