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Newsies on the News

August 25, 2005
By Doug Thompson

Want the news behind the news? Try reading the blogs of some of TV’s news personalities. NBC’s Brian Williams blogs on The Nightly Daily, an MSNBC blog that includes not only his observations but that of other newsies for NBC. Williams is quick to admit mistakes: On the evening of August 19th, in an attempt to...
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All The News That’s Fit to Finance

August 23, 2005
By Doug Thompson

The Baltimore Sun fired longtime political columnist Jules Witcover by sending him an overnight letter. The cold, callous way the paper dismissed an icon of reporting shows just how far my profession has sunk. Across the country, longtime journalists face similar fates at the hands of giant media chains that now control the news. At...
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