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In an unexpected move, The New York Times announced this morning that Bill Keller, executive editor since 2003, would be stepping down to write full-time, and will be replaced in September by longtime deputy Jill Abramson.
I tend not to blog much here about personnel changes in print journalism—those being of interest mainly to, well, …
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Was Anthony Weiner framed, or did he self-twimmolate? Was it his package or was it hackage? We don’t know, and after a round of TV-news interviews yesterday, we may be even farther from knowing.
The controversy over the Twitter photo of a tumescent man in undies posted to …
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Public Policy Polling recently conducted a survey of Republican voters in early caucus state Iowa. In it, they placed former Utah governor Jon Huntsman‘s support at one.
Not number one. Not 1%. One guy polled says he would vote for Huntsman. Meanwhile, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and Tea Party darling Herman Cain came in tied for …
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In my column last week on the “manxiety” trend in the new fall shows, I singled out TNT’s Men of a Certain Age as one example of a series taking a subtle, non-insulting look at what it means to be a man. Focusing on three guys pushing 50—played by Scott Bakula, Andre Braugher and Ray Romano—it focuses on the trio’s wrestling with …
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The major difference between PBS and commercial broadcasters used to be, well, commercials. For-profit TV relied on ads, PBS didn’t. OK, maybe it had sponsors, but nothing so crass as commercials. Then, OK, maybe it had “enhanced” sponsor messages, which looked a lot like commercials …
