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Hope Deferred
October 18, 2010 12:22 PM
The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | By Roger Hodge | Harper | 272 pages, $25.99 In July 2009, that far-off era when our forty-fourth president was still broadly popular and the Tea Party... Continue reading
The Kicker

NYT Reports on Gitmo Press Access Dispute
July 21, 2010 12:39 PM
Jeremy Peters of The New York Times reports today on an ongoing struggle between press outlets and the Pentagon: After nearly a decade of uneasy coexistence at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon and the news media are now locked... Continue reading
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The Economy and Politics, One More Time
July 21, 2010 08:30 AM
For awhile now I’ve been trying to get more journalists to acknowledge that the economy is a powerful driver of political outcomes. So it was interesting to see David Paul Kuhn’s piece at Real Clear Politics... Continue reading
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Keeping It Simple
July 19, 2010 03:28 PM
At Media Matters, Eric Boehlert has a good catch this morning: Sunday’s New York Times op-ed roundtable on how President Obama can “rebound” seems to have completely botched the set-up. The introductory text declared... Continue reading
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Press Pushes for Greater Access at Gitmo
July 16, 2010 10:55 AM
The latest dispute over press access to the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay has been mostly settled, for the moment. Of the four journalists who were barred in May from future proceedings by the Pentagon’s public affairs office after they... Continue reading
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That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
July 16, 2010 10:38 AM
Sheryl Gay Stolberg has a “news analysis” in today’s New York Times that takes up the same subject as that big Politico thinkpiece from yesterday—President Obama’s policy successes during a time of political peril—and if it... Continue reading
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Winning the Morning, Missing the Point
July 15, 2010 02:39 PM
Politico bigwigs John Harris and Jim VandeHei have a big thinkpiece out this morning headlined, “Why Obama Loses by Winning.” As an artifact of media strategy, it’s a classic example of Politico’s attempts to set the narrative or... Continue reading
Behind the News

The Secret to Rolling Stone’s Success
June 28, 2010 04:03 PM
That David Carr column flagged by Ryan Chittum this morning wasn’t the only item about Rolling Stone in today’s New York Times. The magazine was also the subject of a mash note on the front... Continue reading
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Look at Us!
June 28, 2010 11:11 AM
It’s been three days since David Weigel, the reporter and blogger best known for his coverage of the conservative movement, resigned from The Washington Post after intemperate remarks he’d made on a private e-mail list about some of his subjects... Continue reading
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The Narrative That Wouldn’t Die
June 25, 2010 11:29 AM
Last week, Campaign Desk flagged a New York Times item that reported a surprising finding: for all the criticism about the government’s response to the Gulf oil spill, Barack Obama’s public approval ratings had remained basically steady. But... Continue reading
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Dana Milbank, Ideologue
June 24, 2010 03:10 PM
In his recent blog post on “the actual ideology of the American press,” NYU professor Jay Rosen identified Dana Milbank—the extravagantly contrarian columnist for The Washington Post—as “one the most extreme ideologues in the business.” The label fit,... Continue reading
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Spencer Ackerman to Join Wired’s Danger Room
June 23, 2010 04:04 PM
Interesting news in the journo world today—Spencer Ackerman, the prolific national security reporter and blogger for The Washington Independent, is moving on to join Wired’s Danger Room blog. Here’s the post announcing the move from Aaron Wiener, the... Continue reading
Behind the News

The Day’s Big Story, Hours before It Was Published
June 22, 2010 04:50 PM
Eric Bates had an unusual start to his day Tuesday. Bates is the executive editor of Rolling Stone, and his magazine was about to publish a big story outlining, with plenty of juicy quotes and telling details, the... Continue reading
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CNN Ditches the AP
June 21, 2010 03:30 PM
It’s official: CNN will no longer use content from The Associated Press in its news coverage, Michael Calderone reports for Yahoo! News. In addition to the obvious cost savings, the move toward “CNN-exclusive content will further differentiate our... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Polar Opposites
June 21, 2010 06:00 AM
My article in our latest print issue on political science and the political press noted that the two camps offer very different explanations for the rise of partisanship in Congress. While researchers explain polarization as a consequence of... Continue reading
The Kicker

Calling BS on Official Boilerplate
June 15, 2010 10:03 AM
Adam Liptak has a story in today’s New York Times about William Macumber, an Arizona man who’s been in prison for 35 years for a double homicide he likely did not commit, that has to be read to... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

How Vast Mineral Resources Could Be Bad for Afghanistan
June 14, 2010 04:52 PM
So, the big story of the day—that New York Times front-pager on the discovery of “nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan”—has quickly come in for plenty of skepticism, on counts ranging from how... Continue reading
The Kicker

Another Null Result: Obama’s Numbers Stable in Wake of Spill
June 14, 2010 11:58 AM
John Harwood’s Monday contributions to The New York Times’s “Caucus” blog provide a reliably level-headed take on the political news of the moment, often informed by political science. Today’s contribution—about how, for all the media sturm... Continue reading
Campaign Desk

Deficit Still Not Dominant
June 11, 2010 02:13 PM
My colleague Holly Yeager made a pretty good case the other day that the press is exaggerating the level of public concern over the deficit vis-à-vis other pressing problems, like lagging economic growth and unemployment. (For a fresher... Continue reading
The Kicker

Party-Switchers Losing Elections: Not Hard to Explain
June 10, 2010 12:55 PM
A piece in Politico today proffers a few explanations for Blanche Lincoln’s moderately surprising win in Arkansas’s Democratic Senate primary. One of the key take-aways, say reporters David Catanese and Shira Toeplitz, is the importance of authenticity, which... Continue reading

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