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10.13.2009 10:46 am

Let her be clear: Hillary Clinton won’t seek presidency

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NBC/Today Show photo

NBC/Today Show photo

NBC’s Ann Curry asked Hillary Clinton a straightforward question and got a straightforward response: Clinton won’t seek the presidency again.

From a transcript of the interview Monday:

Curry: Will you ever run for president again? Yes or no?

Clinton: (LAUGHS) No.

Curry: No?

Clinton: No. No.…

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08.03.2009 8:01 pm

Networks report White House pressure to show press conferences

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The networks are feeling pressured by the White House to televise presidential press conferences live, reports media writer Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Maybe that’s because they are being pressured, Kurtz suggests in a column titled “The Prez, The Press, The…

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07.23.2009 11:10 am

Time poll calls Jon Stewart TV’s most-trusted newscaster

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart

A Time Magazine online poll finds that Jon Stewart is now the nation’s most-trusted newscaster, topping Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric.

Time asked: Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?

The results:

  • Jon Stewart, 44…
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06.12.2009 11:04 am

Letterman-Palin controversy showing no signs of fading away

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sarah Palin’s interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning signals that she doesn’t intend to let the David Letterman jokes controversy fade away.

At least that’s the interpretation of Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik, who writes today that “this…

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05.26.2009 11:24 am

Sportswriters frown on TV reporter’s cheers over LeBron James’ shot

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Signs saying “No Cheering in the Press Box!” are posted in some football stadiums and basketball arenas. But even in venues where no such notice hangs, reporters know the rule. It’s as old as sports writing itself.”

Sportswriter Dave McKenna wrote…

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03.19.2009 5:55 pm

Barack Obama’s appearance on Jay Leno is not in the A1 lineup

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
AP Photo/Evan Agostini

AP Photo/Evan Agostini

At our afternoon stand-up news meeting today, one of our editors asked if President Barack Obama’s appearance tonight on Jay Leno should be one of our front-page stories. At the time, it wasn’t in the four-story lineup — and…

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