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The Kicker
Philadelphia Will Do
November 5, 2009 01:43 PMAs insignificant magazine charticles go, New York magazine’s Approval Matrix is fine by me. Each week the editors cobble together very short notes on culture, politics, and current events on a Cartesian graph. The X-axis ranges from Despicable to Brilliant,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Waiting on the Shield Law
November 4, 2009 04:01 PMThe Society of Professional Journalists has just put out a press release announcing their backing (with some reservations) of the shield law compromise worked out last week between the White House and the bill’s prime Senate... Continue reading
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The Kicker
A Lost Taste of Tito
November 4, 2009 11:44 AMYesterday the Daily Beast posted drafts of victory/concession night speeches Sarah Palin had intended to deliver one year ago—had she not been prohibited from doing so by John McCain’s staff. It’s pretty predictable stuff, but there’s one thing... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Compromise Reached on Senate Shield Law
October 30, 2009 06:38 PMToday the prime Senate sponsors of the Free Flow of Information Act—or, as it’s commonly known, the shield bill—announced that they’d reached a compromise with the White House on the bill’s most contentious issues: who would be considered a journalist,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Shield Bill Deal Reached?
October 30, 2009 01:00 PMThe Associated Press is reporting that Senator Chuck Schumer, a prime sponsor of the Free Flow of Information Act (commonly known as the shield bill) has reached a deal with the White House on one of the bill’s most difficult... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Guess Who?
October 29, 2009 05:17 PMYesterday, The Washington Times reported some none-too-flattering revelations suggesting a pay-to-play scheme inside the Obama White House. According to documents acquired by the Times, donors who raise more than $300,000 for Democratic campaigns are rewarded with participation in... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The Washington Monthly: 40 Years Old and on Solid Ground
October 28, 2009 01:23 PMThis week the Washington Monthly, the venerable journal of politics and ideas, turns forty. To celebrate, they’ve put out a retrospective issue, including a fun “Bullseyes and Blunders” section, where they rate their successes and failures... Continue reading
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The Kicker
What is this?
October 27, 2009 10:40 AMTake a look at this paragraph. It comes in the middle of today's otherwise very by-the-books Washington Post report from ex-President Bush's debut appearance as a motivational speaker: Many people interviewed afterward said they liked Bush, perhaps even... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Who is Marty Eisenstadt?
October 26, 2009 04:26 PMAs the junkies may remember, in the days just after the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket a man named Martin Eisenstadt turned up and claimed to have been an advisor to the campaign and the anonymous source of Fox’s Carl... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The BNP on the BBC
October 23, 2009 02:39 PMLast night the BBC hosted Question Time, the broadcaster’s flagship political debate program, with representatives from Great Britain’s largest political parties. What drew headlines—and riot police and protesters to the BBC’s studios—was the inclusion, for the first time, of a... Continue reading
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The Kicker
What Rohde Didn’t Say
October 22, 2009 05:54 PMWith, as Megan noted, the publication of the final pieces of David Rohde’s first person retelling of his seven-month captivity with the Taliban, we’ve probably heard all that we are going to hear from The New York Times... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Scozzafava Justly Called Out
October 22, 2009 01:29 PMEarlier this week, Dede Scozzafava, a Republican state representative facing off with a Democrat and a third party Conservative candidate in an upstate New York congressional special election, drew attention after someone on her campaign called the cops on Weekly... Continue reading
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Reconstruction
Podcast: Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson
October 19, 2009 10:30 AMLast week, before the release of their new report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson joined CJR for a half hour conversation. They discussed the state of the nation's journalism, the panoply of reporting... Continue reading
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The Observatory
Sanjay Gupta on Cheating Death
October 16, 2009 01:45 PMWe’ve poked a bit of fun at CNN’s Sanjay Gupta in the past. See this Blair Witch like visit to a Mexican swine flu ward he did in the epidemic’s earliest days. And, yes, we’ve also had <a... Continue reading
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The Kicker
A Media Matters Falsehood
October 15, 2009 04:19 PMMedia Matters, which has been working with immigration reform group America’s Voice on a “Drop Dobbs” campaign, sent out a press release earlier today saying that CNN would air an ad labeling Lou Dobbs, one of the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
A Ham Handed Pairing
October 15, 2009 11:26 AMSlate’s media critic Jack Shafer has put together a nice collection of contemporary New York magazine covers that, he writes, “depending on your point of view ... can be called homage, derivative, or robbery” when viewed alongside the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
How to Exempt Torture From FOIA
October 8, 2009 11:00 AMSay what you will about the wisdom of Joe Lieberman’s attempts to get Congress to pass a special law that would allow the government to stop any further release of photographic evidence of abused detainees under the Freedom of Information... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Do or Die for the Shield Law?
October 7, 2009 06:04 PMShortly after 9:30 am tomorrow, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee will take their seats in room 226 of the Dirksen building. First they’ll consider the nominations of half dozen federal judges and law enforcement officials. And then they will... Continue reading
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The Kicker
How to Get on the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’s Enemies List
October 6, 2009 03:53 PMFrom Wired: When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Change That’s Hard to Believe In
October 2, 2009 10:12 AMThere’s a reason why people don’t trust politicians’ promises: from time to time, they go back on them. That’s exactly what seems to be happening this week, as the Obama administration has communicated to Capitol Hill that the administration will... Continue reading
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