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Walter Cronkite

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    April 4, 2012

    Voice Columnist Nat Hentoff Honored As One Of 100 Outstanding Journalists Of Last 100 Years

    Congratulations are in order for longtime Voice columnist Nat Hentoff, who was honored yesterday as one of the 100 outstanding journalists of the last 100 years by New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.Hentoff's column has appeared in the Voice for more than 50 years. Unlike ma ... More >>

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    January 10, 2012

    Obama Admin Okays Monitoring of Reporters? No, No, Says Homeland Security Flack

    The web is abuzz today with reports that the Department of Homeland Security has approved collecting of personal information from television anchors, news reporters, bloggers, and anyone else who uses social media. The so-called Media Monitoring Initiative allows the government to keep data on peop ... More >>

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    October 6, 2011

    Who In History Would You Like To Interview?

    At a Friars Club tribute to Bob Woodruff the other night, a panel of TV journalists was asked that very question. One replied Sandy Koufax because the famed pitcher was so inspirational and also has never talked much to press, so it would be a big "get."

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    March 26, 2011

    New Generation of D.C. Pundits Reading Comic Books, Using Newfangled Internet

    ​The D.C. political reporter is a changing animal. It's using the Internet to get ahead instead of clawing its way towards a column on the Washington Post's op-ed page; it has lived in "squalid houses" and read comic books; sometimes it drinks beer out of cans or even jars! As iconoclastic as it m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    The Huffington Post Didn't Steal Anything Except Your Labor and Content, Unfortunately

    ​It would be very easy to root against the liberal cleavage emporium, occasionally news-breaking, mostly news-aggregating behemoth The Huffington Post, whose most popular articles currently include "PHOTOS: Jennifer Love Hewitt In A Bikini" and something called "WATCH: The Wrong Way To Install ... More >>

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    July 26, 2010

    One Giant Leap for Mankind -- in Central Park

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 24, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 41 The Age of Lunacy On a Muddy Meadow by Steve Lerner The Moon-In on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park last Sunday night came off as the world's largest outdoor multi-media program. Vying for spectator pop ... More >>

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    June 13, 2010

    Retrospective: Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor and People's Champ, Steps Down

    ​Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times -- charged with trying "to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards" -- published his final column Sunday. Hoyt, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning editor reporter became the third man to hold the ombudsman position in 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Rachel Uchitel Story Loses Sex, Gains 9/11, Outrage

    ​Our esteemed colleague Ward Harkavy is correct that there are no authoritative accounts of sex between Rachel Uchitel and Tiger Woods at this writing, under the Post headline or anywhere else. Happily for journalists, there is a 9/11 angle. Uchitel lost her fiance, banker Andy O'Grady, in the ... More >>

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    September 14, 2009

    Clip Job: Dylan Meets the Press

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 25, 1965, Vol. X, No. 23Dylan Meets the PressBy J.R. GoddardFour years ago a thin, aquiline-faced boy of 19 got off the subway from Hibbing, Minnesota, to come up for air in the Village, bearing with him no more than a battered guita ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

    ​ Dancers from InSpirit beckon passers-by to enter a new store on Broadway near 13th Street. Labor Day, with its West Indian American Day Parade, was the high point of the week. The low point was, let's see... the rest of it. 9/11 was a popular topic. It was oddly related to a Twitter Festiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Bits of the Walter Cronkite Memorial Service

    ​At the star-studded Walter Cronkite tribute at Lincoln Center today, Tom Brokaw leaned on the comedy, recalling a call he received from Cronkite. Didn't recognize the voice at first. "Who is this? It's Walter Cronkite, for God's sake! How soon they forget!" His stories about Cronkite's wife ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 18, 2009

    Blind Items About Raw Sex and Meth Habits!

    Your guess is not as good as mine. But go ahead and try.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

      Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Cronkite Funeral Held in New York

     Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite's funeral was held today at St. Bartolomew's on Park Avenue. (The former CBS anchor passed on Friday at the age of 92.) As expected, the services were attended by celebrity newspeople and well as family and friends, and ended New-Orleans style with "When The S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Walter Cronkite Loved The Gays

    "Walter Cronkite was my friend and mentor," wites Philadelphia Gay News editor Mark Segal in an editorial. The two first encountered each other in 1973, when Segal ran in front of a camera during Cronkite's news broadcast, holding a sign that said "Gays Protest CBS Prejudice." "After that incident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009

    This is how they did big-time TV news in 1973: Getting the story however it came in -- phone, telex, slips of paper, whatever -- and dishing it out as quick as you could. Walter Cronkite, who passed away today at 92, had a lot of practice at it. He dropped out of college during the Depression to t ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 14, 2009

    Bloomberg Leads Yankees in Steals

    Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Clinton Global Initiative: Sweet, The Press!

    Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team

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    May 2, 2008

    Going for Broke

    Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2007

    Blast from Past: Rove and Rather in '72

    Scoreboards and other trinkets given to baseball's richest team

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    January 16, 2007

    That's Dough Way It Is

    A new thin-crust pizza flourishes on the DL

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    August 1, 2006

    Stump the Trump

    The Donald crows about a big tower for Soho. Activists would like to shut him up.

  • Film

    March 21, 2006

    Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts

    The Donald crows about a big tower for Soho. Activists would like to shut him up.

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    October 26, 2004

    Bin Laden's Bid

    From terrorist mastermind to savvy statesman, in one easy video

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    October 19, 2004

    GOP Target: Terry Anderson

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    September 28, 2004

    NY Mirror

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    September 7, 2004

    Close-Up on Turtle Bay

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    November 11, 2003

    NY Mirror

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    September 30, 2003

    NY Mirror

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    May 29, 2001

    Dream of a Worldwide Truce

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    February 15, 2000

    Don’t Touch That Dial

    Cronkite Endorses Site for Socially Conscious Press Critics

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    September 28, 1999

    Professional Sidekick

    Cronkite Endorses Site for Socially Conscious Press Critics

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