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Biden Aide to Journo: Sorry We Put You in the Closet

Matt Cantor — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:12:05 CDT

A rep for Joe Biden has apologized to a reporter for his lengthy stay in a storage closet on Wednesday, where he waited to cover a fundraiser, reports Fox News . “This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the vice president's office has made sure it will never...

Blame (or Thank?) Blogs for Brett Favre Scandal

Kevin Spak — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:15:00 CDT

“I didn’t get into journalism to write about Brett Favre’s private parts,” harrumphs Howard Kurtz today in his last Washington Post column, and most mainstream reporters would agree. “But our ability to spike such tawdry tales ended many seasons ago.” Now blogs can drive the news cycle, which is both...

Advice on How to Live Cheaply, Simply Is Thriving

Harry Kimball — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:05:00 CDT

What with the recession, worldwide poverty, and impending environmental doom, it’s no wonder that bookshelves and the blogosphere are crammed with tales of voluntary privation and experiments in skimp. Last month there was On a Dollar a Day , about a couple's attempt to live on that amount—in San Diego...

The 10 Best Wall Street Blogs

Harry Kimball — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:13:02 CST

Many high finance blogs just “stink,” David Weidner writes, but discerning “Wall Street junkies” can depend on a few that engage top talent and often scoop major news organizations. He runs down 10 of the best news and analysis sites in the Wall Street Journal , “skipping the stockpickers or pure...

Md. Dem Mikulski Set to Follow Bayh Out Senate Door

Will McCahill — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:05:06 CST

Claiming “an impeccable source,” blogger Rich Vail reports tonight that Democrat Barbara Mikulski will follow Evan Bayh’s lead and not seek re-election to her Maryland Senate seat this fall. Vail, a Tea Party supporter behind blog The Vail Spot , says the 73-year-old Mikulski has been slow to recover from an...

Latest Palin Controversy Is Lefty Hokum

Will McCahill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:34:00 CST

A column on Sarah Palin’s black bracelet has the lefty blogosphere in a full-flamed fury—but it’s a misguided “hit piece,” William Jacobson tut-tuts. Though the bracelet is sometimes used to memorialize a relative or comrade killed in military action (as veteran Eric Robinson writes in the Yale Daily News...

Righty Bloggers Bully Bear-Maker Into Submission

Will McCahill — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:14:20 CST

The politics of climate change has claimed another victim: a video series on the web site of toy outfit Build-A-Bear, in which cartoon animal characters described how global warming threatened Santa and his people at the North Pole. After conservative bloggers called for a boycott, the company is taking the...

Nate Silver Battles Bill Killers

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:16:57 CST

Nate Silver launched into possibly the dorkiest blog feud ever last night, getting into a lengthy, heated policy debate with liberal bloggers who want to kill the Senate’s health care bill. Silver argues that Democrats will never have a better chance to pass reform, and that it would “take a...

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Rob Quinn — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:01:17 CST

A YouTube channel that specialized in capturing Fox commentators' most outrageous moments has been shut down after copyright complaints from the channel. News1News was the favorite choice of plenty of left-leaning blogs and news sources seeking to poke fun at Fox, notes Gawker , which has been left with plenty of...