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What Did Olbermann Know and When Did He Know It

The bloggers are leaving one component out, unfairly so: In April, I knew vaguely that Richard Wolffe had gone to work for a non-news firm, and that's about the last I heard of it. It was entirely concurrent with my mother's fatal illness, ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  7 Aug 2009
Related Topics: David Gregory,  Wikipedia,  Keith Olbermann,  Newsweek,  MSNBC

More on Wolffe: Why Are Olbermann and MSNBC Cutting Wolffe Loose Now?

Since news broke that Keith Olbermann would no longer allow former Newsweek writer Richard Wolffe to appear on "Countdown" due to his perceived conflict-of-interest as a member of Dan Bartlett's PR firm Public Strategies, one open question remains: Why ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  5 Aug 2009
Related Topics: MSNBC,  Keith Olbermann,  Newsweek,  Wikipedia,  Barack Obama

Harris on The Washington Post: "The Sears, Roebuck Model of Journalism...Is Over"

Politico is having a good media month. First, Michael Wolff wrote glowingly about them in his Vanity Fair column (though he didn't always feel that way). And last night, Charlie Rose brought Politico owner Robert Allbritton, editor-in-chief John Harris, ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Charlie Rose,  John Harris,  Vanity Fair

Politico's Darkening Clouds

In the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, the magazine's media critic Michael Wolff writes a surprisingly positive 3400-word column about Politico. Not everyone shares this glowing assessment of the web-print startup. Last month, Politico’s chief foreign ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: John Harris,  Barack Obama,  Vanity Fair

Bob Woodward, Jim Jones and that Obama Book

Last month, I reported that Bob Woodward is at work on a new book about the Obama administration, which has been a cause of concern at the White House. At the time, sources told me that Woodward would likely focus his efforts on Obama's foreign policy, ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Bob Woodward,  Barack Obama,  White House

Harris to Politico Staff on April Fools: "Win the Dawn"

Gang, As you know, at POLITICO we live by a "Win the Morning" philosophy. As Jim likes to say, "velocity matters." On the Web, a gap of even a few minutes in posting breaking news can be the difference between tens of thousands of people reading a ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  1 Apr 2009
Related Topics: White House,  Mike Allen (politician)

Another Newspaper Casualty

Next week, the slow, inexorable decline of newspapers will be marked by another datapoint when Bruce Sherman, the 61-year-old CEO of Private Capital Management, retires. For those who have followed the newspaper industry's financial travails, ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Morgan Stanley,  Qualcomm

Publisher Cancels Rosenblat Kids Book

The publisher of Herman Rosenblat's children's book, Angel Girl, has now pulled the book from stores and is offering refunds for people who had bought it. In September, Minneapolis-based Lerner Books released Angel Girl, a kids' book written by popular ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  30 Dec 2008

Lawyers Prepare for Rosenblat Feud

When Berkley Books announced it was canceling the Feb. 3 release of Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust memoir, Angel at the Fence, the publisher said it would demand that Rosenblat and his agent Andrea Hurst repay the entire advance. Now, Hurst is preparing ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  30 Dec 2008

Rosenblat's lies "always hurtful" says son

The Rosenblat family is coming to terms with the revelations exposed by TNR that Herman Rosenblat lied about his love story that he met his future wife outside the fence of the Schlieben concentration camp, which formed the central premise of his ...

From GABE SHERMAN, The New Republic,  28 Dec 2008

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