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1. The Kicker

   “What Are You Hearing?”

   November 18, 2008 02:52 PM

   Reporting on a White House transition is, for many reasons, a challenging assignment. (Check back at Campaign Desk later this week, we hope, for look at how some editors are approaching the task of covering this in-between time). Meantime,... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   King of The Wooorld?

   November 18, 2008 11:57 AM

   Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Barack Obama have been named 2008 GQ "Men of the Year," each with his own cover. But here's GQ deputy editor Michael Hainey on MSNBC just now describing to anchor Peter Alexander how Obama... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Snowball! (Unstoppable, Vaguely-Sourced)

   November 18, 2008 09:28 AM

   County Fair's Jamison Foser takes us through an example of "one way in which news organizations frequently drop the fact-checking ball...by repeating as fact something that they do not independently know to be true, but that has been reported... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Obama With Reporters (Then and Now)

   November 18, 2008 08:58 AM

   NPR's David Folkenflik wonders, "Will Obama's White House Be Open to the Media?" and taps the experience of reporters like Jeff Zeleny, formerly of the Chicago Tribune and now of the New York Times, who "say [Obama] used to... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   There’s Something About Sarah

   November 17, 2008 03:11 PM

   "What is it about Sarah?" muses National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez in a column with the braggy dateline, "U.S. Virgin Islands" (filing from the National Review post-election cruise where they have "Palin on the brain"), in which Lopez argues... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   “Let’s Put Up Some Pictures of the Huxtables…”

   November 17, 2008 12:39 PM

   More on the so-called (what Megan called "simplistic" and "insulting") "Huxtable Effect" from yesterday's Reliable Sources on CNN. CNN's Howard Kurtz asked one of his guests, Tara Wall (a CNN contributor and the deputy editorial... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Kroft’s First Crack

   November 17, 2008 09:42 AM

   And the first post-election television interview with President-Elect Barack Obama went to Steve Kroft of CBS News's 60 Minutes. It aired last night. What did the Obama camp hope to get out of this specific sit-down? Some possible hints, <a... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   All (Remaining) Hands On Deck

   November 17, 2008 09:20 AM

   "Newspapers confront tall, menacing seas in the coming year," writes the New York Times' David Carr today, "but it is a sure bet that the ones that dump the ablest hands on deck will be among the first to... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Which Came First, Newsweek?

   November 17, 2008 08:23 AM

   The headline or ... oh, you know it was the headline. "Change You Can Conceive In" (with subhed, "Could euphoric Obama fans be sparking a baby boom?") Well, could they? After all, Newsweek finds, "anecdotal evidence abounds..." (Yes, the... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Thomas on Obama: “Doesn’t He Know Anybody?”

    November 13, 2008 08:29 AM

    Helen Thomas has returned, after health issues, to the White House briefing room and tells Cox Newspapers' Ron Herman, among other things: "I"m still as mean as ever. I'm already going after Barack for saying that, in effect, he's going... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Palin: Get Back to The Five W’s, People

    November 13, 2008 08:20 AM

    Here, an interesting exchange between Larry King and Gov. Sarah Palin last night (one of her two CNN interviews yesterday): KING: Should you have not done the Katie Couric interview? PALIN: Sure, I should have done the Katie Couric... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    And Clair Begat Michelle!

    November 13, 2008 08:10 AM

    Michelle Obama? Clair Huxtable? What, you haven't read about "The Huxtable Effect" (your homework: this and this). About how America has a 1980s sitcom to thank for a 2008 election outcome? About how Bill Cosby's Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Straight to the ‘Moon (But, For How Long?)

    November 12, 2008 03:06 PM

    New presidents get A Honeymoon Period. With peers around the world. With Congress. With the public. With the press (and "there's nothing unjournalistic about that," right, Chris Matthews?). Meaning, a stretch of time during which each of these... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    What’s Palin Doing?

    November 12, 2008 10:17 AM

    Gov. Sarah Palin is "on a speed date with history," writes the New York Times's Alessandra Stanley today, guessing at the agenda behind Palin's recent dinner engagements with television anchors (and similar upcoming get-togethers). She's on a (go... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Not Everyone Bought a Newspaper Nov. 5th

    November 12, 2008 09:19 AM

    Yes, many newspapers quickly sold out of their November 5th editions. One person who didn't rush out to buy his local paper (with the "BARACK OBAMA SEIZES HISTORIC WIN" headline) was Sen. John McCain. The morning after, McCain... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    New Title, New Candor?

    November 11, 2008 04:38 PM

    This, in the middle of a CabinetStakes segment on MSNBC just now, from former Chicago Tribune editor and current "MSNBC political analyst" Jim Warren: David [Shuster], just between us, having lived through two of these as Washington Bureau Chief... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    MoDo Casually Confesses (But We Can’t Handle The Truth!)

    November 11, 2008 01:57 PM

    Secret's out. Maureen Dowd, just now, on MSNBC's New York Times "Transition Edition:" JOHN HARWOOD (MSNBC/New York Times): What will it be like for you as one of the best-known columnists in America to have to change your mindset from... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Bush, Too, Ending “Classy?”

    November 11, 2008 11:26 AM

    Maybe McCain isn't the only one who gets to, in spite of it all, "end classy"? Today the AP reports that President Bush, too, is ending "classy" -- or "with grace." All because he greeted President-Elect Obama yesterday... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Olbermann’s “Symbolic Gesture”

    November 11, 2008 10:55 AM

    MSNBC's Keith Olberman on The View yesterday: JOY BEHAR: I was reading somewhere that you don't vote... OLBERMANN: I don't vote. It's the only thing I can do that even suggests that I don't have a horse in the... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Someone’s In The Kitchen With Palin…

    November 11, 2008 08:36 AM

    ...and it's Fox News's Greta Van Susteren! And NBC News's Matt Lauer! (Anyone else? Maybe...Baking with Blitzer? Mixing Manhattans with Maddow?) Both Van Susteren and Lauer spent time yesterday with Palin in her office and her kitchen (as... Continue reading

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