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Yesterday, Smudged Newsprint’s “Media Nation” column, written by Dan Kennedy, an assistant professor Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, took on The New Haven Register for the Connecticut paper’s decision to run an online poll on the “hottest” female television personality. (We’d link you to it, but, as of this morning, the URL for the poll [...]

In many respects, PBS’ NewsHour With Jim Lehrer is the anti-cable news show. Media Nation’s Dan Kennedy is blunt in his assessment of it: “There is absolutely no need for a serious newscast to be that boring. NPR has hit on a formula that’s intelligent but also keeps things moving.”

The smartest thing I read last night on Twitter was by Dan Kennedy. He wrote this: Does anyone really believe the nonsense that any election is a referendum on Obama? Here’s the referendum on Obama: 11/6/2012. It’s an easy headline, I know, and so tempting on this, the one-year anniversary of Obama’s history-making hope-bringing win [...]

Two weeks after its creation, @FakeAPStylebook has netted more than 38,000 Twitter followers, 2,415 list mentions, and may soon have a book deal. It helps to be funny, particularly to AP-embittered journalists. For instance: “All mentions of the band Dokken should be followed by the parenthetical aside ‘(rhymes with ROCKIN’).’”