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Quoted in 'How the FCC might stop the Comcast-NBC merger'

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:50:25 GMT

Michael Powell, appointed by Bush to be FCC chairman, likes to say 'the market is my religion' ... My conservative economic religion is founded on the rock of competition, which—since Teddy Roosevelt's day—has protected small business and consumers against predatory pricing leading to market monopolization... Republicans in the House, intimidated by the powerful broadcast lobby, don't admit that some regulation can be pro-business.

Architect Watch: Mies Down in Chicago; Zumthor Up in LA

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:58:51 GMT

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, left, accepting this year's Pritzker Prize in May from Tom Pritzker, chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago In the tradition of "nattering nabobs of negativism" (R.I.P. William Safire, who penned that phrase when he...
Source: ArtsJournal

Safire and Wednesday 10 knew social networks before the web

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:44:01 GMT

A few days after William Safire died on Sept. 27 of last year, a paid tribute to him appeared in The New York Times.
Source: Muckety.com

An Old-School Social Network

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:24:42 GMT

By Katherine Rosman Before there was Facebook, there was the Wednesday 10.In 1957, as men in their late 20s, they began meeting—initially over breakfast, then over dinners held at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel or at the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Perfectly Frank: a fitting memorial to a man of words

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:41:36 GMT

The fate of a political columnist is generally not a happy one. Lionised in their lifetimes, feared in government circles, their wit quoted at dinner parties, they are the object of much envy while they command the column.
Source: The National Newspaper

Harsanyi: The geeks had a word for it ...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:48:32 GMT

Like other books Americans have a duty to own — the Bible or "Atlas Shrugged," for instance — the dictionary does not require an absurd marketing ploy to sell itself.
Source: Denver Post

SportsCracklePop! :: The Cunning Linguist

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:05:41 GMT

Now that William Safire has died, it seems the responsibility for commenting on this nation’s usage of its unofficial “official” language falls to me. It’s a daunting endeavor, but one I embark on nonetheless.
Source: Sports Blogs

Remembering William Safire

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:04:10 GMT

Present at the memorial was Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. , who recounted how Safire had been hired by his father after a dinner party for Nixon where the elder Timesman had originally been insulted to sit "next to the flack!"
Source: mediabistro.com

Newsfeed Update: 11.12.09

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:24:53 GMT

William Safire, Remembered (WSJ/Speakeasy) Members of the media elite met yesterday morning at the New York Times' auditorium to memorialize the life and career of William Safire, the Times columnist and conservative political stalwart who died in...
Source: mediabistro.com

Quoted in 'The importance of Safire's "nattering nabobs of negativism" line'

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:11:16 GMT

Will Bunch said in Romenesko:

Nothing else that William Safire wrote would have the power or the impact of those four memorable words that he pounded out on a typewriter, 39 years ago

William Safire Dies At Age 79

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:55:20 GMT

Photo from Reuters Pictures

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:46:54 GMT

William Safire receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President George W. Bush (R) in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 15, 2006.