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A Model for Sustainable Journalism, Discovered
August 28, 2009 12:01 PMMatthew Yglesias is moved by one of those "only-in-Japan" stories to ponder the future of journalism: I also have the idiosyncratic view that the answer to a lot of questions you hear about the future of... Continue reading
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The Kicker
TNR Takes a Walk Down ‘The Avenue’
August 28, 2009 10:33 AMTo readers who follow the idiosyncracies of the political journalism world, the most notable feature of the The New Republic’s revamped Web site may be the fact that that publication has finally find a way to recover its... Continue reading
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Stars and Stripes: Military Profiling Reporters
August 27, 2009 03:41 PMAt The Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman flags a pair of stories from Stars and Stripes reporting that journalists who seek to embed with U.S. troops in Afghanistan are screened by a D.C.-based PR firm,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Solid Piece on Afghan Politics
August 27, 2009 02:03 PMWe’ve been asking recently for more reporting that contextualizes the turbulent political situation in Afghanistan, and explores what that situation means for U.S. military efforts there. In today’s New York Times, James Risen and Mark Landler... Continue reading
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The Times Magazine Drops its 13,000-Word Story
August 27, 2009 01:43 PMWhen New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati, in the course of pondering the future of long-form journalism in a Q&A with readers, mentioned this week that the magazine was about to publish a 13,000-word story that cost... Continue reading
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Election? What Election?
August 27, 2009 06:30 AMScott Wilson and Joshua Partlow had a front-page story in The Washington Post yesterday that explored the “political test” President Barack Obama faces in Afghanistan: does he do what his generals want, and commit more troops to the... Continue reading
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The Right Way to Say Goodbye
August 26, 2009 01:22 PMAs obituaries published today by major newspapers make clear, Edward Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts who died of brain cancer last night, was a towering political presence, a savvy champion of liberal causes,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Waiting Game
August 26, 2009 09:06 AMAfter a fair bit of media buildup, the presidential election in Afghanistan passed fairly quietly last week. Violence was lower than expected, but so was turnout, and the mood among Afghan citizens, who have seen the tenure of incumbent Hamid... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Some Rationality on Medical Rationing
August 25, 2009 01:22 PMLast Friday, The New York Times fronted a feature by Kevin Sack about seniors down south who are skeptical about health care reform. That story was accompanied, on the jump, by a short Robert Pear article... Continue reading
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The Kicker
The NYT’s Too-Polite Headlines
August 25, 2009 09:39 AMWhat’s up with the milquetoast headline writers at The New York Times? Two weeks ago, when reporters Jim Rutenberg and Jackie Calmes bluntly stated that claims of government-sponsored “death panels” were false, their story was accompanied in print... Continue reading
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Drowning in the Days
August 25, 2009 09:30 AMThe political junkie’s pastime of obsessively following Barack Obama’s movements took a more quantitative turn this week, as The Washington Post launched a new digital feature called the POTUS Tracker. Presented with the tagline “Analyzing Obama’s Schedule,” the... Continue reading
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If They Can’t Prove It, We Shouldn’t Say It
August 24, 2009 03:53 PMWashington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has an interesting, if dispiriting, column out today in which he acknowledges some sobering news: the mainstream media’s best efforts to refute the false “death panel” rumors seem to have had little... Continue reading
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The Kicker
More Details on Blackwater’s Role
August 21, 2009 07:47 PMShould’ve flagged this much earlier: James Risen and Mark Mazzetti’s front-page story in today’s New York Times, chock-full of juicy details about security contractor Blackwater’s involvement in American efforts to target al Qaeda leaders with drones, also addresses... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Richard Florida’s “Stimulus Map”
August 21, 2009 04:46 PMAtlantic correspondent Richard Florida put up a post yesterday, drawing on data collected and initially mapped by ProPublica, that purports to track the geographic distribution of bailout funds. As Matt Yglesias notes on his... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Old News
August 21, 2009 01:06 PMRobert Pear’s article in today’s New York Times appears under an intriguing, if typically Times-ian, headline: “A Basis Is Seen for Some Health Plan Fears Among the Elderly.” The story seems intended to provide a policy-heavy counterweight to... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Duck Feeding: The Key to Better Health Care
August 21, 2009 12:44 PMThe New York Times’s Kevin Sack has a front-page story today on skittishness over health care reform among senior citizens who voted for Barack Obama. It’s a colorful, lively report from a retirement village in Broward County,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Getting Away from “Off the Record”
August 21, 2009 09:00 AMEarlier this week, a coalition of news organizations led by the Sunshine in Government Initiative sent a letter to hundreds of D.C. area press secretaries. The gist: when public officials such as congressional aides or federal agency staffers... Continue reading
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Diving Deep into Blackwater
August 20, 2009 12:21 PMSo it turns out there was more to that story about the secret CIA assassination program that made waves five weeks ago. Last night, on its Web site, The New York Times broke the news... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Conflict is Content; Consensus Isn’t
August 19, 2009 12:47 PMTwo months ago, the idea that a news cycle would be dominated by the distinction between a “public option” and a “health care co-op” would have seemed laughable. But that unlikely turn of events has come to pass this week—and... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Limits of the ‘It’s Obama’s Fault’ Narrative
August 19, 2009 10:34 AMKevin Drum had an interesting post yesterday building off the observation that at the recently-concluded Netroots Nation, enthusiasm was markedly lower than in 2008—probably because the assembled liberal bloggers, so full of hope and enthusiasm last year, are... Continue reading
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