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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    09:00 PM

    In reply to AOL News Borg to Be Ruled by Former New York Times Reporter
    What does cyborg Steve Buscemi have to do with AOL?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    07:46 PM

    In reply to AOL News Borg to Be Ruled by Former New York Times Reporter
    Hasn't "Seed" been plowed under by just about every citizen-farmer for the last ten years?
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    07:41 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    This sleeping with a source is directly related to sleeping with the person hiring you for said journalism job. Worked for me.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    07:21 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    Thats' a GREATLY abbreviated list of Judith Miller's "conquests."
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    07:09 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    Isn't this a problem with most of the reporting going on inside of the beltway, you trade chuminess for access. Hopefully at the end of the day you get the dirt and can air it out, but I feel that more often than not they're just sitting on a lot of stories so as not to burn bridges. YOu end up fucking them because you never really meet anyone else (except other reporters, and you've already fucked them).

    Then again I might just be extrapolating from my own experience, however unrelated it might have been.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    08:44 PM

    @rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny: Nail on the head. And, to raincoaster's comment directly above, which is related to what you're saying: Can anyone here really say that what Judith Miller was up to wasn't common knowledge?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    06:52 PM

    In reply to AOL News Borg to Be Ruled by Former New York Times Reporter
    Impossible to decide what's more despicable -- the presumption that this site will actually work or its name.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    05:53 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    What have the elephants done to deserve this comparison?
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    05:47 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    You forgot the impending Hamilton Nolan - Neal Boulton bombshell.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    05:46 PM

    In reply to Tradition of Reporters Sleeping with Sources Still Alive and Well at the New York Times
    The whole idea of journalists being friends and breaking bread and quaffing drinks with the politicians they cover is disturbing; romantic involvement is just the worst extreme. I for one don't like it when Brian Williams is invited to state dinners or when a Ben Bradlee pals around with a JFK. I'm not saying journalists vote, but I do think that when it comes to socializing on any level, they need to take a vow of politico-socio celibacy.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    07:11 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: I agree. I don't participate in these political shindigs. I don't list my political affiliation on sites like Facebook, nor do I post political rants there. I won't even register with a party -- my status is 'unenrolled'. I don't donate to political parties. I don't volunteer for candidates.

    It's an old-fashioned way of doing things. I'm 36; I'm the last generation of broadcasters (radio, specifically) that actually came up in staffed newsrooms; were taught the craft; who covered various city halls; who learned the value of building trust with sources, gathering numbers, and nagging everyone from secretaries to Mayors for tips. Doing that required keeping your opinions out of shit as much as possible, in every way.

    Excuse me while I tell those kids to get off my fucking lawn.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    07:19 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: Correction: make that "I'm not saying journalists shouldn't vote..."
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    07:30 PM

    @NewsBunny: I agree with almost all of what you say, but I don't think newspeople have to keep their opinions strictly confidential, as long as the opinions and analyses are clearly labeled. Actually, if someone has extensive experience covering a beat, I want to hear his take on the goings on: it's likely to be straighter talk than I will get from the politicians.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    07:33 PM

    @TheBusinessGuy: That's all in the questions you ask. I have no problem asking a pol 'What the HELL were thinking?' -- as long as I go after Dems, Republicans, Independents, Jessie Venturians, The Cat-Lover's party, blah blah blah. I torture everyone equally.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    07:36 PM

    @NewsBunny: And on radio, where we hear the screams and let our imaginations fill in the rest.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11:09 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    I'm surprised Bono didn't take the buyout.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    09:56 AM

    In reply to More New York Times Buyout Takers
    So do they throw in the Weekender for free or is that not part of the package?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09:40 AM

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    God, MORE cuts to local coverage? Please don't do that, NYT.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/07/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    Please tell me we will still have Bill Cunningham to love and hug. Everyone else, meh.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/07/09

    @miss_msry: You kidding? Cunningham will be delivering papers on his bike as he snaps pix of Manhattan's copycat chi-chi-rati.
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    12/07/09

    In reply to The New York Times Buyout List (Updated)
    Last one out turn off the Mr Coffee...
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    Image of tabloidhero tabloidhero
    04:36 PM

    @TheSometimesWhy: If only the Eighth Ave newsroom had coffee makers or free coffee... or a coffee-cart-pusher for that matter...
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    05:45 PM

    @tabloidhero: You know, as I typed that line rather blithely, a shiver ran down my spine that what if things had sunk to the level that even poor Mr. Coffee had become a casualty of the economic times? Could that possibly be?

    And not even a mention in the local obit--oh, the humanity! (Or lack thereof.)
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    Image of El_Gato El_Gato
    05:56 PM

    @tabloidhero: Well, there is free coffee once a day. They push the coffee cart into the newsroom on the 3rd floor around 5 or 5:15 most days. Yes, I know, the perks are simply amazing.
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    Image of markscottmusic markscottmusic
    12/07/09

    In reply to Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Destiny Aligns Us with the Vows Section
    Anyone who makes a big deal about not watching TV - like those two guys who got married do - are douchebags. I'd hate to be that kid living in the house.
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