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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Salon's Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the "JournoList" story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh's opening statement, she said that she would "stipulate" that "Fox isn't the cause of [Sherrod's] firing." I took that as a small concession, given that it is provable that Fox wasn't the cause. Still, I thought it was gracious of Walsh to concede the point. Here's how ...
Associated Press's decision to release a photo of a mortally wounded soldier last month drew criticism from many Americans, including service veterans and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who, in a scathing letter to the AP's top editor, called the move "appalling." While the photo is graphic, it helps to accurately depict a tragic story in a war filled with violence and death. "AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception," Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography, told Politico. "We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, ...
It looks like it's taking people a long time to get the hint that Meghan McCain is rubber, and they are, in fact, glue. The latest media figure to tangle with Meg? Howard Kurtz, Washington Post reporter, and host of CNN's Reliable Sources.Kurtz got upset when Meghan cancelled an appearance on his show, so the host of Reliable Sources took his case to the NY Post's Page Six: (via HuffPo)"At the last moment, she decided she was 'all talked out,' as she put it," Kurtz snipped. "We wanted to ask her about something she wrote where she said her dating life had been ruined by being the daughter of a ...
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