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1. Campaign Desk

   Picking Apart the Polls

   October 2, 2009 03:27 PM

   If you’re an avid news reader, there’s a good chance that sometime in the last day or so you’ve come across a headline trumpeting an apparent decline in public support for abortion rights. But depending on the source you were... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   ‘Regional Experts’ Not Just Missing from Media

   October 1, 2009 03:46 PM

   Elsewhere on the CJR site today, Michael Massing concludes his take-down of the latest Iran-related coverage with a call for the media to pay more attention to “regional experts” like March Lynch of Foreign Policy and George Washington... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   The Whole World in His Hands

   October 1, 2009 01:16 PM

   As any middle-school social studies student knows, the American system of government consists of three branches: the executive branch, which enforces the laws; the judicial branch, which interprets the laws; and the legislative branch, which makes the laws. The political... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   India and Pakistan, Best of Buddies

   September 30, 2009 04:14 PM

   The New York Times’s long, deeply-reported front-page story on the continuing strength of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group responsible for last year’s deadly Mumbai bombings, runs up against a recurring journalistic dilemma: How do you provide comprehensive information... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   David Brooks’s Afghanistan Straw Man

   September 30, 2009 12:24 PM

   In a Campaign Desk piece today, I talk about the reflexive hawkishness of various big-deal think tanks and op-ed columnists when it comes to American policy in Afghanistan. One particular David Brooks column—the most clear-throated call The New York... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   An Open Debate on the Afghan War?

   September 30, 2009 12:23 PM

   Expert opinion in the foreign policy think-tank world—your American Enterprise Institutes, your Councils on Foreign Relations, etc.—runs, on balance, hawkish. The Iraq War debate provided ample evidence for this claim, and Les Gelb, the president emeritus of CFR, owned up... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Going for the Gold

   September 29, 2009 02:43 PM

   One of the persistent memes of American political journalism is that our president must always be testing his political power in some arena or other. In stories laden with words like “risk,” “gamble,” “hazard,” and “peril,” the Leader of the... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   On the NYT’s opinion media monitor

   September 28, 2009 02:31 PM

   As noted by Michael Calderone and others, NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt reported in his Sunday column that, in the wake of the Van Jones and ACORN stories, the paper’s top editors have decided to "assign an... Continue reading

9. The News Frontier

   Q & A: Jim Brady

   September 25, 2009 04:27 PM

   Named executive editor of washingtonpost.com in late 2004, Jim Brady presided over a near-doubling in Web traffic and saw the site win numerous awards during his four-year tenure. After the Post announced plans to integrate its print and... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    You Mean Not Everybody Watches Cable News?

    September 24, 2009 12:05 PM

    As Ali notes below, for all the dust he’s kicked up lately, Glenn Beck still isn’t really a household name. (Another indication that the cover of Time doesn’t mean what it used to?) It’s not just Beck—over at... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Q & A: Rick Perlstein

    September 22, 2009 05:52 PM

    As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van Jones and the community organizing group ACORN have shown, even under a Democratic White House and Congress, the conservative media have an ability to place a story on the national agenda.... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Driving the Conversation

    September 21, 2009 10:50 AM

    The New York Times has published a number of ambitious series this year, on topics ranging from the financial crisis fallout to the struggle to defeat cancer to settlers in the West Bank. But the series that's attracted more attention... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Seeds of Discontent

    September 18, 2009 03:31 PM

    James O’Keefe, the pimp-playing provocateur who set out to target ACORN with a video camera, a cheesy costume, and a small wad of cash, succeeded in doing more than embarrassing the community-organizing association. O’Keefe, 25, and his colleague Hannah Giles,... Continue reading

14. Darts and Laurels

    Darts and Laurels

    September 17, 2009 09:42 AM

    It was the kind of ethical dilemma that classroom case studies are made of, but the potential con- sequences of this decision were all too real: a deranged man kidnaps his ex-wife from a parking garage and holds... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Washington=Cool… Really?

    September 16, 2009 01:11 PM

    I share Megan's amazement at Arianna Huffington's entrepreneurial abilities. But, despite our current president's rock-star appeal, I remain skeptical of this line in the Hollywood Reporter story she linked to earlier: "There is no better time... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Atlantic launches opinion aggregator site

    September 16, 2009 11:51 AM

    Last night, The Atlantic officially launched its new aggregator site of opinion and analysis, The Atlantic Wire. You can see the site here and read the “About Us” page here; a Mediabistro write-up of the launch with... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Expert Takes on Overseas Elections

    September 16, 2009 10:33 AM

    A promising development for global news junkies: the group political science blog The Monkey Cage is seeking poli-sci posts on elections around the world. As Joshua Tucker puts it in the post announcing the initiative: Here’s the motivation.... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Another Case for Bipartisanship

    September 16, 2009 09:56 AM

    At his Mother Jones blog, Kevin Drum makes an interesting case that bipartisanship is important, after all. On the most contentious issues now before Congress, he says, Democrats have addressed at least some conservative concerns. But... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Brauchli: “Too Many People Call Our Newsroom”

    September 15, 2009 07:08 PM

    Howie Kurtz hasn’t had to range far afield for story subjects the last couple months. Today, he delivered an in-depth piece detailing how a Washington Post Magazine story was killed after publisher Katharine Weymouth expressed displeasure with the... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    More Thoughts on the Big Speech

    September 15, 2009 03:28 PM

    Prompted by Nate Silver’s latest thoughts on this topic, Ezra Klein asks, “Do Speeches Work?” His conclusion: That said, the polls measure public opinion. The speech's impact on elite opinion is rather different. My sense from... Continue reading

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