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David Gruder, a psychologist and Integrity Educator is looking for at least 30 journalists to complete his just-released Politician Integrity Rating Tool regarding each of the three leading contenders for president of the United States.

Journalists qualifying to participate meet two criteria: 1) One of their primary focus areas is the 2008 United States presidential election; and 2) They are willing and able to respond to the questions as objective journalists rather than partisan supporters.

The PIRT contains ten questions, each of which is answered using a rating scale and takes approximately ten minutes to complete. Participating journalists will have the option of receiving their own individual ratings but no rater’s individual ratings will be released to other raters, to the public or to anyone else.

When he releases the composite results, the names and organizational affiliations of the participating journalists will be listed along with each candidate’s average Politician Integrity Score and each candidate’s average score for each the ten dimensions of political integrity the PIRT evaluates.

If interested, email info@TheNewIQ.com

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In Memoriam: Lee Walczak

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:08:41 +0000

Bloomberg’s DC Bureau Chief Al Hunt sent the following notice to employees today:

I am very sad to tell you that Lee Walczak passed away last night. he fought an extraordinarily courageous two year fight against incurable cancer. his grace and presence were inspiring; only a few weeks ago he was e-mailing story ideas. he made us better professionally; he was an even better person. the details of any services will be known in a few days; will keep everyone posted. i am sure his wife, maria, would love to hear any thoughts about lee. al

Walczar was a longtime Washington bureau chief for BusinessWeek and came over to Bloomberg in 2006. He had been with BusinessWeek for at least 20 years.

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Charles Babington Supports An Uninformed Electorate

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:50:42 +0000

The AP reporter speaks on Friday’s “Washington Week with Gwen Ifill”:

Sometimes we like to think, oh, they get a spreadsheet out of all the issues. Most voters don’t get that. Most voters probably don’t even know why they vote for someone and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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What WH Reporters Did Sunday

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:54:16 +0000

Watch movies, apparently…

From Austin American-Statesman’s Jason Embry pool report:

President left the White House in motorcade at about 8 am for biking at Secret Service training facility near Beltsville, Md. He was joined by Secret Service agents and, possibly, unidentified guests.

Pool did not see him, but did enjoy a Godfather marathon on AMC while we waited.

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This Week’s Literary Events Calendar

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:49:48 +0000

Check it out here.

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Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:33:06 +0000

Best we can tell, that’s the number of reporters the Washington Post had on the Nationals story for today’s paper (Gerald Martineal, Dave Sheinin, Daniel LeDuc, David Nakamura, Roxanne Roberts, Jonathan Mummolo, Michael Ruane, Barry Svrluga, David Fahrenthold, Steve Hendrix, Marc Fisher, Amy Argetsinger, Petula Dvorak, John McDonnell, Marissa Newhall, Michael Ruane, Philip Kennicott, Thomas Boswell, Jonathan Newton, Richard Lipskin, Preston Keres, Linda Davidson).

Also, see washingtonpost.com’s new blog, “Grounds Crew“, which is written by 15 Nationals fans (not WPNI employees) and it’s meant to cover the fan experience at the new stadium.

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In Equally Shocking News, The Tampa Bay Devil Rays Will Lose Today’s Season Opener

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:02:08 +0000

Another week, another victory for “Meet the Press.”

The NBC Sunday talk show beat all the other competitors combined in the D.C. market yesterday. Based on preliminary metered market data, MTP delivered 145,000 viewers, while “This Week” averaged 45,000, “Face The Nation” averaged 41,000, and “FOX News Sunday” averaged 36,000.

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Rev. Moon: The Movie!

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:57:13 +0000

Like so many things nowadays, you’re either going to like this movie by awkward head back tosser John Gorenfeld about the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Washington Times (which Moon founded), or not.

So, we’ll just let it speak for itself and let us know what you think.

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Journos Honor Mudd

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:52:05 +0000

What you missed on Thursday…a book party held for Roger Mudd’s “The Place To Be: The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.” It was hosted by Bob Schieffer, Chris Isham and Jim Lehrer at the Lehrer home.

Among the guests: Ben Bradlee & Sally Quinn, Alan Greenspan & Andrea Mitchell, Al Hunt & Judy Woodruff, Marvin Kalb, Peter Osnos, John Dickerson, Bill Plante and Jan Greenberg.

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Poll of the Day

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:58:27 +0000

You think Obama will beat McCain…Hillary’s turn:

surveys – Take Our Poll

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Forthcoming? NYT Mag Piece on Matthews

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:57:19 +0000

We hear that Mark Leibovich is working on a piece for the NYT magazine (very likely) on Chris Matthews (Leibo recently followed Matthews to Cleveland’s for the MSNBC debate and was also following him around the DC bureau). Does he have some good deets that justify a NYT mag piece?

“Hardball”‘s ratings continue to lag Olbermann’s “Countdown” and David Gregory’s “Race to the White House” is beating “Hardball”‘s 5 p.m. show.

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Kondracke: Give Me Some O’Doul’s!

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:48:37 +0000

From the Washington Times:

“I like RFK better.”

That was the immediate reaction from Washington print and broadcast journalist Morton Kondracke when we bumped into him in the sprawling concourse of the newly opened Nationals Park during Saturday evening’s exhibition baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles.

Otherwise, Mr. Kondracke, who battled alcoholism during the 1980s, made it clear he had visited an untold number of beverage vendors in the sparkling new stadium â€” trust us, there are many dozens â€” and yet none served nonalcoholic beer.

“You can print this: ‘Mr. Lerner, where is the nonalcoholic beer?’ ” asked Mr. Kondracke, addressing his question to Ted Lerner, whose group of Washington-area businessmen owns the Nationals.

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WHCA: More Celebs Named!

Patrick — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:05:21 +0000

Although the Washington Post’s Peter Baker doesn’t note that, well, much of his piece on White House Correspondents’ Dinner celebs has already been reported (that’s kind of how the Post rolls, though…Or is that what is meant by “according to the latest buzz” and “word is already spreading”?), we do learn of some new names attending the April 26th dinner (and sadly, no Obama/Clinton/McCain).

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