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Remember Memo-gate? Remember that three CBS staffers were asked to go quietly into that dark night? Well, they're still there! New York Observer reporter Joe Hagan talked about their story with Democracy Now! An excerpt (conducting the interview are Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez): JUAN GONZALEZ: Joe, welcome, and let's start off. Can't CBS supposedly [...]
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CTV.ca has a budget hub for the festivities on Feb. 23. One of my stories for it is When budgets fail, minority governments fall. Here's an excerpt: There are two ways to trigger an election by having your budget defeated — the planned way, and the unplanned way. For the 1979 Progressive Conservative minority government [...]
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Given the choice between a new Takashi Miike movie or a doc on the greatest moments in infomercial history, what does one choose? To me, it's no choice! Here's the Bloor Cinema's blurb on One Missed Call. It screens at 9:30 p.m. (Bathurst and Bloor): RUE MORGUE Magazine Presents CineMacabre: An Advance Screening of Takashi [...]
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This is a look at the life and career of Eleanor Gould Packham, the Mensan proofreader who spent 54 years at the New Yorker magazine. Some excerpts from her obituary in the NYT: leanor Gould Packard, whose questions, comments and admonitions on the proofs of thousands of articles for The New Yorker for 54 years [...]
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The NYT talks to the two reporters — including one from its own shop — at the heart of an ongoing sourcing controversy over the public identification of CIA agent Valerie Plame. An excerpt: he two reporters at the center of the case involving disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame, a C.I.A. operative, said [...]
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This NYT article takes at look at the pressures on the U.S.'s Public Broadcasting Service, such as disappearing corporate underwriting and Congressional accusations of liberal bias. An excerpt: ASHINGTON, Feb. 16 – It was no accident that PBS found itself turning to Elmo, the popular “Sesame Street” character, to lobby on Capitol Hill this week. [...]
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The ever-acerbic Frank Rich on the White House’s real-life rendition of The Daily Show.
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