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Missing: 380 Tons of Ammo, Some Members of UN Security Council, and Talent

Today the blogosphere is consumed by three developing stories, each involving something important (or not) that suddenly, um, isn't there.... More

Yo, Hannity, Your Curveball Is Hanging

In case you were otherwise occupied last night (we certainly were), Fox News aired what Alan Colmes teased as co-host... More

Priceless Eyeballs

For anyone who has never heard of ABC's online political newsletter, The Note, David Grann's New Yorker piece this week... More

Whither?

It was not so long ago that Campaign Desk was encouraged (for the most part) by the late but welcome... More

Elephant? What Elephant?

Today, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank offers up an "analysis" piece with the headline, "Bush's Cartoon of Kerry Failed to... More

Will the Real Richard Wolffe Please Step Forward?

"TV is about impressions." So said Newsweek's Richard Wolffe on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night. And in watching Wolffe's... More

Washington Post 3, New York Times 1

Following Friday night's debate, Campaign Desk was struck by the stark differences between the "fact-checking" efforts of two major newspapers.... More

Didn’t Fly the First Time, Doesn’t Fly Now

What's worse than your typical desperately speculative swing voter story? A recycled desperately speculative swing voter story. With so many... More

The Evolving Factcheck

By Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang On October 5, four years ago, in the hour following the vice presidential... More

98 Times (For the 98th Time …)

Just when Campaign Desk was momentarily heartened by a flurry of fact-checking -- what a novel concept! -- by the... More

Mark’s Morning Message

By Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press... More

The Care, Feeding, and Habitat of the Traveling Press

Editor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press corps as... More

Where Is Johnny?

By Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards'... More

The Dark Arts of Predictive Punditry

At this late date in the election season, Campaign Desk is as weary as the next person of conflicting poll... More

Mike Jenner on His Editorial Outburst, The Press’ Focus on the Immediate Rather Than the Significant, and Fair and Balanced Listeners

Mike Jenner Mike Jenner is the executive editor of The Bakersfield Californian. He joined the Californian in 1993 as... More

The completist guide to Star Trek

Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise

The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi

The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions

Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal

A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade

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