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Ad Astrum

• Now the Trib crossword too easy?

  I could honestly write a column every week about readers' thoughts on the puzzles and comics. You've seen many of those here, though I don't address them often because, well, there's not much point to something so subjective.

  I wrote about the new creator of the Tribune crossword in the [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:41pm EST by derekdonovan

NPR Blogs: NPR Ombudsman

• Alleged Ft. Hood Shooter? NPR Annual Reports are Online

  Alleged Killer?
  Jay Starkman has had it with NPR after listening to coverage of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who has been charged with killing 13 people at Ft. Hood on Nov.5.

  "I can't take you any more! NPR is so PC, it insists on calling Hasan "alleged" and the name of his [...]

  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:29pm EST

PBS Ombudsman

• What's Not on the Air

  There was a little jewel on PBS last week, an hour-plus documentary called "The Way We Get By," part of the long-running POV, or point of view, series. It was broadcast on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, and was about the... [...]
  
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:55pm EST

Hold The Front Page - Media Law

• Reporter overturns court gag in child cruelty case

  Telegraph only paper to challenge ban despite packed press bench [...]
  
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  Fetched: November 20, 2009, 1:44am EST

Richard Prince's Journal-isms

• Oprah's Big Adventure

  Can Media Queen Live Her "Best Life" as Cable Exec?

  Inquirer Retaliating Against Smith, Guild Charges

  NABJ Asks AP for an Accounting of Its Downsizing

  AAJA Borrows From Endowment to Meet Its Deficit

  "Mallard Fillmore" Artist Defends Hate-Crimes Strip

  Howard W. French Says Media Misinterpreted China Trip

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:05am EST by princeeditor

The Oregonian Editors

• Chris Anderson featured in Daily Barometer

  The Oregonian's publisher is featured in the Daily Barometer. [...]
  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:49pm EST by Therese Bottomly, The Oregonian

• Attention all skiers, new Travel contest

  It's time for another contest from The Oregonian's Travel section. [...]
  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:41pm EST by Therese Bottomly, The Oregonian

Ad Astrum

• Budgets, not coaches, the important story

  I just spoke with a reader who was really (and I mean really) upset that today's A-1 centerpiece was a story by Dave Helling and Diane Stafford about overly-aggressive youth coaching. The story is also about how coaching styles have an analog in the business management world -- but [...]

  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:44am EST by derekdonovan

Richard Prince's Journal-isms

• Newsday: "Mallard" Strip Shouldn't Have Run

  Conservative Cartoonist Mocked Idea of Hate Crimes

  Spanish-Language Papers to Outsource Page Design

  Chinese-American Press Asks, "What About Taiwan?"

  Asian Journalists Pick Nonprofit Leader as Director

  Natives Defend Obama's Actions at Tribal Summit

  NAHJ Honors Pieces on Schools, Immigration

  Ray Gomez, Texas TV News Editor, Dies [...]

  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:28pm EST by asmith

NPR Blogs: NPR Ombudsman

• Rahm? Rahm Emanuel? Mr. Emanuel

  Rahm Emanuel is a man whose name bedevils news organizations.
  
  Of course, he is President Obama's two-fisted chief of staff. So, when he's quoted or mentioned on radio, TV, or print, reporters and anchors generally identify him on first reference as Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:24pm EST

Ad Astrum

• No more Mohlers

  As I've said many times, what readers tell me is individual and subjective, so I don't mean this as representative research -- but I sure have heard from several people who are tired of so much attention being devoted to the Mohler case. One particularly memorable e-mail I received today:

  "Enough [...]

  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:03pm EST by derekdonovan