Mar
03
Mea Culpa Monday: The cat got their tongue edition
Joe Uchill Paper Cuts
Never say copy editors don’t have a sense of humor. They’re so funny that one editor has been fired and another suspended after a joke in California’s North County Times went haywire.
The two editors altered one word in an
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Feb
27
William F. Buckley dead at 82
Joe Uchill Paper CutsWilliam F. Buckley, the last conservative intellectual, has died at 82 from indeterminate causes. In all actuality, he'll be remembered as the guy who snarled "Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn f
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Feb
25
Mea Culpa Monday: the 'my bad' edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsUsually this space is reserved for mistakes other magazines make. This week, it’s a mistake I made. Once and for all: I'm sorry that I don’t feature more local celebrity nudity.
New York Magazine, the magazine whose mostly female readership h
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Feb
21
The real reason the McCain story was posted today
Joe Uchill Paper CutsStill wondering about that New York Times McCain piece leaving so much of the Vicki Iseman allegations up in the air? Want to know why it was innuendo heavy, and concrete-fact light?
So did Time:
"They did this because the The New Republic was going t
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Feb
19
Geraldo guest spits out tooth, 'toothless Fox News' pun complete
Joe Uchill Paper CutsIf you've never seen a disgraced former prosecutor spit out a tooth midsentence while talking to Geraldo, well, let's solve that right now. Jeanine Pirro - now a conservative pundit, then a tax evading, evidence withholding, keeping-a-dude-in-jail-15-year
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Feb
18
Mea Culpa Monday - Masters of Science in Journalism edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsI swear upon swearing that academics are very smart people, and it’s incredibly inappropriate for me to take childish delight at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Dean Nicholas Lemann accidentally sending his class a self evaluation rather than
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Feb
11
Mea Culpa Monday: $1 billion of schadenfreude edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsIf there’s one thing that America hates, it’s lawyers. Or prescription drug companies who jack up prices. Or me.
Nearly all three of those were embarrassed by the New York Times over the past two weeks, when Eli Lily law firmPepper Hamilton e
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Feb
07
Madison's Cap Times no longer a daily newspaper
Joe Uchill Paper CutsThe Capital Times, Madison's cutest, money-losingest daily newspaper has announced plans to stop printing every day. It brings the end to two eras - the 90 year run of the progressive rag, and the waiting for The Capital Times to finally, finally accept t
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Feb
05
Mea Culpa Super Tuesday: YoMomma Bin Barack edition
Joe Uchill Paper CutsWith the astute political climate that surrounds today's Super Tuesday everybody-but-Wisconsin's primary extravaganza, it's hard not to begin thinking about where your own vote might go. By now, you've read the endorsements: The Times (NY) went with McCai
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Jan
30
Mea Culpa Monday: Thursday Edition
Joe Uchill Paper Cuts
Last week’s holiday threw the Monday-ness of Mea Culpa Mondays
out of whack. Thanks a lot, Martin Luther King! We’re crawling back to
normalcy.
First they took our
factories, now they’ve taken our tremendous capacity for fraud
To v
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