Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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RE: time burglars, was: domestic war zones

The paper I worked for in the 1990s, the Regina Leader-Post, is still a good case study. It didn't hire a full-time staff reporter between 1990 and 1995 and shed several editorial jobs through attrition, cut back on rural coverage, eliminated at least one contract job and reduced the editorial budget in general. And in [...]

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CBS explodes liberal media bias myth

From the San Francisco Chronicle … To add to it, the Washington Post was one of the more aggressive papers in uncovering CBS's journalistic misconduct. Yet it didn't even do an official mea culpa on the Iraq-WMD issue the way the NYT did, even though it made the same errors. W-P media writer Howard Kurtz [...]

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