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| | TAP: Vol 14, Iss. 9. Brooks No Argument. Todd Gitlin. |
 | | Finally, Brooks would be more compelling, less callow, if he were more curious about the rest of the world and more open to its complaints about American power. | | | This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author. | | | If meritocracy is triumphant, all appeals to economic justice can be dismissed as class warfare -- and the self-engorgement of the owning class can be defended as the proper course of the propertied. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/9/gitlin-t.html
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| | Political Animal: Comment on David Brooks vs. the World |
| | His exceptions to Brooks' generalizations are neither trivial nor pedantic. | | | I may be an outlier where I live, but that doesn't invalidate the marketing premise involved. | | | The problem isn't the generalizations, it's the specific items he presents as fact to make them. |
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3575
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| | David Brooks: Religious leader follows life of real Christianity Arizona Daily Star ® |
| | All content copyright © 1999-2006 AzStarNet, Arizona Daily Star and its wire services and suppliers and may not be republished without permission. | | | Any copying, redistribution, or retransmission of any of the contents of this service without the expressed written consent of Arizona Daily Star or AzStarNet is prohibited. | | | ● David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times, 229 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036; email: dabrooks@nytimes.com. |
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http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/50664
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| | David Brooks: Block That Metaphor, Etc. - Gawker |
| | “David Brooks: A straight reporter, he says, is always curious. | | | Manhattan Apartment Rentals and Real Estate Sales by Mark David & Co. | | | There’s way too much there for us to unpack. |
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http://www.gawker.com/news/media/david-brooks-block-that-metaphor-etc-035418.php
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| | Sobering Thoughts |
| | David Mader and Bob Tarantino with common sense, limited government, arguments for permitting sharia law when it is compatible with the law of the land. | | | I doubt that Bush II would appoint a solidly pro-Roe justice to the court. | | | Earlier this week, Senator MFEMFEM Leahy (D, Vt.) supported Judge John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Cour of the United States. |
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http://www.soberingthoughts.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_soberingthoughts_archive.html
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| | THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING: Postwar Diplomacy |
| | David has made the point that the moral legitimacy of the United Nations is extremely low in the United States. | | | Five years from now, will the United States be more or less involved? | | | David Brooks: To me--well I don't want to go back into the Security Council Chamber, but most countries, how they were acting, unilaterally or tri-laterally or quattro-laterally, were representing their people. |
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http://www.uncommonknowledge.org/700/738.html
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| | neo-neocon: David Brooks: in defense of Newsweek |
| | The answer in this case is "no." But this is a separate issue, and has nothing to do with either truth or consequences--although, of course, we are only talking about the issue because of the dire consequences of publishing this particular poorly-researched article. | | | The first issue has to do with practicality--what was written and what were the consequences of publishing it. | | | But the fact that others--the ones who committed the acts--bear the greater responsibility does not in any way absolve Newsweek of its partial responsibility in the matter. |
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http://neo-neocon.blogspot.com/2005/05/david-brooks-in-defense-of-newsweek.html
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| | National Review on David Brooks - OD Board |
| | Opinions posted at Original Dissent may or may not be the opinions of Original Dissent or its administrators. | | | Of all conservatives, Brooks should be immune to this kind of treatment — Brooks, who is pro-choice and pro-gay marriage, who is never wild-eyed and rarely dogmatic. | | | The absurdity of this line of argument should be self-evident. |
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http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14734
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| | Obsidian Wings: David Brooks: Wrong On The Debates, Wrong On Morality |
| | It's not even that he is a shill for the Republican Party, in a kind of "looks reasonable on the face of it but makes no sense upon further inspection" defence... | | | Brooks has obviously meet neither lest he would not make such a simile. | | | Bush sometimes acts as if it's enough for a president to profess his faith. |
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http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/10/david_brooks_wr.html
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| | David Brooks By David Plotz |
| | He is the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. | | | In the 1980s, when the British-born David Hockney achieved fame in the United States, his paintings... | | | Brooks, whose national-greatness ethos lent more energy to the war than anything his colleagues have written, will neither embrace the war, nor disown it, nor even look it square in the face. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2102382
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| | Michelle Malkin: DAVID BROOKS, SWAMP THING |
| | O'REILLY: I have stated my case as best I can. | | | DAVID BROOKS: I'm going to be a healer of the breach between Bill O'Reilly and "The New York Times." Let me tell you what I have learned since going to "The Times." I have an ideology. | | | (He was, after all, just trying to sell his book.) But O'Reilly couldn't even get Brooks to agree on the most egregious cases of the Times' lefty proclivities. |
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http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000126.htm
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| | JOLLYBLOGGER: David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan and John Stott |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference David Brooks, Andrew Sullivan and John Stott: | | | In reading some of the more leftist blogs it seems that they believe that anyone who is a conservative or a Christian is, by default, an intolerant bigot, and has, by default, some kind of nefarious political agenda. | | | Unless Merriam-Webster is hopelessly wrong, a bigot is someone "obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices" not just someone who has a biased view or who simply finds an action or lifestyle morally wrong. |
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http://jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger/2004/12/david_brooks_an.html
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| | Ezra Klein: Exhibit A in the Case Against Brooks |
| | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Exhibit A in the Case Against Brooks: | | | So to sum up: Republicans are too deliciously fantastic for their own good, Democrats are gutter dwellers who hate the common man, and I'm David Brooks, that rare columnist with the courage to criticize both parties. | | | The Republican party, he'd like us to know, is a great party full of transformational thinkers and lofty idealism and a creamy nougat center. |
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http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/exhibit_a_in_th.html
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| | When David Brooks spun Kerry's dough, he offered a piece of--gulp!--fiction |
| | MOST LIKELY, BROOKS WAS JUST JOKING: Does it matter if Brooks makes up these facts? | | | And then you have the Democrats, the so-called party of the people, who won’t nominate a guy unless his family had an upper-deck berth on the Mayflower. | | | BROOKS: Most Democrats have trouble affording one home, so when they search for a leader who shares their values, of course they nominate a guy who is running for his sixth. |
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| | FREEwilliamsburg: David Brooks is a Playa Hata |
| | Reproduction of material found on FREEwilliamsburg without written permission is strictly prohibited. | | | Posted by: Hayta Hayta at November 15, 2005 03:59 PM David Brooks was also part of the crowd back in the early 90's who thought the Beach Boys were too subversive for Pa Bush's innaugural. | | | He shouldn't even be allowed to pontificate on sub-cultures he has never taken the time to learn about. |
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http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/archives/2005/11/david_brooks_is.html
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| | Eschaton |
| | The tally for all the justices appears below. | | | One conclusion our data suggests is that those justices often considered more ''liberal'' -- Justices Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens -- vote least frequently to overturn Congressional statutes, while those often labeled ''conservative'' vote more frequently to do so. | | | It's an affront to the United States of America!" Turning sorrowful, he vowed that "for the next year and a half, I can't trust Senator Reid." |
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| | David Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | David Brooks, (1756-1838), US politician, Representative to the Fifth United States Congress | | | David Brooks, conservative commentator for The New York Times and other publications. | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks
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| | David Brooks (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a columnist for The New York Times who has become one of the prominent voices of conservative politics in the United States. | | | Brooks describes himself as being originally a liberal. | | | Brooks also writes articles and makes television appearances as a commentator on various trends in pop culture, such as internet dating. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brooks_(journalist)
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| | Online NewsHour: David Brooks, Tom Oliphant and Clarence Page Discuss the Week Following Hurricane Katrina -- September ... |
| | DAVID BROOKS: But to reiterate the point I made earlier, which is this is the anti-9/11, just in terms of public confidence, when 9/11 happened Giuliani was right there and just as a public presence, forceful -- no public presence like that now. | | | In recent years Louisiana politicians have been trying to raise the alarm a little bit about the situation but the fact of the matter is in allowing public policy to serve private interest as opposed to the public interest, there is no partisan responsibility. | | | DAVID BROOKS: This is -- first of all it is a national humiliation to see bodies floating in a river for five days in a major American city. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/political_wrap/july-dec05/bop_9-2.html
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| | AlterNet: David Brooks, Journalist and Hack |
| | Brooks may believe that Clinton "debased the presidency and disillusioned a generation of young people," as he wrote a few years ago. | | | The coming political era, Brooks posited, was one of suburb v. | | | Brooks the Hack spent his formative years at The Wall Street Journal's famously kooky and fact-challenged editorial page, for which he wrote "editorial features," the Journal's term for axe-grinding reportage that sidesteps the paper's famously demanding news pages and, indeed, frequently contradicts what is published there. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story/19024
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| | To David Brooks I would like to say that those of us who live without God and who believe in a secular state find the most eloquent "quotation," if you will, to be the United States Constitution itself, which simply makes no mention of God whatsoever. | | | David Brooks: But that's part of my point, which is that there are certain assumptions about the way the world works, and that 9/11 violated such an inherited assumption. | | | In terms of class analysis, it's not one's absolute situation that matters so much as one's expectations or ambitions. |
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http://www.eppc.org/printVersion/print_pub.asp?pubID=1608
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| | Online NewsHour: Historians--January 14, 1999 |
| | DAVID BROOKS: I agree and I think Doris raises the right point that it was not only the Republicans pushing this but the White House and the White House continuing. | | | Sensenbrenner, James Sensenbrenner went through and then he offered six, seven, eight, nine opportunities or so that the president had that he said at least the president could have prevented this and he didn't do it, he didn't do it, he didn't do it. | | | Presidential historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, and author/journalist Haynes Johnson are joined by David Brooks, senior editor of the Weekly Standard, to discuss the historical import of the Senate impeachment trial. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june99/historians_1-14.html
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| | Brooks on Clearing the Air |
| | In fact, under President Bush's policies, the United States is leading the world in initiatives to curb the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the development of new energy technologies that will also reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. | | | David Brooks ("Clearing the Air," column, April 20) suggests that the Bush administration "could have moved aggressively to find another way forward" when it became clear that the Kyoto treaty to limit greenhouse gas emissions "was never going to be ratified by the Senate." | | | For Cleaner Air in the Land of the Free (3 Letters) |
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http://www.sonoma.edu/users/s/swijtink/teaching/philosophy_101/Councils/brooks.htm
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| | The State News - www.statenews.com |
| | David Brooks, a renowned political journalist, told students and faculty that the culture wars have calmed in the United States at a lecture on Wednesday in the Kellogg Center Auditorium. | | | Brooks spoke about experiences he gained while writing the book “Bobos in Paradise,&; which is a study of the new upper-middle class. | | | Political journalist David Brooks uses a map of voting results from this past Presidential election during his lecture on the social and economic changes between generations Wednesday night at the Kellogg Center. |
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http://www.statenews.com/article.phtml?pk=2263
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| | washingtonpost.com: A Dislike Unlike Any Other? |
| | But, he admits, "I wish I'd been more critical during the Clinton years. | | | In this view, the party doesn't need milquetoast Democrats who blur their differences with Bush as much as two-fisted candidates ready to punch him out. | | | David Brooks, the former Weekly Standard writer who recently became a New York Times columnist, took vigorous exception to Chait's piece, writing that "the quintessential new warrior scans the Web for confirmation of the president's villainy. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46805-2003Oct18?language=printer
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| | OxBlog |
| | Earlier this week, I agreed with David Brooks that the success of American-backed elections in the midst of the Salvadoran civil war suggests that similar elections can work in Iraq. | | | The Democrats, along with almost all journalists and scholars, dismissed the election as a farce that subverted democratic principles while aggravating El Salvador's civil war. | | | On a related note, another fact that Brooks might have pointed out if he had more space was that the democratization of El Salvador facilitated the end of its horrific civil war. |
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| | Steve Sailer: iSteve.com Blog Archives: Numbers Count |
| | Tough enforcement laws make us feel good but they don't do the job. | | | He feels his wages are stagnating because he has to compete against illegal immigrants. | | | According to the Law of Supply and Demand, his wages are stagnating because he's facing a larger supply of competitors. |
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http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/08/numbers-count.html
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| | Eric Umansky: What is David Brooks Smoking? |
| | David Brooks has a curious column this morning on Iraq. | | | The Bush administration has such a stellar record on that mark. | | | Sure, David, because why shouldn't we all have confidence that the government is keeping no important info hidden? |
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http://www.ericumansky.com/2005/06/what_is_david_b.html
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| | Well Known Residents |
| | After his death, one friend of his from school said "We used to meet at St. Davids Station to take the train to school, and half the time he wouldn't be there. | | | Brooks is best known, at least locally, for his 2000 book "Bobo's in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There." In this book he uses how Wayne has changed over the years as an example of the book's main point. | | | His lifetime enthusiasm for aviation did in his Haverford School career, for he often skipped school to learn to fly. |
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http://www.waynepa.com/history/wellknown
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| | BOOK TV.ORG |
| | She is currently chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. | | | David Brooks is a political journalist who writes a bi-weekly Op-Ed column for The New York Times. | | | Both authors answer questions from the audience after the discussion. |
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http://www.booktv.org/General/index.asp?segID=5182&schedID=314
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| | Yale Bulletin and Calendar |
| | Journalist and social commentator David Brooks (right) talks with students in a class on cultural criticism during his visit as a Poynter Fellow. | | | Journalist and social critic David Brooks is trying to figure out what it means to be American. | | | There was no sense that people should be harshly judgmental" of others, the journalist said. |
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http://www.yale.edu/opa/v30.n9/story4.html
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| | BBC SPORT WORLD CUP Other News World Cup of legends |
| | You may not agree with all of his selections. | | | Brooks profiles some of the greatest players and includes reports of real-life World Cup clashes that might have some bearing on his fictional match-ups. | | | Scotland and the Republic of Ireland are given their chance to shine, but there is no room for Ryan Giggs' Wales or George Best's Northern Ireland. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/other_news/newsid_1934000/1934769.stm
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| | Judy Woodruff, David Brooks to Teach Courses at Duke |
| | Brooks said the core question in his course will be: What do liberal and conservative mean anymore, if anything? | | | The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy encourages democratic media policies and practices around the world through research, education, policy development and professional training. | | | Both journalists’ courses have limited enrollment, and students will be selected based on a short essay written in response to a query posed by the visiting professor. |
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http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/03/brooks_woodruff_print.htm
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| | City Arts & Lectures |
| | Journalist David Brooks was born in New York City to liberal academics who taught him to "think Yiddish, act British." When he was four, his parents took him to a "be-in" in Central Park where hippies were tossing their wallets into a burning garbage can. | | | According to Brooks, these hippie capitalists are thriving economically in the information age and spending their money on sub-zero refrigerators, gourmet coffee, and vegetarian dog food while listening to NPR. | | | David Brooks's bestseller, Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, is an astute and humorous analysis of the 1990s American elite who have oddly merged two sets of values: bourgeois and bohemian. |
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| | For the Record: The continuing saga of David Brooks, journalist impersonator |
| | Congressman Tom Cole implies that a vote for Kerry is a vote for Bin Laden » | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The continuing saga of David Brooks, journalist impersonator: | | | Posted by Jessica Wilson at 10:38 AM in NY Times Watch |
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http://wilsonhellie.typepad.com/for_the_record/2004/03/the_disgraceful.html
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | He's a journalist now who covers wars for a Canadian paper. | | | DAVID BROOKS, COLUMNIST, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": You've got to have a political strategy and you've got to have a military strategy. | | | We talked to him today, asking him, after his experience, being kidnapped, if he would ever go back. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/23/asb.00.html
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| | antigravitas |
| | So, I have never quite forgiven NYT columnist David Brooks for the shoddy journalism that led him to misrepresent my college and my generation in this article ("The Organization Kid," Atlantic Monthly, April 2001). | | | I just think that he takes solid premises a little too far sometimes to develop really whack conclusions. | | | One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. |
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http://www.antigravitas.com/2004/11/im-not-writing-off-david-brooks.html
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| | Kevin Featherly |
| | Kevin Featherly, a former managing editor at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, is a Minnesota journalist who covers politics and technology. | | | It is those fears, those prejudices, that indignation that the White House press secretary recently fed upon when he twisted Newsweek's arm to the point of snapping, calling for more cries of uncle even after the story had been--probably quite properly--retracted. | | | And I know about liberals in the media. |
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| | Off the Cuff on WFPL |
| | David Brooks is a political journalist and "comic sociologist" who writes a bi-weekly Op-Ed column for The New York Times. | | | May 29, 2004 - Journalist David France on the Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandals | | | The author of the acclaimed bestseller "Bobos in Paradise," which hilariously described upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. |
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| | NPR : Slate's Assessment: David Brooks' Weak 'NYT' Editorials |
| | Slate Washington, D.C., bureau chief David Plotz finds Brooks' editorials weak. | | | More 'Slate' Features Heard on 'Day to Day' | | | Day to Day, June 23, 2004 · Conservative journalist David Brooks has a twice-a-week column in The New York Times. |
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| | Poynter Online - Romenesko |
| | Later, though, Brooks said: “If I thought my source was putting a CIA agent’s life at risk, I’d burn him." ANDERSEN OBSERVES: "If life is like high school with money, the Ideas Festival was the MENSA-and- Model-Congress-at-summer-camp extension of that trope. | | | Your daily fix of media industry news, commentary, and memos. | | | Brooks: "Bush administration is even boring off the record" |
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=85463
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| | Making It |
| | I'd heard about all this, but I've been struck by how many young women will come up to me--a journalist who has been known to write about | | | And then, of course, they sometimes hook up for sex. |
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| | AIJAC - Ceasefire prospects analysis |
| | Robert Satloff, executive director of The Washington Institute, and David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, addressed The Washington Institute’s Policy Forum on June 14, 2001, upon their return from a journalists’ study tour to Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. | | | First is a forum at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy where senior journalist David Brooks and Institute head Dr. Robert Satloff discuss their impressions and conclusions from a recent Middle East study tour. | | | Next is a Jerusalem Post column from Dr. Gerald Steinberg, in which he discusses the pros and cons of the strong CIA role, via George Tenet, in the latest ceasefire agreement. |
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| | Dave Cullen -- Journalist & Author of Upcoming Columbine Book |
| | In a superb piece in Slate magazine, Dave Cullen reveals the conclusions of the lead F.B.I. investigator, Dwayne Fuselier, as well as of the Michigan State psychiatrist Frank Ochberg and others who studied the Columbine shootings. | | | I usually send the newsletter a few times a year. | | | A Lasting Impression On The World: The Definitive Account of Columbine and its Aftermath will be the first comprehensive book published on the massacre by a prominent journalist. |
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| | Word Spy - David Brooks |
| | A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by. | | | Posted on August 17, 1998 at 6:09 AM | | | —David Brooks, American writer and journalist, Bobos In Paradise, 2000 |
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| | EconoPundit |
| | The pre-Bush conservatives will try to go back to the libertarianism and social conservatism of 1995. | | | If you want a glimpse of that future, read the speech David Cameron gave earlier this month, which electrified the British Conservative Party conference. | | | Cameron has learned the essential lessons of Bushism. |
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http://www.econopundit.com/archive/2005_10_01_econopundit_archive.html
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| | Zompist's Rant Page |
| | But when patients die in the hospital, there is no place to put them, so they're in the stairwells. | | | It is one of the most unbelievable situations I've seen as a doctor, certainly as a journalist as well. | | | And the questions keep getting asked even after the disaster itself is taken care of. |
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| | Disinformation :: David Brooks: Reimagining Intelligence |
| | They relied on their knowledge of history, literature, philosophy, and theology to recognize social patterns and grasp emerging trends. | | | Writers like Jane Jacobs, Louis Hartz, Daniel Bell, and David Riesman produced sweeping books on American society and global affairs. |
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