Tag: Adam Martin

There’s a little blind item in Politico’s story about interest groups advertising on ESPN specifically to reach our sports-fan president: A media strategist tells writer Anna Palmer that an unnamed client had advertised on the network during a climate change debate in his first term “for exactly that reason.” Since watching sports on TiVo sucks, the tactic makes sense, but hopefully if you’re the president you can at least arrange for a mute button.

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,barack obama
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When the Knight Foundation, whose stated mission is to promote “quality journalism,” paid admitted plagiarist and fabricator Jonah Lehrer $20,000 to speak at its seminar in Miami, the irony was lost on nobody — except maybe the Knight Foundation, whose president told Erik Wemple the booking found little dissent among its leaders. But after a steady flow of criticism since Lehrer’s address, the Foundation has finally thought better of its decision. On Wednesday night it ran a blog post saying the speaker fee was inappropriate and a “mistake.” The problem wasn’t the fact that Lehrer spoke, but that the foundation paid him. “Knight Foundation should not have put itself into a position tantamount to rewarding people who have violated the basic tenets of journalism.” But it did, and now the Knight Foundation regrets the error.

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scandal-stained wretches
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Declaring himself to be “a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel,” Glenn Beck announced on Tuesday that he’ll re-launch The Blaze as an international libertarian news network. The revamp includes opening three bureaus in foreign cities that are “important to America,” starting a new nightly news magazine show, and relocating his New York staff, currently based in Midtown, to a building that will “send a very clear message to everyone in New York … it will piss everyone off.” Let us guess, the New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room?

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,media
,libertarians
,the blaze
,penn jillette

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