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Slate Plays Dumb About The Clinton Foundation

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton Foundation, Secretary of State, Aids, Slate, Christopher Beam, Clinton Global Initiative, Media News

Interestingly, the piece never actually explains to readers what the Clinton Foundation does. Answer: It helps poor people around the world.

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What The Google Phone Stole From The iPhone

Slate | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Google Phone, Apple, Steve Jobs, Slate, Steve Wozniak, Gphone, Business News

There is a story that Steve Jobs likes to tell about fonts. In 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Ore.; after a semester, seeing little ...

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Slate: Why Obama Should Fill His Cabinet With Geniuses

Slate | Jacob Weisberg | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet Geniuses, Obama Genius Cabinet, Barack Obama, Slate, Obama's Cabinet, President Obama, Politics News

Here's a radical suggestion: Barack Obama should pick the smartest people he can find for his Cabinet. Brilliance has sometimes been a criterion in p...

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Obama's Five Routes To Military Success, According To Slate

Slate Magazine | Fred Kaplan | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Barack Obama, Slate, Military Spending, President Obama, War Wire, Iran, Foreign Affairs, Iraq, Politics News

It's a truism that Barack Obama faces the most intractable set of challenges that any president has faced in at least 50 years. But on a few issues in...

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Joe Biden and the Press: A Case Study in the Absurd

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Time.com, Boston Globe, Media Criticism, Politico, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Joe Biden, Slate, Newsweek, Biden Vice President, Media News

Rather than reward Biden for being open and honest with voters --for being authentic and unscripted -- the press punished him for weeks on end.

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CBS, Slate Could Call Election Before West Coast Finished Voting

via New York Times | Posted 11.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Election 2008 Coverage, Cbs, Slate, Media News

The New York Times' Jacques Steinberg reports that at least two outlets signal they will call the election before the West Coast has finished voting, ...

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Final Weeks Of The Presidential Campaign In Two Minutes (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Slate Videos, Video, Campaign Recaps, Recap Video, Slate, Politics News

Have you had trouble keeping up with the ins-and-outs of the presidential campaign over the last few weeks? If so, it's worth checking out Slate's hig...

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Slate Staff Prefer Obama Over McCain By 55-1 Margin

Slate | David Plotz | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Slate, Media News

Today, Slate's staff and contributors reveal how they're voting in next week's presidential election. This continues a tradition we began in 2000 and ...

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Christopher Hitchens' Obama Endorsement

Slate | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Vanity Fair, Slate, Christopher Hitchens, 180s, Neoconservatives, Barack Obama, Christopher Hitchens Obama, Hitchens Obama, Christopher Hitchens Palin, Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens Endorses Obama, Hitchens Endorses Obama, Christopher Hitchens Supports Obama, Hitchens Supports Obama, Christopher Hitchens Obama Endorsement, Media News

I used to nod wisely when people said: "Let's discuss issues rather than personalities." It seemed so obvious that in politics an issue was an issue a...

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Meltdown Made Easy: Slate.com Tries Business with The Big Money

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Aig, The Big Money, Lehman Brothers, Elle Woods, Portfolio, Slate, MainStreet.Com, Fox Business News, TheStreet.Com, Media News

Another week; another financial meltdown (or two or three or more); another new business media outlet for people who don't really like business. So i...

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Origins Of 'Terrorist Fist Jab' Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorist Fist Jab, E.D. Hill, Slate, Barack Obama, Politics News

Slate's Christopher Beam has reflected on how the Obama fist-bump meme has grown from a simple celebratory gesture between Barack and Michelle Obama t...

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Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie" Photo Flap Explained - Sort Of

AP | JOSH L. DICKEY | Posted 06.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Cruise, Valkyrie, Tom Cruise Valkyrie, Tom Cruise Valkyrie Photo, Slate, United Artists, David Plotz, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — What looked at first like another PR blow to "Valkyrie," the twice-delayed Tom Cruise film based on the true story of a German off...

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Cashiers for Life

Cristina Page | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmacist Refusals, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Will Saletan, Pharmacists for Life, Contraception, Pro-Life, Slate, Pro-Choice, Politics News

William Saletan, the Slate columnist whose made a career of claiming to be pro-choice while justifying attacks on reproductive rights, has had yet another epiphany.

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Slate Reporter Attempts Viral Circulation Of Pro-Obama Rumors

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Muslim Email, John McCain, Farhad Manjoo, Christopher Beam, Fight the Smears, Smears, Obama Email Smear, Obama Muslim Smear, Salon, Slate, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Obama campaign, seeking to combat the spurious rumors that run amok online, has launched a campaign site named Fight The Smears, dedicated to the ...

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David Plotz Named Slate Editor, Jacob Weisberg To Oversee Newly Formed Slate Group

Slate | Jacob Weisberg | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

Read More: New Slate Editor, Slate Editor, Jacob Weisberg, Slate, David Plotz, Media News

Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there...

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Me and Scott McClellan, Brothers In Arms

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Abc, Media Matteres for America, Scott Mcclellan, Tim Russert, David Gregory, New York Times, Iraq, Slate, Fair, Hillary Clinton Washington Post Bosnia, Lapdogs, Media News

Now that McClellan's come clean about the nature of Beltway press pack, I'll confess my own secret: Scott was a ghostwriter for my 2006 book, Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.

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Gay Marriage And Nazism

Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Ban on Gay Marriages, Gay Marriage, LA Times, Supreme Court, Ballot Initiative, Los Angeles Times, Nazi, Slate, California, Home News

The Calif. court ruling to "destroy the man-woman definition of marriage" is akin to Nazis "following orders to gas the Jews?" Really? That's the language of a major campaign presently underway to sway Calif. judges.

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So Now The Press Tells Candidates When To Quit?

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Time, John McCain, Mike Lupica, Gary Hart, Maureen Dowd, Jesse Jackson, Slate, Ted Kennedy, Haynes Johnson, New York Daily News, Mark Halperin, Howard Dean, Breaking Media News, New York Magazine, Jerry Brown, Boston Phoenix, New York Times, Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama, Media News

Until this election cycle, journalists simply did not consider it to be their job to tell a contender when he or she should stop campaigning.

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Slate Launches "Hillary Deathwatch"

Slate | Christopher Beam, Chadwick Matlin, and Chris Wilson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Clinton Deathwatch, Hillary Clinton, Slate Hillary Clinton, Slate, Media News

Hillary Clinton is as good as dead. This became the consensus over the past week, when the media awoke en masse to the dual reality that 1) Clinton ca...

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Is Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?

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When "Oops" Isn't Enough

Mary Lyon | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Preemptive War, Troop Casualties, White House, Scott Ritter, War on Terror, Colin Powell, Impeachment, Hans Blix, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Aggression, Democratic Party, Chickenhawks, War Widows, Al Qaeda, American Enterprise Institute, Jeffrey Goldberg, Slate.com, Fred Kaplan, Lying About War, Iraq War, Republican Party, Suppressing Dissent, Slate, Slate Why Did We Get It Wrong, Politics News

Will there be any consequences imposed upon the deliberate deceivers? Will there be any lessons taught, not just to the warmongers themselves, but for the benefit of all future pampered war-pushers?

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To Catch a Banker: Why Does the Media Hate Bear Stearns?

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Gretchen Morgenson, J.P. Morgan Chase, Bear Stearns Bailout, Alan Schwartz, The New York Times, Marty Peretz, Bear Stearns, Slate, New Republic, Wall Street, The Audit, Bear Stearns Collapse, Columbia Journalism Review, Media News

There's nothing like an apparent "bailout," to get the media's blood pumping. And Bear Stearns, never exactly home of saints, is an easy target.

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The Press Will Torment Obama, Too

Eric Boehlert | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Al Gore, National Review, Peggy Noonan, David Gregory, Nbc, Jake Tapper, Wall Street Journal, Slate, Barack Obama, Cnn, Breaking Media News, Breaking Campaign News, David Brooks, Breaking Poliitcal News, New York Times, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Tease, Barack Obama Starlet, 2008 Election, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama Feminine, Media Coverage of Barack Obama, Media News

Clear signs suggest that Obama's press treatment will soon change and that the media will fall back into their lazy routine of critiquing Dems through the eyes of Republican spin.

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"quarterlife": Gen-Y Bloggers Shake The Cradle

Jeremy Axelrod | Posted 02.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Quarterlife, Gen Y Blogger, Gen Y, Blogs, Troy Patterson Quarterlife, Troy Patterson Slate, Nbc, Gen Y Blogs, Troy Patterson, Dylan Krieger, Quarterlife Dylan Krieger, Quarterlife Review, Slate, Blogging, Entertainment News

Viewers who find quarterlife nauseating for the immaturity of the characters and the occasional shallowness of the plot should note that its characters are nauseated with themselves for the same reasons.

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The Press Seethes Over Bill Clinton, Shrugs at George Bush

Eric Boehlert | Posted 02.05.2008 | Media

When it comes to Bush's two-year decline, the press has remained oddly detached. By contrast, the recent coverage of Clinton on the campaign trail has been dripping with emotion.

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