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USA Today's Presidential Poll Tracker

USA Today | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics


USA Today has a great presidential polling tracker that's also extremely popular. ...

The Denver Media Migraine

Eric Boehlert | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

Fifteen thousand journalists in Denver and they couldn't even report what actually happened there. Instead, they invented a storyline of their liking....

USA Today Ditches Plan To Have Moore, Coulter Cover Conventions

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media


Four years after its plan to use outspoken commentators Michael Moore and Ann Coulter to write about life at the presidential conventions misfired, US...

Survive Recession

Grant Cardone | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business


Grant Cardone

No matter how much cash the business or individual has, sooner or later you have to get your products and services funded by others through selling or you will burn through your cash

Seth Colter Walls

Gallup's "Likely Voters" Poll: A Snapshot Or A Hypothesis?

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics


Over at USA Today's "On Politics" blog, stories about polls come stamped with the following disclaimer: "WARNING! Polls are snapshots of public opinio...

McCain Out Of Sync On Gay Marriage

Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home


Ryan Rivera

With a new poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a "strictly private" decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain's recently reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority.

Lorrie Lynch, Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person" Columnist, Hits Back Calling Him A Hypocrite

Huffington Post | Posted 05.02.2008 | Media


The New York Post's Page Six reports that USA Today columnist Lorrie Lynch, who Keith Olbermann recently named one of his "Worst Persons in the World"...

The Leak: John McCain's Stopover In New Orleans

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.27.2008 | Home


Karen Dalton-Beninato

The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.

Poll: 3 In 4 Americans Say We're In A Recession

USA Today | Richard Wolf | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


More than three in four Americans think the country is in a recession, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll over the weekend shows, reflecting a crisis of confiden...

LA Times Editorial Defends Reporters' First Amendment Rights

The Huffington Post | Dipayan Gupta | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy is being held in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton for refusing to identify the law enforc...

Journalist's Contempt Charge Unsettles Fellow Reporters

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


WASHINGTON — A judge is trying to bankrupt an ex-reporter with daily fines as much as $5,000 for refusing to disclose her sources for stories ab...

Reporter Held In Contempt In Anthrax Case

New York Times | ERIC LICHTBLAU | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A federal judge found a former reporter for USA Today in contempt of court on Tuesday for refusing to name her confidential sources who had discussed ...

Woe Is Newspapers: Even USA Today Axing Jobs

Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Gannett's flagship publication USA Today is eliminating 45 newsroom jobs, a 9% editorial headcount cut, to offset declining revenue. USA Today is the ...

Newspapers Seek Salvation In Supplements

Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


The magazine business is not a terribly happy place at the moment, but you wouldn't guess that from the way newspaper publishers are tripping over eac...

USA Today Names Top 25 Headlines

USA Today | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Our final Top 25 list features the biggest news stories of the past quarter-century. They're the ones that generated the largest headlines, the greate...