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1. Campaign Desk

   Fox Faults On FOIA

   July 29, 2010 05:01 PM

   Yesterday afternoon, Fox Business Network* seemed to have posted quite a scoop: Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs

   July 28, 2010 02:18 PM

   You wouldn’t be reading the coverage of the so-called Afghanistan logs—in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, and The Guardian—if Nick Davies, a senior contributor to the British paper, hadn’t tracked down WikiLeaks founder... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   “I’m here to tell you what it’s like to be a reporter at Guantanamo.”

   July 27, 2010 03:29 PM

   McClatchy is offering a very worth reading commentary, adapted from a speech recently given by The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg on what it's like to do journalism from the country's most high profile detention center The short answer from... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010

   July 23, 2010 02:31 PM

   Daniel Schorr, the legendary CBS newsman who reinvented himself as an analyst and commentator for CNN and NPR, died this morning in a Washington hospital. The New York Times has a detailed obituary, and NPR, his primary journalistic... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   If a Correction Falls in the Woods…

   July 23, 2010 12:17 PM

   On Tuesday, Slate published an analysis spotlighting twelve Politico articles in a recent three week period where notable revisions, overwhelmingly to correct errors of fact, were made without a formal correction notice. The article, by Jeremy Singer-Vine,... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   How do you know what a poll number is worth?

   July 21, 2010 12:41 PM

   In late June, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the publisher of DailyKos, published a study on his site that he said pointed to fraudulent data from the site’s former contract pollster, Research 2000. Moulitsas had stopped commissioning polling... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Politico’s Memory Hole Grows Deeper

   July 20, 2010 04:48 PM

   Over at Slate, Jeremy Singer-Vine has just published the results of a three-week study on how often Politico modifies major stories without notifying readers that the article has been updated, or, more often, without explicitly spelling out what... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   Service Journalism

   July 16, 2010 10:59 AM

   The Springfield Illinois State Journal-Register has clipped some of the most salacious (in this context, that's a synonym for "fun") audio files that the government has introduced into evidence in the trial of former Governor Rod Blagojevich. ... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Counting on a World Cup Memory Hole

   July 12, 2010 02:14 PM

   I’ve been enjoying the call-it-like-he-sees-it World Cup commentary of Ken Silverstein, Harper’s Washington editor. Silverstein, who once worked as a Brazil based correspondent for the Associated Press, hasn’t been shy about trumpeting his love for the Brazilians—or his <a href=http://harpers.org/archive/2010/06/hbc-90007255... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    CNN’s Gutless Firing

    July 8, 2010 12:46 PM

    I’m really disturbed by CNN’s decision to fire Octavia Nasr, a senior editor for Middle East affairs at the network, for this tweet: Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants... Continue reading

11. Short Takes

    Is the End Nigh?

    July 2, 2010 02:55 PM

    Journalists have been whinging about England’s libel laws—which notoriously place the burden of proof on defendants, lack a strong defense for fair commentary or writing on public figures, and provide a venue for forum-shopping plaintiffs across the globe—for generations.... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    One of these things is not like the others

    July 2, 2010 10:51 AM

    This Morning’s Politico Playbook carries some interesting details about suitors for Newsweek. Worth a look, if that’s your bag. But along the way, Playbooker Mike Allen offers the following: There are thought to be six or seven serious... Continue reading

13. Feature

    Message Control

    July 1, 2010 08:00 AM

    On March 4, President Obama sat behind his stout oak desk, flanked by beaming lawmakers, and, wielding a pen for the cameras, signed the Travel Promotion Act into law. Just a routine White House moment, right? Maybe not. The... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Ineligible to work at the Washington Post?

    June 29, 2010 12:04 PM

    Oh no! Politico reports that a California television station recorded audio of reporters snarkily dissecting Sarah Palin's recent speech at California State University, Stanislaus. “Oh my God, I feel like I just got off a roller... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Right To Know in India

    June 29, 2010 10:28 AM

    The New York Times has an interesting summary today of the way that India's groundbreaking Right to Information law has been put to use by everyday citizens. The law allows any Indian to obtain a copy of virtually any document... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Aftergood goes after WikiLeaks

    June 28, 2010 02:55 PM

    Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, one of the nation’s foremost experts on classified documents and secrecy policy, just put up a blog post taking WikiLeaks to task. Aftergood’s distaste for the WikiLeaks project is long standing and... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Lara Logan’s Misplaced Question

    June 28, 2010 11:34 AM

    CBS reporter Lara Logan took to CNN’s Reliable Sources this weekend to criticize Michael Hastings and the article he wrote for Rolling Stone that led to the departure of General Stanley McChrystal. She doubted that... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    The Coffee Lobby

    June 25, 2010 12:27 PM

    Eric Lichtblau has a story in today’s New York Times noting that hundreds of meetings between White House officials and lobbyists are taking place outside the gates of the White House in a branch of Caribou Coffee.... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    No Call is a Bad Call

    June 25, 2010 09:53 AM

    Yes, it's the National Enquirer. But still, the tabloid's justification for deciding not to call Al Gore before running a story showcasing an unnamed masseuse's unsupported allegations that he solicited a sexual act and then attempted rape, strikes me as... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Palin camp claims records suit “sexist … demeaning”

    June 24, 2010 04:49 PM

    Thomas Van Flein, Sarah Palin’s personal lawyer, has taken to the former governor’s Facebook page to announce a victory in a lawsuit seeking email traffic between the Governor and her husband Todd. The party seeking the email... Continue reading

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