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This is pretty awesome. When Hillary challenged Barack to a “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate, Fox TV’s national news ran the following graphic.

I guess they thought she said “Lincoln-Douglass.”
What a debate that must have been!
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via Wonkette
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El Blogador at Inner Diablog (whose interesting posts I often consult in the context of my Buried Mirror research) cites Samuel Pepys and Jean Baudrillard as models for bloggish prose. These writers, he says, “pointed towards to a new style of writing that consciously moves out towards the edge of discussion (or the long tail [...]

Print journalists criticizing bloggers is nothing new. So when Michael Skube, a journalism professor at Elon University, wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, in which he asserted that bloggers do no real reporting, it was difficult to suppress a yawn.
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Ed Champion excoriates Karen Holt for writing in Publishers Weekly that includes passages such as this:
There was the time at BEA when I wanted to ask Margaret Atwood a few questions so she took my arm and steered me toward some chairs in the corner (”Margaret Atwood is touching me!”). There was my trip to [...]

The LAT covers the Mirthala Salinas affair.
UPDATE, Nov. 18, 2007: The above link (now removed) has gone bad. Here’s a summary of the story.
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