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Are Washington bureaus a necessity for covering politics in DC? (20 quotes)

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No (6 quotes)

Put differently, the folks who care most about the shrinking Washington newspaper corps work for newspapers. For everyone else, life will go on. Read the Article

Quoted by brownlu on Dec. 18th, 2008

Will Eliot Spitzer be a good fit as a columnist for Slate? (4 quotes)

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No (1 quotes)

I'm honestly not sure his rehabilitation can be purely intellectual like this. His fall wasn't. It's hard to see how he completes the (natural, banal) cycle back into the public eye without giving soft-focus interviews about his personal transgressions until we're thoroughly bored by them. Read the Article

Quoted by brownlu on Dec. 3rd, 2008

How well has the press held the candidates accountable for the accuracy of their remarks? (16 quotes)

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Election reporting has suffered from a l (11 quotes)

...the Bridge to Nowhere thing is outrageous...if a core part of [the McCain] message is something that every journalist/journalism organization in the country has looked at and says it's demonstrably false, again, we're not doing our jobs if we just treat this as one of many things that's happening Read the Article


Quoted by johncapello on Sept. 10th, 2008

How will The National Enquirer's coverage of the Edwards scandal influence the editorial discretion of the mainstream press? (9 quotes)

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General Comments (3 quotes)

Perhaps there is a middle ground where media outlets can report on a burgeoning controversy without vouching for the underlying allegations, being candid with readers and viewers about what they know and don't know. Read the Article

Quoted by brownlu on Aug. 14th, 2008

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