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Adam Green / The Huffington Post:
Mike McCurry — Hurting The Internet, Hurting His Admirers — I feel sorry for Mike McCurry. I really do. — As a George Washington University political communications student in the 1990's, I joined many in looking up to Mike McCurry as the best in our field.
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The Agonist
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talkingpointsmemo.com:
More on Mike. — Below (via Atrios) I flagged this Huffington Post Mike McCurry post about the Net Neutrality debate. But I wanted to focus in on this one paragraph where Mike is discussing not so much the NN debate as the culture of the blogosphere and the relationship between blogs and the mainstream media ...
Digby / Hullabaloo:
We Weren't Born Yesterday — Josh Marshall writes about the Washington Press corps' thin-skin today, saying: … That's exactly right and it's exactly the point. I wrote about this a few months ago in response to Franklin Foer's article in The New Republic in which he worried that the left …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Versus The Press — Libby's team continues their tussle with the press. I intend to post the documents shortly. … Hmm, I am looking at more than 45 pages here. — 1. Here is Part 1 of the Consolidated response (23 page .pdf) — 2. Here is Part 2 (27 page .pdf)
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Hugh Hewitt:
NYT Editor Bill Keller: Slayer of Straw Men; Inventor of Privileges — Like most Americans, the Wall Street Journal's editors have a low opinion of leakers passing top secret material to "reporters" who in fact act as fax machines to the front page. — New York Times' editor Bill Keller responds …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Time to stop feeling guilty and start really bombing — (updated below) — The Wall St. Journal's Opinion Journal today published an Op-Ed by Shelby Steele that advances one of the most truly incoherent and just plain inane arguments I have read in a long time.
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Shelby Steele / Opinion Journal:
White Guilt and the Western Past — Why is America so delicate with the enemy? — There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II. — For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power …
Think Progress:
UPDATE: The National Anthem At Bush's First Inaugural — UPDATE: Contemporaneous media accounts (see here for example) report that Secada was singing "America the Beautiful," not the national anthem. The story from Cox News below, reporting that Secada sang the national anthem in Spanish, appears to be in error.
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
The Cole Report — When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide. — In some ways, the continuing row over his call for the complete destruction of Israel must baffle Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. All he did, after all, was to turn up at a routine anti-Zionist event and repeat …
Elaine Sciolino / New York Times:
U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran — PARIS, May 2 — The United States, Britain and France have drafted a binding Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, but Russia and China are already resisting, officials involved in the negotiations said today.
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Drudge Report:
MARY CHENEY SAYS HER FATHER SAID EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTED TO HEAR WHEN SHE TOLD HIM SHE WAS GAY — Vice president tells VANITY FAIR his image might be better if he spent more time trying to improve it, "but that's not why I'm here" — New York, N.Y. - In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN …
The Raw Story:
New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal — New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Bush, Hill Republicans Agree To Extend Expiring Tax Cuts — Democrats Point to Deficit and Benefits for the Rich — President Bush and congressional Republicans agreed yesterday on a $70 billion package of tax-cut extensions that they hope will help halt the deterioration of their political fortunes.
Todd Gitlin / Chronicle of Higher Education:
The Self-Inflicted Wounds of the Academic Left — Truly this is a bizarre time for the life of the mind in America. The airwaves and best-seller lists are noisy with anti-intellectual jeers. The ruling party embraces the nostrums of "No Child Left Behind" while tossing the teaching …
Michelle Malkin:
BORDERS? WHAT BORDERS? — More pictures you didn't see in the NYTimes or WashPost or LATimes...Photojournalist Byron Dazey has a stunning photo collection of the Illegal Alien Strike in Seattle. — Here's a sample, but be sure to visit Creative Flashes to see the whole album.