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The Whitehall Press Corps
Two different views of yesterday’s Blair-Bush presser, care of Media Matters: Long live the British press! In contrast to the small-bore questions that American reporters posed to President Bush yesterday about his Iraq policy, two British journalists cut right to the central issue of the president’s credibility… WaPo‘s Daniel Froomkin bigs up Nick Robinson and…
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A question of attribution
Nick Robinson takes to his blog to “big up” his question to President Bush. I thought it was extraordinary that just the day after the Iraq study group had been so critical of what was happening in Iraq, the president used such soft language to describe the situation there. All we got from the president…
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Bashir un-bashed
News emerges, via veteran U.S. TV writer Tom Shales, of Martin Bashir. In case you’d forgotten, he’s on the post-Ted Koppel Nightline, which airs on ABC (imagine the post-Jon Snow Channel 4 News). Shales notes that: Nightline has survived its initial case of post-Koppel stress disorder and emerged a solid, ambitious news broadcast, one that…
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Journalism’s Garden secret
This month a column that has appeared for over thirty years in The Garden – the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society – has come to an end. It was written under the name Tradescant, and every month it produced a page that let slip small details of plant lore in a few paragraphs of…