Category: 2009
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140 characters to twittering success
IN THE CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE, we must change or die. I ain't ready to die. So, I guess I have to learn how to twitter. So, I'll start *** I…
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The incredible shrinking newspaper
I HATE TO WRITE AN OBITUARY for something that isn't quite dead yet — but the American newspaper is in a death spiral. I hate to write its obit in…
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A very third-personal column
GARY GADDY is going to miss Roland Burris. In case you missed it, Roland Burris is the Illinois politician who took Barack Obama's senate seat after being appointed by another…
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My wife and my life: An Internet investigation
THE INTERNET IS GREAT! You can find out all kinds of things with it — without even getting out of your pajamas. (Traditional journalists are often derisive of bloggers "blogging…
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Very Briefly: The News in Briefs
This week's local, state, national and international news pre-digested for your consumptive pleasure. Carrboro to star in network TV series. CARRBORO, N.C. — The mid-season replacement television show The Goode…
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A mediated political pop quiz
TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ to learn what you may not have learned from the massive mass media. 1) In the first apparent action by the Obama administration which might lead…
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I write the songs; really, I do
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, one of my putative readers (who would really admit to such a thing?) has said to me, and I paraphrase, "I like your column because…
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Now introducing . . . the Albatross!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Congress today ordered General Motors to begin producing "as quickly as feasible" a brand new model for its Cadillac line of passenger vehicles, the Albatross.…
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Palindrome, spelled backwards
ADAVEN, Nevada — Even as the Conservation Laboratory for Palindromes, plc, (CLP plc), a private-public partnership which seeks to preserve the palindrome for posterity, petitions Congress to add the palindrome…
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My love/hate affair with Thom. Jefferson
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND I are both from Charlottesville, so that would make us natural allies — or perhaps rivals. I really admire the guy, though I think that if we…
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