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There are many terrible jobs to be had at the Democratic National Convention: the trash Nazis who patrol the garbage cans making sure recyclables don’t get tossed into the forbidden “landfill” bin; the elevator operators trapped in plywood-lined boxes eight hours a day pushing buttons for angry media people; and the pitiable youngsters stuck managing the byzantine and comically nonsensical credentials process. But today we have discovered one even more thankless job: the PR flack who has to write to bloggers on satirical Web sites and explain to them how they have gotten the “facts” wrong. Tragic email after the jump. MORE »

Whatever detente Wonkette may have had with the dinguses at the Washington Times is over after this little display on Sunday. The Times clumsily opened its commentary doors to a Paultard who — in strict accordance to the Paultard ethos — complains about everything with which he doesn’t agree. He lists Wonkette among those detractors who “have it exactly backward,” and claims that we use a certain insensitive word to describe them — but not Paultards. No, this word is far, far more mature and less offensive to the human condition. We’re pissed. MORE »

We salute nationally-syndicated columnist Susan Estrich for her commitment to journalistic integrity, and her wholesale embracing of the new-media revolution that is sweeping away the tired old MSM. MORE »

Can you spot the error in the above paragraph? It’s the subject of one of our favorite Post corrections in ages (which we can’t find online yet, sorry): MORE »

Mistakes were made. MORE »

Waxing poetic in a newspaper article can be a dangerous thing — even for a rising star at the Post like Libby Copeland. MORE »

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If you’ll allow us to briefly venture into our loose-lipped sister’s territory, we found the New York Times’ choice of notoriously fact-handicapped TV critic Alessandra Stanley to review Tony Snow’s first televised press briefing a possibly ill-advised one. But it all seemed to work out, as the piece is fairly boilerplate and accurate. Fairly. There’s this, though: MORE »

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Slow news day so far — CNN is reporting on the prosecution of a German cannibal. So we bring you these two screen caps. This one’s from the New York Sun: MORE »