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   Who’s (Re)Counting? You!

   December 8, 2008 12:47 PM

   While you're waiting: The (Minneapolis) StarTribune.com lets you view contested ballots from the Norm Coleman v. Al Franken Senate race and decide for whom the voter meant to vote (h/t, Eve Fairbanks). Continue reading

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   “Producing Something Resembling News”

   December 8, 2008 11:51 AM

   Howard Kurtz attempts to distill What Meet The Press Is For: At the heart of these programs is the questioning of candidates, administration officials and members of Congress, generally on inside-the-Beltway matters, in the hope of producing something... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Your Browser Knows

   December 8, 2008 11:25 AM

   "This recession got deeper faster because we knew more bad stuff quickly," according to David Carr in his New York Times column yesterday, headlined: "Stoking Fear Everywhere You Look" (and please, don't look at what's flanking Carr's column).... Continue reading

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   There Will Be Kennedy

   December 8, 2008 10:14 AM

   With Caroline Kennedy ahead in the media speculation that is ClintonSenateSeatStakes, here is how MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Morning Joe today (lamely) teased the lineup for her own afternoon show: I'm heading to California to the Reagan Library... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   “I’m Not Tim”

   December 8, 2008 09:32 AM

   MeetThePressstakes is formally (finally) no more. "These are treasured platforms," said (new moderator) David Gregory to (outgoing temp) Tom Brokaw, of Meet and similar Sunday morning shows. Gregory told Brokaw that he learned from Tim Russert to "ask the tough... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   WSJ Wrap Rapped

   December 4, 2008 11:18 AM

   Per Ad Age: The [Wall Street] Journal is running an advertiser's cover wrap on Thursday for the first time in its history, covering one-third of the front page and all of the back with an ad for Dell. Cover... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   By a Thousand

   December 4, 2008 10:42 AM

   Cuts. (Time) Cuts. (NBC News) Cuts. (CNN, as Curtis reported) Cuts. (Gannett, Chicago Tribune, Bakersfield Californian, Santa Barbara News-Press) Continue reading

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   Gratuitous! (Works For CBS News)

   December 4, 2008 10:04 AM

   Well, you can't land Barack Obama every week (Steve Kroft's Nov. 17 interview with Obama brought 60 Minutes its best ratings in nine years). Still, putting Anderson Cooper in a pool (though not in a Speedo; Cooper wore board... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Watching “World Watch”

   December 4, 2008 09:38 AM

   On Tuesday, CBSnews.com launched World Watch, "a blog in which the men and women of CBS News, our eyes and ears around the world, showcase their original reporting" because "as we watch an unprecedented worldwide economic crisis, two unresolved... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Huffington’s How-To

    December 4, 2008 09:27 AM

    Arianna Huffington appeared on The Daily Show last night to plug HuffPo's new book (The Huffington Post Complete Guide To Blogging) and shared with Jon Stewart the "tricks" to successful blogging: The first trick, the most important, is to write... Continue reading

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    Will The Revolution Be Linked?

    December 3, 2008 03:43 PM

    Snaps (Tweets?) for everyone stopping by our (ongoing) News Meeting to weigh in on this week's question of, "How should journalists use Twitter?" Meanwhile, many major newspaper columnists still haven't confronted the question of, "How should journalists use... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Dowd’s Fey Profile

    December 3, 2008 03:26 PM

    New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd profiles Tina Fey for Vanity Fair, an assignment that included a reporting trip to Fey's "comfy, vintage-y Upper West Side apartment" during which Dowd drank "vodka martinis" with Fey's husband (Fey had white... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    “The War After The War Is A Fight About Who We Are As Americans”

    December 3, 2008 12:46 PM

    But for the washingtonpost.com's hard-to-miss "most viewed articles" box, I would have missed this pseudonymous http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802242.html?nav=hcmodule">column from November 28, "An Interrogator Speaks: I'm Still Tortured By What I Saw In Iraq" (still among the "most viewed"... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Kurtz’s “Skeptics” Clearly Don’t Read/Watch Politico

    December 3, 2008 12:08 PM

    From Howard Kurtz's Washington Post column today comes this anonymously-sourced criticism of NBC News's David Gregory, (thisclose to) moderator of Meet The Press: Skeptics say that Gregory has a less than commanding screen presence as a host, leading them... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Chris Matthews: Choose Or Lose?

    December 3, 2008 11:06 AM

    What's it gonna be? Your money or your life, Chris Matthews? The question raised by the slowly mounting calls (suggestions?) for MSNBC's Chris Matthews to pursue political office or punditry but not both (Matthews is reportedly... Continue reading

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    Managing McCaffreyGate

    December 3, 2008 10:37 AM

    "Is there any limit to the shamelessness of NBC News?" Charles Kaiser asked here on Monday, in expressing, er, dissatisfaction with NBC News's seeming non-reaction to ("stunning wall of silence") David Barstow's reporting for the New York Times (both... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Gregory’s Gravitas Hands

    December 2, 2008 01:51 PM

    If you're going to engage in MeetThePressStakes, please make it funny. Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    No Hair!

    December 2, 2008 12:14 PM

    From Politico today (in an "according to executives" report that David Gregory will be named moderator of Meet the Press): Enjoying a gravitas boost from his prematurely salt-and-pepper mane and friendships with Tom Brokaw and other of the legendary... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    “Plenty of Viewers”= Me, Some Say

    December 2, 2008 11:46 AM

    When Alessandra Stanley writes of Hillary Clinton's acceptance yesterday of the nomination for Secretary of State, "[F]or plenty of viewers, it was the moment when Mrs. Clinton finally conceded the election for real," some say that Stanley... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Phoning In Mumbai Coverage?

    December 2, 2008 11:04 AM

    I've written before about MSNBC being "The Place For," among other things, "Disturbing Video." If there's "video," and it's "disturbing," it will be served to MSNBC viewers as a news story (such as, "Baby Launched Into Air"). Last week... Continue reading

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