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1. Darts and Laurels

   Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes

   January 22, 2008 09:00 AM

   Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes for uncovering a murky financial relationship between its paper and the Pentagon’s public-relations machine, and a Dart to the publishing staff for signing off on the arrangement. First, some background. Stars... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   L’Affaire Scaife

   January 21, 2008 05:24 PM

   Vanity Fair has managed to obtain what it describes as Richard Mellon Scaife’s first interview in eight years. Alas, the subject is not the seemingly failing fortunes of his Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, or the mega-billionaire’s patronage of the American Right... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Delegate This

   January 21, 2008 04:10 PM

   Ah, primary season! That magical time every four years when the press, the candidates, the donors, and the handlers scrutinize each state, one by one, searching for a knockout victory. It’s about sorting states into win and loss categories, looking... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Revisiting the New Hampshire Polls

   January 14, 2008 03:42 PM

   The American Association for Public Opinion Research, a trade association of pollsters, announced today that it will convene an ad-hoc panel to look into the New Hampshire polling meltdown. In a statement, Nancy Mathiowetz, the group’s president, equates... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   The Candidates’ own Health Care

   January 14, 2008 12:58 PM

   This morning Julie Rovner, NPR’s ace healthcare reporter (read her November/December Q&A with CJR), turned in an excellent listener-inspired piece on presidential candidates’ personal decisions on health insurance. What’s left of the Democratic field—Clinton, Edwards, Obama, and Kucinich—all... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Dowd in Derry

   January 11, 2008 01:27 PM

   Props to Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo for digging this up: Maureen Dowd’s New Hampshire morning-after column was probably written in Jerusalem, despite trumpeting the words “DERRY, NH” right up top. Dowd opens her Wednesday column... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   The Polls: What the #$!% Happened?

   January 9, 2008 05:12 PM

   Polls taken after the Iowa caucus and before the New Hampshire primary consistently showed Barack Obama beating Hillary Clinton—by as many as 13 percentage points. Today, not so much. “It’s a really big deal. I’ve never seen anything like... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   The Edwards Slog

   January 8, 2008 08:52 AM

   Somewhere in New Hampshire, a couple dozen or so journalists are suffering the consequences of another all-nighter on the John Edwards press bus. If it’s anything like the one the campaign ran in Iowa, just six days ago, the journalists... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   The Other Winner in Iowa

   January 4, 2008 03:25 PM

   Late on New Year's Eve, The Des Moines Register made a special effort to get copies of its January 1 issue into the hands of journalists. That day's paper carried the final word from DMR polling consultant Ann... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    The Glamorous Life on the Campaign Trail

    January 3, 2008 06:13 PM

    Des Moines-This morning, the Principal Financial Group's downtown Des Moines office tower hosted Mitt Romney's final major campaign event. Romney stood in front of the cameras of the world's media and a crowd of some 400 people, many of them... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    John’s Joke

    January 2, 2008 04:58 PM

    Burlington, Iowa-- About 150 people packed John Edwards's low-ceilinged strip mall campaign office here. The candidate stood on top of a chair near the door, and thanked the crowd, which spilled-over into the hall, for coming out and keeping the... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Edwards: Gives Coffee, Takes Questions

    January 2, 2008 03:39 PM

    Fairfield, IA--After a stop at the Second Street Café, John Edwards boarded the press bus with four coffees in a cardboard tray. Other aides, including spokesman Mark Kornblau, traveled behind, some bearing more coffee. At this point the... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Iowa and the Search for Power

    January 2, 2008 09:37 AM

    OTTUMWA, Iowa -- In a fit of closing activity, John Edwards is on a statewide thirty-six-hour bus tour. And what bus tour would be complete without a press bus trailing behind? About two dozen reporters, mostly young... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Iowa: Land of the Midnight Fun

    January 1, 2008 02:48 PM

    DES MOINES, Iowa -- It was just after 8 o’clock, and Carrie Giddins, the Iowa Democratic Party’s spokeswoman, was sitting in a low-slung arm chair wearing heels and a sequined black cocktail dress. A video camera was inches from her... Continue reading

15. Darts and Laurels

    Laurel to The Principia Pilot

    December 26, 2007 09:00 AM

    Laurel to The Principia Pilot for truth-telling under difficult circumstances. When rumors began to circulate that CEO Stuart Jenkins, who oversees Principia College, had been given a big pay raise, editor Caitlin Carpenter began digging. She soon found out that... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    A Consumer View on the FCC’s New Consolidation Rule

    December 20, 2007 03:22 PM

    Tuesday, in a party line vote, the Federal Communications Commission issued a rule allowing certain newspapers and television stations to share the same ownership. In a November New York Times op-ed, Kevin Martin, a Bush-appointee and the Commission’s chair,... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    We Have A Winner!

    December 19, 2007 11:07 AM

    A week ago, I wondered to a colleague about how long it would be before a journalist pointed out that Mike Huckabee, who rose to national attention for losing over 110 pounds while governor of Arkansas, had added a... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Who’s Gonna Win Iowa?

    December 18, 2007 02:38 PM

    In today’s New York Times, Iowan Gilbert Cranberg (a past CJR contributor) and two co-authors have an excellent op-ed explaining how, uh, idiosyncratic caucus voting is for Iowa Democrats. The gist is that each precinct caucus functions something... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Howie’s Got This One Right

    December 17, 2007 12:55 PM

    Props to Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz for chiding campaign reporters who regurgitate stinging, anonymous quotes. He's got a scad of good examples, where the sources in question aren't exactly disinterested parties or valiant whistle blowers in need... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    The Times’s Three-Year Silence on Pakistan’s Nukes

    December 4, 2007 11:32 AM

    On November 18, as the Musharraf régime’s hold on power began to look more tenuous, The New York Times published an article by David Sanger and William Broad on a “secret program” of U.S. nuclear security aid to Pakistan.... Continue reading

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