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A Second Look At: Samantha Who?

MITCH HADDAD / ABC A little background first. I finally bought a new iPod. (Shortly after which, I learned how to fix the old one with a business card from a Vietnamese-sandwich place, so I now have two.) Being the cheap, boring, Consumer Reports-reading, never-buy-first-generation-tech guy, I am, I got a Classic. And this morning [...]

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The CNN/YouTube Debate: Outsourcing Journalism

The major issue at the Republican YouTube debate: outsourcing. Not outsourcing as addressed in any of the questions; outsourcing in the form of the questions. Two YouTube debates into the campaign, it’s becoming clear that the format is not really about the possibilities of a new medium (as at the Democratic one, there were a [...]

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The Morning After: Trading Daisies for Fertilizer

SCOTT GARFIELD/ABC Tuned In’s Pushing Daisies contingent will have to carry on without me for now; I was watching the CNN/YouTube Republican debate live. (John McCain: “Life is not 24 and Jack Bauer.” They’re not going to like that at Fox.) By the way, Molly Shannon and Mike White? It’s a Year of the Dog [...]