Darts & Laurels

A Dart to the television news industry

By Clint Hendler   Aug 12, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Dart to the television news industry, for a shameful nonresponse to serious questions about their vetting of analysts hired to... More

Steady Now…

A North Carolina paper covers the Edwards allegation. Carefully.

By Clint Hendler   Aug 7, 2008 at 05:17 PM

For the Charlotte Observer, it began in October, when the National Enquirer published an article suggesting that presidential candidate—and former... More

Poll Respondents Lie

By Clint Hendler   Aug 6, 2008 at 04:08 PM

I'm a little late in seeing this, but the Wall Street Journal had a fantastic article this past weekend looking... More

The Edwards Story’s Next Step?

By Clint Hendler   Aug 6, 2008 at 01:43 PM

Over the last several weeks I’ve been making phone calls here and there, tracking the slow progress of the National... More

The Power of Narrative

Sometimes candidate bios are too good for our own good

By Clint Hendler   Aug 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM

On Wednesday, The New York Times gave us another installment in “The Long Run,” its series of biographical profiles of... More

Barack’s Beefcake

By Clint Hendler   Jul 25, 2008 at 04:15 PM

Ben Smith links this hot-'n-heavy behind the scenes report from Bild, a German tabloid, wherein writer Judith Bonesky describes the... More

“Most people” not pundits

By Clint Hendler   Jul 25, 2008 at 02:02 PM

Over at The New Republic Noam Scheiber writes this of recent Mitt Romney as veep nominee speculation: What I don't... More

Drum’s Rim Shot … It’s Good!

By Clint Hendler   Jul 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM

The Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum predicted last Friday that either the National Review or The Weekly Standard would headline their... More

Outside Agitators

An early ProPublica collaboration tests deadlines and gets results

By Clint Hendler   Jul 25, 2008 at 07:43 AM

Last Thursday, Rex Smith, executive editor of the Albany Times Union, got a phone call. On the other end was... More

Hanging by the Telephone

Der Spiegel would have been happy to put this matter to rest

By Clint Hendler   Jul 22, 2008 at 10:40 AM

Last Monday, Der Spiegel editor Mathias Müller von Blumencron joined Bernhard Zand, the magazine’s Arabic-speaking middle east correspondent, in Baghdad.... More

Explore the question: Is Iran deterable?

By Clint Hendler   Jul 18, 2008 at 04:16 PM

We may have a winner in the contest for the most distressing op-ed ever run by The New York Times.... More

Across the Pond

By Clint Hendler   Jul 18, 2008 at 03:54 PM

As a quasi-follow up to this post I made yesterday, here's an enjoyable reflection on the differences between the U.K.... More

25 or 6 to 4

By Clint Hendler   Jul 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM

The New York Times’s Jeff Zeleny makes a tiny flub in writing up Obama June fundraising numbers, writing that: ..,the... More

A Shrine to Hackery

By Clint Hendler   Jul 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM

In a New Delhi bylined piece, the Telegraph passes on the tale of an Indian temple where worshipers show their... More

Dowd’s Colorful False Impression

By Clint Hendler   Jul 16, 2008 at 04:28 PM

Today’s Maureen Dowd column tries to make the case that Obama is humorless. It’s a short step away from that... More