In his element
Date: 2/4/2010
By:
Gerard Matthews
Last Friday, President Obama stood in front of GOP house members and took questions for 90 minutes -- unfiltered, unscripted. It terms of political theatre, it was fascinating. For the president, it was an outright success.
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Married at the D-G
Date: 1/21/2010
By:
Gerard Matthews
It's hard to tell from the bylines, but the newsroom at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is full of married couples. There are the obvious, the similarly-last-named Schnedlers, Storeys and Smiths. Then there's C.S. Murphy and Seth Blomeley, Noel Oman and Cynthia Howell and others.
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In-kind contribution?
Date: 12/17/2009
By:
Gerard Matthews
It was a shock to some in the media community when, one week ago, word came that Arkansas News Bureau columnist David Sanders would be going to work as campaign manager for Stanley Reed, the latest Republican challenger to Sen. Blanche Lincoln.
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Droid changes life
Date: 12/3/2009
By:
Gerard Matthews
I'm a Luddite. My friends mockingly refer to me as Matlock because I cannot perform the most basic of technological functions and react to new advances in tech gadgetry in about the same manner as a typical 80 year-old man might - grumpily.
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The only game in town
Date: 11/19/2009
By:
Gerard Matthews
For Hog fans, the local news, including print and broadcast media, is literally a feast of information and analysis on the latest Razorback performance, be it a glorious triumph or an embarrassing defeat.
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Tweets in contempt
Date: 11/5/2009
By:
Gerard Matthews
Last February, the use of Twitter in the courtroom was ruled legal by U.S. District Judge Thomas Marten of Wichita, Kan. "Twitter is on," he told attorneys in the case.
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Half Nielsen
Date: 9/24/2009
By:
Gerard Matthews
We always hear about television ratings but very few of us actually understand how that information is collected.
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