Monthly Archive
August 2008
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Campaign Desk
Doric, Ionic, Obamic Inside the Invesco Temple hoopla
August 29, 2008 11:20 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Don’t Make Eye Contact And other tips for getting where you need to go at the conventions
By Megan Garber
August 29, 2008 06:45 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
What We Know When We Don’t Know Much
By Katia Bachko
August 29, 2008 05:23 PM
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Campaign Desk
What’s in a Name? Part 2 Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to the ‘no MLK’ complaint
By Jane Kim
August 29, 2008 05:04 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
The DNC Made History Why wasn't that enough for the pundits?
August 29, 2008 04:25 PM
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Campaign Desk
Palin!? Thanks for that! GOP Veepstakes-press lays an egg
August 29, 2008 03:26 PM Comments (20)
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The Kicker
Everyone Starts Somewhere
By Katia Bachko
August 29, 2008 02:38 PM
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Behind the News
Coming Clean About Casualties The U.S. military in Afghanistan needs to acknowledge what it doesn’t know
By Joshua Foust
August 29, 2008 01:23 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
A-Dress Commentary
By Jane Kim
August 29, 2008 11:18 AM
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Parting Thoughts
The AJC’s Michelle Hiskey Leaving a job, leaving a family
August 29, 2008 08:00 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Twitters, Vantage, Prose The NYT’s many arms of coverage at Invesco
By Jane Kim
August 29, 2008 01:31 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
The Most Depressing Newsroom Ever
August 29, 2008 12:26 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
What’s In a Name?
By Katia Bachko
August 29, 2008 12:20 AM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
When Streamers Don’t Stream
August 29, 2008 12:09 AM
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The Kicker
Shortest News Cycle Ever
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 11:52 PM
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The Kicker
Leaked!
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 09:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
A Mile High Tonight, KOA radio has the best seat in the house
August 28, 2008 09:11 PM
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Campaign Desk
Midday At The Oasis A look inside the HuffPost's Zen-fueled convention spa
By Megan Garber
August 28, 2008 08:49 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Advance Copies, NFL style
August 28, 2008 08:25 PM
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Campaign Desk
George Packer’s Eyes When being at the convention does matter
By Jane Kim
August 28, 2008 07:42 PM
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The Kicker
The DNCC: In Which Irony Wins Again
By Megan Garber
August 28, 2008 07:13 PM
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The Kicker
Mixed Review on CNN
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 07:10 PM
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Campaign Desk
Left Behind Hearts aflame, commenters speak fire
By Julia Ioffe
August 28, 2008 05:52 PM
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The Kicker
Flash Persuasion
By Jane Kim
August 28, 2008 05:08 PM
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The Kicker
Tough Calls in Journalism
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 05:05 PM
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Campaign Desk
Media Bait Some people really, really, really want to be interviewed
August 28, 2008 05:04 PM
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Campaign Desk
Kerry On NYT doesn't really cover Kerry's speech
By Jane Kim
August 28, 2008 04:17 PM
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The Kicker
The Blitzer Diaries
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 02:29 PM
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The Kicker
Blogging Delegates
By Jane Kim
August 28, 2008 01:37 PM
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The Kicker
The New McCain
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 01:14 PM
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Campaign Desk
Postscript on Harry and Louise Health reform takeaways from the convention
August 28, 2008 01:10 PM
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The Kicker
Democracy in the Can?
By Megan Garber
August 28, 2008 12:57 PM
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The Kicker
‘You Want My Asinine Analysis’
By Katia Bachko
August 28, 2008 09:45 AM
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The Kicker
Last Night’s Obamappearance: Reporters Surprised, As Well
By Megan Garber
August 28, 2008 08:45 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Rhapsody in Blue
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 11:34 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
“Back To” Hope
By Jane Kim
August 27, 2008 11:32 PM
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The Kicker
Bang for the Buck?
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 10:24 PM
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The Kicker
E for Effort
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 09:47 PM
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The Kicker
Trick, Vote, Vomit
August 27, 2008 06:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
Les Miserables The Clinton speech coverage: in which Drama replaces Substance
By Megan Garber
August 27, 2008 06:19 PM
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The Kicker
The Big, Lame Tent
August 27, 2008 06:00 PM
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Campaign Desk
Misplacing Race WSJ slams "The Racism Excuse"
By Lester Feder
August 27, 2008 05:33 PM
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The Kicker
I LUV NYC
By Daniel Luzer
August 27, 2008 05:23 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Dubious Moments in Self-Promotion, Pt. 2: Time’s The Page
August 27, 2008 04:31 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Photos from the Floor
August 27, 2008 04:22 PM
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The Kicker
Too Many a Cutaway
By Jane Kim
August 27, 2008 03:19 PM
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Campaign Desk
Before The Speech Light, heat, and drama before Clinton took the stage
August 27, 2008 02:53 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Straw Man Smackdown
August 27, 2008 02:37 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Orange You Glad They Asked
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 02:03 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Ask the Experts, Please
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 01:38 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Dubious Moments in Dem Promotion, Pt. 1
By Megan Garber
August 27, 2008 12:38 PM
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Campaign Desk
Forsooth! Ye Naysayers Staying home and grumbling doesn’t help convention coverage
By Jane Kim
August 27, 2008 11:25 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The 15,000 What reporters are doing at the DNC
August 27, 2008 11:13 AM Comments (31)
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The Observatory
Public Opinion and Climate: Part II Where’s the consensus, and where does it end?
August 27, 2008 11:09 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Opposite Day?
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 10:14 AM
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The Kicker
Commanding the Blue Sky
By Jane Kim
August 27, 2008 01:54 AM
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The Kicker
Attorney (or Soldier) Hillary
By Jane Kim
August 27, 2008 12:45 AM
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The Kicker
Fair and Balanced: CNN
By Katia Bachko
August 27, 2008 12:31 AM
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The Kicker
Judging from the Following…
By Megan Garber
August 27, 2008 12:28 AM
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The Kicker
Hillary and the Big Tent
By Megan Garber
August 27, 2008 12:24 AM
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The Kicker
Schweitzer’s Warm-Up
By Jane Kim
August 26, 2008 10:49 PM
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The Kicker
Booing Buchanan
By Katia Bachko
August 26, 2008 08:54 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Attack, Please An idle press is the talking-points' plaything
By Katia Bachko
August 26, 2008 08:23 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
Hillaryland Beats the Press, One Last Time Convention delegates call foul on primary coverage
August 26, 2008 07:48 PM
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Campaign Desk
Context Message Media speculation over Obama's 3 AM text message overlooks the CNN Effect
By Sacha Evans
August 26, 2008 05:15 PM
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The Kicker
In Other News…
August 26, 2008 03:34 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Substance Factor In our zeal to cover the spectacles, are we ignoring substance?
August 26, 2008 02:42 PM
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The Kicker
David Brooks, More Like (Michael) Moore?
August 26, 2008 02:42 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy What it really says about health care
August 26, 2008 02:34 PM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
Public Opinion and Climate: Part I Have the media failed to help people “get” it?
August 26, 2008 01:29 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Press Block
By Jane Kim
August 26, 2008 11:46 AM
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The Kicker
The “Rift” Raft (Cable’s Convention Downtime Lifesaver)
August 26, 2008 11:16 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Post-Partisan Politics, Personified!
By Megan Garber
August 26, 2008 10:11 AM
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The Kicker
Michelle Obama 3.0 (“Economic Crisis Look” Michelle!)
August 26, 2008 09:55 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Fourth Estate, Incorporated DNC reporters rub elbows with corporate cash
By Jane Kim
August 26, 2008 09:48 AM
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about the run-up to World War II and the media's coverage of John McCain
By James Boylan
August 26, 2008 09:00 AM
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The Kicker
In Recognition of Cable News Convention Coverage
August 26, 2008 08:47 AM
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The Audit
Bhopal Revisited The liability issue is complicated, but the Times still should have done more.
By Ryan Chittum
August 26, 2008 08:30 AM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
Where Will All the Signs Go?
By Katia Bachko
August 25, 2008 11:28 PM
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The Kicker
Poaching and Politics
By Jane Kim
August 25, 2008 11:20 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Down with MSNBC
August 25, 2008 10:31 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Beer Baroness NYT's Cindy McCain profile is oddly catty
By Daniel Luzer
August 25, 2008 05:13 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Countdown to Nada
By Katia Bachko
August 25, 2008 04:52 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Dubious Moments in Self Promotion, Pt. 1: MSNBC
August 25, 2008 04:21 PM
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The Kicker
Cirque du So What
By Katia Bachko
August 25, 2008 03:34 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Speedy Biden News Cycle Hype, meet backlash.
By Megan Garber
August 25, 2008 02:50 PM
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The Kicker
Suffering for The Story in Denver
August 25, 2008 02:20 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, Language Corner
Comma Suture A little punctuation mark can hold things together, or rend them asunder
August 25, 2008 01:31 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Lunch-Bucket Limbo
By Katia Bachko
August 25, 2008 01:06 PM
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The Kicker
Convention Report: I See Something!
August 25, 2008 12:57 PM
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The Kicker
Not A Plug for Politico
August 25, 2008 12:02 PM
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Campaign Desk
Keeping It ‘Real’ The real campaign begins... now! Wait, now! No, no, I mean now!
By Megan Garber
August 25, 2008 11:13 AM
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The Kicker
If You Build It…
August 25, 2008 10:55 AM
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The Kicker
Unfunny Convention Spoof of the Day
By Megan Garber
August 25, 2008 10:53 AM
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Campaign Desk
Dems Cater To Talk Show Hosts Political conventions are not what they used to be
August 25, 2008 10:53 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Conventions. Why?
August 25, 2008 10:36 AM
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Campaign Desk
Harry and Louise Are Back Again But the media miss the important subtext
August 25, 2008 09:56 AM
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Campaign Desk
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV Real people and the candidates' plans
August 25, 2008 09:36 AM
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The Kicker
Leave Your Leatherman in D.C.
August 25, 2008 09:33 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 8-24-08 In which house dwellers throw stones
By Todd Gitlin
August 25, 2008 09:27 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
I Can’t Hear the Punditry!
August 25, 2008 08:46 AM
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Campaign Desk
John McCain: Man of Mystery Two columnists. One question. Who is John McCain?
By Katia Bachko
August 22, 2008 05:53 PM
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The Kicker
“End of the Line” at the Times?
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 05:15 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Another Very Useful Forum
By Jane Kim
August 22, 2008 05:13 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Starving the Metaphor
By Jane Kim
August 22, 2008 04:16 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
No Time for the Timetable?
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 02:44 PM
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Campaign Desk
Staying The Corsi The media refute Jerome Corsi's arguments while still reinforcing his best seller bona fides
By Sacha Evans
August 22, 2008 02:13 PM Comments (11)
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Behind the News
China’s Potemkin Olympics Finally, a narrative (in the print press, at least) beyond Michael Phelps-as-Aquaman
By Sam Eifling
August 22, 2008 01:17 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
The Verdict: Disclosure, Please
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 12:11 PM
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Behind the News
Passing on Kakutani The NYT books reviewer should have nixed her profile of Jon Stewart
By Jane Kim
August 22, 2008 11:59 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Conventional Wisdom
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 11:12 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The Surrogate Race
By Jane Kim
August 22, 2008 10:35 AM
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The Kicker
Refuge Romenesko
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 10:02 AM
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Behind the News
Getting Russia v. Georgia Right What we don't know can hurt us
By Joshua Foust
August 22, 2008 10:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Observatory
Flat-Screen TVs Hyped as Climate Threat Media's quest for the latest household hazard distorts research
August 22, 2008 09:40 AM
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The Kicker
Best Headline of the Week?
By Megan Garber
August 22, 2008 09:15 AM
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The Kicker
More Face Time for Obama
By Megan Garber
August 21, 2008 05:54 PM Comments (1)
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Audio, The Kicker
David Isay At Columbia StoryCorps founder on the art of the interview
By The Editors
August 21, 2008 05:09 PM
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Behind the News
U.S. 67, Russia 52, Context 0 U.S.-Russia hoops coverage fails to mention Georgia war
August 21, 2008 04:28 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
A Home-Grown -Gate!
By Megan Garber
August 21, 2008 03:37 PM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
One Flew Over the Morning News Dallas paper fails to connect industry influence to overmedication among foster children
By Paul Raeburn
August 21, 2008 03:15 PM Comments (5)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
High in the Mile High City?
By Megan Garber
August 21, 2008 02:40 PM
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The Kicker
Cross Words on Crosswords
By Katia Bachko
August 21, 2008 02:40 PM
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Behind the News
Drum Roll The Washington Monthly’s blogger goes West. Virtually.
August 21, 2008 01:39 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part III Real people and the candidates' plans
August 21, 2008 01:30 PM
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Campaign Desk
Six(ty) Degrees of Separation? November’s Senate races are a story, too. Let’s start treating them that way.
By Megan Garber
August 21, 2008 12:38 PM
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Behind the News
Blogging For Truth Russian war bloggers tell—and show—what they saw at the front
By Julia Ioffe
August 21, 2008 09:37 AM Comments (3)
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The Research Report
Too Good to Be True? New research about what viewers want from television news
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
August 21, 2008 09:00 AM
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The Kicker
RunningOutofSteamStakes
August 21, 2008 08:22 AM
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The Kicker
Not By The Hair…
August 21, 2008 08:17 AM
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The Kicker
Rumors of Tubbs Jones’s Demise, Explained
August 21, 2008 07:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
Facts Are Fungible, But Character Is Sacred A strange excuse for Obama's ad
By Katia Bachko
August 20, 2008 06:18 PM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
No Reception
By Julia Ioffe
August 20, 2008 04:33 PM
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Campaign Desk
Another Two Against The One A MoDowd divided cannot stand
By Megan Garber
August 20, 2008 04:03 PM
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The Kicker
Who Cares? (And, About What?)
August 20, 2008 03:22 PM
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The Kicker
Breaking News Breakdown
August 20, 2008 02:36 PM Comments (4)
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Audio, Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Shankar Vedantam on Bias in Reporting Washington Post reporter discusses how bias factors in reporting
By The Editors
August 20, 2008 02:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Joe-mentum of Another Sort
August 20, 2008 01:46 PM
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Campaign Desk
Tiptoeing Around That Big Hyped Hope Mother Jones's Obama feature falls flat
By Jane Kim
August 20, 2008 12:23 PM Comments (2)
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Chris Ison A note to editors: talk journalism, and win back the newsroom
By Chris Ison
August 20, 2008 11:43 AM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
“Far From Fair and Balanced”
August 20, 2008 11:21 AM
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The Kicker
Edwards Love Child Story Chapter XXXVI: In Which an Expert Testifies
By Megan Garber
August 20, 2008 11:14 AM
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The Kicker
AP: Alleged “Real People” To Appear at Convention!
August 20, 2008 10:38 AM
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The Kicker
“CNN Grills” (Without Crossfire)
August 20, 2008 10:09 AM
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The Kicker
Today in Speculation (Er, “Current Conjecture”)
August 20, 2008 08:51 AM
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The Kicker
Mad(dow) About You
By Megan Garber
August 19, 2008 05:10 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Why Fireworks Matter Looking back on the opening ceremonies
By Katia Bachko
August 19, 2008 03:33 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Olbermann Wins Gold in Vitriol
By Megan Garber
August 19, 2008 01:32 PM Comments (9)
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Campaign Desk
A Candy Buffet, You Say? Bloggers will get their own Big Tent at the conventions
By Megan Garber
August 19, 2008 12:36 PM
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The Kicker
Weather Report
By Jane Kim
August 19, 2008 12:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
Debunking Obama’s Hillary Problem Who says that disgruntled women will cost Obama the election?
By Lester Feder
August 19, 2008 12:15 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Echo Chamber How blogging failed the war in Georgia
By Joshua Foust
August 19, 2008 11:52 AM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Warning! Singing Ahead
By Jane Kim
August 19, 2008 11:32 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
The Fun Will Come Out…Tomorrow?
By Megan Garber
August 19, 2008 09:44 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Fifty-seven
By Megan Garber
August 18, 2008 04:17 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
Skeptical Reporting 101
By Jane Kim
August 18, 2008 03:42 PM
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Language Corner
It’s Your Cull Two different meanings for one little word
August 18, 2008 02:49 PM
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The Kicker
The Little Mag That Could
August 18, 2008 02:25 PM
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Campaign Desk
Social Democrats? For the Democratic Party, social issues are economic issues
By Lester Feder
August 18, 2008 01:38 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News, The Kicker
Kentucky Rising
By Jane Kim
August 18, 2008 01:37 PM
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Q and A
He Likes Ike? Robert Scheer looks left, right, and center
By James Marcus
August 18, 2008 12:45 PM Comments (14)
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Campaign Desk
On Their Merits The press needs to press the candidates more on “merit pay”
By Megan Garber
August 18, 2008 12:37 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Love, Exciting and…News?
By Megan Garber
August 18, 2008 12:02 PM
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The Observatory
The Future of Science Journalism Fellowships CJR chats with new Knight, MIT director Phil Hilts
August 18, 2008 10:29 AM Comments (5)
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 8-17-08 On air kisses and free passes
By Todd Gitlin
August 18, 2008 08:28 AM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Truth in the Eye of the Beholder
By Katia Bachko
August 15, 2008 05:50 PM
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Behind the News, The Kicker
Padding the Paper Kevin Roderick of LAObserved points out that though the Los Angeles Times boasted about the “1180 pages” that comprised this past Sunday’s print edition (up from 828 pages the Sunday before), it’s just misleading talk. Why? Well, according to Roderick,...
By Jane Kim
August 15, 2008 05:46 PM
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The Kicker
Sourcing Bigfoot
By Jane Kim
August 15, 2008 05:09 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Remember the debates?
August 15, 2008 04:42 PM
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Behind the News
Remote Control Many of NBC's announcers are calling the Olympics from New York—and that's OK
August 15, 2008 04:32 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Dropping the Ball on Illegal Immigration How the Los Angeles Times skipped out on covering illegal immigration issues this week, and how others couldn’t pick up the slack.
By Jane Kim
August 15, 2008 03:52 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Star Turn From Reuters
August 15, 2008 03:22 PM
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The Kicker
Michael Mania or Phelps Phantasmagoria or…
By Katia Bachko
August 15, 2008 02:45 PM
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The Kicker
Fox News Cameraman Mal James Is Awesome
August 15, 2008 02:39 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part II Real people and the candidates' plans
August 15, 2008 01:54 PM
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Campaign Desk
Appearances Are Everything The NYT notes McCain's "aura of commander in chief"
By Zachary Roth
August 15, 2008 01:38 PM Comments (19)
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The Kicker
HuffPo’s Chicago Face
By Jane Kim
August 15, 2008 11:59 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Reprint. Recycle. Reheat?
August 15, 2008 11:52 AM Comments (1)