Press Declares Victory, Even If Obama Won’t

What, exactly, happened in Iowa last night?

By Clint Hendler   May 21, 2008 at 10:24 AM

On Sunday, The New York Times, published a piece entitled “Obama to Return to Iowa, Possibly to Declare Victory.” It... More

McCain Promises Weekly Presidential Press Conferences

By Clint Hendler   May 15, 2008 at 10:38 AM

Interesting and laudable. From McCain'sprepared remarks for today’s big vision speech: My administration will set a new standard for transparency... More

Stars and Stripes forever

By Clint Hendler   May 14, 2008 at 05:01 PM

In January, I wrote about the complicated contracting relationship between Stars and Stripes, the military-backed paper that insists on its... More

Those Obama “Concerns”

What’s talked about when we don’t talk about race

By Clint Hendler   May 14, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Yesterday’s Washington Post featured a story on race and the Obama campaign, one that went beyond the tea leaves of... More

Campbell Robertson, Sometimes Cartoonist

The New York Times does non-fiction, political, comics

By Clint Hendler   May 9, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Usually, Campbell Robertson, as a thirty-one-year-old theater reporter for The New York Times, writes articles on Broadway and the actors... More

Rejecting Post-Rationality

The press finds the faith to find the math

By Clint Hendler   May 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM

This morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough—and much of the press—seemed to be of two minds about what last night’s results would... More

The Late Great States

Demographics should temper claims of closing “momentum”

By Clint Hendler   May 6, 2008 at 09:53 PM

Remember Pennsylvania? It was to be the last mega-state, the primary of primaries that would cap off almost four months... More

Gassed Up

Campaign coverage calls out a dumb idea. Eventually.

By Clint Hendler   May 5, 2008 at 08:03 AM

One thing that struck me about last week’s coverage of Hillary Clinton and John McCain’s proposal to declare a gas... More

The Inestimable Popular Vote Estimates

How to account for different counts

By Clint Hendler   May 2, 2008 at 08:37 AM

On April 23, Hillary Clinton, with a net gain of 214,000 Pennsylvania votes in her back pocket, set off an... More

Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com

Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

By Clint Hendler   May 1, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Dart to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Triblocal.com for shoveling dodgy online content into print. In April 2007, the Tribune... More

NYTimes schools Post, Sun on Arabic School

By Clint Hendler   Apr 28, 2008 at 03:47 PM

The New York Times’s Andrea Elliot, who won a Pulitzer last year for a series profiling a Brooklyn mosque, turned... More

There’s Always Hope In Hillaryland

Just ignore the pundits and ignore the math

By Clint Hendler   Apr 23, 2008 at 10:32 AM

It’s hard to look at Clinton’s ten-point victory in Pennsylvania and not see something. But at the same time, as... More

Pennsylvania Vox Pop

For voters, local sources reign

By Clint Hendler   Apr 22, 2008 at 07:28 PM

To get a sense of how Pennsylvania voters got their news and information about the state’s primary, I did spot... More

Pennsylvania’s Great Expectations Game

When a win is a win isn’t a win

By Clint Hendler   Apr 22, 2008 at 08:51 AM

Whether it’s a race for governor, senator, mayor, or city council, in the U.S. it’s usually pretty easy to determine... More

The Keystone State?

In Pennsylvania, the press sees a race. Sort of.

By Clint Hendler   Apr 18, 2008 at 05:04 PM

One thing’s for sure: the Pennsylvania Democratic primary matters to Pennsylvanians. Since the last election, over 160,000 people have registered... More