FBLA Got an Interview With Sarah Palin and So Can You - Posted September 30, 2008
It used to be a problem that reporters and others in the liberal media elite were being refused access to Republican Veep Candidate Sarah Palin. They even gave Maureen Dowd the boot. But now there's InterviewPalin.com. Where you can ask basic broad questions and instead of coherency get a Sarah Palin answer.... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 09.29.08 - Posted September 29, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

The Veep Stakes Sweep: A Round Up - Posted September 2, 2008
Well, the Fall television schedule has yet to debut. The Olympics are over. The hurricane was a dud. The DNC is over. And well, now it's Republican week. And, Republicans are pretty boring unless their secret gay affairs become public. So, that's why the press is all aflutter with all things... [FishBowlLA]

Online Media Reaches the MSM Inner Circle - Posted August 24, 2008
There are varying degrees on mainstream media recognition, and we've noted a number of times over the course of the last few months how the blogosphere has been infiltrating traditional media. In fact, today's Times features a Style section trend piece about the arrival of the "year of the political... [FishBowlNY]

Online Media Reaches the MSM Inner Circle - Posted August 24, 2008
There are varying degrees on mainstream media recognition, and we've noted a number of times over the course of the last few months how the blogosphere has been infiltrating traditional media. In fact, today's Times features a Style section trend piece about the arrival of the "year of the political... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 08.20.08 - Posted August 20, 2008
Good morning Washington. A little college tear drops in memory of Leroi Moore. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 08.19.08 - Posted August 19, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 08.19.08 - Posted August 19, 2008
Good morning Washington. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

MoDo Flies Close to the Obama Sun, Actually Returns with Interesting Tidbits - Posted July 30, 2008
Imagine a world where Maureen Dowd put her access to interesting use everyday. Here's a glimpse of what it might look like. Per today's column: The senator left his briefing books behind for a rare instance of mingling with his journalism posse at a Berlin restaurant as he sipped... [FishBowlNY]

Morning Reading List, 07.30.08 - Posted July 30, 2008
Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line or let us know in the tips box below. We've got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump...... [FishBowlDC]

Obama Smear Emailer Tries to do Maureen Dowd's Job For Her - Posted July 8, 2008
So by this point it's no secret how we feel about Maureen Dowd and her gender-twisting habits, but even though we are quick to point out her shortcomings we were also quick to realize that the Obama smear email making the rounds right now that purports to be a June 29... [FishBowlNY]

Well, Gee, That's Not Very Nice - Posted March 18, 2008
Washington Post Magazine asks people what "objects, habits and attitudes that are sliding into obsolescence." Says Ann Coulter? "Maureen Dowd." Ouch. Madeleine Albright says "network nightly news broadcasts as a source of common information and national unity."... [FishBowlDC]

Like OMG!!! HE GAVE ME A NEW NICKNAME!!! - Posted March 10, 2008
Maureen Dowd makes sure you know what media darling Obama thinks of her: Feeling cocky after 11 straight wins, he called me "MoDowd" and tweaked me for my many columns suggesting he would need to toughen up to beat the Clinton machine. "She's trying to give me hair on my chest," he... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 03.04.08 - Posted March 4, 2008
Good morning Washington. Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | RADIO | BOOKS | JOBS You think Hillary will win Ohio. NEWSPAPERS Rush and Malloy reports, "It must be exasperating to be Christopher Hitchens. Recently voted the fifth most important intellectual in the world, Hitchens was nice enough... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 01.25.08 - Posted January 25, 2008
Good morning Washington (unless you're Jewish, in which case you're bummed that the WHCA dinner falls on Passover). And, on this day in 1961, JFK held the first televised conference. (Hat tip: MicCheckRadio) Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | RADIO | JOBS You think Maureen Dowd... [FishBowlDC]

It's Somebody's Birthday Today... - Posted January 14, 2008
JERUSALEM, er, DES MOINES, er, WASHINGTON -- The New York Times' Maureen Dowd turns 56 today.... [FishBowlDC]

MoDo, the NYT, and Datelines - Posted January 11, 2008
Talking Points Memo has an interesting take on a recent Maureen Dowd column, including some insights into New York Times policies regarding assistants and datelines.... [FishBowlDC]

Erica Jong on Clinton's Tears--Sponsored by Ambien - Posted January 9, 2008
Is it a coincidence that Erica Jong's page at HuffPost is sponsored by Ambien CR? She asks: Why is it assumed everything HRC does is scripted? Why is she seen as bloody Lady Macbeth while Obama is seen as darling Cordelia? FBLA figures you can answer those questions on your own, but if... [FishBowlLA]

Compton Heads To Harvard - Posted October 24, 2007
That was ABC News' Ann Compton up at Harvard yesterday for a study group on "The Power of the West Wing: An Insider's Look At White House Communications." Former Press Secretary Noelia Rodriguez hosted. Tonight? Crimson nerds not too busy figuring out an algorithm to explain Josh Beckett's awesomeness can see Maureen Dowd... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 09.19.07 - Posted September 19, 2007
Good morning Washington. An ABC release announced, "ABC's 'World News with Charles Gibson' extended its run as the #1 evening newscast last week, winning among Total Viewers, Households, and Adults 25-54 for the nineteenth time in twenty-one weeks. The ABC broadcast averaged 7.70 million Total Viewers and a 1.9/8 among Adults 25-54,... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List, 09.06.07 - Posted September 6, 2007
Good morning Washington. You think tattoos are low rent. An ABC release announced, "For the just-completed Memorial Day to Labor Day period (May 28-September 2), 'World News with Charles Gibson' was the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Households and Adults 25-54. In summer 2007, the ABC broadcast averaged 7.7 million Total Viewers... [FishBowlDC]

Be the 'Dopest Wordslinger in Town' - Posted June 12, 2007
On the heels of the paperback release of his 2005 grammar guide, Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Contemporary Style, we put three quick questions to its author, Arthur Plotnik. He responded by playing favorites, copping to a Freudian daddy complex starring Strunk & White, and explaining why blogging shouldn't... [MBToolBox]

Woodward & Dowd & Tenet - Posted May 14, 2007
Rowr. Woodward disputed the impression that he was, in fact, a friend of Tenet's. "I've always kept a real distance," he said. "I never went to his house, never socialized at all. I maybe went to one party or two while he was there. I don't want to belabor the point, but... [FishBowlDC]

MoDo Enters Borders, Discovers 'Chick-Lit' Phenomenon - Posted February 12, 2007
We read Maureen Dowd's Times column over the weekend, the one where she takes a stroll through a D.C.-area Borders with New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier and declares, among other things, "I even found Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar with chick-lit pretty-in-pink lettering." Far from experts in chick-lit or literature... [FishBowlNY]