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1. The Kicker

   Shielding Reality

   January 17, 2011 01:18 PM

   Take the time on this holiday to read SF Weekly’s fascinating and troubling look from last week at Bait Car, a reality show on TruTv. The show’s producers, collaborating with the San Francisco Police Department, sprinkled cars around... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Best of 2010: Clint Hendler

   December 31, 2010 11:39 AM

   No Handouts: The administration has denied independent photographers access to historic White House events that could easily be made public, instead releasing one carefully selected “handout” snap taken by their official photographer. It’s one of the clearest... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   The WikiLeaks Equation

   December 28, 2010 01:13 PM

   Call it the Year of WikiLeaks. From April 5, when the site posted a grainy video showing the death of two Reuters employees from a U.S. helicopter attack, to November 28, when mainline journalism organizations began releasing stories based on... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Dealing with the Times

   December 1, 2010 10:41 AM

   While the hundreds of e-mails show the governor’s press staffers fencing with reporters from many major news organizations, no set of interactions is more relevant than those with the New York Times. The e-mails, mostly coming from Times Albany bureau... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   The Times asked if Paterson was caught in “compromising positions”

   December 1, 2010 10:13 AM

   On January 24, 2010, Danny Hakim, a New York Times reporter who was in frequent contact with Governor David Paterson’s press office, e-mailed a string of questions about the State Police’s role in protecting the governor’s mansion. <img... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   One Night at the AP

   December 1, 2010 10:13 AM

   It was one of the weirdest weeks Albany has ever experienced—and for New York’s scandal ridden, incestuous capital, that’s saying something. It was early February 2010, and a New York Times investigative team was focusing on Governor David Paterson—just what... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   The Paterson E-mails

   December 1, 2010 10:07 AM

   In March 2010, CJR filed two Freedom of Information Law requests seeking e-mails between journalists and Governor Paterson’s two most senior press aides during the period of time when the The New York Times was working on an investigation that... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Peggy Noonan vindicated!

   November 11, 2010 11:16 AM

   It would be too easy to write this off as your News of The Weird for the day. No way to dress this up, so I'll simply let the Guardian tell you the tale of how a surfboarding... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Six Nuggets from the 2010 Exit Polls

   November 3, 2010 03:16 PM

   If you watched cable last night, you may have had so much exit poll data thrown your way that you’re having trouble picking through the clutter. Compiled from CNN.com’s presentation of national data compiled from separate house races,... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Politico Puffs, Palin Huffs

    November 1, 2010 03:35 PM

    Late on Halloween night, Politico published an article claiming that after the midterm elections, Republican bigwigs plan to set off on a “a common, if uncoordinated” mission: “Stop Sarah Palin” before she secures her party’s 2012 nomination. Not... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    Q&A: UFO Journalist Leslie Kean

    October 31, 2010 12:12 PM

    Leslie Kean has written an unusual book on an unusual subject: Unidentified flying objects. But this Halloween weekend, Kean would like you to get any pictures of little green men you might have out of your mind. Released this August,... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Who gets (and controls) the “first crack”?

    October 28, 2010 12:02 PM

    White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just tweeted about a new initiative to communicate with voters without a press filter, by inviting Twitter users to ask him their own question and jump ahead of the Associated Press’s correspondent... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    WaPo’s Puzzling Stance on WikiLeaks

    October 27, 2010 02:04 PM

    Yesterday, The Washington Post ran a troubling unsigned editorial essentially coming out against the release of 400,000 Iraq war documents by WikiLeaks. It’s a grumpy read. The editorial claims that there’s noting worth seeing in those documents,... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    “My photographer just got shot, so I’m Skyping…”

    October 25, 2010 12:04 PM

    It's tempting to view the below spoof video, where the staff of Dallas Fox affiliate KDFW goofs around on social media while covering a shooting, as some skirmish in the new v. old media battle. (The alt-weekly Dallas... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    A Bloomberg Shaggy Dog FOIA story

    October 25, 2010 10:16 AM

    Bloomberg's Bob Ivry has an update on a FOIA request lauched by his late colleague Mark Pittman. The portrayal of the Treasury department bureaucracy's response to Pittman's request for documents naming the $300 billion of Citigroup securities the... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Advice on Howard Kurtz’s Replacement

    October 5, 2010 05:20 PM

    The parlor game is already underway, with lists of potential replacements being drawn up for Howard Kurtz, who will be leaving his well-worn perch as The Washington Post’s chief media writer to become the D.C. bureau chief of The Daily... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    The Nixon Papers You Haven’t Seen

    September 28, 2010 09:51 AM

    The Public Citizen Litigation Group, the legal arm of the Ralph Nader-founded watchdog organization, is spearheading a court challenge filed earlier this month on behalf of a group of leading Watergate historians to win the release of former... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Q&A: White House E-mail Lawyer Anne Weismann

    September 20, 2010 11:52 AM

    In April 2007, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington told the world that the White House had failed to comply with its legal obligation to properly retain and archive e-mail records. The revelation came after the Abramoff... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    A Swedish Shield, Unraised

    September 2, 2010 04:40 PM

    Julian Assange, the public face of the secret-sharing site WikiLeaks, has recently been spending a lot of time in Sweden. And given a recent investigation of rape charges against him, he may not be going anywhere else for awhile. While... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Will the Shield Bill Become Law?

    August 9, 2010 02:53 PM

    On December 10, 2009, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send the Free Flow of Information Act for consideration before the full Senate. For the journalism advocacy groups pressing for a federal shield law to give reporters greater protection... Continue reading

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