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Thursday, June 02, 2005
DEEP THROAT, DAY THREE. The
story's running out of gas with surprising speed. But it's still got
a bit of life in it. Today's must-reads are Bob Woodward's own
account,
in the Washington Post, and this
Todd Purdum-Jim Rutenberg New York Times piece, which does not
make Mark Felt's family look good. Howard Kurtz has some interesting
stuff on the Post's "lost
scoop."
BLOGGING MACHINE. Boston
Herald business reporter Jay Fitzgerald now has not one but
two weblogs. His Hub
Blog, which he began
writing before taking a job at the Herald, has long been a
mandatory stop on the Boston blog circuit. Last month, he started
writing EconoBlog
for the Herald's site to offer another perspective on local
business news - and, as often as not, to flog the Herald's business coverage. Not that I would ever do that with my Phoenix colleagues! (See next item.)
ROMNEY BUZZ. Has anyone
noticed that the conservative Weekly Standard's
cover
story this week is on Mitt
Romney? Written by the magazine's publisher, Terry Eastland, the
profile consists of paint-by-numbers stuff - the Olympics, the failed
1994 race against Ted Kennedy, Romney's no-new-taxes governorship -
before getting down to its real subject: Romney's Mormonism, and how
it will play with evangelical Christians and conservative
Catholics.
The Phoenix's Adam Reilly
took an in-depth look at Romney's
faith earlier this
year.
UNINTENDED IRONY.
"Radio
Losing Its Sense of Humor, Keillor
Says." (Boston
Globe)
NEW IN THIS WEEK'S
PHOENIX. The White House's hatchet man
targets
National Public Radio.
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Sad to see Felt Family "follow the money". Also sad to think that this paragon of virtue couldn't spare any help for the Boston FBI office, which in retrospect, could have used it. Times appears catty referring to Bernstein's career as "checkered", considering recent history at NYT. Viewed in context, (as WSJ editor) Peggy Noonan's piece today is a pretty good take on things. (Ben Bradlee comes out looking like a mensch once again!)
Thank you for 'unintended irony'--just glad I'm not the only one who thinks Keillor has become a gasbag...
Keillor is high art to the same dim pretentious numbskulls who leave a Harry Connick Jr. concert thinking they just heard jazz.
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