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June 3, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / Media / Washington area life

‘Conde Nast Maidens’ vs. grubby defense workers as terrorist bait

Terrorists must love the Quarter Pentagon, aka BRAC-133, just off I-395 here in Alexandria, Virginia. We’re talking about 6,400 defense

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October 21, 2010 Media / Washington area life

Washington Post iPad app due by year’s end: Slate-ish layout someday?

If I ruled the world and the Washington Post, you would have been able to read the paper on a

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September 10, 2010 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Don’t just worry about ‘books,’ Jack—worry about libraries, indie stores, e-formats and DRM

Jack Shafer, the Slate “Press Box” columnist, is mourning the “fallen status” of the traditional paper book, which he thinks

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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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September 18, 2009 GSA / The Solomon Scandals

‘The Solomon Scandals’ vs. Dan Brown’s latest, ‘The Lost Symbol’: Same city, different books

Tip: You can add us to your RSS feeds and receive free updates like this one. Dan Brown’s new bestseller,

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March 29, 2009 Media

Slate press guy vs. hype about newspapers as saviors of democracy

Mencken (photo) loved newspapering. But he did his best to be impervious to the industry ballyhoo, and I think he’d

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