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1. Campaign Desk

   Of FOX News and Catnip

   September 21, 2009 07:07 PM

   Alessandra Stanley’s New York Times piece today on President Obama’s health care-themed weekend media blitz included a photo montage that told the story even better than Stanley’s words do. There on the front page was a collection... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Tom DeLay, Twinkle-toes

   September 21, 2009 09:24 AM

   The new season of "Dancing With The Stars . . . and Tom DeLay" premieres tonight at 8 p.m. and we at CJR will be watching with beers in hand to see if the "conservative firebrand" can transform... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   ACORN’s Family Tree

   September 18, 2009 05:44 PM

   In a piece in the October 2009 issue of The Atlantic, “The Story Behind the Story,” journalist Mark Bowden examines the source of the Sonia Sotomayor video clips that surfaced during her Supreme Court nomination—and what... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Forget 140 Characters, Try Just Six Words

   September 15, 2009 05:01 PM

   SMITH Magazine, the online journal of pithy six-word memoirs and FRONTLINE/Digital Nation — a PBS documentary project about life in the digital age, are seeking six-word entries in a contest to describe life in... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Graphic Storytelling, Finger Paint-Style

   September 15, 2009 11:36 AM

   Illustrator Christoph Niemann has a new entry in his graphic blog, "Abstract City" on the New York Times's online Opinion section today. In the latest installment, titled "Good Night and Tough Luck," a nod to newsman Edward R.... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Google Flips For Print Experience

   September 15, 2009 10:30 AM

   As newspapers try to figure out how to be Web-bier, the Web is trying to be more like the print product. Google has introduced a new feature called Fast Flip that mimics the tactile experience of thumbing through print pages.... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Of Twitter, Jackasses, Toothpaste and Tubes

   September 15, 2009 09:16 AM

   In his column in today's Washington Post, media critic Howard Kurtz chronicles a Twitter episode that showed how important it is to look before you tweet. (Item at the end of page 3 and the jump to page... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Dancing With Political Operatives

   September 14, 2009 06:06 PM

   In one week, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay makes his debut on the dance competition show "Dancing With the Stars" and the coverage has started before he has even donned a single sequin. Politico asked around... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Happy Anniversary, Financial Crisis

   September 14, 2009 11:58 AM

   Put on your party hats, it's the first anniversary of Lehman Brothers's collapse and the start of a domino effect of failed banks that led to the government's massive TARP bailout. Mark the occasion by sending an e-card — try... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Joe Wilson’s War

    September 11, 2009 03:01 PM

    It may be an unpopular opinion, seeing as the rest of the world has piled onto Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for heckling the president during his health care opus the other night, but I quite enjoyed Wilson's outburst.... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    New York Times to CNN: We’re better than you

    September 11, 2009 02:52 PM

    More on CNN's false alarm over a Coast Guard training exercise in the Potomac earlier today. The New York Times's account of the mix-up ends with this passive aggressive zinger at its cable television brethren: ... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition

    September 10, 2009 01:38 PM

    Joe Wilson has become that guy. The Republican Representative from South Carolina who blurted out "You lie!" during Obama's healthcare speech last night and then spent the... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Twittering the Newsman’s Memorial

    September 9, 2009 12:32 PM

    TVNewser kept us up to date this morning by live-tweeting the Walter Cronkite memorial service at Lincoln Center. Besides breathlessly reporting on the veritable "who's who" of broadcast journalism in attendance, TVNewser noted President Barack Obama's remarks before... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Death Panel, DNR

    September 9, 2009 11:10 AM

    She's at it again. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has revived the specter of the death panel, this time in an op-ed in the pages of today's Wall Street Journal. Politico's Glenn Thrush gets right... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Connect the dots

    September 8, 2009 02:15 PM

    Today, Slate launches a new interactive feature called "News Dots," which aims to illustrate how all news stories are related to each other using eye-pleasing info-graphics. As they explain it, "Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars, topics in the news... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Listening to Legislation

    September 8, 2009 01:20 PM

    In an effort to inform people about the ongoing health care debate and to make reading legalese less boring, a group of voice-over actors has banded together to record all 1,018 pages of the proposed health care bill,... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    School Lessons from Obama

    September 8, 2009 11:06 AM

    Any minute now, President Barack Obama will address the nation's schoolchildren in a planned televised speech that caused a partisan furor after Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer accused the president of using the speech to indoctrinate students... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Silver Buckshot Misses Target

    September 4, 2009 12:13 PM

    Silver Buckshot. No, that's not Vice President Joe Biden's new nickname. That's his description of the stimulus package, which he clarified in a speech last night was never meant to be a silver bullet, saving the country from... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Sex, Newspapers and Defamation, Italian-style

    September 4, 2009 11:21 AM

    The New York Times picks up on the Silvio Berlusconi newspaper wars in Italy today with a follow up on the editor of a Catholic newspaper who dared to condemn Berlusconi's "spicy personal life," as the Times puts... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Throwing Spitz Balls at The Post

    September 3, 2009 07:03 PM

    Congratulations to the New York Post. They’ve managed to pull three four days worth of cover stories out of a rumor founded on unnamed sources that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is considering a return to politics — right in time... Continue reading

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