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Times Blog Post: Katie Couric Reads News Naked?

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:42:00 +0000

A blogging freelancer recalls his shock at a Photoshopped picture of Katie Couric delivering the news bottomless. How did the museum beat writers miss that?

Tim Graham

On the New York Times City Room blog, freelance writer Fred Bernstein reported how an exhibit called "And/Or" at the New York art gallery P.S. 1 proved to be too sexually mature for his children. It may soon draw an angry letter from CBS:

Reporter Glad "American Macho" of Bush Era on the Wane

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:34:00 +0000

Reporter Alan Feuer on the paper's City Room blog: "It's safe to say that with the Bush era behind us, the American Macho - responsible for Blackwater and 'Mission Accomplished'- is on the wane."

Clay Waters

In 2006, reporter Alan Feuer gave a respectable hearing to some 9-11 conspiracy nuts who thought the attack on the World Trade Center was an inside job. Now he's a Metro Reporter who pitches in on the City Room blog, peppering up local event listings with Internet-friendly liberal nuggets like this:

Times Blogger Rejects Hipster Affection for Che Guevara

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:47:00 +0000

A Times blogger calls out ignorant admirers of Che Guevara, reminding readers of Guevara's "executions when he presided over the prison at La Cabana and his apparent "willingness to have let the missiles fly" during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Clay Waters

There was an interesting post Tuesday morning on the paper's "City Room" blog, "Che, or a Statue of an Actor Playing Che," about a statue of an actor playing Che Guevara recently installed in a corner of Central Park.