Covering Rick Perry: “Exciting!”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 17, 2011 at 03:30 PM

Three out of five MSNBC talking heads agree (the other two at the table didn't weigh in): they’d rather cover... More

You Made Your Tweet…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 17, 2011 at 10:07 AM

...now wear it. From a wearable technology workshop somewhere inside Microsoft's headquarters comes: The Printing Dress (h/t, joonbug). This black... More

Richmond Times-Dispatch Ad Pull(ed)out

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 15, 2011 at 09:12 AM

Granted, I'm not fluent in advertising jargon, but it looks to me like this “special advertising pullout” in the Richmond... More

Pres. Obama at Dover

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 9, 2011 at 02:49 PM

President Obama canceled a scheduled event in Virginia today and, "assuming the grimmest role of his job," as the Associated... More

By the Numbers: New Yorker’s Bachmann Profile

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 8, 2011 at 03:45 PM

The following is a list of words you will encounter (and number of times) in Ryan Lizza’s fascinating, detail-packed New... More

Pack of Gum, PAC of Candidate

WaPo on frequent political impulse spenders

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 2, 2011 at 03:25 PM

What “phenomenon” will the Washington Post’s T.W. Farnam find next within the rows and columns of politicians’ campaign finance reports?... More

Almost Famous (2000)

Who’s afraid of Rolling Stone?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 29, 2011 at 06:00 AM

Beware, beware, Rolling Stone magazine... Music, inarguably, is the hero, the emotional engine in Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe-written, -directed... More

Ready, Set… Comment!

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 25, 2011 at 10:31 AM

Wonder how the conversation went in the New York Times newsroom that led to this story being placed on the... More

Murdoch, “Humble,” in Global Headlines

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 20, 2011 at 01:17 PM

Below, a look at how the most recent turns in the phone hacking scandal—yesterday's testimony to Parliament from Rupert and... More

In Other Angles: Blame Brooks’s “Big Hair”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 19, 2011 at 10:29 AM

With The Guardian owning the “expensive, risky, time-consuming, stressful—and indispensable” investigative reporting related to the phone hacking scandal, as Dean... More

“Dumbest News Story Ever Written in Human History”

WaPo breaks First Lady Lunch news

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 12, 2011 at 06:33 PM

Per the Washington Post yesterday: [A] Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed... Consider, for a moment, all the possible... More

Kurtz: Let He Who is Without…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Howard Kurtz returns to the pages of the Washington Post with a guest column reminding readers that the News of... More

How to Cover the Money Race

A Q&A with money-and-politics expert Dave Levinthal

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 5, 2011 at 05:58 PM

If 2010’s $3.6 billion midterm elections are any gauge, reporters tasked with following the money in campaign 2012 face a... More

“The Usual Queries about Tactics, Controversies”

How to read Howard Kurtz’s column

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM

It’s far too early in the campaign season to let one little Howard Kurtz piece turn you off campaign coverage,... More

It’s the Least CNN Could Do…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jun 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM

... name Jessica Yellin chief White House correspondent, after this back in '08: And another Yellin '08 flashback: remember when... More