tnr.com - 12/23/2008
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ladieslogic.com - 12/27/2008
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ladieslogic.com —
Joel Stein has a very interesting column in
the LA Times today. Now before I get into...
quoting it I have a confession to make. When I clicked on the headline listed in my daily e-paper, I was already to hate it but once I read it I not only loved ...
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Remainders: Brit to Bret
Michael Calderone's Blog —
It's Brit's last day as "Special Report" host, next transitioning to a Fox analyst role. As expected, chief White House correspondent Bret Baier will take his place at 6 p.m.
What poor journalists are "stuck" in Hawaii with Obama?
Palin tells Human Events: "I was not allowed to do many interviews."
Kessler thinks WaPo's become more fair.
Look inside Bill Buckley's FBI file.
TNR reports that Holocaust memoir could be a hoax.
Wolfson joins Bloomberg communications team.
Herman Rosenblat's Shameless Defender
The Stump —
If you haven't read Gabe Sherman's terrific--and heartbreaking--reporting on Herman Rosenblat, the Holocaust survivor who appears to have fabricated a story about his (actual) time in a concentration camp, you really should. (See here and here.)
The academics Gabe interviewed helpfully explain why it's a problem when a Holocaust survivor embellishes his story. As Gabe writes:
Lipstadt, who wrote the 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust, is troubled by the possibility that Herman's love story is fabricated, because she believes it could be co-opted by the Holocaust denial movement. "If you make up things ...
TNR Exposes Hoax (Really)
Weekly Standard Blog —
... I've been tuned out the last week and missed this amazing story which features the New Republic(!!!) exposing phony war reporting " ...
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H/T Reader Dick
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nwaonline.net 3/14/2009 — ohnathan Powell barely slept Thursday night.
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lashawnbarber.com 12/29/2008 — Oh, how I wish I’d blogged about the latest literary hoax last week before the publisher canceled the contract! Feet-dragging is a bad habit, boys and girls.
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