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Tag: Wall Street Journal
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Maddow vs. Paul
Rand Paul loses the first round, takes the second against Rachel Maddow.
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What Is the Wall Street Journal Trying to Say about Elena Kagan?
The Wall Street Journal runs a picture of Elena Kagan playing softball. So?
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The Farewells to Bruce Graham
The Wall Street Journal’s obit of Bruce Graham reads a lot like the one the Chicago Tribune had already published.
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Information Wants to Be FreeDip Its Beak
The New York Times decides on a pay-to-view Internet model.
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Health Care and Whole Foods
1. The left blogosphere is excited about the NYT article “Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill.” As someone who was conditioned by the Clinton-era grindcore GOP to expect health-care reform to go nowhere, I think a more accurate framing would be “Democrats Seem Set to Realize the Obvious,” but it’s […]
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Jazz Is Dying, Again and Again
Though I didn’t see Terry Teachout’s ominous look at the state of jazz in 2009 when it originally ran in the August 9 issue of the Wall Street Journal, in the week and a half since then it’s been hard to miss the hubbub the story has caused. Armed with statistics from a recent National […]
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Future of Media: The Young Turk Edition
Among the conclusions at last week’s Chicago Media Future Conference: professional journalism is an anomaly, nobody’s ever really paid for news, and if you see a helicopter, you can surmise for yourself that the president’s in town.
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“Fast fashion” can fool even the experts
The Wall Street Journal conducts an experiment: can fashion experts tell the difference between designer garments and their “masstige” cousins?
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Skokie’s Holocaust Museum — day two
A symposium on genocide at the new Illinois Holocaust Museum becomes a media critique, and Pioneer Press covers it.
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The empire strikes back
Newspapers talk tough, but will they actually declare war on the “parasites” sucking up their content online?
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Before she wrote to the Wall Street Journal, she wrote to the Tribune
The Chicago Tribune pulled out the stops to hang on to Coleen Davison, the former subscriber whose letter praising the Wall Street Journal became a Journal ad.
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As Journal pulls trigger — Tribune makes itself too easy a target
Wall Street Journal takes shot at Chicago Tribune’s “diminishing quality” the same day the Tribune demonstrates it on page one.