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Don’t take my traditional Internet away!
May 17, 2012 07:10 PM
Over at Nieman Lab, Adrienne LaFrance has an interesting interview with Talking Points Memo publisher Josh Marshall about his efforts to “formally deconstruct” the idea that TPM is primarily a website. It’s a good, short look at one... Continue reading
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A Belated Hat-Tip to the Herald’s Trayvon Tick-Tock
April 6, 2012 11:01 AM
I contributed the portion of our roundup of Trayvon Martin coverage that focused on what had been reported about the initial police investigation, so I’m chagrined to say I missed this comprehensive tick-tock by Frances Robles... Continue reading
Swing States Project

What Santorum Didn’t Say
February 22, 2012 05:52 PM
As he tries to cement his newfound position as a leader in the Republican presidential primary campaign, Rick Santorum has embraced a favorite tactic among GOP pols: attacking the media. Complaints from Santorum and his aides that journalists... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Three Thoughts on Mitt Romney’s ‘Very Poor’ Day
February 1, 2012 05:07 PM
Herewith, a trio of thoughts on the political-media story that won the day on February 1: Mitt Romney’s statement on CNN this morning that he’s focused on the middle class but “not concerned about the very poor,”... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

What the Fact-Checkers Get Wrong
January 5, 2012 06:00 AM
In the waning days of 2011, Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, brought the wrath of the liberal blog world upon itself when it dubiously—though not unexpectedly—chose as its “Lie of the Year” Democratic claims that... Continue reading
The Kicker

Rick’s Relevant Now
January 4, 2012 12:46 PM
How far has Rick Santorum come to his place in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney at the Iowa Republican caucuses? Back in June, when Santorum formally announced his candidacy, I rounded up the coverage and noted that... Continue reading
Feature

Power of Dispassion
December 2, 2011 12:45 PM
On October 17, 2010, the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Atlanta Falcons before a crowd of nearly 70,000. The game was expected to be a tough contest between two of the top teams in the National Football League,... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

There Is Bipartisan Consensus on Taxes
November 21, 2011 05:43 PM
With the congressional “supercommittee” unable to agree on a deal to cut the deficit, the theme of this morning’s coverage was all about partisan gridlock preventing our nation’s leaders from coming together to solve common problems. Even members of Congress... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

It Wasn’t ‘Liberal Media’ That Froze Out Bachmann
November 14, 2011 02:39 PM
Over the weekend, a media micro-controversy broke out: CBS News political director and Slate reporter John Dickerson wrote in an email that he’d rather book a guest other than Michele Bachmann for an online show after Saturday’s GOP... Continue reading
The Kicker

It’s Good to be the Former First Daughter
November 14, 2011 10:34 AM
Bill Carter of The New York Times writes this morning that Chelsea Clinton will be joining NBC News, effective immediately, as a full-time correspondent reporting feel-good features. (The offer sounds not entirely unlike the one that Jenna Hager,... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

At GOP Debate, Good Work by CNBC
November 10, 2011 05:01 PM
There’s an obvious top story coming out of last night’s Republican presidential debate: Rick Perry’s “oops” moment, which reinforced a coalescing narrative about the Texas governor’s weak debate performances and crumbling campaign. As the political scientist and blogger Brendan Nyhan... Continue reading
The Kicker

More Than One Way to ‘Keep it Sparse’
November 10, 2011 10:13 AM
Among the write-ups of last night’s GOP debate is an entry from Politico that is notable because it is just so… Politico-y. The article is framed as “six takeaways” from the debate, and the first five take stock... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

On Cain Story, Politico Had Grounds to Publish
November 5, 2011 03:25 PM
Jack Shafer and Stephen Engelberg haven’t changed their minds: Politico, they still believe, made a journalistic error when it decided a week ago to publish its reporting on allegations of sexual harassment against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain stemming from... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

AP Finds Republican Candidates MIA on Housing Debt
November 1, 2011 02:27 PM
The Associated Press put out a good story over the weekend noting that many of the “jobs plans” being pushed by the Republican presidential candidates don’t seem especially likely to, well, create jobs. The AP doesn’t break a... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Does Rick Perry Have Fire in His Belly?
October 14, 2011 03:20 PM
Other than the continuing gravity-defying nature of Herman Cain’s book tour run for president, the big horse race story of the moment is Rick Perry’s precipitous fall from atop the polls. In a recent article, The Washington Post... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Politico Primary: Down the Rabbit Hole
October 7, 2011 02:18 PM
I don’t begrudge the folks at Politico their decision to launch a gimmicky new feature called “Politico Primary,” in which readers are invited to nominate and vote on independent presidential candidates for the 2012 election. Sure, there’s absolutely... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Once Again, No Housing Questions for Obama
October 6, 2011 04:06 PM
Much of President Obama’s press conference earlier today was devoted to the latest partisan fight in DC over the American Jobs Act. But there were also some good, wide-ranging questions asked of the president. ABC’s Jake Tapper, leaping... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

TNR Highlights Perry’s ‘Crony Capitalist’ Past
September 29, 2011 04:12 PM
Former Washington Post reporter Alec MacGillis, who has joined The New Republic to cover the 2012 campaign, has his first long feature story in the current issue of that magazine, and it’s a winner. “The Permanent Candidate,” an... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Norm Ornstein Gets Congress; WaPo Doesn’t
September 29, 2011 01:50 PM
Remember that New York Times story earlier this week on the (since-resolved) showdown over federal disaster aid—the one that misleadingly treated the standoff as a result of bickering by “Congress,” rather than the product of choices... Continue reading
The Kicker

Does This Mean the Iowa Caucuses Are Like eHarmony?
September 29, 2011 10:47 AM
Web headline on the lead campaign story in The New York Times today: “Romney Waits as G.O.P. Flirts with Alternates.” Web headline on the lead campaign story in The Washington Post today: “Mitt Romney, never Republicans’... Continue reading

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