While trolling through a bunch of Saddam pages over at the News Page Designer site (thanks to newsdesigner for the link), I startd noticing the names of people I’ve worked with in the past. So I figured I’d document them…
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Dreaming of Saddam
Seems Tim Russert had a dream about Saddam too. But he got to reveal his dream to George Tenet, director of the CIA.
Dipping a toe in the blogosphere
Tim Porter points to the story of Spokesman-Review online editor Ryan Pitts, whose bosses put to work tracking Bloggers’ responses to Saddam’s capture.
Anti-anti
Nicole Stockdale points out changes to the curent AP Stylebook.
Saddam’s face…
… is on pretty much all the pages at the Newseum’s front page array.
Saddam caught
Now what? True story: Thursday night I had a dream in which I was in a large room with Saddam and George W. Bush. Seemed like it was a press conference. Saddam’s trying to be cute in a Gollum-like way;…
The Jessica Book
Rick Bragg’s narrative reviewed in the New York Times. Some reviewers have questioned whether, without the exploits initially attributed to her, there could be any power in Lynch’s narrative. (Though Bragg does not say so, the early error had a…
Weekend reading: women covering war
National Geographic Online profiles women who covered World War II. The tall, strikingly beautiful Martha Gellhorn was a talented writer whose philandering husband, Ernest Hemingway, claimed she secretly loved war and was happiest there. She vehemently disagreed, writing powerful anti-war…
Careful about those Lolitas
I did a Google news search on “newspaper editor” and found this juicy story from Portales, New Mexico: CANNON AIR FORCE BASE ? The editor of the Cannon Air Force Base newspaper will spend nine months in military prison, be…
Lament of the day
From Will Leitch: Many of my friends out here talk about how “wild” they were in college, how they had loads of sex and drank and drugged it up all the time, recklessly, out of control. I should have went…