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If I Ran the Zoo — This excellent piece on Slate about the miracle that is Cokie Roberts' on air commentary reminds me that I had the pleasure of hearing her say this, this morning: ...
So interesting
Balloon Juice —
... Via TPM, Slate’s Jack Shafer has a spot on take-down of the nation’s most vacuous “journalist”: ...
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... officials who may have broken laws related to torture. * EFCA without "card check"? A compromise measure is generating some attention in the Senate. * Stan Greenberg writes an interesting letter to Ed Gillespie. * Weather obviously isn't the same thing as climate, but weather apparently influences public perceptions about global warming. * Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) continues to have a way with words . * Jack Shafer explains why Cokie Roberts probably ought to retire from the punditry business. * John Edwards is under ...
Remainders: NYT layoffs?
Michael Calderone's Blog —
NYT union chief says newsroom layoffs are likely.
WH shoots down idea of newspaper bailouts.
Shafer knocks Cokie's NPR "blather."
Rumfeld aides slam NYT's Pulitzer-winning investigation.
WH adviser Dale: "We love MSNBC."
Hartford Courant's top editors leave.
Quindlen steps aside at Newsweek.
Spinal Tap hit Q&A Cafe in Georgetown next week.
What He Said (NPR Deadweight Dept.)
Discourse.net —
... Jack Shafer in Slate, Behold how little substance NPR’s Cokie Roberts can pack into four minutes of airtime suggests it’s time for NPR to replace Cokie Roberts with actual content. ...
links for 2009-05-05
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Ta-Nehisi Coates: Jeffrey Rosen's Journalistic Malpractice
Jack Shafer: Behold how little substance NPR's Cokie Roberts can pack into four minutes of airtime ...
uggabugga — ... Stephanopoulos typically calls a roudtable with the first three individuals a "Classic" roundtable, so it's probably going to be extra-special-good. Plan on hearing George Will talk about Toyota losing lots of money with the Prius (those stupid Japanese auto manufacturers!) and Cokie Roberts to opine that something is "interesting". ...
A Segment About Nothing
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Having NPR on this morning reminds me that I've neglected to link to Jack Shafer's classic piece on Cokie Roberts's NPR segments, which I woke up to (or, more accurately, tired in vain to wake up during) most of this semester and I think might actually be getting worse, starting from a point at which I wouldn't have thought that was possible: ...
