Thursday Morning With Rita Braver
June 8th, 2006 3:52 PM
From an online Q&A with Rita Braver of CBS News. Who is the most fascinating person you've covered...Bill Clinton is probably the most fascinating person I've ever covered ... because he is both brilliant and flawed. I have never met anyone more charming ... or more exasperating. If you could change one thing about the profession of journalism, what would it be? I'd like to see everyone who…
Even Art Museums Tired of Unethical NYT
June 7th, 2006 2:03 PM
ArtsJournal.com has a problem with the NY Times art critic Grace Glueck being on the board of the trustees for the Clark Art Institute. The Journal wants to know: Did Glueck's role at the museum in any way influence this past Sunday's Times story on the Clark? In June, 2005, the Times reviewed a Jacques-Louis David show at the Clark instead of at the originating institution, the J. Paul Getty…
The May Employment/Unemployment Report: Some Perspective, Please
June 2nd, 2006 1:56 PM
The good news: The unemployment rate of 4.6% is the lowest since June 2001.
The not-as-good news: The jobs increase of 75,000 is even smaller than indicated by May's figure alone, as March and April were revised downward by 25,000 and 12,000, respectively. So the net increase in the number of people working is at the end of May is 38,000 than what was originally reported at the end of April.
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Hume and Douglass Scold ABC and Ross for Overplaying 'Bad' Hastert Sto
May 29th, 2006 3:04 AM
On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume, a veteran of ABC News, chided his former employer: “ABC News came out with this story, worded the way it was. 'Included in the investigation,' ‘in the mix of the investigation,' has an unmistakable implication, and that is the guy's under investigation. We have now had an absolutely unequivocal denial of that, not only from the Justice Department at one level, but…
Elizabeth Vargas Steps Down Friday: A Look Back at Ten Years of Her Bi
May 26th, 2006 4:14 PM
Tonight (Friday) will be the last day as anchor of ABC's World News Tonight for Elizabeth Vargas, who after a maternity leave will reportedly return to the weekly 20/20. Before joining ABC in 1996, Vargas toiled at NBC. During her years at ABC, she was a regular fill-in co-host and news reader on Good Morning America and a frequent fill-in on World News Tonight, taking the lead role on that…
