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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:30 PM

Jacob Weisberg

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Name: Jacob Weisberg

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 3 Documents

Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling Back Up Into Slate's Uterus [Internal Memos]

Slate honcho Jacob Weisberg has addressed Double X's shuttering as a stand-along entity in a memo, confirming some layoffs and characterizing the site's demotion to a section of Slate as "returning Double X to the womb from which it sprang." Get it? Womb? ... [Gawker - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Jacob Weisberg, Big Money!, Meghan O'Rourke, Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Obama walks a political tightrope over Muslim rapprochement

President Barack Obamas policy of Islamic rapprochement has come under scrutiny after the Fort Hood shootings, followed by the discovery of a number of domestic terrorist plots.Under the headline Obamas Muslim Problem, the popular online magazine Slate ... [Abu Dhabi National - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Muslim, Islam, Jacob Weisberg

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Video: Pentagon plans Fort Hood shooting probe

Nov. 18: Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., Slate.com’s Jacob Weisberg and the Chicago Sun-Times’ Lynn Sweet debate whether the government has let enough time pass for hearings to begin. (Other)Slate - Chicago Sun-Times - Lynn Sweet - Jacob Weisberg - Hood ... [MSNBC - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Fort Hood, Lynn Sweet, Jacob Weisberg

First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents

Is Obama Being Too Conciliatory to Muslims?

Jacob Weisberg, SlateWhen it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he's seen as sympathetic to Muslims. The disadvantage is also that he's seen as sympathetic ... [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 11/14/2009]

Entities: Muslim, Barack Obama, Islam, Jacob Weisberg

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 2 Documents

Newsweek: Newsier Than Fox! -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Last week I guffawed at Jacob Weisberg's expense when he took to the pages of Newsweek to attack Fox News for failing to be an objective news organization. I wrote:What I think is hilarious is that Weisberg wrote this for Newsweek, which has relaunched ... [National Review - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Jonah Goldberg, Jacob Weisberg, Andrew Ferguson

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 3 Documents

Why Journalists Are Defending FOX News.

Let's be clear: FOX News is a GOP opposition research dump more than it is a news organization. They reprint Republican press releases verbatim, they have no compunction about airing stories without having verified the information in them, they unabashedly ... [TAPPED - 10/22/2009]

Entities: White House, Louis Brandeis, Conserved, Censorship

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

The Nation: The Ol' 'Beneath The Presidency' Routine

President Barack Obama, center, greets Navy personnel who were in attendance at his speech at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Oct. 26, 2009, in Jacksonville, Florida.Phil Coale/APPresident Barack Obama, center, greets Navy personnel who were in attendance ... [NPR - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Jacksonville (Florida, United States), Barack Obama, Dana Perino, Naval Air Station

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents

Pitiful punditry

Want to be rich and famous, but you’re not very talented? Sure, you could become a rock star — but political pundits are 50 percent less likely to die choking on their own vomit, and they’re seemingly just as immune to accountability. Observe:Bill Kristol, ... [The Hill - 10/28/2009]

Entities: Ned Lamont, Cokie Roberts, Dick Morris, Bill Kristol, Joseph Lieberman

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Why You Can't Stop Gay Marriage and Marijuana

"I think this would be a good time for a beer," Franklin D. Roosevelt said upon signing a bill that made 3.2 percent lager legal, ahead of the full repeal of Prohibition. I hope Barack Obama will come up with some comparably witty remarks as he presides ... [MSNBC Newsweek - 10/31/2009]

Entities: Gay, Marijuana, Jacob Weisberg, Cuba

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents

Journalists Join White House Fox News-Bashing

While the Obama administration continues its war against its media critics, well-known liberal journalists instead of defending freedom of the press are joining the attack on a news network they despise as much as does the administration. Gone is any ... [Pajamas Media - 10/31/2009]

Entities: Jacob Weisberg, Anita Dunn, Obama Administration

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

In A Decade's Time?

Jacob Weisberg heralds the death of prohibitions:Our forms of prohibition are more sins of omission than commission. Rather than trying to take away longstanding rights, they're instances of conservative laws failing to keep pace with a liberalizing ... [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Jacob Weisberg, Cuba, Gay

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 1 Documents

The Daily Wrap

Today on the Dish we continued to track coverage of NY-23. John Cole commented on the lack of party loyalty, Jonah Goldberg declared ideological victory, Mark Blumenthal and PPP predicted a big Hoffman win, Nate Silver looked at the consequences that ... [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Gene Weingarten, Gideon Levy, James Joyner, Jacob Weisberg

Quotes

...Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told Gawker, "it's going to become a section of slate, but otherwise pretty muchmuch as it has been. not sure readers will know the difference — most think it's a section of slate now." No related layoffs have been reported...

DoubleX to Be Folded Back Into Slate.com [Daily Intel - 11/16/2009]

More Content

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Muslims In 21st Century America: Turning Our Co... [OfficialWire - 11/19/2009]
Video: Pentagon plans Fort Hood shooting probe [MSNBC - 11/18/2009]
Obama walks a political tightrope over Muslim r... [Abu Dhabi National - 11/17/2009]
Why You Can't Stop Gay Marriage and Marijuana [MSNBC Newsweek - 10/31/2009]
King of New York: Michael Bloomberg [The Independent - 10/31/2009]
Your Ticket to Country Club Riches [Motley Fool - 10/30/2009]
Newsweek: Newsier Than Fox! -- By: Jonah Goldberg [National Review - 10/28/2009]
Pitiful punditry [The Hill - 10/28/2009]
The Nation: The Ol' 'Beneath The Presidency' Ro... [NPR - 10/27/2009]
Fox among the pigeons [Guardian Unlimited - 10/22/2009]
Slate Editor Claims Fox is un-American [Accuracy in Media - 10/22/2009]
First they came for Fox. Journalists should def... [Telegraph - 10/20/2009]
Control Freaks [Washington Post - 10/20/2009]
Damnable Fox -- By: Jonah Goldberg [National Review - 10/19/2009]
Politically-partisan television [The Economist - 10/19/2009]
Sunday reading: Fox [Politico - 10/19/2009]
Why Fox News Is Un-American [MSNBC Newsweek - 10/17/2009]
The Torture Debate, Continued [Washington Post - 10/16/2009]
Amazon Kindle 2: Centuries of evolved beauty ri... [Guardian Unlimited - 10/10/2009]
Newspaper industry struggling under twin 'storms' [AFP via Yahoo! - 06/08/2009]
Complicity -- and Accountability -- onTorture [White House Watch - 05/04/2009]
Libertarianism in an Age of Economic Crisis [REASON Online - 02/17/2009]

Blogs

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Double X Isn't Closing—It's Crawling ... [Gawker - 11/17/2009] Slate honcho Jacob Weisberg has addressed Double X's shuttering as a stand-along entity in a memo, confirming some layoffs and characterizing the site's demotion ...
DoubleX to Be Folded Back Into Slate.com [Daily Intel - 11/16/2009] Just six months into its independent existence, Slate's womanly spinoff Double X is being reincorporated back into the Slate website. Slate Group editor-in-chief ...
Double X to Be Folded Back Into Slate [Feminism] [Gawker - 11/16/2009] Six months after the Slate Group launched Double X as "a new kind of women's online magazine," it's being transformed into a section of Slate.com, a very old kind ...
Is Obama Being Too Conciliatory to Muslims? [RealClearPolitics - Homepage - 11/14/2009] Jacob Weisberg, SlateWhen it comes to any issue that involves Islam, President Obama starts with an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that he's ...
Levi Johnston Meets the Press at the Fleshbot A... [Gawker - 11/12/2009] Let the record show that last night the Manhattan media crowd descended on The Box to see a youth from Wasilla receive a silver dildo for showing his penis. Photographs ...

Audio/Video

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Does Obama need to speak more harshly about Islam? [Slate Magazine - 11/14/2009]

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