Remember when?

By Clint Hendler   Sep 26, 2008 at 01:14 PM

The New Republic has compiled short videos highlighting some Obama and McCain career debate moments. Take a look if you... More

McCain’s In

But if he wasn’t, the show would have gone on.

By Clint Hendler   Sep 26, 2008 at 11:29 AM

McCain has just announced that he will be attending tonight's presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi hosted by Jim Lehrer. Seconds... More

Couric and Palin, Round Two

By Clint Hendler   Sep 26, 2008 at 08:25 AM

Last night CBS showed Katie Couric asking the spectacularly unbriefed Sarah Palin about her Charlie Gibson-era claim that being able... More

Newsweek on The National Enquirer

By Clint Hendler   Sep 25, 2008 at 03:45 PM

Newsweek has a pretty interesting (although slightly peg-less, given its bare mention of the unmentionable Palin coverage) article on the... More

Context Isn’t Coastal

Local papers must balance econ rhetoric with record

By Clint Hendler   Sep 25, 2008 at 10:59 AM

’Tis a season of change. Summer shifted into fall. Lehman Brothers shifted from in business to not. And John McCain... More

Eyes on Chicago

By Clint Hendler   Sep 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM

Michael Miner, the Chicago Reader's longtime media critic has a thoughtful piece today on the dilemma that The Chicago Tribune--under... More

McGambit

Debate play deserves horserace coverage

By Clint Hendler   Sep 24, 2008 at 04:17 PM

Just minutes ago, John McCain issued one of his campaign’s classic media-cycle-grabbing gambits. He’s announced that, as of tomorrow morning... More

Podcasting through the Crisis

By Clint Hendler   Sep 23, 2008 at 12:29 PM

CJR has praised it before, but the best explainer I’ve seen—scratch that—the best explainer I’ve heard on the how the... More

Shades of Lipstick

Vintage Palin press umbrage from the last frontier

By Clint Hendler   Sep 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM

On October 16, 2006, despite expectations that she’d be absent, Sarah Palin showed up. The occasion was a candidate’s forum... More

Changes at The Politico

By Clint Hendler   Sep 22, 2008 at 09:51 AM

Today The Politico issued a press release announcing its post election plans. Bottom line? They plan to grow, not shrink,... More

York on Kindergarten Sex Ed

A fact check gone wrong

By Clint Hendler   Sep 18, 2008 at 01:35 PM

This week, National Review published an article by Byron York with the simple headline “On Sex-Ed Ad, McCain Is Right.”... More

Dude!

By Clint Hendler   Sep 18, 2008 at 01:16 PM

I missed the Todd Palin broadcast debut, but as Megan and Liz have pointed out, that's no great loss. For... More

In the Pool with Biden

By Clint Hendler   Sep 18, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Ben Smith has posted the full pool report from Joe Biden's visit yesterday to the Football Hall of Fame, written... More

Squawked Out

By Clint Hendler   Sep 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM

In a year of viral video, here's a new one where independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader bemoans the lack of... More

Lockdown

By Clint Hendler   Sep 15, 2008 at 04:34 PM

Politico's Jonathan Martin describes the trials of the Palin press: Since being selected a John McCain's running mate on Aug.... More