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The New York Times Also Has a Big (Albeit Different) Problem with Reporters Katharine Q. Seelye, Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny

They write:

White House Embraces Upstart Who Beat Specter: Shortly after Representative Joe Sestak won an improbable victory Tuesday over Senator Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary...

Unpopular, uncharismatic,, trimming, party-switching incumbent senator runs in a primary against:

Joe Sestak is serving his second term as the Representative from Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, which includes most of Delaware County and parts of Chester and...

It Looks Like the New York Times Has a Very Big Problem with Reporter Raymond Hernandez

Colin McEnroe:

Colin McEnroe's To Wit Blog: The Linda McMahon campaign is taking full credit for digging up the tape about Blumenthal and Vietnam. They say it unequivocally in this story. "The campaign of Republican Linda McMahon acknowledged finding and providing the video. 'We got our hands on it', said Ed Patru, McMahon's director of communications." Kevin Rennie went into greater detail, writing that the entire story was researched by the McMahon campaign and fed to the Times. The...

Go Ahead, Matt Zeitlin, You Start It...

Matt Zeitlin:

Twitter / Matt Zeitlin: Can I get a morning (or ni ...: Can I get a morning (or night @marcambinder!) email newsletter that gives me the highlights of all other email newsletters?

Jo Walton on Ursula Le Guin's Tehanu

Jo Walton: A woman on Gont: Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu:

Le Guin is speaking with a double tongue in [Tehanu:]. On the one hand she’s saying very clearly that women’s domestic lives are central and important, and on the other the force of story is bending everything to have an actual plot, which needs an evil wizard and men and the world of action. The burned child Therru, who has been raped and survived, calls the dragon to the rescue. It’s too easy an answer, as well as being a nice trick...

Rand Paul Appears to Come Out Against Calorie Counts and in Favor of a Progressive Income Tax

From http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid72584309001?bclid=72527732001&bctid=78606340001, at the Louisville Courier-Journal:

A: I'm not in favor of the government telling you what to do.... It's important that we try to protect freedoms.... Here's the next step. The next step is we tell you smoking's unhealthy we tell you eating's unhealthy, and that's already coming. In New York, they ban certain kinds of foods, they tell you the calorie count. And overeating is a big...

Rand Paul Twittering from E_fish

E_fish:

Ron Pauls son, Rand Paul, just said on NPR that he would have voted against the Civil Rights Act. 23 minutes ago from UberTwitter

"Freedom." I don't think that word means what Rand Paul thinks it means...

The New York Times Hit Piece on Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

Atrios:

Journamalism: Either the NYT just ran with oppo research they were fed without bothering to check, or they did their own snipitty snip snipping. Given recent history, I imagine they'll address the issue in 10 years or so.

Jamison Foser:

The New York Times  has some explaining to do: This Associated Press report about the controversy surrounding Richard Blumenthal’s description of his military service raises some questions about the New York Times’ handling of the story:

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At the Core

From Paul Krugman:

Time more more policy moves to boost aggregate demand. Just saying.

Alex Beam on the Press Corps of a Generation Ago

Alex Beam:

When being a journalist-on-the-rise was a glass half-filled job: My first job in journalism was at the now-foundering Newsweek.... Newsweek in 1977 and 1978 was fat, plush, almost 100 pages long, and choked with advertising.... I was an editorial assistant/fact-checker, with duties analogous to those of an 18th-century cabin boy in the Royal Navy. My favorite person... Richard Steele, assured me of a bright future, because I knew when to refresh his bottomless vodka glass......

Winston Churchill Liveblogs World War II: May 19, 1940

Winston Churchill: May 19, 1940:

Winston Churchill: After this battle in France abates its force, there will come the battle for our Island.... In that supreme emergency we shall not hesitate to take every step, even the most drastic, to call forth from our people the last ounce and the last inch of effort of which they are capable. The interests of property, the hours of labor, are nothing compared with the struggle of life and honor, for right and freedom, to which we have vowed...