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1. The Kicker

   Single Greatest Media Scandal Of The Decade

   August 6, 2008 12:40 PM

   So there's a tide of severed human feet washing up on Pacific Northwestern shores, and it only merits a 300-word AP article? Scandal! Outrage! Can we all agree that the media's top priority should be solving the Mystery... Continue reading

2. Behind the News

   Three More Questions for ABC News

   August 5, 2008 12:26 PM

   On Sunday and Monday, journalism professors Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor issued “three vital questions for ABC News” regarding its reliance on anonymous sources while reporting the now-discredited bentonite-anthrax story in... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   We’re Not In The Dog-Shooting Business, We’re In The Mayor-Frightening Business!

   July 31, 2008 01:10 PM

   Bizarre WaPo story today about an ill-fated police raid in Prince George's County that started with a mysterious thirty-two pound package of marijuana and ended with a handcuffed mayor and two dead dogs. Should Prince George's County dog... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   True Lies

   July 30, 2008 01:36 PM

   On Monday, Megan Garber criticized the MSM for its failure to dissect a recent John McCain ad that hurled factually dubious allegations at Barack Obama. The ad claimed that Obama withdrew from a planned visit to an Army hospital... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   Worst. Years. Ever.

   July 24, 2008 04:15 PM

   Revenues shrinking to MicroMachine proportions, newsroom jobs disappearing like sand under a rising tide, "They'll Do It Every Time" discontinued: Is this, as the New York Observer asks, the worst year ever for the modern newspaper... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Campaign Plane Follies

   July 21, 2008 12:06 PM

   So The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza writes a long, unsentimental story about Barack Obama last week, and then, wouldn't you know it, there's no room for him on Obama's campaign plane. Who else in the press corps is... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   Trends Will Be Trends

   July 16, 2008 12:16 PM

   I really hope that New York Times reporter Guy Trebay is working on a follow-up to his Sunday Styles piece ("Hey, Big Spender, Flying My Way?") about the new breed of hitchhikers: wealthy people who sometimes... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   Balanced Budget, “Balanced” Coverage

   July 8, 2008 04:18 PM

   The political press's nasty habit of reporting the debate instead of the issues being debated cropped up again today in the wake of John McCain's pledge to balance the federal budget within four years. An article by Maeve... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Why Buy The Cow…

   July 3, 2008 03:11 PM

   Thoughtful post today about the newspaper industry on the New York Times's Outposts blog. In the wake of "perhaps the bloodiest week yet of a year where many papers are fighting for their lives," Timothy Egan notes that, be it... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Behind Barack’s “Suspicious” Mortgage

    July 2, 2008 01:05 PM

    What should an editor do when an enterprise piece comes up empty? Do you kill the story? Send it back for more reporting? Bury it inside with a sigh and a “Better luck next time?” What if the story’s about... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    The Swiftboat Reflex

    July 1, 2008 01:19 PM

    Two days into the Wesley Clark fallout, the press, the GOP, and the Obama campaign all seem to have agreed that Clark's recent remarks on John McCain's service record were at best impolitic and at worst despicable. "McCain besieged by... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    Pavlov and the Press Corps

    June 27, 2008 01:52 PM

    What's one thing that most journalists love? Besides a battered fedora with a cardboard press pass stuck in the brim. Do I hear "cheap symbolism"? Happy "Unity Day," everyone! Campaign strategists, in general, view reporters like Ivan... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    McClatchy on McClatchy

    June 18, 2008 01:48 PM

    After Monday’s news that the McClatchy Company would be cutting 1400 jobs at its newspapers across the country, the affected papers were left in the unpleasant position of having to cover their own dismemberment. I looked at a representative sampling... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    History Made Easy

    June 17, 2008 04:40 PM

    By now, you probably know that Barack Obama’s Presidential candidacy is an historic one. (Check out Megan Garber’s column from a couple weeks back for more on this.) But, hey, if you forget, all you have to do is... Continue reading

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