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Our Public Advocate's Public A**-Kissing and Other Tales of Disappoinment

Will Schwartz | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Corruption, New York Daily News, Bill De Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, The New York Times, Bloomberg, John Liu, Media, Bill Thompson, New York City, New York News

Within hours of winning their elections, Bill De Blasio, our future public advocate, and John Liu, our comptroller-elect, each demonstrated their own distinct styles of ineptitude.

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Broadway Revivals Founder on Brighton Beach

David Finkle | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Too often the only review that counts is the Times pronouncement via Ben Brantley or Charles Isherwood. This time Brantley's response was not what's known as "a money notice."

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7 Huge Corporations That Have Seen Their Valuations Plummet (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Market Capitalization, General Motors, The New York Times, Slidepoll, Gm, Palm, Company Valuations, Facebook, Businessweek, Citigroup, Business News

A little more than a year after the financial crisis took hold, most of our 401Ks are still reeling. Since its peak in 2007, the Dow Jones Index is do...

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AOL's Army of 3,000 Journalists

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Aol, Online Advertising, Internet Advertising, The New York Times, Media News

The news last week that AOL has grown the number of journalists it employs - inclusive of full and part time, or freelance - to 3,000 from 500 since T...

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So You're Thinking of Converting From Anglican to Catholic

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Communion, King-Henry-Viii, Rome, Horses, Racehorse-Names, Italy, Anglican Communion, Converting, Mac-Osx, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Apple Computers, Beethoven, Immortal Soul, Jesus, Pc, The Tudors, Peter Gallagher, The Pope, Mac, The Reformation, Roman Catholic Church, The New York Times, Microsoft, Catholic, Apple, Global Anglicanism, The Vatican, Jesus Christ, Autobiography, Anglican Church, Vatican City, Frank Mccourt, Archbishop of Canterbury, Comedy News

In converting to Catholicism, you are really just switching over your "files" (ideas/customs/most profound expressions of faith) to your "Mac" (Catholic) "hard drive" (brain/immortal soul).

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Internal WaPo Newsletter With Charles Pelton Interview Disappears From Web

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Charles Pelton, Media Criticism, The New York Times, Salons, Brauchli, Bill Keller, Marcus Brauchli, Washington Post, Media News, Media Ethics, Media News

Apparently, WaPo editor Marcus Brauchli was lying "when he told the NYT that he didn't know the paper's controversial corporate-sponsored dinner parties would be off-the-record." And guess what else?

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What Did Washington Post Editor Know About Salons -- and When Did He Know It?

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Ethics, Salons, Bill Keller, The New York Times, Washington Post, Brauchli, Media News

The New York Times carried a rare Postscript in Saturday's paper, raising questions about whether it is charging the top Washington Post editor, Marcus Brauchli, with not telling the truth.

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Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes

Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Nobel Prize, Obama, Vietnamese Victims, Agent Orange, Vietnam War, War Crime, War Crimes, War Crimes Vietnam, The New York Times, NY Times, War Crimes Agent Orange, World News

Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.

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The Proof of the Pudding is in the ... Performing?

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Hillary Clinton, US-Cuba Relations, Joseph Biden, Cuba, The New York Times, World News

Cubans in favor of a path to greater understanding and engagement will have have to welcome the New York Philharmonic on another date.

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News Viewers: Fox -- News Users: CNN

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Internet News, Digg, The New York Times, Quantcast, Cbs, Yahoo, Time Warner, Cnn, Cable News Ratings, New York Times, Cable News, Jeff Bewkes, Fox News, Media News

The full third quarter cable news ratings are in, and nothing has changed very much. Fox News still has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

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A List In Response To A News Story: Take my Cats, Please...Seriously. I Want to Freak Out.

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 09.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Diapers, Grapes, Cats, Judgement, Best Friend Lindsey, Brain, Poop, Baby, Marble-Floors, The New York Times, Vomit, The Future, Kim Kardashian, Barf, Comedy News

My cats or my future baby?: Barf on the floor; Pee on the floor; Has a brain larger than a handful of grapes; Not freak out when I want to dress it in a cute outfit; Not be covered in hair; Love me back.

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Older Entrepreneurs and the Great Recession

Mark Miller | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Ageism, David Leonhardt, Baby Boomers, Entrepreneurship, The New York Times, Business News

Many boomers are burned out on big companies and want to try their hand running their own show before they hang it up for good.

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New York Times Malware: Bad Ad On NYTimes.com

AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Online News, Virus, Scam, Computer Virus, The New York Times, New York Times, NYTimes.Com, Malware, Hacker, Web Site, Media News

Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its ...

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Eat Now, Pay Later. But Who Is Paying and for What? Police the Potato Chips!

Helene Pavlov | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Obese Children, Dr Helene Pavlov, Obesity, Hospital for Special Surgery, Journal of Health Affairs, The New York Times, Living News

Why, in a time when all we hear is news about the trouble with obesity, are people NOT eating healthy?

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The New York Times on Peak Oil - Don't Worry, Be Happy

Gabriel Rotello | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fatih Birol, Peak Oil, Global Warming, The New York Times, Climate Change, Michael Lynch, Green News

If the Peak Oil proponents are correct, it amounts to one of the biggest stories of our time, right up there with global warming

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Peak Oil Agonistes: The New York Times Finally Comes Around to Where HuffPost Never Feared to Tread

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, The Huffington Post, President Obama, The New York Times, Oil, Fatih Birol, Michael Lynch, Abiotic-Oil, International Energy Agency, Business News

At last, one of the great misnomers of public disinformation bordering closer to brainwashing has been brought to heel.

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Palin Supports Corsi: District 9 Is a Documentary

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Charles Grassley, Death Panels, The Rapture, Immigration, Iran, Obama, Media, Facebook, Civil Rights, The Washington Post, South Africa, Politics, Liz Cheney, Dennis Kucinich, Dick Cheney, Illegal Immigrants, Gop, Washington Post, Health Care, Sharia, Abortion, Birthers, Twitter, Food Stamps, Books, The New York Times, Lou Dobbs, Aliens, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Illegal Aliens, Tom Coburn, District 9, Jerome Corsi, Todd Palin, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Return-of-Shantytowns, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Alaska, NY Times, Metacritic, Comedy News

An indignant Palin immediately released a series of searing Facebook status updates denouncing the impending alien immigrant infestation as "icky" and "un-American,"

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New Study Confirms Water Is Wet

David Finkle | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media

Read More: New Studies, The New York Times, Pets Resembling Dog Owners, Scientific Studies, Common Sense, Truckers, Texting, American Obesity, Truckers Texting, The Beatles, New Studies Coverage, New Study Expenditures, Battlefield Hunches, Generation Gap Eased, Dog Owners Resembling Pets, Health Care, Media News

Money is being spent on these evidently endless studies--perhaps lots and lots and lots of money. For what? For news as old as recorded time and maybe older.

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Olbermann-O'Reilly: Détente We Don't Want

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Countdown, General Electric, President Obama, Olbermann-O'Reilly Feud, Media, Media Censorship, Obama, Journalistic Independence, Fox, Keith Olbermann, Olbermann, Jeffrey Immelt, Msnbc, Politics News, O'Reilly Feud, Jeff Zucker, Journalistic Freedom, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, Olbermann O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Brian Kilmeade, Censorship, Olbermann-O'Reilly Truce, The New York Times, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Nbc, Media News, Olbermann Feud, O'Reilly, Media Feuds, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News

A sandbox brawl between Keith and Bill Has left their parents feeling ill They want their boys to get along Yet the ultimate result is quite wrong

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NJ Corruption Soup: 5 Rabbis, 3 Mayors, 36 Honorables

Henry J. Stern | Posted 08.25.2009 | New York

Read More: Nj Corruption, Jews, New York Daily News, The New York Post, The New York Times, New York News

"Everything was on sale - from politicians to kidneys."

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What The White House Could Learn From A Bronx Soda Fountain Owner

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Peter Orszag, White-House-Budget, Joe Biden Vp, Jay Carney, The New York Times, Family, New York News

Since when did we decide that parents have to be there for every school outing?

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Who Delivers the News?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cnn, Bbc, The Chicago Tribune, Ieds, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Media, Mraps, The Los Angeles Times, Iraq, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Media News

On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.

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David Brooks: Obama "May Revitalize The Concept Of Dignity"

The New York Times | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Brooks, The New York Times, Brooks, President Barack Obama, Dignity, Obama, Capitalism, George Washington, Culture, Politics News

Americans still admire dignity. But the word has become unmoored from any larger set of rules or ethical system. But it's not right to end on a note...

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Jackson's Death Once Again Shows Newspapers Are Irrelevant

Marcia Meier | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Michael Jackson, Internet, Newspapers, Print Journalism, Twitter, Michael Jackson Death, Headlines, The New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Facebook, Journalism, Media News

Every day, most newspaper headlines literally shout: We are irrelevant!

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It's An Eat The Press Canada Day (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Canada Day, Metric, Canadians, Jason Jones, Canadian Indie Rock, Canada, Samantha Bee, Jezebel, Meghan McCain, Conrad Black, Stars, The New York Times, Video, Sarah Palin, Rachel Sklar, Indie Rock, Media News

Hmm. It's July 1st! Somewhere, out in the recesses of memory, a strange, clarion call is sounding, reminding me of a hallowed Eat The Press traditio...

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