Wednesday, June 30, 2010

This week's topic links

The Media and McChrystal

Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone: "The Runaway General"

Bob Garfield, On the Media/WNYC: "The McChrystal Bombshell"

David Brooks, The New York Times: "The Culture of Exposure"

Danny Shea, The Huffington Post: "Lara Logan Slams Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone Over McChrystal Article"

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: "Lara Logan, You Suck"

Michael Calderone, Yahoo! News: "Washington Post, ABC defend anonymous source's attack on sourcing in Rolling Stone McChrystal story"

David Carr, The New York Times: "The Media Equation: Heedlessly Hijacking Content"

Kagan Hearings News-Free?

Adam Hochberg, Poynter Online: "Media, Blogosphere Coverage of Kagan Confirmation as Predictable as Hearing Outcome"

Andrew Cohen, Politics Daily: "Elena Kagan Hearing, Day One: Why Americans are Tuning Out"

Al Gore and the Masseuse

National Enquirer: "New Evidence Revealed: Gore Sex Scandal Victim Tells All!!!"

Susannah Breslin, True/Slant: "Al Gore is a crazed sex poodle"

Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post: "National Enquirer says it decided not to pay for Gore sex story interview"

Eli Sanders, Salon.com: "How one paper tried, and failed, to confirm Al Gore sex allegations"

Mark Garber, The Portland Tribune: "Our decision on Gore story based on evidence, responsibility"

Open Mic Gaffes

Elyse Siegel, The Huffington Post: "Joe Biden's 'Smartass' Quip: Vice President Jokes with Wisconsin Ice Cream Store Manager"

Top of the Ticket blog, The Lost Angeles Times: "Oops! Reporters caught on tape mocking Sarah Palin speech"

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