“100-Years-War Calumny,” Frankly

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2008 at 11:26 AM

A crocus pushing through long-dormant earth signals spring. A Frank Rich column focusing on something other than The Clintons --might... More

Starring “The News?”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2008 at 09:34 AM

The headline on today's Alessandra Stanley piece in The New York Times caught my eye: "A New Star as Campaign... More

Happy Monday, Cable News!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2008 at 09:14 AM

All together now, all day long: Polygamist sect. Women and children. West Texas compound. (Cue Branch Davidian footage from back... More

Blogging Kills?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 7, 2008 at 08:22 AM

Quiz for anyone who read -- or even glanced at the front page of -- yesterday's New York Times: What's... More

Happy Hour on MSNBC?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 1, 2008 at 05:45 PM

B-roll. It is essential to television news. That at-your-fingertips file footage used to illustrate the news you can use du... More

E-lection

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Want a recap of the many ways the Internet has affected the 2008 presidential race to date? The Washington Post... More

No Challenger? No Challenging

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM

In case you haven’t had enough Ongoing Democratic Primary: Who Benefits and Who Is Damaged analyses, here is the lede... More

CNN on “The Vanna Vote”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Apr 1, 2008 at 09:50 AM

It’s on! The media’s hunt to locate - and coin a snappy moniker for—2008’s must-get swing vote (that subset of... More

Dith Pran’s NYT “Video Obit”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2008 at 04:21 PM

If you haven’t seen it yet, The New York Times' "The Last Word: Dith Pran" is well worth watching. You... More

Barack’s Big Lebowski Strategy

A.k.a., campaigning

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2008 at 01:21 PM

Help us out: How can we say the same thing, again... differently? A couple of weeks into a pre-Pennsylvania primary... More

Say Ahhhh!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Said Andrea Mitchell on NBC's Today Show this morning, reporting on the protracted Democratic primary: Critics blame [Howard] Dean for... More

Wherefore “Sticks” a Candidate’s “Gaffe?”

Do tell, Joe Scarborough

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 26, 2008 at 04:59 PM

Here is Joe Scarborough on MSNBC this morning, referring to TuzlaGate (Hillary Clinton having more than once exaggerated the danger... More

Not Ready on Day 1?

Experience for the White House (reporter)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 26, 2008 at 11:02 AM

We've all heard the argument that the next resident of the White House need be Ready on Day 1 to... More

What’s Good for the Goose…

When candidates “misspeak’: McCain vs. Clinton

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 25, 2008 at 03:06 PM

When should the campaign press cut a candidate some slack when he or she says something (more than once) that... More

The State of Cable News is…Mature?

And other findings from PEJ’s annual report

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 19, 2008 at 05:28 PM

"Cable television news showed further signs of maturity in 2007." I almost couldn't get past that, the opening sentence of... More