Jeff Bercovici
Bercovici: Job Cuts at the Times
Jeff Bercovici is reporting that Bill Keller told staff today that the paper is cutting 100 newsroom positions. Bercovici writes: read more »
Hillary on Fox
A propos of the friendly argument I had last week with Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici over whether it's in Democrats' interests to appear on Fox News, I should note that Hillary Clinton was on Fox and Friends -- along with all the other major morning shows -- this morning.
So in this case at least, her campaign appears to agree with Jeff.
Fox and the Democrats
I have to politely take issue with Portfolio.com's Jeff Bercovici, who agrees with Chris Wallace that Democrats are wrong not to go on Fox News. Jeff writes:
Democrats don't avoid Fox as some kind of sop to the MoveOn.org crowd. They do it for the same reason they limit their press availability in general: because they're afraid of getting tripped up, caught in a flip-flop or a contradiction.
But this isn't quite right, in my view. It's true that, as Jeff says, Democrats are more likely to get tripped up during an interview on Fox News than on other networks. But they didn't start consistently snubbing Fox until liberal activists, led by watchdog groups like Media Matters, made it into an issue... read more »
Pinging the Sonar: Radar Sets Sail!
In fact, that galley is packed; the two main blogs alone list eleven staffers, giving it, no doubt, the highest staff costs of any weblog site in existence. (It could have been more expensive! Apparently former Radar employee Remy Stern didn't make it to sea, having been chucked overboard at some point pre-launch. (Or perhaps he threw himself over?)) And the "Reviews" section lists a staff of eight.
So clearly she's a seaworthy vessel, yah—if a bit battered about the poop deck.
Reportedly, these new-fangled things called "RSS feeds" will be available later today.
