After Lou Dobbs‘ surprising resignation from CNN Wednesday, what’s next in his professional career?
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz quotes a Fox News spokesman as saying the network hasn’t had discussions with Dobbs. The Los Angeles Times’ political blog Top of the…
Keith Olbermann
We generally don’t like to laugh at other’s mistakes — we sure make enough embarrassing errors of our own — but a reader points out a correction in the Los Angeles Times that truly is one for the ages:
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Was Michael Jackson’s death worth front-page display in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch? For editors yesterday, the answer was clearly yes.
But how much display was appropriate? News of his death arrived late afternoon. (Bob Rose will be posting a…
The Los Angeles Times this morning had a story about how celeb-gossip site TMZ scooped other media on reporting Michael Jackson’s death.
Jackson’s time of death was 4:26 p.m. St. Louis time. At 4:44 p.m., TMZ reported that Jackson was dead. The…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune is offering a glimpse of a newspaper after bankrupcty. These details are from a Star Tribune story by David Phelps:
L.A. Times
The Los Angeles Times turned its front page over to advertising last Friday. Beneath the newspaper’s flag – Los Angeles Times — was a full-page ad for the HBO series “True Blood,” which premiered Sunday evening.
Here’s part of an…
LA Times media critic James Rainey says both Fox News and MSNBC were guilty of prejudging Wednesday’s tax party protests.
Rainey writes:
“You’d expect conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity to be hyping today’s wave of anti-tax “tea parties.” But Fox…
The crowd at President Barack Obama’s inauguration topped 2 million — at least that figure was being reported Tuesday morning — but it seems to have been steadily shrinking.
As a rule, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reluctant to give crowd…
John McCain and Barack Obama not only offer a choice of contrasting policies but also contrasting styles of leadership, writes Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times.
His article appeared in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch on Page A10. “Contrasting leadership styles become more apparent.”
This…
“Palin pledges to shake up D.C.” is the lead headline on the top story in today’s Post-Dispatch. “Making history” is the second headline and the third: “First woman on GOP ticket throws quick jabs at Obama.”
Slate.com’s synopsis of major national papers indicates…
