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How Did News Outlets Miss Senator’s Arrest for Nearly Three Months?
Even Roll Call reporter John McArdle, who broke the story late Monday, admits he only received word of the arrest and subsequent guilty plea via a tip last week. “You would think in the 24-hour news cycle, something like this would slip through,” said McArdle, a four-year veteran of the Capitol Hill daily.

CBS station recreates events before Sen. Craig’s arrest
Just in case viewers didn’t understand the accusations against Sen. Larry Craig, the CBS station in Sacramento has recreated the lewd behavior that is described in a police report filed by an undercover detective at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Thanks to Talking Points Memo, which has a link to the video.

Craig: It’s the Idaho paper’s fault that I pleaded guilty.
Repeatedly claiming, “I am not gay,” Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) blamed the media for his guilty plea of disorderly conduct. I have been “relentlessly and viciously harassed by the Idaho Statesman,” Craig complained. “The Statesman has engaged in this witchhunt. In pleading guilty, I overreacted in Minneapolis because of the stress the Idaho Statesman investigation and the rumors it has fueled all around Idaho.”
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NY Times, networks ignored Sen. Craig’s record on gay and lesbian issues
In reporting on Sen. Larry Craig’s guilty plea on disorderly conduct charges, the nightly network news broadcasts and The New York Times all ignored his positions on legislation concerning gay and lesbian rights.

Hannity Ignores Stories On Gonzales’ Resignation, Sen. Craig’s Arrest
The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) dominated yesterday’s news cycle. All three network evening news shows — ABC, CBS, and NBC — covered the stories. Both The New York Times and Washington Post put the Gonzales resignation on the front page, and covered the Craig story. Yet both reports were largely ignored yesterday by Sean Hannity.

Beck: ‘Nobody cares’ about Gonzales resignation.
Yesterday on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck mentioned the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, stating that he was “surprised” the “media jumped all over this story”.
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Money changes everything (by Eric Boehlert)
Was I the only one amazed that the Republican presidential candidates who initially refused to appear at the CNN-sponsored YouTube debate first scheduled for next month actually stated as a reason for ducking the debate that they would rather be attending fundraisers that day instead of appearing at an interactive public event where questions would be posed exclusively by voters?… That … suggested to me that Republicans were (and are) keenly aware that the press will give them a completely free and unfettered ride whenever the issue of money comes up.

Gannon: I’m ‘the most honest’ White House reporter.
Jeff Gannon, the infamous former male escort who for two years gained a White House press pass using a pseudonym, is releasing a book next week, in which he chronicles what he sees as liberal bias in the White House press corps. “In my mind, I was the most honest reporter [in the White House press corps] because I was absolutely transparent with regards to my [conservative] perspective,” Gannon told the Washington Examiner. “My work has never been discredited.”

GMA casts Gonzales scandals as partisan: “For Democrats, it’s another scalp to hang on the wall”
On Good Morning America, correspondent David Wright asserted that “[w]ere it not for the scandals, Bush had hoped to make” outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.” Wright also reported that Gonzales’ resignation “is being welcomed on both sides of the aisle” because “[f]or Democrats, it’s another scalp to hang on the wall; and for Republicans, it’s a huge distraction that now goes away.” In fact, several Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for Gonzales to resign.

Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers
The industry still has a lot of power to influence people. How about if newspapers abandon their old way of doing things when it comes to the issue of global warming, and turn their influence to good?

“Mother Jones right now is as good as I’ve ever seen it”
Jon Carroll didn’t think Mother Jones could be an effective magazine with two editors. “Oh boy, was I wrong,” he writes. “I’m not sure what they’re doing right, but they should keep at it.” In the past, too many issues of the magazine bathed in High Seriousness, while “the current version of Mother Jones is almost rollicking.”

Newspaper Stocks Take Drubbing In Market Sell-Off Tuesday
CHICAGO As the Dow sank 280 points Tuesday, newspaper stocks had their own problems, falling across the board on continued worries about ad revenue. Newspaper sector stocks that had been drifting downward for weeks were not helped by a Goldman Sachs investor note on the nearly uniformly poor July ad results.

CBS, Washington Post in Online News Deal
NEW YORK (AP) – CBS News and The Washington Post have forged an alliance to share news resources for their online outlets – CBSNews.com and WashingtonPost.com – during the 2008 presidential campaign.

How ‘vs.’ thinking drags everyone down
The people who say “That’s not news” are the editorial “vs.” thinkers who stop websites from gathering the great voices from the blogs in their communities. They refuse to let their own reporters blog. They hear the very word “blog” for that matter and think “That’s not news.” They believe it is “journalism vs. the mob.” And in no other business that I know of could you get away with holding your customers in such contempt. OK, maybe the airlines.

Chinese Pollution in Words, Pictures and More
The New York Times makes new strides with multimedia storytelling

Google Could be Sued for Anti-Semitic Clips on YouTube
YouTube is facing some pretty upset people in Germany for racist clips found on the site, promoting anti-Semitic behavior. With clips showing a 1940 anti-Semitic propaganda film “Jud Suess” and a couple of music videos showing WWII Nazi military operations from far-right rock band Landser (which has been outlawed in Germany), activists and individuals are soliciting Google to have the clips removed.

Amazon Sued by Humane Society for Cockfighting Magazines
Amazon is being sued by the Humane Society, which has filed a civil lawsuit in Washington D.C., stating that the online store has violated animal cruelty laws… While cockfighting itself is illegal, the sale of these items and other paraphernalia has not been made illegal across the nation. The point of debate remains whether or not Amazon should be found responsible for advertisers’ content in these particular magazines.

Google Signs Exclusive AdSense Deal with CNN
CNN is the latest to sign an exclusive contract with Google for its AdSense program. The deal means that businesses will now be able to target ads for the CNN crowd, and CNN gets to earn revenue from ads.

Subprime fallout could hit internet firms: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Internet companies are bracing for a possible decline in one of their biggest sources of advertising following the turmoil in the subprime mortgage market, the Financial Times reported.