“Gut Feeling” Guides Pay-for-Play at Gawker

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 8, 2010 at 05:18 PM

How does Gawker decide whether (and how much) to pay for a story, wondered Simon Owens over at TNW? Writes... More

Lauer’s “Tone” Landed Bush

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 8, 2010 at 03:06 PM

Last week, Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate and Buddy "The Cake Boss" Valastro talked about their new books (They Call Me... More

An Attack Ad That Might (Still) Grab You

PBS on campaign spending: he-said, she-said, and something more

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 4, 2010 at 01:38 PM

At this point, a political attack ad would probably sound to you something like the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher:... More

Morning-After Headlines: Shift, Surge, Stampede

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM

So many ways to say it. A sampling of newspaper front pages from around the country this morning. In Nevada,... More

Whiz. Bang. It’s Election Night

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM

The Associated Press reports today that "after losing viewers to cable news networks on recent election nights, television's biggest broadcasters... More

If You Don’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em?

NYT, LAT on outside groups, election spending, and 2012

By Liz Cox Barrett   Nov 2, 2010 at 09:45 AM

Those heavy-spending outside groups that have come out in force this election season? We're likely to see their ilk (and... More

NPR: “What Democrats Developed, Republicans Have Mastered”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 28, 2010 at 12:25 PM

In a report earlier this week, NPR’s Peter Overby and Andrea Seabrook took a close look at some of the... More

“This Transparency Enables Electorate to Make Informed Decisions”

LA Times looks at how that’s worked out for “electorate”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM

Back in January, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the following, in the opinion of the court in Citizens United... More

The Dalai Lama’s Star Turn

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 26, 2010 at 01:27 PM

How did the Dalai Lama prepare his mind for the task this past weekend of "guest-editing" the Toronto Star's Sunday... More

Politico, NYT on “Impact of Outside Money”

Political force, political “excuse”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 25, 2010 at 03:41 PM

At Politico today, you can read about "how much Democrats want to play up the impact of outside money, much... More

Playing “Whac-A-Mole” With Campaign Finance Disclosure

But, where’s the mallet?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 20, 2010 at 03:18 PM

One of my favorite descriptions of the rapid appearance of ever more outside groups spending (who-knows-whose) money this election season... More

Political Reporting Deep Thought of the Day

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 20, 2010 at 09:58 AM

Do "the gloves" ever not "come off" during a political debate or in the weeks just before an election? (And... More

House Hunters: Haiti Edition

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 18, 2010 at 02:27 PM

On the problem of housing in Haiti, from the Associated Press's Jonathan M. Katz (the only full-time American news correspondent... More

If By “Debate Prep” You Mean Getting A Mani-Pedi

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 18, 2010 at 12:51 PM

The New York governor’s race is not just Paladino v. Paladino. Or, even, Paladino v. Cuomo. In fact, there are... More

WaPo Finds (Two) Concerned Taxpayers of America

Day-after disclosure reports report

By Liz Cox Barrett   Oct 18, 2010 at 11:54 AM

Those groups with the who'd-argue-with-that?-sounding names spending big money this election season? The Washington Post took a look at one... More