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The Speaker is in The House
NJI Media, FamousDC’s digital and creative partner, was cited by the Wall Street Journal for its thoughtful inside jokes on Speaker Ryan’s official website last week: Are you running for president? It’s a question House Speaker Paul Ryan got quite a bit in media interviews this year, always with the same answer: No. …
Hyper Hill: Kill the Mac
Donald Trump say what? You have us “lol”ing. In other terrible ideas… Wall Street Journal says kill the Mac? Who wears short shorts? Guys- apparently you should not. The verdict is in for those girls on TV wearing orange behind bars. And it’s a good one! Photo by: Nicholas Kamm /AFP/Getty Images)
Famous Friday [Round Up]
If a rainbow shows up in DC and wasn’t Instagrammed 12,000 times – did it really happen? #NATIONAL Do you love dogs and weapons? Then the TSA’s Instagram is for you; Emmy nominations: who got robbed?; If soccer injuries were real life; we’re irrationally peeved about this guy and his …
Famous Friday [Round Up]
#NATIONAL #MondayNumbers; Congrats, Seahawks!; Facebook turns 10; The Beatles turn 50; CVS puts out its cigarettes; We wish you all the best, Jay Leno; Stress at Sochi — it kind of sucks; How popular is your favorite DC anchor on Twitter?; Super Bowl aftermath; Stupid baby panda falling on its stupid face; Uncle Joe Biden can’t think …
Amy Harder Jumps to WSJ from National Journal
Rockstar energy reporter, Amy Harder, is leaving National Journal after almost six years to join the Wall Street Journal to cover energy. She will remain based in Washington, D.C. Prior to National Journal, she had stints covering legal journalism and on the cops beat at the Bellingham Herald, a local …
Not the Onion: Lil Wayne live blogging the Super Bowl … for the Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal: Super Bowl XLV Diary: Packers-Steelers
Meet Mark Knoller — @markknoller
WSJ’s Elizabeth Williamson: Trivial Pursuit: One Man’s Quest to Catalog Presidential Minutiae We consider Mark Knoller’s Twitter feed a must-follow. You can join in here.
The Never Ending Story: Congressional Work Week
Congressional Groundhog Day? Jake Sherman: Hoyer: Blame the Senate for our light workload (10/20/09) The House’s work week was first brought up last month in a POLITICO story , when Democrats justified the schedule because they said they were working hard in committees on passing a health care overhaul bill. …
A Little William McGurn With Your Morning Coffee
Pour a little of this in your Cocoa Puffs. Wall Street Journal: When Speechwriters Kiss and Tell When the sun rises over our capital city this morning, its denizens will awake to a truly novel tale: The aggrieved ex-staffer—wait for it!—disillusioned by Washington. The tome out today is by former …
Jonathan Weisman Doesn’t Do Drudge
Gillian Reagan wonders: has Matt Drudge lost his edge? New York Observer: Are the Days of Drudge Over? Jonathan Weisman, who covers the Obama administration for The Wall Street Journal, seemed to back up that idea. “Matt Drudge has no influence whatsoever,” he said. “When Drudge picks up one of our …
Check Your TSP
WSJ: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Pounded Share prices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged Monday amid growing fears that the two largest providers of funding for U.S. home mortgages won’t be able to avoid a government bailout. … In 4 p.m. trading on the New York Stock Exchange, …
Organic, Union Made Fanny Packs
The blogosphere was on fire yesterday with the A-1 WSJ article on the Democratic Convention. Wall Street Journal: The Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for Denver The challenge: The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made …
Hook-Ups on the Campaign Trail
The Wall Street Journal branches out in the Rupert Murdoch era and brings us the latest in staffer hook-ups: Jesse Benton, 30, had a serious girlfriend in Washington when he signed up to be communications director for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. That quickly ended when she complained about his being …
Only Time Will Tell
Calderone: Murdoch tells WSJ staffers there’s no ‘conservative’ agenda
We’re All Famous DC
From your parent’s basement to K St., according to the Wall Street Journal, in “New-Media World,” everyone sounds like an inside beltway wonk [and everyone’s got a blog]. WSJ looks into the tip sheets and web sites that drive the politically plugged in chattering class – from Mark Halperin to JoMa to …