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Campaign Desk
Don’t Forget Iran
July 16, 2009 08:00 AMAnyone remember Iran? The “Twitter Revolution” captivated the world’s attention in the weeks after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed (and apparently fraudulent) re-election as president. But after the ruling regime, led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, cracked down on dissent and... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Extra, Extra: Health Reform Costs Money
July 15, 2009 02:24 PMAfter months of planning, Democrats in the House of Representatives yesterday unveiled their latest proposal for health care reform. But readers of the nation’s major papers this morning might have been left with the impression that they’d been dreaming up... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Disagreement on Palin’s piece
July 15, 2009 11:04 AMThe liberal blogosphere was pretty much unanimous in its derision for Sarah Palin’s op-ed on cap-and-trade in yesterday’s edition of The Washington Post. But on one important question–whether Palin actually wrote the op-ed herself–there was... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: It’s a Gas
July 15, 2009 10:04 AMThe major papers, including The Washington Post, report that nationwide retail sales rose 0.6 percent in June, but that’s no reason for optimism. Higher sales figures stemmed largely from higher gas prices, so "it's not like consumers are... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Few Good Bloggers
July 15, 2009 08:30 AMOn Monday, I wondered why the media, which had spent the last few days telling us how staged and predictable Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings would be, decided nonetheless to provide blanket coverage of the week’s proceedings, with the... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
CIA Story Roundup
July 14, 2009 02:21 PMAfter a few days of reporters digging into the details of a controversial CIA program, and one big scoop about the program’s contents, some people in Washington apparently decided to start talking. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: “Green” Shoots?
July 14, 2009 10:16 AMThe economy may still be in the doldrums, but the Obama administration is putting on its best happy face, The New York Times and The Washington Post report today. A report released yesterday by the president’s... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Supremely Boring
July 13, 2009 03:52 PMWhen it comes to media coverage, Supreme Court nomination hearings are funny things. The nation’s political press corps, almost without exception, seems to believe that these proceedings are predictable, staged political theater. (The text accompanying a... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Unemployment Inequality
July 13, 2009 10:48 AMThe recession’s pain hasn’t fallen equally on all sectors of the population, The New York Times reports in its lead story today. In both the Big Apple and across the country, African-American unemployment tends to run about twice... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Huffington Post, community newspaper
July 10, 2009 03:29 PMThe media sure is fascinated by Arianna Huffington and her eponymous Web publication. The latest installment, a Michael Calderone story in Politico, focuses mostly on what The Huffington Post means for age-old debates about blending coverage of sex... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Feedback we can do without
July 10, 2009 02:30 PMPiggybacking off Megan’s earlier post, that PEJ report shows that, spurred on by passage of climate change legislation in the House of Representatives, global warming was the fifth-most-linked topic in the blogosphere last week (ahead of Michael Jackson,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Bill Keller doesn’t ❤ Jon Stewart
July 10, 2009 12:49 PMTurns out New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller didn’t much enjoy the treatment he and his paper received at the hands of The Daily Show last month. As he said in response to a question... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“Nails Never Fails”
July 10, 2009 11:39 AMNews of baseball player-turned-business mogul Lenny “Nails” Dykstra’s troubles–he filed for bankruptcy protection in California earlier this week–may have come as something of a surprise for readers of Ben McGrath’s March 2008 feature of Dykstra in... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Back from Bankruptcy
July 10, 2009 10:57 AMIt’s a new day for the auto industry: Less than six weeks after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, General Motors emerged today in trimmed-down, government-owned form. The company has shed much of its debt and half of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Salons Under Scrutiny
July 10, 2009 10:03 AM“The newsletter’s mailing list is used to draw subscribers to closed-door ‘seminars’ in Washington twice a year at which top Administration and political figures speak. Once General Haig left the side of Richard Nixon in Key Biscayne and flew back... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Down Mexico Way
July 9, 2009 01:17 PMIn recent months, as The Washington Post has been forced to part with veteran editorial staffers, the paper has also had to rethink its mission: in particular, whether it can continue to compete with the The New York Times and... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: On the Roads
July 9, 2009 10:58 AMThe big economic news of the morning, reported by The Wall Street Journal and others, is that new claims for unemployment benefits plunged last week to the lowest level in months. But this seemingly good news is accompanied... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Was Douthat (Kinda, Sorta) Right?
July 8, 2009 11:40 AMRoss Douthat came in for criticism around the Web (including here at CJR) for his Monday column arguing that Sarah Palin’s appeal is rooted not in ideology but in class – specifically,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The Economy Today: Speculators and Stimuli
July 8, 2009 10:37 AMTwo big economic questions that have been percolating recently rise to the top of the news today: Does something need to be done to curb speculation among energy traders? And does the U.S. need another stimulus package? The New York... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Atlantic Editor Bennet on His Magazine’s “Salons”
July 8, 2009 08:29 AMOf all the different threads of the past week’s SalonGate flap, one of the most interesting has been the widely varying responses from Atlantic Media and The Washington Post. After Politico publicized the Post’s aborted effort, the newsroom—and publisher Katharine... Continue reading
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