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This Exists: Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate Seeks Running Mate On Craigslist

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Are you unemployed and a resident of Colorado? Great news! Jason Clark, Independent gubernatorial candidate and lover of exclamation points, has a job opening on his campaign. In order to make a proper run for the state’s top job, he needs a running mate—and he’s willing to interview anyone and everyone interested. That’s why he posted this advertisement in the “Government Jobs” section of the Denver Craigslist page, hoping to recruit a qualified candidate to round out his team.

Soundbite: Rachel Maddow Has Heard That Hooters Has “Awesome” Wings

On her show last night, Rachel Maddow reported on the too-weird-to-be-made-up link between Hooters, the Chamber of Commerce, and the health care debate. Maddow picked up on TPM’s reporting on both the controversy and the counterclaim of a Chamber of Commerce PR firm, which said that the campaign was actually orchestrated by someone else to make the Chamber look bad. But she also had a lot of fun making Hooters jokes:

Talking Points Memo Takes Flak for Anonymous Sources … All According to Plan

Yesterday afternoon, Talking Points Memo ran a story about the White House’s reaction to discussion of an opt-out clause in the Senate’s health care bill. But Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab noticed that TPM was taking an unusual amount of criticism for the story’s use of anonymous sources.

AP Publishes Reporter’s Notes About Roman Polanski Arrest Instead of News Copy

This morning the Associated Press joined Talking Points Memo and Gawker as practitioners of the ‘open notebook’ method of reporting — well, inadvertently. One reporter’s notes about the developing news of Roman Polanski‘s arrest were sent out on the wire instead of the text of his article and published online by the New York Times and Forbes.

All the News That’s Fit to Wiki? NYT to Open Source C.I.A. Report Research

Yesterday the Justice Department released a 2004 memo detailing abuses that took place inside the CIA’s overseas prisons. Shortly thereafter the NYT took the unusual step of posting the entire report in a document reader on its website and invited “readers to help us annotate and make sense of the new details.” Unusual for the Times, very much. Unusual for the Internet, not at all.

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