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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
Tuesday, Mar 20
Taking Out The Trash, 03.20.07
Picking the next president is easier than picking the NCAA College Basketball Champ.
Michael Murphy joins Fox News Channel's Washington bureau as the Senior Manager of Media Relations. He was formerly an account supervisor at Ketchum Public Relations in DC.
Congrats to The Hill for scoring some front-page love on last night's Colbert Report.
Dear Author.com reports that Sterling Publishing's Union Square Press imprint will be putting out a book titled "The United States v. I. Lewis Libby" in April. "The book will be edited by investigative journalist Murray Waas of the National Journal."
Howard Kurtzreports, "Fifteen percent of stories on the network evening news in each of the last two years were reported by minorities, an all-time high that is more than double the level of 1990." Women reported 28 percent of the pieces, just under the high-water mark of 29 percent set in 2002.
From a tipster: "There's a new Jeff on K Street. Patch beats Birnbaum to the (same) story ... by six days. Who's editing In The Loop?! "Retailers, Banks Duke It Out Over Transaction Fees" - Jeff Patch, The Politico (March 14, 2007) "Retailers, Credit Card Companies Quibble Over Footing The Bill" - Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, The Washington Post (March 20, 2007) )"
The AP reports that "about one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia."
Cathy Seipp's daughter, Maia, informs Seipp's blog readers of her current condition.
Roll Call made its own March Madness fun, matching each school in the NCAA tourney with its Representative. They will fill in the winners as the tournament progresses.
E&P reports that despite the toll the Iraq War is taking on papers, "top news outfits, from The New York Times to Associated Press, remain committed to covering the war, with no immediate plans for cutbacks."
The AP has a piece on NBC and ABC Iraq correspondents Richard Engel and Terry McCarthy, both of whom have been covering the war since the beginning. "This week their respective networks will be showcasing their work, which has included dodging bullets and escaping carjackings while trying to hold onto a personal life at home." (via Eat the Press)
Over the weekend, Slate points out that The Post apparently isn't much fond of firearms. In a recent piece by Paul Duggan on the overturned ban on handguns, there are phrases like "lawsuit that gutted the District's tough gun-control statute," "recruited a group of strangers to sue the city and bankrolled their successful litigation" and even the headline refers to the "lawyer who wiped out [the] D.C. gun ban."
Washington Whispers reports that Scott McClellan "is shopping a book proposal around and hopes to land a deal this month." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is also writing a book on his roots and his start in Washington. And... former Sen. Fred Thompson is planning more fundraisers for convicted perjurer Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "Friends say it will help him show conservatives that he not only believes in the Bush team but is not a fair-weather friend."
National Journal's Andrew Noyesreports that C-SPAN "recently decided after some haranguing to expand access to its repository of footage from congressional hearings, federal agency briefings, and White House events."
Washington Whispers also reports, "White House spokesman Tony Snow, takes a center-stage role in PBS's two-hour special, The Boomer Century 1946–2046, on March 28. It will show three pics of Snow: as a kid, playing his rock flute, and dressed up as the prez's spokesman."
Acorn Media Group, "a leading independent global media company," announced in a release that Miguel Penella is taking over as the new Chief Executive Officer effective April 1.
TVNewser reports that David Bloom's wife, Melanie Bloom, spoke to MSNBC's Chip Reid yesterday about her husband's work and his untimely death.
A reader offers his take on the hot (or lack there of) D.C. journos:
That's somewhat ridiculous! There are literally thousands of working journalists in the D.C. area. To assume that not one of them -- I'm referring to girls here, since that's my particular focus -- isn't "hot" is just a ridiculous generalization. The short answer is "yes." In fact, there are "hot," or attractive, women at small local papers in the suburbs, at papers in the Baltimore area, at papers, radio stations, television stations and internet sites throughout the D.C. area, and at many of the bureaus of the larger national publications in those offices at the National Press Building. There are attractive women at newsletters, publishers, p.r. firms, lobbying firms, marketing firms, and whatever else type of journalism office you can name. All you need to do is head out to social events (not even the high-end glitzy ones -- those are bogus) such as happy hours, get-togethers, parties and Press Club functions, and you'll see that there are literally plenty of attractive single women in journalism throughout the Baltimore and D.C. metropolitan areas.
In addition to losing some comics from the Post, DCist reports, "There'll be a few other changes, too, including the removal of some panel cartoons in favor of others and the tossing-in of six-days-a-week Scrabble Gram and Stickelers puzzles."
DCeiver exposes the Washington Post's sports bias.
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