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1. Full Court Press

   Above the Fold: Stand by Me

   December 8, 2008 08:57 AM

   If you're feeling overwhelmed by never ending suicide bombings in Iraq, escalating conflict in Afghanistan, hand-to-hand (if unarmed) conflict over gay marriage, IRAs which once looked like giant pumpkins now the size of grapes, torture by the American government, and... Continue reading

2. Full Court Press

   Winners & Sinners

   December 5, 2008 05:44 PM

   Winner: Janet Maslin for her spot-on review of The Man Who Owns The News, in which she dissects Michael Wolff's "supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch." FCP has always regarded Wolff's specialty as contemptuous envy, but "supercilious... Continue reading

3. Full Court Press

   Above the Fold: Sins of Omission

   December 4, 2008 03:55 PM

   Yesterday, FCP focused on a New York Times story about Barack Obama's search for a new CIA director. Top candidate John O. Brennan had removed himself from consideration for the post after being accused of complicity in... Continue reading

4. Full Court Press

   Above the Fold: Slanting the Torture Story

   December 3, 2008 05:47 PM

   There is a fierce battle going on over what kind of a CIA director Barack Obama should appoint, when he should close the prison camp at Guantanamo, and whether there should be a full scale investigation (and possible prosecution) of... Continue reading

5. Full Court Press

   Above the Fold: Complex Analysis

   December 1, 2008 09:39 AM

   Is there any limit to the shamelessness of NBC News? That is one of several questions sparked by David Barstow's 5,000-word assault against the military-industrial complex in general and "One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex" in particular—the one owned and... Continue reading

6. Full Court Press

   Winners & Sinners

   November 25, 2008 09:06 AM

   Sinner: Michelle Cottle, for wasting the first 2,515 words of a 3,253-word piece about Barney Frank in The New Republic with overheated prose describing the Democratic congressman's bad grooming, brusque demeanor, and involvement in a nineteen-year-old sex scandal—before... Continue reading

7. Full Court Press

   Above the Fold: Down the Rabbit Hole

   November 24, 2008 08:45 AM

   With this morning's papers bringing news of the government's newest commitment of tens of billions of dollars to prop up Citicorp—its third major lurch towards socialism in three months—one fundamental question remains: How the hell did we get... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Political Intelligence

   November 10, 2008 12:10 PM

   Newsweek's seventh behind-the-scenes look at a presidential campaign has lots of small scoops and several rather odd judgments. This 47,000-word mini-book can be a hard slog at times, but it contains enough inside information to keep any committed... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Above the Fold: Ross, Kiriakou, and Waterboarding

   December 17, 2007 10:41 AM

   This article originally appeared on December 17, 2007, at radaronline.com. It is reposted here with the permission of the rightsholder, Charles Kaiser. One night last week, ABC's World News Tonight with Charles Gibson led with what seemed, at first, to... Continue reading

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