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  • A profile on Rachel Maddow, who just got her own show on MSNBC, and is one of my favorite news personalities. Watching her go head-to-head with Pat Buchanan on MSNBC has been the highlight of the Democratic convention for me.
    Unlike Olbermann, Maddow plans to interview some conservative guests. But she is determined to avoid the left-right pairings that sustain much of cable news. "It creates fake balance," she says. "I'm sorry -- we're going to have a debate about whether or not the Earth is flat? It doesn't make sense to have a debate about whether offshore drilling is going to bring down gas prices. You know what? It's not. The fact that it's false ought to be reported, or you're advancing a lie."
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    8/27/2008
  • I'm perhaps irrationally angry about how much coverage that Gloucester High School "pregnancy pact" story got last week all over the web, merely based on the statements of the high school principal, and often sensationalizing the fact that one of the fathers was a 24-year-old homeless man, as if that was the worst thing of all. It turns out that the principal is now "foggy in his memory" of how he heard about it. TIME could have covered that story much more responsibly. (3) #
    6/23/2008
  • boston.com has an awesome new daily feature, The Big Picture, that covers recent news stories with a series of high-resolution and often beautiful photographs. Consider me subscribed. (via kottke) (5) #
    6/5/2008
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