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1. The Kicker

   ProPublica’s Rad Redistricting Music Video

   November 2, 2011 04:07 PM

   Nearly as catchy as “Fifty Nifty United States” and undoubtedly more edifying than a semester in Mr. Lewis's fourth period social studies class: ProPublica’s newest video music explainer, this one on the complicated and timely topic of... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   NYT Lets You Play Political Donor

   October 17, 2011 04:05 PM

   Want to give $1 million to Herman Cain's presidential effort but don't want the public to be privy to your generosity? Maybe you're a billionaire itching to donate $10 million to help Democrats regain the House of Representatives and you... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   GOP Debate: Animal Planet or Wizard of Oz

   October 12, 2011 02:09 PM

   Today is the day when columnists in our capital compare the GOP presidential candidates to nonhumans and liken the experience of observing them vie for the nomination to watching some other production altogether. Here’s Politico columnist Roger Simon: ... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   New Yorker on Art Pope’s “Singular Influence Machine”

   October 4, 2011 05:31 PM

   Just over a year ago, The New Yorker published Jane Mayer’s widely-discussed look at the “covert operations” of the “billionaire brothers” Charles and David Koch and their well-funded “war against Obama.” (The current issue of Bloomberg Markets has another... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Obama Campaign Shows Fundraising “Strength”?

   September 27, 2011 04:51 PM

   Should Team Obama be feeling optimistic or concerned about its fundraising prospects this election cycle? That depends. It depends, of course, on how fundraising success is measured (Who gave and how much? Compared to what?). We don’t yet know... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Count the Chris Christie Headlines…

   September 27, 2011 03:38 PM

   …appearing on Politico’s home page right now (here's a screen shot): I spy these four highly informative headlines: "Christie Still Not Running" "Should Christie Take His ‘One Shot'?" "Chris Christie, still no" (which actually... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Profiling Paint Creek

   September 21, 2011 10:48 AM

   So, you’re a member of the national media tasked with heading to west Texas to capture for your non-west Texas audience a flavor of the very small place where Gov. Rick Perry grew up—the place, as The New York... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   “The National Media” and Perry

   September 19, 2011 01:33 PM

   Some interesting bits from Politico’s recent piece on "the hunger for information" about Rick Perry and how “the Texas press stands to benefit from [this] Perrypalooza"—including in the form of book contracts for some veterans of the Perry beat.... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Covering Rick Perry: “Exciting!”

   August 17, 2011 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 Rick Perry than Mitt Romney. The following was an exchange between some of the regulars on MSNBC’s Morning Joe... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    You Made Your Tweet…

    August 17, 2011 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 and white, strapless, be-keyboarded frock enables the wearer to project her tweets onto the A-line... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Richmond Times-Dispatch Ad Pull(ed)out

    August 15, 2011 09:12 AM

    Granted, I'm not fluent in advertising jargon, but it looks to me like this “special advertising pullout” in the Richmond Times-Dispatch yesterday—sent to us by a tipster— came, sort of, pre-pulled-out (the blue banner directs readers to “see inside for... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Pres. Obama at Dover

    August 9, 2011 02:49 PM

    President Obama canceled a scheduled event in Virginia today and, "assuming the grimmest role of his job," as the Associated Press has it, flew to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware "to privately honor the remains of the... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    By the Numbers: New Yorker’s Bachmann Profile

    August 8, 2011 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 Yorker profile of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, headlined, “Leap of Faith. The making of a Republican front-runner.” Yes,... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Pack of Gum, PAC of Candidate

    August 2, 2011 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? Last month, after an analysis of FEC data, Farnam and Dan Eggen introduced readers to the term... Continue reading

15. Critical Eye

    Almost Famous (2000)

    July 29, 2011 06:00 AM

    Beware, beware, Rolling Stone magazine... Music, inarguably, is the hero, the emotional engine in Almost Famous, the Cameron Crowe-written, -directed (and -lived, as the story is autobiographicalish) film set in early 1970's San Diego. (Don’t deny you got goose bumps,... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Ready, Set… Comment!

    July 25, 2011 10:31 AM

    Wonder how the conversation went in the New York Times newsroom that led to this story being placed on the front page (A1 print, home page online): “To Reach Simple Life of Summer Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets”... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Murdoch, “Humble,” in Global Headlines

    July 20, 2011 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 James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, and the interruption in that testimony by a man with a foam pie—were treated on... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

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

    July 19, 2011 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 highlighted yesterday over at The Audit, what has that left for other British media outlets? Well, the London Evening... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    “Dumbest News Story Ever Written in Human History”

    July 12, 2011 06:33 PM

    Per the Washington Post yesterday: [A] Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed... Consider, for a moment, all the possible endings to this sentence. Go on, newspaper romantic! This is coming from the house the Grahams built! The birthplace... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Kurtz: Let He Who is Without…

    July 11, 2011 11:07 AM

    Howard Kurtz returns to the pages of the Washington Post with a guest column reminding readers that the News of the World hacking scandal is just an extreme example of a news business that increasingly pushes the ethical... Continue reading

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