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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Observer - By John Koblin - Nov. 25 (News Report) - The blogger, professor and media consultant has, through his Web sites, seminars, journalism classes, panel-discussion appearances and the occasional flame-war, preached for some time now the gospel of New Media. These days, it’s taking hold — and not just among the patchwork constituency of media studies majors, technophile utopians and media malcontents left and right.

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Obama Goes With Mr. Aggression

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Observer - By Steve Kornacki - Nov. 08 (Special Report) - The basic logic behind Barack Obama’s first major decision as president-elect, his selection of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff, makes sense... But that doesn’t necessarily mean Obama is making a wise choice. In vesting Emanuel with such authority – he’ll essentially run the White House and serve as the gatekeeper to the president – he is also assuming some very significant risks.

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Amid 2008 Campaign Cacophony on the Web, Print Reverts to Hobbesian State

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By John Koblin - Sep. 17 (News Report) - "The story burns more intensely and then it burns out more quickly," said Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek writer, musing about the life cycle of pieces. "And there's so much information and so much political coverage that it's easy for good stories to be lost entirely in that register."

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Team Obama Goes Cherry-Picking

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By Jason Horowitz - Jul. 03 (News Report) - In the weeks since Mrs. Clinton officially suspended her candidacy, the Obama campaign has recruited the services of the Clinton campaign's director of national security, Lee Feinstein, as well as foreign-policy advisers Mara Rudman, the deputy national security advisor under Bill Clinton; Robert Einhorn, a former assistant secretary for nonproliferation at the State Department; and Stuart Eizenstat, an international-trade specialist who was policy director for Jimmy Carter's 1976 campaign. On the domestic side, Gene Sperling, who was the top economic adviser on the Clinton campaign, has begun consulting with the Obama policy team.

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Tim Russert, Man of Ambition

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By Felix Gillette - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - For all the endless tributes to Russert this week, the actual mechanics of Russert's ambition remain shrouded in platitudes. He was a hard worker. He loved politics. He stayed true to his homespun, working-class roots. But the same could all be said of CBS' Bob Schieffer, a talented broadcaster who took over Face the Nation, in 1991, but who never managed to pull off for CBS what Russert did for NBC. So what did Russert do?

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60 Months in the Red Zone

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By Felix Gillette, Matt Haber, John Koblin - Jun. 17 (Special Report) - "It's the oft-stated phrase that truth is the first casualty of war," said Michael Ware, CNN's Baghdad correspondent, on the telephone from Iraq. "In this war, as in every other conflict, everybody lies to you. Your government is lying to you. The Iraqi government is lying. The insurgents are lying. The militias are lying. The U.S. military is lying. Even the civilians lie. Or in the best case, there's confusion and exaggeration. The truth is the most elusive thing in war, particularly in an insurgency."

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The Touchable

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By John Koblin - Mar. 12 (News Analysis) - After the saga surrounding the months-delayed publication of the John McCain-lobbyist story, a story that was written about before The Times even published it and that ended with a whimper amid a cloud of public opprobrium (and that, in the end, was a tie with The Washington Post), one person involved with the story said the biggest fear, by far, was that they'd lose it.

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New Mitt, Meet Old Mitt

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

New York Observer - By Steve Kornacki - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - There are two Mitt Romneys--the one who ran twice in Massachusetts as a moderate-to-liberal Republican and the one now running for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a red-meat conservative. When these two diametrically opposite characters end up meeting each other, awkward comedy ensues. Case in point: this weekend.

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The Blunderers Are Winning The Debate

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:31:57 -0700

New York Observer - By Steve Kornacki - Apr. 25 (Opinion) - But what Republicans--as well as many Democrats who were privately skeptical--may be realizing now is that Ms. Pelosi is more than a bit savvier than they ever imagined. As the Democrats' prospects brightened throughout 2006, it was almost an article of faith within the D.C. world that Ms. Pelosi would be her party's Newt Gingrich, a polarizing and recklessly outspoken Speaker who would do more to rile up the other side's base than her own.

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A Selective View of Fraud

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:02:13 -0700

New York Observer - By Joe Conason - Apr. 19 (News Analysis) - The New York Observer Bush and Gonzales could have actually found voter fraud if they had checked Ann Coulter's registration.

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Note to Obama Skeptics: This Is Not a Fad

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:46:27 -0800

New York Observer - By Steve Kornacki - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Contrary to the hardening conventional wisdom that his candidacy is of the flash-in-the-pan variety, Mr. Obama's path to a general-election victory in 2008 is, by some measures, more clear for him than it is for his principal rivals. Just consider the state-by-state electoral map, which seems frozen in place--a fitting reflection of a cultural and political divide that doesn't appear to be easing. Between the 2000 and 2004 elections, only three states switched partisan hands. (New Mexico and Iowa went from the Democrats to the G.O.P., and New Hampshire went the other way.)

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Isaac Bashevis Singer Comes Back From Dead as the Anti-Theist

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:22:33 -0800

New York Observer - By Ron Rosenbaum - Jan. 04 (Special Report) - There's a fascinating new war going on in the culture between self-proclaimed "scientific atheists" and theists. Militant atheists who believe that God is a "delusion," as Richard Dawkins would have it, and believers who adhere to the idea of a just and loving deity. The atheists are on the offensive, one might say, with Daniel Dennett's latest book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon--an attempt to reduce religion and spirituality to a by-product of evolutionary biology. And Dawkins' The God Delusion, which debunks the conventional monotheistic notion of God without supplying an alternate answer to the question of how the universe came into being, the ancient mystery: Why is there Something instead of Nothing?

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Will Bill Keller End 'Public Editor' Slot at The Times?

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:05:02 -0800

New York Observer - By Michael Calderone - Jan. 03 (News Report) - The New York Times will soon decide whether it will do away with its public editor. The two-year term of the current public editor, Byron (Barney) Calame, will conclude in May. There may, or may not, be another.

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