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The Washington Post, Disgraced
There are some alternate titles that came to mind as I prepared to write this, but since some of TNN's readers are employees of the Washington Post - some of very long standing indeed - I thought it best to go with the least abrasive one that I thought of. Even so,...
Newsweek: Dummies and Dummier
The new Newsweek's summer reading issue includes a feature called "Best. Books. Ever," in which well-known individuals recommend four of their favorite books in their particular areas of interest. Thus, Melissa Gilbert selects Hollywood memoirs, Dr. Drew chooses...
Journalism 101 With Bob Woodward
Youtube is setting up a kind of journalism school of the internet, featuring clips in which various eminences of the Fourth Estate attempt to explain their profession in the space of five or six minutes. The project is being undertaken with the cooperation of many of...
Where Was Hitchens In The Early Seventies?
Christopher Hitchens takes a look at the latest release of Nixon recordings at Slate. For the most part, his remarks about President Nixon, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Rev. Billy Graham are precisely what one would expect him to say - especially when he presents...
Superior
No one ever accused RN of perfection. Throughout his career, reporters and cartoonists dwelt on his mistakes, his quirks, even his physical flaws: recall Garry Wills's long, bizarre description of his face in Nixon Agonistes. As Eamon Javers wryly notes in Politico,...
Liddy, Hunt, And The Power Of Song
What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...
A Different Kind Of Inauguration
Michael Jackson was always a keen reader of comic books, and in the 1980s he was often referred to in them. Comicbook.com takes a look at some aspects of his association with the comics world. It's been widely reported that in his last weeks the Gloved One enlisted...
Ed, Farrah, and Michael
Within a forty-eight-hour period the world lost three figures in the world of entertainment. Farrah Fawcett, in the days when she had Majors appended to her name, was the nation's most popular sex symbol a year or so after Richard Nixon left the White House. Ed...
The “Miracle on Grass”
Landon Donovan and US teammates celebrate the "stunning" 2-0 victory over Spain in Blomfontein. (AP photo by Antonio Calanni) George Vecsey reports for The New York Times: The stunning 2-0 victory by the United States over Spain ---the best team in the world--- is...
Luke Nichter On Dean’s Nixon Library Appearance
At www.nixontapes.org, Luke Nichter of Tarleton State University (who was extensively quoted in the AP article Frank Gannon discusses below) takes a look at John Dean's appearance at the Nixon Presidential Library last week. (This post also appears at History News...