Monthly Archive
October 2008
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Campaign Desk
Crowd Counts For better or for worse, numbers evoke as well as inform. Beware.
By Jane Kim
October 31, 2008 04:52 PM
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Campaign Desk
Commitment Issues In which the LA Times is decidedly mocking of Undecideds
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 03:45 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Xunlight Shines on Palin Blogs drill into governor’s speech at solar energy plant
October 31, 2008 02:36 PM
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The Kicker
Expanding WaPo(litical Coverage)
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 01:52 PM
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The Kicker
All Hallows (Pe)Eved
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 01:02 PM
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Behind the News
Weapons of Mass Reduction Corrections as weapons
October 31, 2008 12:18 PM
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The Kicker
Making a Ghoul of Yourself
By Julia Ioffe
October 31, 2008 12:13 PM
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The Kicker
The Economist: The Ultimate Swing Voter
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 11:34 AM
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The Kicker
Draper on the NYTM Profile Heard ‘Round the World
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 11:20 AM
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The Audit
Halve Not Unreflective Reuters undresses itself in misuse of transitive verb
October 31, 2008 09:49 AM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
Charting a New Course Will The Christian Science Monitor’s new model save the rest of journalism? No.
By Katia Bachko
October 31, 2008 09:32 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Deregulate, Sayeth Bush At least he's consistent, WaPo reports; WSJ on Wall Street pay; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 31, 2008 09:26 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Kristol: “It’s Not a Psychodrama, It’s Just an Election”
By Megan Garber
October 31, 2008 08:57 AM
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News Meeting
Introducing News Meeting An open conversation between staffers and readers on the top press issues of the day
By The Editors
October 30, 2008 05:28 PM
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Events
Consumer Revolution on the Web: Opportunities and Dangers for Journalism Big-name bloggers, online vigilantes, and anonymous user-reviewers are turning word of mouth into a powerful weapon. How will it be used? How will it be covered?
By The Editors
October 30, 2008 05:07 PM
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Starting Thoughts
An Invitation Looking for letters from young journalists
By The Editors
October 30, 2008 04:53 PM
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Campaign Desk
But Wait! There’s More! What we missed in assessing the Obama infomercial
By Megan Garber
October 30, 2008 04:19 PM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Stop The Presses! The L.A. Times stands by a deal with a source, democracy hangs in the balance
October 30, 2008 03:32 PM Comments (13)
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Campaign Desk
Rally Killer Political reporters shouldn’t take out their election fatigue on the voters
By Lester Feder
October 30, 2008 02:58 PM
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Campaign Desk
Health Care Rationing Explained The Syracuse Post-Standard dares to widen the debate
October 30, 2008 11:35 AM
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The Kicker
Another One Jumps The Gun
October 30, 2008 10:53 AM
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The Kicker
Women Have “Owned” Election ‘08 Coverage
October 30, 2008 10:43 AM
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The Kicker
“Anything is a Fair Question”
October 30, 2008 09:48 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Bubble Brains Press forgets Fed's easy money sparked the crisis; WaPo good on dividends; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 30, 2008 09:25 AM
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Currents
Louts Out How to police message boards and comments
By Adam Rose
October 30, 2008 09:15 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Not A Swing Show”
October 30, 2008 09:10 AM
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Currents
Blame It On Aécio A journalism student's video documentary took on the issue of governmental press manipulation in Brazil.
October 30, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Columnista! The Story of an Op-Ed A theory of the genesis of Wednesday's MoDo column
By Megan Garber
October 29, 2008 05:03 PM
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Campaign Desk
Sarah Palin’s Conditional Future Speculation runs rampant, but reporters shouldn't buy in
By Jane Kim
October 29, 2008 04:51 PM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Thomas Lauren Friedman, Meet Barack Hussein Obama
October 29, 2008 04:11 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Work first. Juice boxes later.
October 29, 2008 04:05 PM
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The Kicker
Obama Victory=Hard Work For Reporters
October 29, 2008 03:37 PM
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The Kicker
And the “Cheeky Headline of the Day” Award Goes to…
By Megan Garber
October 29, 2008 03:26 PM
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The Audit
Goldman’s Risk: Somewhere Between Zero and $20 Billion Contradictory NYT, Bloomberg stories show need for bailout transparency
October 29, 2008 03:01 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Lost In Translation Did a federal judge bash pro-bono legal work, or did a reporter misunderstand?
October 29, 2008 02:59 PM
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The Kicker
Matthews’ Movie Madness
October 29, 2008 01:05 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Car Chase! (White Car Involved)
October 29, 2008 12:42 PM
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The Kicker
Must-See TV (Also Online)
October 29, 2008 11:54 AM
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Campaign Desk
Reporting on the Endgame AP and Dallas Morning News successfully cover candidates' closing statements
October 29, 2008 10:54 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Fresh Thoughts on Voter Registration
By Katia Bachko
October 29, 2008 10:43 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
“Without Media Interference”
October 29, 2008 10:28 AM
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The Kicker
CPD “Hideously Bungled” Debates
October 29, 2008 10:07 AM
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Behind the News
The State of Mexican Journalism An address from Grupo Reforma president Alejandro Junco de la Vega
By The Editors
October 29, 2008 10:00 AM
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Audio, Behind the News
The State of Mexican Journalism An address from Grupo Reforma president Alejandro Junco de la Vega
By The Editors
October 29, 2008 10:00 AM
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The Kicker
Project Greenlight
October 29, 2008 09:24 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Behind the Money
October 29, 2008 09:22 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Wall Street Assembly Line Bloomberg digs into securitization; WSJ on Trump's latest woes; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 29, 2008 09:22 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Energy: Fueling the Campaign Three reporters reflect on their beat’s novel and significant role in the election
October 29, 2008 09:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
Michelle-O Is Not Jackie-O Enough with the clotheshorse talk, please
By Megan Garber
October 28, 2008 04:06 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Going Ideological McCain’s “most liberal” claim should be unpacked
By Jane Kim
October 28, 2008 03:53 PM
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The Kicker
Politico on the Biases “That Matter”
October 28, 2008 02:32 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
The McKinley Problem Which candidate most resembles Teddy Roosevelt?
By Daniel Luzer
October 28, 2008 01:49 PM
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Campaign Desk
Campaign Press, Engaged LAT trail reporters dish on the candidates
October 28, 2008 12:38 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Extreme Made-Over (Michelle Obama Edition)
October 28, 2008 10:16 AM
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The Kicker
MoDo, Bono….
October 28, 2008 09:55 AM
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Campaign Desk
Let’s Leave Jesus Out of It Stanley Fish brings up Milton to explain campaign strategy
By Jane Kim
October 28, 2008 09:37 AM
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The Kicker
Covering That Other War
October 28, 2008 09:26 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Crime and Punishment WSJ's Berman asks how likely crisis convictions are; A pall in the mall; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 28, 2008 09:22 AM
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Essay
Hope I Die . . . Will the Chicago Reader finally grow up? Should it?
October 28, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (11)
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Campaign Desk
It Happened To McCain The New York Times writes the history of the McCain campaign
By Katia Bachko
October 27, 2008 04:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
And the Best Euphemism Award Goes To…
By Julia Ioffe
October 27, 2008 03:56 PM
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Campaign Desk
Poll Dancing Analyses of an Obama presidency: too soon!
By Megan Garber
October 27, 2008 03:44 PM
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Language Corner
When A Plus Is A Minus The real meaning of the word "nonplussed"
October 27, 2008 03:13 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Her Clothes May Be Beau Brummelly
October 27, 2008 03:09 PM
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The Kicker
Male Journalists (With “Soft, Girlie Hands”)
October 27, 2008 01:48 PM
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The Kicker
Phones They are A-Ringin’
By Katia Bachko
October 27, 2008 01:44 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Tracing GOP Turnabout NYT's Harwood forgets history in analyzing the right's declining fortunes
By Lester Feder
October 27, 2008 01:13 PM
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Campaign Desk
Now Who’s Crafting a Secret Health Plan? Is Ted Kennedy really proposing socialized medicine?
October 27, 2008 12:24 PM
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Campaign Desk
Paging Dr. Gupta How CNN’s doc misdiagnosed McCain’s health plan
October 27, 2008 12:04 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
On The One Hand, Hannity….
October 27, 2008 12:02 PM
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The Kicker
Beyond Bradley
By Katia Bachko
October 27, 2008 11:47 AM
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The Kicker
King Kong vs. Godzilla
October 27, 2008 11:28 AM
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The Kicker
Where Soledad Soaks (So?)
October 27, 2008 11:05 AM
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The Kicker
“My Friends,” An Explanation
October 27, 2008 10:31 AM
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The Kicker
“Captivating” Doesn’t Cut It
October 27, 2008 10:06 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
School of Talk
October 27, 2008 09:23 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: How Low Can It Go? NYT asks; Preventing another Depression; Laughs with Laffer; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 27, 2008 09:20 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 10-26-08 In which weariness strikes
By Todd Gitlin
October 27, 2008 08:53 AM
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The Kicker
Chris Matthews, One-Man Vice Squad
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 05:11 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Double Awesome
By Katia Bachko
October 24, 2008 05:09 PM
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The Audit
Lupica Waves at One Better work on stadium financing, please
October 24, 2008 04:48 PM
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The Kicker
It’s Funny Because It’s Insulting to Everyone!
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 04:09 PM
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Campaign Desk
Clearing Up Yes and No California papers wade through Prop 8 terminology
By Jane Kim
October 24, 2008 03:29 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
So You Wanna: Spend $150,000 at Saks
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 02:45 PM
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The Kicker
And the “Melodrama Among the Media” Award Goes to…
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 02:14 PM
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Behind the News
All the News That’s Fit to Feed How the Times' latest high-tech gambit could actually work
By Nancy Scola
October 24, 2008 01:36 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
This Just In, from “The Last Thing the McCain Campaign Needed” Department…
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 01:26 PM
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The Kicker
The Most Im-pore-tant Post of the Day
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 12:25 PM
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Regret the Error
A Treasury of Page Six Corrections The week in newspaper corrections
October 24, 2008 11:47 AM Comments (4)
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Campaign Desk
Foreign Policy, Undigested Analysis eludes The New York Times as it reviews the candidates’ world views
By Katia Bachko
October 24, 2008 11:42 AM
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The Observatory, The Water Cooler
Five Questions for SEJ’s New Prez CJR talks with Oregon Public Broadcasting's Christy George
October 24, 2008 10:58 AM
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The Kicker
All by himself…
October 24, 2008 10:45 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Obama Gets the Sign of the Times
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 10:28 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“You Stepped in it, Buddy”
By Katia Bachko
October 24, 2008 10:25 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Politics of Symbolism On Rush, racism, Richard Nixon, and the "real America"
By Lester Feder
October 24, 2008 10:21 AM Comments (5)
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The Audit
Where are the Subprime Toasters? Harper's calls for a Financial Product Safety Commission
October 24, 2008 09:54 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Greenspan’s Mea Culpa One-time press hero faces its wrath; Jobs are scarcer than you think; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 24, 2008 09:21 AM
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The Kicker
“One Part Practiced Folksy, One Part Sassy, and a Little Dash of High School Bitchy”
By Megan Garber
October 24, 2008 08:51 AM
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Campaign Desk
The Horse’s Mouth Campaign rally stories should be careful describing the supporter ranks
By Jane Kim
October 23, 2008 06:04 PM
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The Kicker
The Most Importantest Election Ever
By Jane Kim
October 23, 2008 05:47 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
I Spur, You Spur, We All Spur
By Jane Kim
October 23, 2008 05:13 PM
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The Kicker
Lose Both Ways
By Katia Bachko
October 23, 2008 03:30 PM
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Campaign Desk
Making the Grade The Times-Picayune gets it right when evaluating the candidates’ education policies
By Katia Bachko
October 23, 2008 02:08 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tries to Redeem Itself A better job on health care, but still a ways to go
October 23, 2008 12:15 PM
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Campaign Desk
Moonlight and Valentino Why are the media so clothes-minded when it comes to Palin?
By Megan Garber
October 23, 2008 11:44 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
And You Will Know Us By…
October 23, 2008 10:59 AM
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The Kicker
Brokaw’s “Ideal Debate”
October 23, 2008 10:31 AM
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The Kicker
I Am Reporter
October 23, 2008 10:12 AM
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The Audit
Disposable Story Fortune overplays the meaning of a personal-savings uptick
October 23, 2008 10:01 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Hank on the Hot Seat The Times applies a little heat in an interview; Credit raters also grilled; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 23, 2008 09:22 AM
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The Kicker
Closet Confessionals
October 23, 2008 09:09 AM
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The Research Report
Too Good to Be True? Do local TV news viewers prefer Jim Lehrer to Kent Brockman?
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas
October 23, 2008 09:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
Dowd’s Gravitas NYT opinion columnist pulls the “earnest” card
By Jane Kim
October 22, 2008 06:11 PM
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The Kicker
Be the Change You Want To See
October 22, 2008 04:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
Islamophobia and the Op-Ed Pages Colin Powell rushes in where columnists previously feared to tread
By Lester Feder
October 22, 2008 04:22 PM
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The Kicker
Fun With Demographics
By Katia Bachko
October 22, 2008 03:15 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Better late than never
October 22, 2008 03:06 PM
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Campaign Desk
To-Do List What reporters could do in the days before the election
By Katia Bachko
October 22, 2008 02:25 PM
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Behind the News
Take Me to the Other Side Reporting from inside the Taliban is an old story
By Joshua Foust
October 22, 2008 02:03 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
We’re All Just A Little Bit Socialist And the press could point out that it’s no big deal
October 22, 2008 01:51 PM
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The Kicker
How the Other Half Dies
By Katia Bachko
October 22, 2008 12:12 PM
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The Kicker
13 Days Out: What, Now?
October 22, 2008 11:52 AM
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The Kicker
AP’s Extended Teaching Moment
October 22, 2008 10:22 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Reeling ‘Em In NYT good on credit chicanery; Journal looks at housing's ground zero; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 22, 2008 09:21 AM
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The Kicker
“Palling Around With Haberdashers”
October 22, 2008 09:20 AM
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Campaign Desk
News Hog(wash) McCain wins battle for headlines. Will he win the election?
By Jane Kim
October 22, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Transparency at Federal Science Agencies WaPo gets marks for covering UCS “report card,” but misses important details
October 22, 2008 07:35 AM
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Campaign Desk
Journos of the World, Unite! Or, some basic ways to deal with McCain's "socialism" claims
By Megan Garber
October 21, 2008 05:42 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
$tunned into $ilence Why isn’t the media asking more questions about Obama’s fundraising success?
By Katia Bachko
October 21, 2008 04:49 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Props, CNN
October 21, 2008 03:22 PM
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The Kicker
“David The Journalist,” “Tito The Builder”
October 21, 2008 03:19 PM Comments (7)
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Obsession with Controversy What are papers to do when fear, funding, and free speech collide?
By Seth Hettena
October 21, 2008 02:07 PM Comments (8)
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The Kicker
Michele, The New Zell?
October 21, 2008 12:56 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
“What Happened to the Old Press Corps?”
October 21, 2008 12:13 PM
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The Kicker
Accountability Journalism v. Another -Ism
October 21, 2008 11:59 AM Comments (1)
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Review
Brief Encounters Short reviews of books about Masson v. New Yorker and immersion journalism at Harper's magazine.
By James Boylan
October 21, 2008 11:06 AM
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The Kicker
Has Scarborough Been In Touch?
October 21, 2008 10:26 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Picturing the Crisis A look at photographic coverage in the financial press
October 21, 2008 10:20 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Afflicting The Comfortable?
October 21, 2008 09:22 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Derivative Dilemma Selloffs creating more selloffs, says WSJ; Blaming boomers for the bust; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 21, 2008 09:22 AM
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The Kicker, The Observatory
Anchorage Daily News Traffic Soars
October 20, 2008 04:58 PM
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Campaign Desk
Vulgus, Schmulgus Kristol goes astray on Noonan
By Jane Kim
October 20, 2008 04:30 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
Candidates’ Medical Records Lack Transparency NYT’s Altman makes the most out of scant information
October 20, 2008 04:29 PM
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Language Corner
Bemusement Park It's not amusing when writers misuse "bemused"
October 20, 2008 03:59 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The Plumber’s Tale Alas, poor Joe, hapless victim of the media
By Megan Garber
October 20, 2008 03:30 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Frankly, Goldman, What About the CDOs? The Times misses the big question on Goldman
October 20, 2008 02:42 PM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Wikipedia vs. Joe the Plumber Wikipedia users debate Wurzelbacher's newsworthiness and notability
By Joshua Young
October 20, 2008 02:07 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
AP’s Tale of Two Ropelines
October 20, 2008 01:34 PM
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Campaign Desk
“That’s Not Right.” What to do when confronted with the “Obama is a Muslim” rumor?
October 20, 2008 01:17 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
“You Have Been So Friendly…”
October 20, 2008 12:34 PM
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Campaign Desk
Who’s Cutting What in Medicare? A missing campaign issue suddenly surfaces
October 20, 2008 12:15 PM
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The Kicker
Endorsements Out Of Ohio
October 20, 2008 11:24 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Echoes of Hank
October 20, 2008 11:19 AM
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The Kicker
Laughable?
October 20, 2008 10:06 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Oil Turmoil WaPo and WSJ on the fallout from falling crude; Watching the swaps market; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 20, 2008 09:29 AM
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The Kicker
Out of (Bounds’) Bounds
October 20, 2008 09:27 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 10-19-08 In which Colin Powell is a statesman
By Todd Gitlin
October 20, 2008 09:03 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Dear Fox News: Hip-Hop ≠ Obama Endorsement
By Megan Garber
October 17, 2008 04:59 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
Attack Media GOP rhetoric bears responsbility for attack on reporter at Palin rally
October 17, 2008 04:59 PM Comments (24)
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The Kicker
Trib goes for Obama
October 17, 2008 04:57 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Abortion and the Anecdotal Lede When reporting on abortion, the humanizing anecdote has political implications
By Lester Feder
October 17, 2008 03:30 PM
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Campaign Desk
Debunking the “New Generation” of Black Pols A simplistic narrative that misses some real stories
October 17, 2008 03:16 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
My Buddy, My Powell
By Megan Garber
October 17, 2008 01:20 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Double Negative All attack ads aren’t created equal
By Katia Bachko
October 17, 2008 01:16 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Transparency, Regulation and … Rapoport's three-step plan for restoring confidence
October 17, 2008 12:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Lessons Learned
By Katia Bachko
October 17, 2008 12:15 PM
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Behind the News
Ils Regretteront L’Erreur Front page apologies flower in Europe
October 17, 2008 11:49 AM
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The Kicker
Kicked Around
October 17, 2008 11:30 AM
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The Kicker
Joe the Plumber, McCain’s Imaginary Friend
By Megan Garber
October 17, 2008 11:27 AM Comments (2)
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The Observatory
Juggling Beats, Localizing Climate Conference offers valuable lessons on modern reporting
October 17, 2008 10:48 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Dave and Mac Kiss and Make Up
By Megan Garber
October 17, 2008 09:44 AM
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The Audit
The Newsweek Bubble Zakaria is living in some other economy
October 17, 2008 09:40 AM
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Campaign Desk
What’s Rich? Joe Wurzelbacher and the politics of the "middle class"
By Jane Kim
October 17, 2008 09:37 AM
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The Audit
Audit Roundup: Working Class Blues WaPo good on labor's travails; Hedge-fund hysteria; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
October 17, 2008 09:20 AM
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The Kicker
Tortured Reasoning?
By Megan Garber