Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
1:31 pm
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May 22, 2013
12:52 pm
Gregory J. Millman writes about the IRS nabbing his phone records in 1991: “Outside the DOJ, any law-enforcement entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice.”
To this date, I do not know how many of my phone records, covering what period of time, went to the investigator working on both the IRS and DOJ investigations of a tax story published in 1991. The government never told me and the telephone company refused to release the information. I never again phoned my sources on that story. Maybe that’s what people mean by “chilling effect.”
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Gregory J. Millman, The Wall Street Journal
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Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
10:31 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
9:13 am
Adam Cole is not an "Arrested Development" superfan: "I have friends who are much more into it than I am," the NPR reporter said in a phone interview. But Cole took a scientist's eye to the cult television series, which will be resurrected Sunday after its 2006 cancellation.
Cole's employer, NPR, presented his data Friday in an insanely complex news app called "
Previously, on Arrested Development." The app lets you delve into, say, how many times Tobias "giggles ambitiously," or do a deep dive into
Buster and missing limbs.
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Cole originally envisioned a static graphic, saying that "I didn’t think I would bring this to work. I thought it would be a fun thing." But he added that when Netflix announced it would revive the series, "I was like, 'Wow, this is as good a peg as I’m ever gonna get.' "
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Adam Hochberg
May 22, 2013
8:42 am
Colin Drane is an unlikely warrior in the fight for open government.
An inventor and TV infomercial producer, Drane spent much of his career marketing products like the Trunkanizer for organizing car trunks, a toy called Bendaroos, and Invisi-lift… Read more
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Al Tompkins
May 21, 2013
1:01 pm
Okla. Gov. Mary Fallin thanked her state’s media Tuesday for saving lives with early storm warnings and non-stop coverage of the recovery efforts. “I just want to thank the media for all that you’ve done to help our community get … Read more
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Taylor Miller Thomas
May 21, 2013
12:03 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on “illegal immigrant” Monday. It’s the latest of several publications to reconsider the term.
The newspaper’s new style will “essentially match” the Associated Press’
style on the term, David Steinberg, copy desk chief at the Chronicle, said in an email to Poynter.
Chronicle journalists are now advised not to refer to a person as “illegal” or as an “alien;” instead, “illegal” should only be used in describing the means by which they entered the country, and only with proper attribution.
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May 21, 2013
10:40 am
AP photographer Sue Ogrocki talks about photographing children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday.
In the 30 minutes that I was outside the destroyed school, I photographed about a dozen children pulled from the rubble.
I focused my lens on each one of them. Some looked dazed. Some cried. Others seemed terrified.
But they were alive.
I know that some students were among those who died in the tornado, but for a moment, there was hope in the devastation.
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Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press
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Andrew Beaujon
May 21, 2013
9:46 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 20, 2013
5:01 pm
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