Vincenzo Kolchak comments again…
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You know this would be more tolerable if the press and especially papers like the LA TIMES didn’t wrap themselves in the rhetoric of their sacred mission.
The Daily News, as you have many times suggested, has the decency to be what it appears to be and the ‘trinity that includes the STAR, […]
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Issue
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Post publisher apologizes for paid dinner plan
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 5, 2009; 6:59 AM
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post’s publisher apologized to readers Sunday for a plan to charge business leaders and lobbyists for intimate dinner discussions with government officials and the newspaper’s journalists.
A flier surfaced last week promoting a plan to charge $25,000 to sponsor […]
From Times Online
November 5, 2008
World press reaction to Barack Obama’s victory
Paris, several international newspapers’ frontpages, the day after the victory of Democrat Barack Obama in US presidential election
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Headlines proclaiming Obama’s victory at an international newsstand in Paris
Kaya Burgess and Jenny Booth (Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images)
France
An editorial in the national daily Le Monde proclaims “Obama’s victory ushers […]
The New York Times
October 24, 2008
Editorial
Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government […]
These two meals on bread did not make the initial cut,
but I foresee a great future for them.
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April 03, 2008
WSJ may endorse in ‘08; first time since Hoover!
When Rupert Murdoch spoke yesterday at Georgetown, he indicated that a long-standing Wall Street Journal tradition could be changed in 2008: The paper might endorse a presidential candidate.
The Journal has refrained from endorsing a presidential candidate for more than seven decades.
In a July 2007 editorial […]
At the end of each column, he takes questions from readers
and chooses the funniest.
I think this fits the bill:
Q. If Andy Pettitte appears before Congress, will Roger Clemens fly in Pettitte’s brother from Sicily to sabotage the testimony? (Tony A____________; Pittsburgh)
A. Pay the man, Shirley.
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I never knew no Godfather. I have my own family, Senator.
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Hagen:
His […]
Overweight pitcher promises to come to Spring Training in shape.
GM of (name ball club): We should not have any visa problems this February.
They don’t like my politics because I’m a Washington outsider.
North Korea will stop nuclear program.
President plans a working vacation.
Senator Specter vows to fight White House on Constitution.
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Your “We’ve Heard It Before” suggestions are […]