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• Vote For Us!

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  We invite you, dear reader, to nominate CJR in the "Best Site for Journalists" category of Mashables 3rd Annual Open Web Awards. After all, in this topsy-turvy, circulation plummeting, layoff-riven, traffic-obsessed, Face-Twitter-verse of a 24-hour news cycle — who is the voice of reason for journalists to turn to? ...
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• Leprechauns! Unicorns! Senior Editors!

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Of all the Mysterious Things in the world--the Bermuda Triangle, the Great Sphinx, crop circles, Anderson Cooper--perhaps none is more mysterious than The New Yorkers un-published masthead. Who--or what--accounts for the magazines weekly offering of thorough reporting and sparkling prose? What coterie of ...
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• Trib Sports Columnist Rick Morrissey Eats Own Words

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Move over, eating crow. The Chicago Tribunes Rick Morrissey has eaten his own words. Literally. Watch the sports columnist take back an unflattering assessment of Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah--by, you know, really taking them back--starting about three minutes in:
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• In 1929, the DOW lost 48% going from 381 to 198. It then gained 48% going from 198 to 294.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Fast forward…the DOW lost 49% going from 13930 to 7062. Since the low in March, it has gained 45%. A gain of 49% would put it at 10,523. Now the kicker. After the DOW lost 48% in 1929-1930 and then gained 48%, it then LOST 86% plunging to its ultimate low of 41.22 in 1932. If the same holds true now, it would put ...
  15 hours ago

• AAAS Announces 2009 Kavli Science Journalism Awards

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Recipients of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards were announced this morning. “A radio broadcast on probability told through a tale about a drifting balloon, a newspaper series on the impact of a devastating genetic disease on a family in rural Montana, and a group of gracefully written stories about ...
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• Explain this one…

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  Hello all,I moved into an old house, built in 1850 actually. In 1970 a do-it-all type contractor renovated a few rooms into an apartment with electric.I’m re-installing a ceiling fan. One was already there before, but it broke and was taken down. It is controlled by 2 3-way switches. The power comes in at the [...]
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• Ask Matt Prater…

  
  TotalBroncos — Authority: 161
  "A Few Minutes With" is lining up for a last-second field goal this week with Matt Prater. Submit your questions by Thursday for the kicker here.
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• Reform or Reveal

  
  IRS Tax Problem Solver Blog - IRS Help — Authority: 128
  The governments proposed healthcare reform bill contains a lot of issues that you should be very concerned about. For one thing, your tax details will no longer be private if the bill is passed. If you are clueless as to what tax details have to do with healthcare, listen up. Under the 1,000+ pages of legislation ...
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• Study: Only 0.027 Percent of Iranians Use Twitter

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Remember Irans "Twitter Revolution"? Seems it may have gone the way of Moldovas. Per Valleywags Ravi Somaiya--per, in turn, a study of Irans access to social media conducted by the British writer and analyst Charles Leadbeater, and researcher Annika Wong: less than one percent of the Iranian population is on Twitter. ...
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• Sen. Orrin Hatch Kills on Imus, Will Be Here All Week

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican from Utah, had some real zingers while talking about the recently passed House health care bill on Don Imus’s Fox Business News morning show today. Hatch, who said the bill wont pass in the Senate, delivered these one-liners, riffing on the health care theme: “I’m not an ear doctor, ...
  2 days ago

• MoDo Jetés the Shark

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  So theres not too much going on in the world right now. The Fort Hood shootings. The House health care bill. New jobs numbers. A multi-fronted war. Global warming. Yep, just your run-of-the-mill Slow News Week. So, naturally, this weekend was a fitting time for a New York Times columnist, Solidifier of Our National ...
  2 days ago

• Nieman Lab Trains Gaze on NGOs

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Nieman Lab has launched a series of essays examining the relationship between journalism and...non-governmental organizations. "NGOs and the News: Exploring a Changing Communication Landscape," a partnership between the Lab and U-Penns Center for Global Communication Studies, will examine the increasing role of NGOs, ...
  2 days ago

• The Future of Journalism: The Contest!

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  So The Nation--whose John Nichols, along with journalism professor Robert McChesney, is writing a book on the future of news--is jumping onto the Whence Journalism bandwagon. Through, in particular, convening a group of experts (whom it refers to, with refreshing honesty, as "media insiders")--"insiders" including ...
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• SNL Takes on Fox News

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  "In the tank." "Jack and squat." One of Saturday Night Lives trademarks is its ability to take political and cultural gossip, assumptions, trends, etc. and solidify them into Conventional Wisdom. This weekend, Fox-as-arm-of-the-RNC got the SNL treatment:
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• NCAA College Football Game Recaps and Overviews

  
  Seahawks Nation — Authority: 129
  For three quarters and change, well before No. 3 Alabama would put away LSU 24-15, clinch the SEC West and remain at the front of the teams behind the BCS’s velvet ropes, the Crimson Tide gave... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Another Reason Not to Rush to Judgment

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Here’s another reason to be wary about jumping to conclusions about the shooting at Fort Hood: Bill Sparkman. Sparkman is the part-time Census employee whose body was found near a cemetery in rural southeastern Kentucky on Sept. 12, a rope tied around his neck and the word “Fed” scrawled on his chest. Coming in ...
  5 days ago

• Beltway™ -- Eat Fresh!

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  Earlier today, a gaggle of journos engaged in something thats become a right of passage for Fourth Estaters of the political-establishment variety: dining with President Obama. Todays inductees into the "Potluck With POTUS" club include, per Politicos Michael Calderone: CNNs David Gergen, Washington Posts Chris ...
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• Jon Stewart + Glenn Beck = Comedic Joy

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  In which Jon Stewart takes on Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Project
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• The State of Democratic Discourse, Part 952

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  In response to a Kicker post I wrote yesterday evening—which warned against making assumptions about the as-yet-unknown motivations of the Fort Hood gunman sheerly by virtue of his Muslim-sounding name—I received (in addition to reactions both thoughtful and non- in the post’s comments thread) the following ...
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• Nidal Malik Hasan

  
  CJR — Authority: 610
  What’s in a name? Very, very little—particularly when it comes to divining the motivations of the perpetrator of a violent crime. But that will not stop media analysts from reading into the fact that one of the shooters—and possibly the only shooter—at this afternoon’s massacre at Fort Hood was named...Nidal ...
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