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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    11/04/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    What's a blogger like Murray Chass doing in the press box? Shouldn't he be in his basement, in his pajamas, cursing about the Red Sox? #newspapers
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    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    I remember asking a professor in a journalism class that I took a few years ago about the White House Press Corps. I was confused that papers would waste that kind of money to leave people in DC who essentially hear press conferences. My teacher, who is a pretty big name at Newsweek, was baffled at my suggestion. This is why papers are dying #newspapers
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    I think the real shocker here is that someone is actually still bothering to read Murray Chass. #newspapers
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    I might quibble on one point. The biggest reason to lament the decline of newspapers is not the loss of jobs, as awful as that is, but the implications for the future of democracy. #newspapers
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    11/03/09

    @Smitros: In my opinion the newspapers are in such bad shape because they decided to not care about the future of democracy. There are questions that should have been asked and stories that should have been investigated that were not. The journalist used to be a protector of freedom and a seeker of truth. Now they are one sided hacks. Once in a blue moon when a journalist does ask a somewhat decent question they never follow through and end up allowing politicians to get out of answering the question. #newspapers
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    11/03/09

    @sir_pantsalot: We may be grasping different parts of the elephant, or the chicken and the egg, or some animal metaphor. Newspapers stopped caring about democracy when they got bought up or consultantized into entities that were run to resemble businesses with higher historical profit margins--hence the erosion of the line between editorial and advertising. (Pursuant to the latter, did anyone see the WaPo op-ed last week on the 60th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution? It was appalling largely by its existence.) #newspapers
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    The main problem with this newspaper-to-blog transition is that the paper boy keeps throwing my laptop into the flower bed each morning. #newspapers
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    Feh. They should all cover hockey instead.

    /disgruntled hockey fan #newspapers
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    Image of lukeoneil47 lukeoneil47
    11/04/09

    @DennyCrane: piss on that turd sport. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    In reply to No, Every Newspaper Does Not Need to Cover the World Series
    Reminds me of the scene in the 1942 Tracy-Hepburn movie Woman of the Year. He's a sportswriter, she is an upper-crust political columnist who grew up abroad and is unfamiliar with common pleasures like baseball. He takes her to a Yankees game. She is astonished that their newspaper has two men covering the game: "We have only one man at Vichy!" (To which Tracy playfully replies, "Vichy? Are they still in the league?") #newspapers
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: A journalist! Peeking through keyholes -- running after fire engines -- waking people up in the middle of the night to ask them if they think Hitler's going to start a war -- stealing pictures off old ladies of their daughters that got chased by apemen! I know all about reporters -- a lot of daffy buttinskies going around without a nickel in their pockets, and for what? So a million hired girls and motormen's wives will know what's going on! No, Walter, I'm through. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: The best play/movie (in the Grant-Russell version) ever about journos. Thanks for posting this. #newspapers
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Fantastic. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Word. The old school print guys in the sports dept. called it "the toy dept." #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Best movie ever made. #newspapers
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    Image of notsofresh notsofresh
    11/03/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Leave the rooster story alone. That's human interest. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @i'm a bottle: See also, The Philadelphia Story #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: "So I'm to be examined, undressed, and generally humiliated at fifteen cents a copy!" #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Corkscrew English.

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Edited by If_I_Had_a_Poodle at 11/03/09 8:37 PM If_I_Had_a_Poodle was starred If_I_Had_a_Poodle was unstarred
    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @notsofresh: Here's the trailer #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: No mean Machiavelli is smiling, cynical Sidney Kidd. The world is his oyster, with an "r" in every month. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: To this day, I think of the "r" before I order oysters.

    Sidney Kidd: You hate me, I trust, Miss Imbrie.

    Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: No, I-I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy:

    Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: We've come for the body of Macaulay Connor.

    C. K. Dexter Haven: I'm so glad you came. Can you use a typewriter?

    Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: No, thanks, I've got one at home. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: It's a tradition since college that when my friends and I get together to watch The Philadelphia Story, we do it while sipping champagne--it's "heavy mist before my eyes." Plus, I always want to marry Liz. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: That is a *great* tradition.

    I think Liz would be a lucky girl to have you. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Aww, that's sweet. Wish I could clink glasses with you. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Cheers. I was always torn between the Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart characters. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: I'm a combination, so no need to settle. I have to confess the first time I saw it I had no idea which way Hepburn would go. Naive, I know, but that's how caught up in it I got. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/03/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: It was that good. You, too. #newspapers
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/03/09

    @If_I_Had_a_Poodle: OK, that does it. Marry me, Poodle, and we will watch movies and get drunk on champagne and then go for midnight swims. #newspapers
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Done deal. #newspapers
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    10/30/09

    In reply to Cities Equidistant From Philadephia and New York Besieged By Desperate Reporters
    The Times did a story a few years ago about trying to find the line between Yankee and Red Sox country. It kind of meanders through Connecticut, they decided.

    [query.nytimes.com] #journalismism
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/30/09

    @sarrible: Fairfield County tends to be Yankees/Mets territory, while Hartford and the surrounding areas tend to be Red Sox land. #journalismism
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    10/30/09

    In reply to Cities Equidistant From Philadephia and New York Besieged By Desperate Reporters
    Yeah, but do their mayors HAVE A WACKY INTER-CITY WAGER BETWEEN THEM? #journalismism
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    10/30/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: I read that as wacky inner-city wager. Which would be much more interesting. #journalismism
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    Image of Chore Boy Chore Boy
    10/30/09

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: The loser has to go out and kill a pizza deliveryman. #journalismism
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    10/30/09

    @Chore Boy: The winner gets to keep the pizza? #journalismism
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    10/30/09

    @Chore Boy: The loser has to pay for shemale sex. The margin of victory determines the size of the adam's apple. #journalismism
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    10/30/09

    In reply to Cities Equidistant From Philadephia and New York Besieged By Desperate Reporters
    It's like the revolutionary war, oh no! Brother fighting brother, neighbor fighting neighbor. The Saratoga Series. #journalismism
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    Image of J Money BS J Money BS
    10/30/09

    @hilikusopus: Uh, Civil War. #journalismism
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    10/30/09

    @J Money BS: Well, I associate New York and Philidelphia more with the Revolutionary War, and the fact that 20% of the white colonial population at the time was actively Loyalist and less than half was actively Reviolutionary seemed to make it a better analogy.

    Regardless, considering both of those wars were fought on US soil and tore the nation apart, you can be sure there was a lot of brother on brother action. Check out the early chapters of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the US", I remember him offering a great narrative of that period -- despite what our national legends say, we were not as unified and righteous as our 3rd grade test makers would have us believe. Feel free to make your own analogy, though (the "Civil Series" perhaps?).
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    10/30/09

    @hilikusopus: As someone who lives on one of those marching routes from the Revolutionary War, and is also smack dab between Philly and New York, I endorse your analogy whole-heartedly. Hopewell-Princeton-Montgomery represent! (And, uh, Mets fan here, but my circle of friends divides into thirds with baseball loyalty.) #journalismism
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    11/02/09

    @hilikusopus: Brother on brother action sounds like something for a different site. Heh.

    Yep, was a history major, I know whatcha saying. Just that the Civil War is more commonly associated with splitting families, being that it was North v. South and not Colonies vs. British.

    Again, though, I hear you. #journalismism
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Cities Equidistant From Philadephia and New York Besieged By Desperate Reporters
    As a proud (yipe) Eastonian, all I can say is, "LET'S GO ummmm, Mets?" Fuck. #journalismism
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    10/30/09

    @Deric: How did you pick the screen name "Deric," Mr. Holmes? #journalismism
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    10/30/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Mr. Holmes is only my boxing & porn name. #journalismism
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Foul-mouthed Ticket Scalper Expounds on Life, Love, and the Sex-for-Phillies-Tickets Scandal
    You gotta take a chance; you gotta take a risk. There's no sure things. You try to work out—using your vast and extensive brain-lodged database of knowledge and intuition—your risk-reward ratio. To that end, for example, we have Yankees tickets but we don't have Mets tickets.

    Lulz. #capitalism
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    10/29/09

    In reply to Foul-mouthed Ticket Scalper Expounds on Life, Love, and the Sex-for-Phillies-Tickets Scandal
    Interrupted by moochers? This isn't "Breaking Away." #capitalism
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    10/29/09

    @Christian_Okoye_Dokoye: Folks, now here's the story 'bout Minnie the Moocher. She was a red-hot hootchie-cootcher. #capitalism
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    10/02/09

    In reply to Assistant in Question Gets Place of Honor in Late Show Staff Photo
    No.

    #deadspin
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/02/09

    @ninety_nine: +1
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    Image of ellagood ellagood
    09/24/09

    In reply to Do "Goring Wounds" a Gay Icon Make?
    "gay up" sounds like another way of saying "spread and tuck"

    regardless, is he actually gay? or is he just pandering to they gays for money? because gays hate that. they like to sample before they buy.
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