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360
: A beautiful 360-degree view of New Year’s on Times Square. Look up at the fall of ticker-rain.

Yes, Aaron Brown does bore the land
: Reese Schonfeld, a big deal former exec in cable news, praises FoxNews coverage of Iraq on his weblog and also gives us the hard evidence to support what we’ve all known all along: Aaron Brown puts us all to sleep:

I believe CNN degraded itself when Hussein was captured on December 14th. It seemed to me CNN was holding its own with Fox, the BBC and was a little bit ahead of MSNBC during the morning hours. Then Aaron Brown big-footed and big-mouthed his way on the air and anchored and interviewed his way through some of the dullest television I

Auditing tragedy
: The Coalition Provisional Authority releases its Mass Grave Strategy to identify the victims and compile the evidence of Saddam’s genocidal crimes.

: They should send Alternet a copy of the findings so that perhaps they reconsider and add deposing a mass-murdering tyrant to their list of good things that happened in 2003.

l’Americain
: Harry Stein goes to France to savor a little anti-Americanism:

At one point in my stay, an old friend, a French journalist, invited me to dine with her and her fianc

The blogger’s lament
: James Meigs, blogger (now that he has added links to his site) write a New Year’s blogger’s lament while the parties goes on downstairs:

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