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Brian Boyd reads the NY Times

A flash of Paper Round style genius from Kevin Breathnach of the Disillusioned Lefties as he compares and contrasts The Irish Times article on the death of fancy-dan theorist Jean Baudrillard to the one printed in the NY Times. It seems Brian Boyd from the Times (Irish) has a writing style similar to that of Patricia Cohen of the Times (NY). This post was influenced by Bloggorah and Disillusioned Lefty.

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Baby Steps

Baby Foot Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Posting will be light for the next while, as we have a new houseguest. I'll be checking in and reading what you might have to say in comments, and have a few time released posts lined up.

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Sold! The Irish Times Property Supplement

The Irish Times of 22nd February 2007 took 17 pages to get to the Editorials and Letters. Beyond this high tide mark the paper of record breaks down into what may be described as special interest ghettos- Business, Sport, Law Reports, Listing and Classifieds.

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Trevor Sargent’s Conference Speech as tag cloud

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Astonishing Stories of Depravity

An excellent post here by Suzy Byrne, on last week’s coverage of an alleged paedophile ring. I wasn’t really paying much attention to the news for the past few days, so consequently took the story at more or less face value, insofar as I thought of it at all.

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Rare Links: Carbon Trading or Taxing?

Tuppenceworth doesn't usually link for the sake of it. But today's short, easy to understand explanation of the consequences of taxing Carbon emissions as opposed to establishing a quota and trade system by Alex Klemm of The Progressive Gardener is a model essay.

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Libby Jury Loses Only Intelligent Member

It seems that one of the jurors in the Scooter Libby case in Washington has been dismissed due to exposure over the weekend to media trial coverage. Fair enough, you can’t be too careful when a man's liberty is at stake.

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Prangle: Quare Name But Great Stuff?

Prangle. ie (this urban dictionary definition notwithstanding) is a press release service recently launched by a former Sunday Times journalist, Douglas Dalby. It promises to make sense of the hundreds of press releases that daily issue forth from agencies, and target them specifically to the needs of the each journo’s particular beat.

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Election 07: What do PR people think?

If you're working in PR, an election can mean a shower of extra work- if you can persuade a politician or political party that you have a particular insight. Bear this in mind when you throw your eye over "It's the economy stupid", a post from PR firm Edelman (they of the questionable PR). The article begins by telling us that the economy has been taken for granted by the electorate.

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