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Month May 2008

No legitimate number to be had

In regards to the Democratic primaries and the meeting today of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules meeting today, here in Washington, on the topic of seating delegates from Michigan and Florida: I’m not sure how one can make a fair extrapolation of those states’ primary election results because of the conditions they were held under. [...]

NPR’s new media guru questionably shut-out by Union Station security

NPR’s new media guy, Andy Carvin, was loaned a Gigapan camera rig from Carnegie Mellon recently. I followed his excitement about the chance to take great high-resolution panoramic photographs of Washington on Twitter. Yesterday he broadcast that he was taking it to Washington’s Union Station. Not much later he was sharing in near-real-time a confrontation [...]

Is Muqtada al-Sadr anti-American? NPR thinks so.

A friend, independent journalist Brian Conley, posted to Twitter about a use of the term “anti-American” by JJ Sutherland on NPR that I also questioned. Brian noted his disappointment that the term was used when “anti-occupation” would be more accurate, and obviously true. Since then I have picked-up on more seemingly lax and inaccurate uses [...]