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Mr. Hard News: Shear, Bitter About Talking Weiner, Spends Next 2 Days on Palin Emails

Michael Shear sounds bitter and mad at having to talk about Anthony Weiner: "Lots of policy and we're going to start with the sex scandal!" What did he write about the next two days? Sarah Palin's ...

Timothy Egan Admires GOP's Moderate Jon Huntsman, Unlike 'Wackos' in 'Sea of Craziness'

"But for the increasingly intolerant minority who will decide the next Republican nominee, Huntsman is already a heretic for speaking common sense on climate change, gay civil unions and ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Who Says NYT Journalists Aren't Religious?

Plus, Matt Bai deals two anti-GOP race cards and comes up a joker; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France; and columnist David Brooks falls victim to the damp squid.

Who Says NYT Journalists Aren't Religious?

Plus Matt Bai deals two anti-Republican race cards that turn out to be jokers; tornadoes as economic stimulus; Anita Hill as role model for France.

NYT Asks Readers to Help Dig Up 'Interesting and Newsworthy' Palin Emails (AKA Anti-Palin Dirt)

News that Alaska would release a trove of Sarah Palin e-mails from her tenure as governor spurred the Times to look to its liberal readership for help digging up dirt: "We're asking readers to ...

Seelye Again Flubs John Edwards' Democratic ID; Zeleny Calls Indictment a 'Tragedy All the Way Around'

Jeff Zeleny on Washington Week in Review has some doubts about the campaign finance prosecution of John Edwards: "And of course, it's not ended very well for him and it's a tragedy all the way ...

Privileged Thomas Friedman Calls for People to Work Less, Own Less in Name of the Planet

Thomas Friedman, who lives in a mansion, calls for people to own less: "We will realize, [environmentalist Paul Gilding] predicts, that the consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to ...

Jill Abramson as Howell Raines, Maureen Dowd as Washington Bureau Chief?

An anonymous Times editor compares Abramson's management style to notoriously alienating former executive editor Howell Raines. Plus, speculation on Jill Abramson's choice for Washington bureau ...

Reducing Early-Voting Window by GOP a 'Modern Whiff of Jim Crow'

From Monday's lead editorial: "The biggest part of that effort, imposing cumbersome requirements that voters have a government ID, has been painted as a response to voter fraud, an essentially ...

The Times Gives Andrew Breitbart His Due on Weiner-Gate, Admits Press Holds Him at Arms Length

Times media reporters confess the press is uneasy with conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart: "[He] remains a hero among many conservatives even while many liberals and members of the ...
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