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Police Question Father of Kidnapped Girl

6ABC reports the father of a girl kidnapped this week from a West Philadelphia elementary school has been questioned by police. The girl was found, […]

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Why Is the Daily News Naming the 5-Year-Old Kidnapping Victim?

On Monday night, police issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old girl who was abducted that morning from an elementary school in West Philadelphia. Her […]

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Q&A: I Asked Dan Gross to Tell Me What His Awesome New Job Is

Earlier today, Daily News gossip columnist Dan Gross announced via email that he has taken a buyout and will be leaving the newspaper on February […]

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Daily News’ Dan Gross Resigns, Takes Buyout [UPDATED]

If you depend on Daily News gossip columnist Dan Gross for your updates on who’s getting divorced, what celebrity was seen at Parc and which […]

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The Atlantic Publishes, Unpublishes “Sponsored Content” From Church of Scientology

Advertorial happens, but it doesn’t always happen with the country’s most controversial church. Maybe that’s why journalists on Monday night took notice of a Scientology-sponsored […]

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Meet the Press’s David Gregory Being Investigated for Gun Stunt

If David Gregory is in favor of stronger gun control, as I suspect most of the mainstream media is, he’s not helping his own case. […]

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Richard Ben Cramer, Who Won Pulitzer at Inky, Is Dead

Richard Ben Cramer, widely regarded as one of the best political correspondents of his time, died Monday of cancer. The journalist won a Pulitzer in […]

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Buzz Bissinger Leaves 1210 AM Gig

Less than six months after launching a new career in talk radio with an afternoon-drive show on 1210 AM WPHT in Philadelphia, outspoken Friday Night […]

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Philadelphia Journalism That Mattered in 2012

For all the kvetching about the future of Philadelphia journalism that took place during 2012—a perpetual condition, it must be confessed—there was also a lot […]

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Rick Santorum Gives Up Entirely on the Mainstream, Writes for WND

Rick Santorum is running out of respectable gigs. When he lost his Senate seat to Bob Casey a few years back, he started writing columns […]

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AUDIO: Michael Smerconish Dissed by Led Zeppelin at Press Conference

On Tuesday morning, I emailed 1210-AM radio host Michael Smerconish about the Barbra Streisand concert at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. His response: “Sorry […]

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Daily News and Inquirer Staffers Offered Buyouts

Less than a week after learning that several Inquirer reporters of a certain age had been reassigned to other geographic areas, with full-time theater critic […]

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Inky Forcing Out the Over-50 Crowd to Hire Younger, Cheaper Reporters?

Late yesterday, longtime Philadelphia Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro found out that he’s been reassigned … to South Jersey. The 64-year-old Wyncote resident isn’t the […]

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Iron Hill’s Bob Barrar Birthday Celebration

Next Thursday, September 27th celebrate Iron Hill Brewery’s most decorated head brewer Bob Barrar’s birthday bash (say that ten times fast) with Dark Humor Rising, […]

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Obama Gets Letterman, Mitt Gets Burned

In a few hours President Barack Obama will trade jokes on the set with David Letterman and then head off to a fundraiser with Jay […]