In the Soviet era, that award weighed 2.3 tons.
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I don’t see any possible problems with this, do you?
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008One of Fournier’s job options: McCain
By MICHAEL CALDERONE | 7/29/08 7:27 PM EST
Before Ron Fournier returned to The Associated Press in March 2007, the veteran political reporter had another professional suitor: John McCain’s presidential campaign.
In October 2006, the McCain team approached Fournier about joining the fledgling operation, according to a source with knowledge of the […]
I used to bookmark Media Matters For America, but their findings always had a way of drowning me in frustration at the so-called free press.
Friday, July 18th, 2008Thu, Jul 17, 2008 7:36pm ET
ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama Summary:
ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of […]
The man who emailed King Karl Rove to “Keep up the fight” is the AP Washington bureau chief.
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Is Fournier saving or destroying the AP?
By: Michael Calderone
July 14, 2008 08:18 PM EST
Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press’s Washington bureau, as “a mentor.”
Johnson, though, regards Fournier, who replaced her in a hard-feelings shake-up in May, as a threat to one of the most influential institutions […]
Ooops! The FBI and those of the media who may prefer press-release-reading were wrong? This wasn’t even an Olympics.
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.
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Why I don’t trust the elite news media: Would any reporter in a James Gleason movie own a comparably-priced home?
Friday, June 6th, 2008New York Post
June 5, 2008
Gimme Shelter
Branden Keil
Chopping Koppel
TED Koppel could be the king of all price-slashers.
The former “Nightline” host has chopped the price of his suburban Washington, DC-area home by more than half since he first put it on the market in 2005 for $4.1 million.
He’s now asking $1.94 million for the nearly 9,000-square-foot spread […]
Naw…Hil and Bubba wouldn’t be involved in cynical tricks!!
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Candidates deserve the heat which comes from bringing religion into the race.
Maybe, they’ll be more circumspect next time.
Yeah, right…Dave!
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The Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the National Press Club event Monday, which was organized by Reynolds. Somodevilla/Getty
Errol Louis
New York Daily News
Is Jeremiah Wright a colossal disaster for Barack Obama […]
An opinion piece from the woman who should be president.
Sunday, April 27th, 2008*
April 27, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Bowling 1, Health Care 0
By ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Chapel Hill, N.C.
FOR the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?
Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money spent was covered. But in Pennsylvania, as in the rest […]
We’ll never be able to look at documentaries about Nazi Germany in the same way.
Monday, April 14th, 2008Huffington Post
Andrew Sullivan: Bush Administration Officials Will Be ‘Indicted For War Crimes’
April 6, 2008 02:14 PM
Jason Linkins
Media coverage of the disclosure of the “torture memo” authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. But on this morning’s Chris Matthews’ show, someone finally fired a shot. As we mentioned […]
Cokie, Timmy Russert, Davey Gregory and Wolfie Blitzer are personalities who have never remided me of Robert Trout, Harry Reasoner and the other luminaries of electronic journalism.
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Had our country relied upon these folks, Senator Joe McCarthy would have had a street named after him in every U.S. municipality.
Think Progress
April 8, 2008
Uninformed Cokie Roberts leaps to Cheney’s defense.
During the roundtable discussion on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, and ABC’s Cokie Roberts discussed Cheney’s callous dismissiveness […]