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1. The Kicker

   ‘The Most Inaccessible Story I Have Ever Covered’

   January 15, 2010 01:13 PM

   At The Huffington Post, Danny Shea writes up an interview with Bill Hemmer, who arrived in Port-au-Prince yesterday to cover the earthquake for Fox News. Hemmer describes the situation as "the most inaccessible story I have ever covered,"... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   More From the Journal on Dodd and Reform

   January 15, 2010 10:47 AM

   Last week, as various press outlets tried to gauge the meaning of Chris Dodd’s upcoming retirement for financial regulatory reform, we noted that The Wall Street Journal’s Damian Paletta had provided standout coverage. The passage of some legislation... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   One-Way, Wrong Way

   January 15, 2010 08:00 AM

   Earlier this week, Justin Elliott had a great piece at TPM Muckraker exploring how the notion that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, had left Nigeria on a one-way ticket for Detroit—an idea that is not true—has... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   Haiti’s Recent History

   January 14, 2010 09:38 AM

   The popular image of Haiti can be summed up pretty succinctly: impoverished, unstable, dangerous. Against that familiar backdrop, Tuesday’s devastating earthquake is just another in a litany of tragedies. That is exactly the line The New York Times took in... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   The Haitian News Vacuum

   January 13, 2010 12:04 PM

   One of the striking things about the news out of Haiti in the wake of yesterday’s devastating earthquake is that… given the scope of events, there’s not been that much news out of Haiti. One of the themes in the... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Reid Aloud

   January 11, 2010 05:32 PM

   When a political dispute breaks out, should reporters simply “report the controversy,” or instead attempt to referee and resolve it? This is one of journalism’s never-ending debates, and it came to the forefront again over the weekend, as news organizations... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   An Odd Angle on Reid’s Troubles

   January 11, 2010 12:33 PM

   The outdated word that's gotten the Senate major leader in such trouble will be appearing on the 2010 Census form. According to a report last week by Bonnie Davis for The Grio: Shelly Lowe, a U.S. Census Bureau... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Reform, or “Reform”?

   January 8, 2010 11:49 AM

   This story has been updated. See note at conclusion. The upcoming retirement of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), and what it means for financial regulatory reform, presented an interesting challenge this week for political journalists—and helped bring forward some underlying assumptions... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   What’s So Funny?

   January 7, 2010 03:24 PM

   This week’s media news included the tidbit that The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, who’s been poking fun at D.C.’s political rituals for the last few years in his “Washington Sketch” news column, will soon get to sit with the grown-ups... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Salmon on Why the NYT is Boring—and Why That’s OK

    January 6, 2010 11:07 AM

    At his Reuters blog, Felix Salmon agrees with "pretty much everything" in that Michael Kinsley column I wrote about yesterday, and he thinks that The New York Times is "a little bit boring." But... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    Is Shorter Really Better?

    January 5, 2010 03:46 PM

    Michael Kinsley gets in some good shots against easy targets in his new Atlantic piece arguing that newspaper articles are too long: too much space-eating “context” is trivial election hype; too many banal quotes from predictable pols make... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    More Info on Politico’s Revenues

    January 4, 2010 03:40 PM

    My brief piece a month ago asking whether Politico was really “new media” focused more on editorial output than biz-side developments, but it did note an April report by Peter Osnos (CJR’s vice chairman) that Politico... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Michael Vick, They’ve Heard of You in Iraq

    January 4, 2010 01:46 PM

    Over the weekend, The Washington Post featured a strong article about Iraqi anger at the dismissal of charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing unarmed civilians in 2007. (The judge said the case against... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Best of 2009: Greg Marx

    December 30, 2009 03:00 PM

    The Wrong Stuff This piece was a lot of fun to work on, because it involved doing some reporting to educate myself on an important topic--how the press can go about dislodging factually incorrect ideas from people's minds. Unfortunately,... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Blog Posts Worth Reading

    December 21, 2009 04:30 PM

    Apropos of the Dana Milbank column on Joe Lieberman I discussed in this afternoon’s Campaign Desk piece, the poli-sci blogger Jonathan Bernstein recently offered some more interesting thoughts about Lieberman’s complicated relationship with the Democratic leadership... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    The Polarization Express

    December 21, 2009 03:12 PM

    Dana Milbank had an interesting column over the weekend countering the conventional wisdom on Joe Lieberman: rather than undergoing some recent conservative conversion, he writes, Lieberman has a long-standing record of sticking it to the Democratic leadership on... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Putting the ‘green’ in ‘Green Lantern thinking’

    December 18, 2009 12:08 PM

    I think Brendan Nyhan and John Sides, while right about the underlying argument, go a bit too far in faulting “the press” broadly—as opposed to activist journalist-pundits—for fostering what Nyhan calls “the Green Lantern... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Today in Health Care Reform Punditry

    December 18, 2009 09:39 AM

    David Brooks opposes the Senate health bill. Paul Krugman supports it. Meanwhile, liberals are in revolt over the idea that the bill might pass. We live in strange times. Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    What’s Behind the Drop in Obama’s Approval Ratings?

    December 17, 2009 06:00 PM

    As Barack Obama’s approval ratings have declined over the last few months, the slide has often been explained as a result of a drop in support among independents. For example, a Reuters analysis out this afternoon states: Obama,... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Great Detail from the Journal on Congressional Travel

    December 16, 2009 04:37 PM

    About a week and a half ago, The New York Times ran a story about congressional junkets that are paid for by private groups and companies. The thrust of the story was, appropriately, that regulations put in place... Continue reading

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