July 2009
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June 2009
Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Al Franken’s victory in the US Senate race. The Democrats now have the magic number of 60. http://tr.im/qlGm
A successful first day. One key step for my future, complete.
In the middle of my first day at Dow Jones Newswires. It’s time to start a career, I guess.
Iran coverage upends traditional journalistic rules and methods. http://tr.im/q9Bp By @brianstelter of the @nytimes. Interesting read.
Time for bed. Tomorrow is my first day on the job at Dow Jones Newswires!
Coup coverage from the @WSJ with a Honduran dateline: http://tr.im/q6rN
RT @WSJ: Congress names its leader as president following military ouster of Manuel Zelaya, according to AP.
Video of Nico Pitney defending himself against @AmandaCarpenter and Dana Milbank on @Howardkurtz’s “Reliable Sources” http://is.gd/1h9Ld
Some Sunday reading: ‘Politics and the English Language,’ By George Orwell (.pdf) http://tr.im/q3Sw
RT @glenngreenwald: Excellent interview by On the Media’s Bob Garfield of NPR Ombud re NPR’s use of Bush terms for torture http://tr.im/q2Up
Calling all @collegejourn: @tpmmedia is hiring. Get your resumes ready. http://is.gd/1fqeL
What the Washington Post thinks new media means: http://is.gd/1flTm What they think new media doesn’t mean: http://is.gd/1fm4a Get it?
Four minutes remain, vote 210-201 yeas. 37 Dems against, seven GOP approve. 23 no votes to go. #ACES
With 8 minutes and 46 votes to go, there are 31 Dem nays and 7 GOP yeas. #ACES #Climatebill
#ACES Final vote happening now.
The Waxman-Markey #Climatebill passes the House by a 219-212 margin. There were three no votes, one Dem and two Republicans. #ACES
#ACES clears the House.
Two minute warning: the Dems need two more votes for #ACES.
The #Climatebill now goes to the Senate, where passage is not as assured. Supermajority of 60 votes needed for cloture before final passage.
The final House roll call on the #ACES #Climatebill is here: http://tr.im/pVff Members who didn’t vote: Flake, Hastings (Fla.) and Sullivan.
SHOCKER: White House Drafts Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention; Move would Bypass Congress, via @propublica http://tr.im/pUQs
Heading home for younger sister @ericarubenfeld’s high school graduation. She’s going to SUNY Stony Brook in the fall. #followfriday
A @WCP piece on Froomkin’s firing calls it the first time a “major personnel decision hinged squarely on Web hits.” http://tr.im/pSVi
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) did not vote on a bill he wrote. #ACES It barely passed, 217-205, however. http://is.gd/1eDjd
The http://is.gd/1eDjd #ACES roll call vote was an “agreement to the resolution.” The final vote on the bill is expected around 6 p.m. or so
Nugget buried: Eisenhower Press Sec’y used to know some reporters questions in advance. http://tr.im/pSHC Pitney ain’t so bad now, is he?
Is Jon Stewart the reason the White House violates its own pronouncements on transparency? The Daily Show takes it on. http://tr.im/pSaL
A sad day for accountability journalism. http://is.gd/1ezbH Dan Froomkin, your presence at WaPo.com will be missed.
A reader of Andrew Sullivan’s nails it: “Describing the world the way it is is not an attempt to change things and is not political action.”
Link for previous tweet, via @jayrosen_nyu: http://is.gd/1dNFr
From @tpmmedia via @jayrosen_nyu: A case study in how the press reports what officials say without being skeptical. http://tr.im/pNUF
Corr. #MichaelJackson pronounced dead at 3:15 PDT, according to Bill Whitaker, CBS News, which cut into its local newscasts to report it.
Is this shocking or what? CBS News cuts into its local newscasts for Katie Couric to report on #MichaelJackson. Pronounced dead at 6:15 PDT
#LATimes, via @wcbstv: Michael Jackson pronounced dead. Now we have confirmation. Who gets the credit for the first report: LAT or TMZ?
Unsure whether TMZ just got the street cred necessary to be taken seriously. Yes it was first, but did they pronounce too early? Presser…
Reuters Editors: Rethinking rights, accreditation,... →
Check out @DavidG1111’s byline in the Queens Courier http://is.gd/1dtcM covering planned development in Astoria. @HofstraU #collegejourn
Via @markknoller: WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes a bath in the dunk tank on the South Lawn at today’s luau. http://twitpic.com/8etom
Fascinating ‘Reporter’s notebook’ story from The State reporter that caught Gov. #Sanford at the Atlanta airport. http://tr.im/pJqw
RT @publici: Check out our interactive map grading the states based on their standards for legislators: http://bit.ly/statesmap
Regarding health care reform, journalists should focus on how it could help/hurt people (policy), not on how it gets passed (process).
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RT @howardowens: What undermines trust in press is “strict objectivity,” as opposed to the “scientific objectivity” advocated by Lippmann.
Charlie Gibson says “a lot of people are very uncomfortable” with public option in leadup to segment. Poll says otherwise: http://tr.im/pFB1
Paging all #collegejourn! RT @TheOnion: Fall Internship Pays Off With Coveted Winter Internship http://bit.ly/dsvgd
Pitney the scapegoat? At http://tr.im/pEWl @mattzicoop says since WH didn’t know what the question was, the notice he got is irrelevant.
I always thought journalists were supposedly the voices for the voiceless. So why the hubbub over Nico Pitney’s question? http://tr.im/pEWl
Big day. #Sanford admits to a tryst abroad, Gibbs on defense for an allegedly planted question, 60 killed in Baghdad blast and US beat Spain
Today’s Drudge-bait backfire: @thepolitico “A Republican Comeback?” http://is.gd/1cseh #Sanford scandal keeps the party in the wilderness.