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   How Do We Say This Delicately?

   September 23, 2008 02:59 PM

   Ah, yes: CNN: "McCain drifts away from legacy of deregulation." "Drifts away" sounding more benign than, say, "slinks away" or "would rather you not focus on." (Personally, I'm hearing Christopher Cross's voice: "Sailing! Takes me away! And... Continue reading

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   Palin’s “Photo Spray”

   September 23, 2008 01:54 PM

   From the pool report* from Gov. Sarah Palin's "meeting" with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in New York today: Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional... Continue reading

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   Back on the Biden Bus

   September 23, 2008 12:53 PM

   When Sarah Palin joined the Republican ticket last month, http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-biden23-2008sep23,0,4764573.story?page=1">according to the LA Times's Faye Fiore today: a fickle press corps deserted [Senator Joe Biden] for Alaska. Palin's campaign plane was so full that they had to... Continue reading

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   ABC News Paid For “Other Materials”

   September 23, 2008 12:37 PM

   And I was hoping I could ignore O.J. Simpson Trial, Vegas Edition. The New York Times reports that a key witness, Thomas Riccio, yesterday testified that ABC News paid him $15,000. ABC News said it paid not for... Continue reading

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   Bono’s FT Blog

   September 23, 2008 09:58 AM

   Bono (of U2 and the One Campaign) and Jeffrey Sachs (of Columbia's Earth Institute) are blogging for the Financial Times this week (on the occasion of the the Millennium Development Goals summit). Bono describes himself as the FT's ... Continue reading

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   39 Days

   September 23, 2008 09:13 AM

   Washington Post: As of this writing, it has been 39 days and 22 hours since Sen. John McCain last held a news conference (despite having promised to hold weekly Q&A sessions with the press if he's elected). According to... Continue reading

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   84 to 2

   September 22, 2008 02:30 PM

   60 Minutes last night featured "a revealing side-by-side look at the candidates and their positions" (Steve Kroft interviewed Obama; Scott Pelley interviewed McCain). The results were better, journalistically-speaking, than the "side-by-side look" 60 Minutes gave us of... Continue reading

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   Nobody Puts Press In The Parking Lot

   September 22, 2008 02:07 PM

   The "press tent was a lonely place to be" at last night's 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, reports Variety, due "the distance between the [Nokia] theater and the press tent, which was perched on the roof of a parking garage... Continue reading

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   That’s It?

   September 22, 2008 01:44 PM

   Breaking: "Presidential candidates air attack ads," reports the AP's Nedra Pickler. Pickler's report, in full: Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are criticizing each other in new television ads. McCain portrays his Democratic opponent as a... Continue reading

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    Debates: Jim Lehrer As Heidi Klum

    September 22, 2008 11:45 AM

    "Presidential debates should be a little more like [Bravo reality TV show] Project Runway," argues Time TV blogger James Poniewozik," in that: [T]he best way to test someone's ability to do a job is to get them to do... Continue reading

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    Truth-Tellers, Lost and Found (In Week in Review)

    September 22, 2008 07:48 AM

    In yesterday's New York Times "Week in Review," Patrick Healy wrote a piece headlined, "Let's Call a Lie A Lie...Finally. " It was not, however, a piece by a political reporter urging his peers to call a lie made... Continue reading

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    David Brooks’s M.O.

    September 22, 2008 07:35 AM

    For anyone who has ever asked himself, "What's David Brooks thinking?" Brooks...admits he is something of a throwback. "This is going to sound pretentious, but I try to be a 1950s public intellectual in 2008, in 800 words." Just... Continue reading

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    Cable’s “Soulless Palavering”

    September 18, 2008 11:00 AM

    Never use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent one will do...except, maybe, when laboring to describe what it is that cable pundits do. From the LA Times' James Rainey (while complaining about the quality of coverage of Candidates On... Continue reading

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    You Say Tomato, They Say Campaign Ad

    September 18, 2008 10:11 AM

    From an AP article exploring those negative cable news-bait campaign ads (the ones that don't require an actual ad buy by the campaign, just an email to reporters): "It's getting just silly that the ads they are putting out... Continue reading

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    Who’s Down With OPM?

    September 18, 2008 09:29 AM

    Watching Sean Hannity's "no-topic-off-limits interview" with Sarah Palin right now. Nothing too tough or noteworthy so far. Lots of economy talk (Hannity: Is Obama using the Wall Street crisis for "political gain?" Palin doesn't really take that bait... Palin... Continue reading

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    Sweat-Stained TPS Reports

    September 18, 2008 09:10 AM

    That lunch at your desk in now an workplace norm is one thing. But, "treadmill desks"? Can the toilet-in-a-desk-chair (ergonimically correct, one hopes) be far behind? UPDATE: For CJR reader Kevin who politely requested a media angle to... Continue reading

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    MSNBabsC

    September 17, 2008 04:35 PM

    Number of segments in which "Streisand" has been mentioned over the past 24 hours (per a TVEyes search): CNN: 13 FOX NEWS: 13 MSNBC: 27 Continue reading

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    Firsts

    September 17, 2008 03:42 PM

    CBS News reports that this morning "marked the first time [Palin] answered a question from the press on the fly, prompting concerned looks from staffers." She was asked for her reaction to the AIG bailout. Also: Told... Continue reading

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    Losing Face (Today’s Fourth Hour)

    September 17, 2008 03:01 PM

    This is how they're filling that fourth hour of the Today Show? "Kathie Lee and Hoda Take Off Their Makeup:" Continue reading

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    Man on the Street in Sanaa

    September 17, 2008 02:13 PM

    Gripping man-on-the-street reporting from Christian Science Monitor contributor Shane Bauer in Sanaa, Yemen. (Plus, some helpful context and background to the bombing at the U.S. Embassy there today.) Bauer quotes "Yemeni journalist Adel al-Ahmedi, standing among a crowd of... Continue reading

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