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1. The Kicker

   What an adjective!

   March 23, 2010 02:15 PM

   If you've been on the internet this afternoon--and not under a rock or something--I'm sure you've by now seen the news (and I use that word loosely) that the Vice President was caught on an open-mic dropping the F-bomb to... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   The End of The Ether

   March 18, 2010 02:10 PM

   This week C-SPAN launched a full searchable online video library, dating to twenty-three years ago. But let’s go a bit further back, to the earliest days of television broadcast, when the real worry was content dissemination, not preservation.... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   “We felt a lot better once we got back to camp and had a cup of tea.”

   March 16, 2010 02:30 PM

   Here's some captivating video of what it's like to come under fire when embedded on patrol in Afghanistan from Stuart Webb and Alex Thomson, journalists with British television network Channel 4. Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Limiting Sunshine

   March 11, 2010 11:29 AM

   Florida quite famously has one of the nation's most expansive public records access laws. And it's not uncommon for such a law to butt up against some people's views of common sense and common decency. Take for example, the recent... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Said What?

   March 10, 2010 04:34 PM

   The perils of relying on prepared remarks. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared before a group of insurance executives today, ready to deliver a tough camera ready sound bite. But then things changed. Here's ABC's account: According to the... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Rent a Newspaper Flack

   March 5, 2010 01:15 PM

   Print subscribers to the Los Angeles Times awoke this morning to find this where the front page—you know, the one with the news and stuff—usually is: That's an ad promoting today's theatrical... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Ripe Headline

   March 5, 2010 09:45 AM

   Here's how the the Kansas City Star's Crime Scene KC blog headlined a post about a man heading to prison for 8 years after stealing a bag of shredded cheese: Man gets hard time for soft cheese Nicely... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   “China Daily has set up its biggest team yet to cover this important event.”

   March 4, 2010 09:51 AM

   What important event, you ask? Some industrial scandal? Unrest in western provinces? Nope. The important event worthy of full court coverage from China Daily is, of course, the March 1 redesign of China Daily itself. For more gee-whizery like... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Statement, no longer operative

   March 3, 2010 09:36 AM

   This morning's print New York Times carried the following paragraphs in an article on whether or not Congressman Charlie Rangel would hold on to his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means committee after being sanctioned by the... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Small Change

    March 2, 2010 11:56 AM

    The Wall Street Journal team that’s been looking into the use and abuse of Congressional perks has a story today that puts the petit back into petty corruption. Here’s the scoop from reporters Brody Mullins and T.W. Farnam:... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    WSJ Ledes on the OPR Report

    February 23, 2010 05:35 PM

    When reading through the major papers’ coverage of the release of a series of documents surrounding the department’s investigation into the Bush era Office of Legal Counsel’s drafting of memos allowing torture, I was surprised to see the... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Digging Deep

    February 23, 2010 02:03 PM

    It can’t be fun. Late on a Friday, some important, extremely controversial, highly complicated, and very long government document drops. Forget the dinner date. You’ve got to turn around a quick story. And so it was last weekend, when a... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    A Transparency ‘Victory’ Lap?

    February 22, 2010 09:37 AM

    This morning's Politico Playbook brings word that the Obama administration will pick a series of policy initiatives highlighting the White House's new springtime rhetorical cloak. Here's how an anonymous senior administration official sums it up to Mike Allen:... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Heckling the Times

    February 19, 2010 09:49 AM

    It's interesting to hear the reaction that Tucker Carlson gets when he defends the New York Times's commitment to accuracy and the hard work reporting before a hostile crowd at thislast year's CPAC confab. Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Meltdown

    February 18, 2010 02:14 PM

    As the Northeast digs and melts its way out from feet of snow, now seems like a fine time to look at the lamest most shopworn work done by editorial cartoonists during the recent blizzard. Luckily, the minimalist "<a href=http://ifglobalwarmingisrealthenwhyisitcold.blogspot.com/... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Let the speculation begin!

    February 17, 2010 03:46 PM

    From James Rainey’s column in today’s Los Angeles Times on Ira Glass and his radio show, This American Life: In the next few months, Glass said, the show will present "a huge, groundbreaking investigative piece of... Continue reading

17. Behind the News

    CJR on the Polks

    February 16, 2010 04:50 PM

    This morning, the administrators of the Polk Awards, one of journalism’s most prestigious prizes, announced 2009’s recipients. We’ve structured this week’s News Meeting around the decision to grant a prize to the anonymous videographer and disseminators of the video... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Oh, Sh__!

    February 15, 2010 05:34 PM

    Take a look, folks, at how Politico’s effort to avoid offending our delicate sensibilities by blanking out most of a family unfriendly word this afternoon was instantly negated by Politico’s decision to rebroadcast their reporters’ Twitter feeds alongside... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    The Times doubles up on Information Access

    February 15, 2010 12:19 PM

    Yesterday The New York Times turned in two stories on news organizations’ recent usage of the Freedom of Information Act and other open records laws. One, somewhat oddly run on the front page of the Metropolitan section, focused... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Tonight on Channel 5: Some Say They’re Terrorists…

    February 12, 2010 03:33 PM

    If you watched NewsChannel 5’s two night "investigation" last week of allegations of terrorist training at Islamville, a Muslim "compound" in rural Tennessee, through to the end, you’d probably come away with the right impression. Nick Beres, the Nashville-based correspondent... Continue reading

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