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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Father, father, We don’t need to escalate

See you next year everybody.
December 31, 2006 | Posted in: Audio, Current Events, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Edwards rally in Chapel Hill: Where is the America We All Believe in?

Pretty big rally on the green just south of Chapel Hill tonight. A long wait (never known a political rally to start on time). Couple [...]
December 30, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Elections, Media, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post: Eid

Eid ul-Adha Raed Jarrar: No victory Reuters: Outrage among Sunni at Haj WaPo Al-Jazeera BBC This from the NYT account of the hanging of Saddam [...]
December 30, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Attention citizen journalists

I’ve been to this seminar a couple of times. It’s aimed more at conventional media, but if you plan to cover government in NC, I’d [...]
December 29, 2006 | Posted in: Media | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post: Twenty-nine Questions for Old Media

Twenty-nine Questions for Old Media (as it ponders the internets in 2007) 1. Do you look at your readers or do you look at your [...]
December 29, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Edwards is in

This morning, John Edwards is making the rounds of the network talk shows to announce he’s running for President—no surprise if you’ve been watching the [...]
December 28, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Dispatches, Media, Morning Post, Politics | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post

McClatchy has sold it’s largest paper–The Star Tribune–for half of what it bought it for in 1998. I was working for the company when they [...]
December 27, 2006 | Posted in: Current Events, Media, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Morning Post: Reality lives edition

Earlier this month, Jay Rosen penned an excellent essay on what happen to the press during the Bush administration’s coup against reality: Journalists and talking [...]
December 26, 2006 | Posted in: Media, Misc, Morning Post | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink