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Why
no debate for CBS Star Katie? Eight months and more than 20 debates into podium season, Katie Couric has yet to get anywhere near the big stage. How did the highest-paid anchor on evening television get upstaged by so many of her peers?
A day at the races with Chris Matthews, manic oracle of American politics, and he prepares for marathon Super Tuesday coverage and declares Obama in 2008 ‘Bigger Than Kennedy!’
Sociopath stockbrokers. Dysfunctional socialites. Functional alcoholics. Rising social climbers. Fallen aristocrats. Held in George Gurley’s gaze for long enough, these familiar archetypes of New York become more strange, complex, and human. In his ongoing series, called “George and Hilly,” the New York Observer scribe turns his typical approach back on himself.
How a Harvard-educated magazine editor, with a masters degree in comparative literature, went from studying the language of Vladimir Nabokov to subtitling the language of Flavor Flav—and rescued Vh1 along the way. A profile of highbrow columnist and lowbrow reality television guru Michael Hirschorn.
Can Josh Marshall transform himself from a rumpled, bespectacled link jockey with a monitor tan into a viable Web TV anchor? That might seem like an odd gamble for a guy whose past accomplishments—earning a Ph.D. in American history at Brown University, writing for the likes of The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and creating one of the most successful political blogs since the form was invented—have depended on his way with the written word. But Internet activists say that such transformations are no longer optional.
Bloodied Radio Cowboy Returns With 21-Second Delay; WABC Says Ad Sales
Going at Fast Clip; First Day’s Guest, Carville; Ambivalent Russert
Battered on Blogs
Dominant, instinctual, physical—adversarial and intensely loyal—remembering the New Journalist who reported the living daylights out of Vietnam, basketball, life.
In the summer of 2005, ABC caved to mounting pressure from advocacy groups and cancelled a reality show, called “Welcome to the Neighborhood” (in which 7 “nontraditional” and minority families would compete to win a house in tightly knit, predominantly white neighborhood in Austin, Texas) before it even premiered. In the aftermath of the national controversy, I embedded for a night of barbecue among the embattled neighbors.
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