What the campaigns think “Women Want”

By Clint Hendler   Sep 15, 2008 at 02:35 PM

This morning, The New York Times’s Kate Zernike turns in a sillily even-handed paint-by-the-numbers story (“Both Sides Seeking to Be... More

Profiles in Courage. Or not.

By Clint Hendler   Sep 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Wall Street brinkmanship. It’s the metaphor that journalists and scotch-swilling brokers use to transubstantiate dollars and cents into bullets and... More

“hack theater critics”

By Clint Hendler   Sep 12, 2008 at 04:56 PM

Interesting thought from Zephyr Teachout, one time Dean campaign web guru, current techPresident blogger: ...post-modern political reporters and bloggers act... More

Take my newspaper… Please!

By Clint Hendler   Sep 12, 2008 at 01:59 PM

The Observer’s John Kolbin has a funny rundown of an internal rah-rah meeting hosted by Arthur Sulzberger Jr. for employees... More

Palin Minds The Gaffes

There are other ways to flunk an interview

By Clint Hendler   Sep 12, 2008 at 01:25 PM

So far, the reaction to Sarah and Charlie’s big night seems to be that she didn’t do anything to embarrass... More

Gibson’s first good question

By Clint Hendler   Sep 11, 2008 at 05:58 PM

Are you ready for a three day IV drip of Palin interviews? In this early excerpt on ABC's website, Charlie... More

The World Really is This Strange

By Clint Hendler   Sep 11, 2008 at 05:02 PM

Quick: What's the connection between the presidential election and yesterday’s guilty pleas by con-man Raffaello Follieri (a.k.a. Anne Hathaway’s ex),... More

Coming to a Maureen Dowd column near you!

By Clint Hendler   Sep 11, 2008 at 03:29 PM

The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder and The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut round up Joe Biden and the Palins’ Secret Service code... More

Bridge Fact Checks Go Nowhere

The press tries. Palin still lies.

By Clint Hendler   Sep 11, 2008 at 03:12 PM

Is it naïve to think that if a candidate for national office is caught lying by the press, she might... More

Welcome back, Len!

By Clint Hendler   Sep 11, 2008 at 02:37 PM

MediaBistro brings us the news that Len Downie, who famously abstained from voting while he served as executive editor of... More

Bridging Schizophrenia

By Clint Hendler   Sep 9, 2008 at 02:42 PM

Today, in a Wall Street Journal piece on Hillary Clinton’s appearance in Florida on behalf of Obama, Christopher Cooper and... More

Hey Kristol: Peretz on Palin is nothing special

By Clint Hendler   Sep 8, 2008 at 04:03 PM

In his New York Times column today, Bill Kristol tries to make the case that the reason that “the media”... More

Talking Shop: John Harris

Politico editor dishes on his paper’s past, present, and future

By Clint Hendler   Sep 8, 2008 at 01:35 PM

On Thursday afternoon, I visited The Politco's RNC workspace, a long carpeted convention ballroom they shared with the St. Paul... More

The Fast and the Furious

Politicker.com: locked out, online, and amped up in St. Paul

By Clint Hendler   Sep 5, 2008 at 04:20 PM

ST. PAUL - At around 8:30 on Wednesday night, as the teetotaling Mike Huckabee addressed the Republican National Convention on... More

That September 11, 2001 Video

By Clint Hendler   Sep 5, 2008 at 12:09 AM

As I mentioned, I watched tonight on PBS, which, when showing the pre-produced rah-rah bio videos was diligent about flagging... More