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Let me fix that for you: CBC Exposed.

Columbia Journalism Review celebrates a suicide note.
Heh – from CJR’s comments; “Better dead than read. I suppose.”

Bernstein is an awkward choice for critic of phone hacking, because of the memorable moment in the Watergate investigation when, stymied in his investigation of the suspicious burglary, he turns to a source at the phone company to obtain what were supposed to be private telephone records.
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Nyan Cat vs MSNBC

Chris Matthews* has competition.

Before the policy choices have to be weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement? Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent, fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of 2011 is the summer of Obama.

Sam was returning from a school fair on Friday evening with his brother and friends. He was running when he fell on a curb next to the main slide which he said was jutting out by at least and inch.

Has your child been hurt at the playground? Contact Evening News reporter Annabelle Dickson.
h/t EBD

h/t Dan

The bad news: A 168 year old media institution is no more. The good news? Now we have a precedent for the next time the New York Times publishes state secrets.
Beauty!

And the Casey Anthony comment of the day;

An Orlando TV station declares that the trial “captivated the nation.” Which is, I suppose, a way of saying that TV ran wall-to-wall coverage for the benefit of idiots who were “captivated,” which no sane person could have been. Some postgraduate student of communication theory will undoubtedly write his Ph.D. dissertation on what the Casey Anthony saga tells us about the process by which network TV producers decide which crimes to turn into media circuses.

Via Drudge – Anthony Defense Team Slams Media