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Michael Kinsley
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Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley is a noted journalist and political commentator. He was one of the most successful editors of The New Republic magazine. He was the host of CNN’s Crossfire and founded Slate, the nation’s first online magazine. He also served as the editorial page editor for The Los Angeles Times and has written for The Guardian and the New Yorker. He is a regular contributor to Time magazine. Michael currently lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Patty Stonesifer, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The Nation, November 19, 2009
...that Peretz's increasingly nasty neoconservatism, which was held in check in the past by strong editors like Michael Kinsley and Hendrik Hertzberg, has come to dominate the magazine's character as never before. Peretz regularly employs TNR's website to...
The Onion AV Club, September 17, 2009
...of the rot and dysfunction to be cleared away,? especially in regard to health-care reform. KA: [Political journalist] Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as someone in Washington telling the truth. I think Emmanuel?s comment was absolutely true. In...
Media Bistro, September 13, 2009
...as literary agent at Trident Media Group... Atlantic Media taps Slate founding editor and former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley to pen a monthly media column. He'll also serve as editor-in-chief of a Web site set to launch in 2010... NYMag.com adds...
Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2009
...affect a number of different fields.' Weisberg, who started with Slate under the late-?90s editorial flag of Michael Kinsley, was energetic and confident as only a man who got into the Web early can be. He noted that the art of the blogger, of writing...
REASON Online, April 8, 2009
...and proliferating on the Internet. Denby received this revelation while enjoying a pan-Pacific dinner with the political journalist Michael Kinsley. Somewhere between the Singing Fish Satay and the Pow Wok Lamb, he writes, Mike and I...said more or less...
Thought Leader, February 21, 2009
...One of the best articles I have read of late is God is Black by Michael Kinsley. Aptly, it appeared in Time Magazine?s inauguration preview issue of Obama...
Sound Money, January 21, 2009
...Gates challenged corporations to engage in 'creative capitalism,' or be more socially responsible. Kai Ryssdal speaks with journalist Michael Kinsley about what that entails. Michael Kinsley (Win McNamee/) More on Bookshelf, Innovation Related TEXT OF...
Los Angeles Times, January 13, 2009
...you tell us a little about that? Denby: My wife and I were in Seattle at dinner with Michael Kinsley and his wife. We were just talking, and Michael and I said at the same time that snark was the characteristic discourse of this period. JC: You write that...
Progree Report, December 28, 2008
...by contributor Joel Hirschhorn; and (3) a listing of one of the most influential books in history by Michael Kinsley. Unjust Deserts Warren Buffett is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he 'deserve' all this money? Buffett himself will tell you that 'society...
Washington Post, December 2, 2008
...to employ any journalists at all. So, that's 1,003 words. Can I go to lunch now? Michael Kinsley is a columnist for Time and washingtonpost.com...
A Spork in the Drawer, October 13, 2009
...Michael Kinsley amuses himself: The Mann Booker Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award, has been conferred for 2009 on President Obama, it was announced yesterday. Not only is this the...
CJR, September 10, 2009
...Columbia Journalism Review to Launch First Comprehensive Study of Online Practices of Print Magazines (5) More ...
CJR, September 8, 2009
...Town Hall Meetings, Part II The view from the heartland—the patients Kinsley slams the Times ’s corrections...
Comment is free | guardian.co.uk, September 6, 2009
...it over the top to publish a correction about it? Writing in the Washington Post last week, columnist Michael Kinsley mocked newspapers for owning up to mistakes that might be viewed as relatively unimportant. He was scathing about the New York Times...
zunguzungu, September 5, 2009
...The Washington Post’s Michael Kinsley doesn’t seem to like the practice of fact checking. This is because, in his words, “the facts it corrects are generally so bizarre or trivial and its tone...
CJR, September 4, 2009
...Behind the News — September 04, 2009 02:14 PM Michael Kinsley vs. Factual Accuracy WaPo columnist slams the Times ’s “schoolmarmish” corrections column By Lester Feder Single...
The Stump, August 7, 2009
...heating up THE STUMP Oregon opinion articles, political commentary, cartoons and more Harry and Louise, Closet Socialists by Michael Kinsley, For The Washington Post Friday August 07, 2009, 11:20 AM You've probably heard by now...
Kevin Cryan online, June 2, 2009
...Reviewing Michael Kinsley’s New Republic article about Newsweek ’s recent attempt to reinvent itself, John Naughton makes an observation about his own reading habits that might be made about the reading...
news from me, May 16, 2009
...e-mail from those of you who've offered goodies. • Posted at 5:36 PM · LINK Recommended Reading Michael Kinsley thinks change is coming and we're not ready for it. Or something like that. • Posted at 10:02 AM · LINK Go Read It! Gary VandenBergh...
Jacket Copy, April 28, 2009
...a number of different fields." Weisberg, who started with Slate under the late-‘90s editorial flag of Michael Kinsley, was energetic and confident as only a man who got into the Web early can be. He noted that the art of the blogger, of writing...
LVTFan's Blog, April 8, 2009
...People as diverse as Mark Twain , Winston Churchill , Sun Yat-Sen, Leo Tolstoy , Clarence Darrow , John Dewey , Bill Buckley , Michael Kinsley have seen the justice and logic of George's analysis and solution.  Consider looking to see if you see what...
Koreanish, November 28, 2008
...experiences blogging about pop culture, seemed to point that there was this as-yet-unexplored territory for blogs. Because despite Michael Kinsley’s warning that there’s some kind of blog apocalypse coming, the truth is as a form it’s very new. It...
PA Pundits - International, November 23, 2008
...TIME is about just how many Blogs the World really needs. The author, (and I’ll credit him) Michael Kinsley, worries about how he can compete with them. He says it’s now harder to get ‘a scoop’ because there’s always a Blog somewhere that might...