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Hello, Pa. Primary; Goodbye, Dignity

April 22, 2008

Strange night Monday. President Bush on "Deal or No Deal." McCain, Clinton, Obama on "WWE Monday Night RAW." All four had pretaped segments within the shows — plus Clinton and Obama were twice featured in wrestling matches, one using animated characters (and plugging the Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008 video game), the other with actors appearing [...]

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Richard Roth Covers the Pope

July 5, 2007

A good story from CBS, via Jim Romenesko's site. …

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The Mayor Speaks

April 6, 2006

On Thursday, I wrote a story about the latest developments in the attempt to save the Akron-Canton newscast currently airing on Time Warner Cable. The newscast loses money, and if it doesn't find more revenue sources, it will probably be gone at the end of April. As a result, people, including Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic, [...]

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Dis-Approval Ratings

November 9, 2005

It's the day after an election and one that went badly for President Bush and his crowd, and that was a big story today; for awhile it looked even bigger than the hearings with the oil companies. (And am I the only one to find it just the tiniest bit convenient that gas prices were [...]

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"West Wing" Live

November 6, 2005

I don't know if tonight's "West Wing" is meant to demonstrate the failure of politics, or just the failure of a television drama. Either way, it was disappointing.
I did get a rush of excitement just before it began, thinking this could be exciting TV. But it started so awkwardly, with a contrived throwing-out of debate [...]

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Me and the Veep

July 18, 2005

It has been a good day. Also a day when I yelled at a former vice president of the United States. Which wasn't that bad, either.
The good part of the day came early, with visits to the sets of "Deadwood," the lovely HBO western, and "Over There," an effective drama about the war in Iraq, [...]

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