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November 24, 2009 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Wash. Post killing off domestic news bureaus: D.C. ‘prism’ better than the full story?

The Washington Telegram, the daily in The Solomon Scandals, is where good stories so often go to die—for example, the

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November 13, 2009 Media

Should the New York Times ditch its sports section?

In The Solomon Scandals, Jon Stone reflects on sports team preferences as an indicator of character. George McWilliams, the executive

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November 9, 2009 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Should Web sites bossed by ad agencies replace your daily newspaper someday?

The CEO of giant WPP Group—a global ad-agency holding company with major financial firepower and a fondness for acquisitions—complains of

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November 6, 2009 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Ad biz’s Gordon Gekko sees lines blurring between news and ads—and WANTS news biz to shrink

Sy Solomon the imaginary real estate tycoon is pals with the imaginary George McWilliams, executive editor of the imaginary Washington

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November 3, 2009 Media

Fisticuff in the Washington Post’s newsroom: And here you thought ‘Scandals’ was only a NOVEL?

Henry Allen, a Pulitzer Prize winner in his late 60s, punched the face of feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia—right there in

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October 22, 2009 Media

I meet the grandson of Upton Sinclair’s private secretary—and reflect on today’s super-rich: Just like Sinclair’s 1908 book?

I’d written the October 19th post—on The Money Changers, the 1908 Upton Sinclair classic—just before I mentioned it to Ted

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October 19, 2009 Media / Politicians

Free Upton Sinclair classic tells how Wall Street manipulators can cheat the rest of us

Sy Solomon’s specialty is ripping off the taxpayers—through shoddy construction practices in an IRS-occupied building and other projects. If, however,

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October 7, 2009 Media

Tribune Company execs act like thieves in Scandals

Jon Stone, the reporter in The Solomon Scandals, wouldn’t just be investigating major financial crimes outside his newspaper if he

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September 26, 2009 Charles Smith / Media / Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

D.C.’s power lunchrooms: Then and now

The Solomon Scandals mentions the Sans Souci, where so many members of the D.C. elite plotted and dined. In real life

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