Today they announced that - the rather annoying and usually unglued - Rachel Maddow will take Dan Abram’s slot at 9pm. The Ny Times TV Decoder tries to PUMP up the VOLUMN:
“MSNBC has put heavy emphasis this year on presidential election coverage (it has given itself the tag line, “The Place for Politics”) [...]

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If you want to know why NBC’s Richard Engel pulled that chop block interview with President Bush a few weeks back, well of course - he has a new book about his “five years in Iraq”.
If you don’t mind Richard, we’ll read Michael Yon’s Moment of Truth in Iraq.

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Now that Senator Kennedy seems to be getting better and we’re all glad for it, I simply cannot let this journalistic BJ by Tim Curry from NBC News stand.
“His hair was white, his face was puffy and red, but Sen. Ted Kennedy‚Äôs voice still had that stirring resonance that set Democrats‚Äô pulses racing and brought [...]

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Clueless….

“Even with countless media outlets available these days, a Sunday New York Times cover story could always be counted on to send a jolt through the television news cycle.
But apparently that’s no longer the case. Indeed, reporter David Barstow’s 7,600-word investigation of the Pentagon’s military analyst program — whereby ex-military talking heads, [...]

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First The Candy Man, then Hillary, they’re coming back to the number one cable news network and it’s giving the uber left a rash.
“The nation‚Äôs top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.
The detente with Fox [...]

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This article on John McCain’s “fitness” is incredible, dispectful of disabled veterans and just plain stupid assed, lazing and the best example of ‘drive-by’ reporting.
“Sen. John McCain has long said he is in robust health and is strong enough to hike the Grand Canyon, but he also is receiving what his staff Monday termed [...]

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Clueless elitism at it’s finest.

Heh, want to get away?

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All The New Republic had to do was say so in the first place when the stories of the “Baghdad Diarist” were found to be bogus. Not only by bloggers, but an Army investigation.
My god, this wasn’t rocket science. Yet in his coming clean Foer plays the blame game (the buck [...]

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Congress is poised to vote on a new shield law for journalists, President Bush has threated to veto it as he should. It’s simply not necessary.
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Tuesday threatened to veto legislation to bar the government from jailing reporters who protect their confidential sources — a measure that also [...]

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If this bill passes the Senate it just might do that.
“A bill that for the first time would give journalists limited protection from efforts to force them to reveal their sources in the federal courts will be taken up by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and its sponsors said its prospects are good.
“It’s balanced, [...]

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