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February 24, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Sally Quinn’s ‘Party’ column dropped from print: Shades of LBJ’s Hoover surprise for her husband?

LBJ was about to replace J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director when word leaked to Newsweek. So what did the

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February 22, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Sally Quinn wedding feud: Don’t fire Ms. Quinn — turn her ‘at large’

My “Don’t fire” headline is for the benefit of out-of-towners. As a close friend of the Grahams, the owning family

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February 20, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Rexwood Garst and the darker side of ‘meritocracy’ in journalism, politics and other fields

In The Solomon Scandals, I have a little fun with a hyperspecialized Yalie named Rexwood Garst, a reporter at a

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January 24, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Truth or PR spin? W. Post’s Dana Milbank fires back at TNR’s ‘Apocalypse’ analysis of L Street

Firing back at the New Republic’s Gabriel Sherman, Dana Milbank at the Washington Post is spot on when he says

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January 20, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Three ways to save the Washington Post: A few ‘Post Apocalypse’ musings from Alexandria

My old friend used to handle some PR matters for a union in Northern Virginia, and people still pick his

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January 16, 2010 Charles Smith / Washington area life

‘Conversations with Papa Charlie’ book review: Thumbs up—and toes, relax

The Schmidoffs’ windmill burned down in 1908 in Lipnick, Russia. An upshot was a real estate empire half a planet

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January 15, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Bible of newspaper biz reincarnated under new owner, Duncan McIntosh

Good news: Editor & Publisher, the bible of the newspaper business, is back from the dead and will be published

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January 13, 2010 Charles Smith / Washington area life

‘Papa Charlie’ book review is still set for this week, Jefferson quote included

The review of Conversations with Papa Charlie is still set for this week—most likely Thursday or Friday—along with some related

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January 11, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

TheGeorgetownDish is eying D.C. suburbs—plus Greenwich, Palm Beach, other upscale markets

So what’s ahead for TheGeorgetownDish—the new Web-based newspaper in the D.C. neighborhood where so many high-powered media types live? How

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