Friday Night: Keeping Up Appearances

Jim Lehrer wants a “fair” debate

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 24, 2008 at 03:53 PM

In anticipation of Friday night’s first presidential debate (which, if John McCain has his way, might be postponed), the campaign... More

Scarborough, Assignment Editor

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 24, 2008 at 09:17 AM

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezenski, and the Financial Times's Chrystia Freeland on MSNBC this morning: SCARBOROUGH: Chrystia, let me tell you... More

Couric Preps For Palin

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 04:18 PM

From Katie Couric's blog: Friends come up to me wondering if I'll ask [during an interview with Sarah Palin this... More

How Do We Say This Delicately?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 02:59 PM

Ah, yes: CNN: "McCain drifts away from legacy of deregulation." "Drifts away" sounding more benign than, say, "slinks away" or... More

Palin’s “Photo Spray”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 01:54 PM

From the pool report* from Gov. Sarah Palin's "meeting" with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in New York today: Palin, her... More

Back on the Biden Bus

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 12:53 PM

When Sarah Palin joined the Republican ticket last month, http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-biden23-2008sep23,0,4764573.story?page=1">according to the LA Times's Faye Fiore today: a fickle press... More

ABC News Paid For “Other Materials”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM

And I was hoping I could ignore O.J. Simpson Trial, Vegas Edition. The New York Times reports that a key... More

Bono’s FT Blog

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 09:58 AM

Bono (of U2 and the One Campaign) and Jeffrey Sachs (of Columbia's Earth Institute) are blogging for the Financial Times... More

39 Days

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 23, 2008 at 09:13 AM

Washington Post: As of this writing, it has been 39 days and 22 hours since Sen. John McCain last held... More

84 to 2

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 02:30 PM

60 Minutes last night featured "a revealing side-by-side look at the candidates and their positions" (Steve Kroft interviewed Obama; Scott... More

Nobody Puts Press In The Parking Lot

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 02:07 PM

The "press tent was a lonely place to be" at last night's 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, reports Variety, due "the... More

That’s It?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 01:44 PM

Breaking: "Presidential candidates air attack ads," reports the AP's Nedra Pickler. Pickler's report, in full: Presidential candidates Barack Obama and... More

Debates: Jim Lehrer As Heidi Klum

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 11:45 AM

"Presidential debates should be a little more like [Bravo reality TV show] Project Runway," argues Time TV blogger James Poniewozik,"... More

Truth-Tellers, Lost and Found (In Week in Review)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 07:48 AM

In yesterday's New York Times "Week in Review," Patrick Healy wrote a piece headlined, "Let's Call a Lie A Lie...Finally.... More

David Brooks’s M.O.

By Liz Cox Barrett   Sep 22, 2008 at 07:35 AM

For anyone who has ever asked himself, "What's David Brooks thinking?" Brooks...admits he is something of a throwback. "This is... More