The Brian Lehrer Show

Cyber Salon

Thursday, December 23, 2004

If 2003 was the year blogs burst onto the scene, 2004 was the year they became respectable. Today, the scribes behind Wonkette, Pressthink, and Powerline (Time magazine’s first-ever blog of the year) share their thoughts on journalism’s most untamed frontier.

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How Long Has This Been Going On?

Jay Price, staff writer for the Raleigh, NC News & Observer, has the details on the first known case of an Iraqi murdered by a US serviceman
» "Guardsman killed Iraqi after sex" in the Raleigh News & Observer

Widespread Abuse?

R. Jeffrey Smith, staff writer for the Washington Post, says new documents show abuse in Iraq and Guantanamo was more widespread than previously thought
» "New Papers Suggest Detainee Abuse Was Widespread" in the Washington Post

Elegy for a Friend

Wayne Barrett, Senior Editor at the Village Voice, and Author, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic Books, 2001) and City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York (Harpercollins, 1988), remembers journalist Jack Newfield
» The Village Voice

Open Phones

your calls on charitable giving and their person of the year

Cyber Salon

Scott Johnson, an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis, fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute, and co-writer of Powerline, explains how he helped brake the fake National Guard documents story
» Powerline
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Ana Marie Cox, writes Wonkette, gives her snarky take on being sassy
» Wonkette
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Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at New York University, writes Pressthink, speculates on the future of blogs
» Pressthink