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Tuesday, May 31, 2005 |
Driving Home Danica's Point. Of course Danica Patrick's involvement in this past weekend's Indy 500 boosted ratings -- I watched my first Indy since, oh, ever. And so did millions more Americans -- many of them, I'm willing to bet, women who were eager... [ms.musings]
10:36:34 PM 
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It's really him. Woodward and Bernstein break their silence: W. Mark Felt is "Deep Throat." [Salon.com]
It's official.
After more than three decades of silence, the Washington Post has just confirmed that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was "Deep Throat."
In a statement, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said: "W. Mark Felt was 'Deep Throat' and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage." They added, however, that "many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in the Washington Post about Watergate."
5:25:38 PM
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Deep Throat?
- Scribe Journal/National Ledger:
Vanity Fair Reveals Watergate Source 'Deep Throat'
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"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat": Former FBI agent W.
Mark Felt says he was the legendary source who leaked secrets about
Nixon's Watergate coverup.
By Greg Sandoval (Associated Press)
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Yes, but is he really "Deep Throat"? (Tim Grieve)
Felt tells O'Connor, "I'm the guy they used to call 'Deep
Throat,'" and, as author Adrian Havill notes, there's certainly no
doubt about that: Over the years, a lot of people -- a lot of "theys"
-- have called Felt "Deep Throat." But what does Felt have to say that
corroborates his own story -- that proves that he really was the man
"they" said he was? What does Felt say about his decision to leak
information to Woodward and Bernstein? What does he say about their
clandestine meetings, about the signals Woodward would find on page 20
of his copy of the New York Times, about the warning that "everyone's
life is in danger"?
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Dancing over Deep Throat
"The Washington Post has no comment."
That's the official line from the Post on Vanity Fair revelation that
W. Mark Felt, formerly the second-in-command man at FBI, is the
confidential source who led Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein through the
story that became known as Watergate. In a long, first-person article
in the new Vanity Fair, lawyer John D. O'Connor says that Felt, now 91,
told him: "I'm the guy they used to call 'Deep Throat.'"
O'Connor has more than Felt's word on it, but his independent
confirmation is largely of the circumstantial variety. O'Connor writes
of a long visit Woodward made to see Felt in 1999 and continuing
contacts between the two men thereafter. . . . .
4:43:39 PM
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Four short ones from Benton Headlines:-
VIEWERS TRUST PBS, AND THEY SHOULD
[Commentary] Mitchell addresses the allegations of a
public-broadcasting “liberal bias.”
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: Pat Mitchell, President of PBS]
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CALL BOXES FALLING BY THE WAYSIDE
First the payphone, now, apparently, cellphones are helping to kill
roadside call boxes, which stranded drivers can use to dial for help in
emergencies.
[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR:Larry Copeland]
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IN ASIA, IT'S NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL A SONG FROM AN AD
While entertainment and advertising are getting cozier everywhere, in
Asia they have virtually merged. For many global advertisers, it's a
chance to do what they would only dream of trying at home. For Asia's
artists, hooking up with advertisers offers a more reliable way to
profit at a time when fans are increasingly buying illegally pirated
CDs and movies.
[SOURCE: Wall Street Journal, AUTHOR: Geoffrey A. Fowler]
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NEWS SVENGALIS AT WORK
How consultants shape newscasts, from steering the coverage to choosing
eyeliner.
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: Deborah Starr Seibel]
3:43:28 PM
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Publishers Lunch is embarking on an intriguing experiment:
* As noted last week, if you have a cameraphone or will carry a digital
camera at the show (and at the parties), you can help us cover BEA. Send
show and party photos to us by e-mail--either straight from your phone
or by regular e-mail--and through the magic of Flickr, they'll be posted
directly to our BEA Photos blog.
The e-mail address is a little long, so you'll want to enter into your
phone address book or put it in your computer now. Send to:
cap64far2blog@photos.flickr.com
And the photo gets posted automatically to our blog. Use the subject
line of the e-mail to give the photo a title. If you want to provide a
caption (sometimes harder with cameraphones), put that into the body of
the email.
The blog is here (and it will be linked from our home page):
BEA Photo blog
http://click.email-publisher.com/maadzGzabhp3xa5bmb1baeQxXH/
Have fun with it! (And use discretion, please).
2:43:18 PM
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Another from BNA News:
EU AND MICROSOFT TALK AS DEADLINE PASSES
The EU says its antitrust regulators might need several
weeks to decide whether to hit Microsoft with huge fines
after the midnight Tuesday deadline for the software maker
to comply with a landmark ruling expired. Both sides worked
over the weekend to reach a compromise. The talks have
centered on pricing and royalties that can be charged to
allow software competitors access to Microsoft's Windows
source code so they can better dovetail their products with
the platform.
Washington Post story
Wall Street Journal story
11:42:50 AM
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Devoid of Content, by
Stanley Fish (NYT), argues that college composition courses err in
teaching content, not form. Good essay.
10:42:57 AM
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Buh?
COMMITTEE TOLD OF TERRORIST LINK TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Senate Homeland Security committee heard Wednesday from John
Stedman, a lieutenant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department who's responsible for an eight-person team of
intellectual property investigators. "Some associates
of terrorist groups may be involved in IPR crime," Stedman
said. "During the course of our investigations, we have
encountered suspects who have shown great affinity for
Hezbollah and its leadership."
(From BNA News)
10:42:47 AM
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