Dec 20, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
It’s hard to resist capitalizing that that word when writing on this subject and this newspaper. That said, the reaction of Washington Post writers to the death of W. Mark Felt, who unveiled himself in 2005 as “Deep Throat,” has been, a little...
Dec 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As readers of his book about the 1950 Senate election in California (Tricky Dick And The Pink Lady) know, Editor & Publisher editor-in-chief Greg Mitchell is far from being a fan of the 37th President. But, as this article shows, he is aware, from personal...
Dec 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the wee small hours of this morning, the Washington Post’s website posted (and the newspaper itself printed) an obituary for W. Mark Felt, the former FBI associate director who, in 2005, was identified by himself and the Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl...
Dec 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In last week’s New Yorker, deputy “Talk of the Town” editor Lauren Collins set up a story about Ivy Leaguers in the Obama administration —“Team of Brainiacs”— by stirring up some trouble over one of the recently released...
Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
At the Huffington Post Glynnis Macnicol, editor at FishbowlNY.com, polls a number of notables (including Salman Rushdie, Fred Armisen and Ana Marie Cox) about their favorite recent reading. Jon Meacham, editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and author of the recent biography...
Dec 18, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Last week the marketing offensive for F/N finally embraced The Colbert Report. Host Steven Colbert had originally thought the movie was about RN teaming up with Jack Frost to save Christmas. He was disabused of this notion by his guest Kevin Bacon, who plays...