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"Deathers" Expose Canada's Health Care Secret

Toby Barlow | Posted 09.03.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama, Canada, Mitch McConnell, Snark, Health Care, Canada Health Care, Obama Health Care, Comedy News
Toby Barlow

When Obama explains how the U.S.'s health care can be fixed, he points to Canada. Sounds good until you consider that after Canada instituted its health care program, everyone in the country died.

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Snark Sells: Witty Comments Overtake Washington

Politico | Daniel Libit | Posted 07.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Snark, Washington Life, Washington Snark, Washington, Snarky Comments, Snark Sells, Style News

Snark sells -- and Washington is trading in it heavily these days. While witty (or not so witty) banter has always had its place inside the Beltway, t...

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For the Love of Blogging

Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Scientific Claims, Karl Rove, Singled Out, Pay, Books, Msm, Matrimania, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Media, Singles, Myths, Atlantic Magazine, Tucker Carlson, Happiness, Consciousness-Raising, Marriage, Ed Rendell, Singlism, Susan Boyle, Snark, Health, Janet Napolitano, Comments on Blogs, Blogging, Media News
Bella DePaulo

When I first started blogging, I never imagined it would become one of my favorite things to do.

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Sexy Job of the Future: the Almighty Fact-Checker

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Walletpop, Devil Wears Prada, Harvard, Michael Wolff, Air America, Craig Newmark, Wolff's Newser, Andrea Chalupa, Snark, Vanity Fair, Newser.com, WalletPop.Com, Bennett Zier, Sexy Job of the Future, Media News
Andrea Chalupa

It's sad to think that journalistic standards, and reliability, is slipping away as magazines and newspapers shut down. But this is creating a great Hollywood close-up for the humble fact-checker.

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Middle-Aged Film Critic Writes a Book Railing Against Snark; Man on Internet Agrees

Alex Remington | Posted 04.19.2009 | Media

Read More: David Denby, Book Reviews, Snark, Gawker Media, The New Yorker, New Yorker, Gawker, Maureen Dowd, Vh1, Media News
Alex Remington

As Denby says, snark is like a middle-school rumor: vicious, authorless, and anyone who objects gets slagged as having no sense of humor. It's good that he's publicly objecting.

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Juvenal Delinquencies

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media

Read More: David Denby, Breaking Media News, Marueen-Dowd, The New Yorker, Marueen-Dowd-Column, Snark, Abraham Lincoln, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

The heart of Snark, the part that resonates, is David Denby's thesis, presented in fits and starts, that snark is "mean, it's personal, and it's ruining our conversation."

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Why I Blog

Giles Slade | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogsphere, Cnn, Blogger, Snark, Blog, Bloggers, Npr, Democracy, Spitballs, Integrity, Zorba the Greek, Living News
Giles Slade

I am unadorned and unhidden here in cyberspace. I don't use a moniker or an avatar. I write my mind and, although I joke whenever I can, I listen to all comers and respond to them respectfully.

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Dowd's Snark Shoots Up, Down

Nancy Kruh | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

Read More: George Bush, The Clintons, David Denby, Obama Berlin, Bill Clinton, Snarkiness, John McCain, Deval Patrick, Writing, Books, George W. Bush, The New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Obama Berlin Speech, Clintons, Journalism, Eliot Spitzer, Barack Obama, Obama Deval Patrick, Snark, Barack Obama Deval Patrick, Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin, John Edwards, New York Times, Iraq, Berlin, Media News
Nancy Kruh

In his book, Snark David Denby describes Maureen Dowd as "essentially sour and without hope," but my evidence, I believe, proves him wrong.

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With Apologies To Maureen Dowd

Ellyn Spragins | Posted 03.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Female Leaders, Snark, Writing, Ellyn Spragins, Authenticity at Work, Maureen Dowd, Authenticity, Sincerity, Journalism, Media News
Ellyn Spragins

The first useful trick I learned as an aspiring journalist was cynicism. No, that's not quite right. Off-handed, world-weary cynicism. That was the ticket.

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The Snark Ascending

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Style

Read More: Snark, Satire, David Denby, Books, Tom Wolfe, Snarkiness, Karl Rove, Dale Peck, Lewis Carroll, Pessimism, Political Satire, Critics, Stephen Colbert Satire, Nihilism, Style News
Steven G. Kellman

Snark presupposes a secret society of shared disdain. It preens, reveling in its own cleverness.

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