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   NYT: Again With Palin’s Hair

   September 17, 2008 12:47 PM

   Having already tracked down the woman who styled The Real Sarah Palin's hair, the next step for the The New York Times was, naturally, to locate the woman responsible for Pretend Palin's coif. (Fey wore a wig!) From... Continue reading

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   So, Palin’s The Tickle-Me Elmo of Election ‘08?

   September 17, 2008 12:16 PM

   CNN taps someone from Harvard Business School to wax wise on "the vulnerability of American citizens to anything that is new" and Sarah Palin's "shelf life" (who are you calling a product?), or the shelf life of the Palin... Continue reading

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   McCain’s Got a Squeeze Box

   September 17, 2008 11:38 AM

   The AP's Glen Johnson sees McCain going in and out and in and out (because, maybe, where's the melody in "trying to have it both ways?"): John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a... Continue reading

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   31 Women

   September 17, 2008 10:28 AM

   The Washington Post has a haunting, detailed story today reporting, in part, that "there have been 31 female [suicide] bombers this year" in Iraq (the youngest, 13) and: Since the 2003 invasion, 53 Iraqi women have... Continue reading

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   Palin “Hired Friends” Story: No Coattails?

   September 17, 2008 09:45 AM

   The New York Observer explores the question: "Does print journalism matter this election?" and talks to the New York Times's executive editor, Bill Keller, about why his paper's front-page Sunday story on Palin ("Once Hired, Palin Hired Friends... Continue reading

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   Dowd’s Notebook Dump

   September 17, 2008 09:12 AM

   Every now and then, Maureen Dowd's column reads unusually chaotic (unedited?).... disjointed, a string of zingers without a home (until now, here, courtesy of the New York Times). Today is such a day. The column is, best I... Continue reading

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   Another Hopeful Headline

   September 16, 2008 04:03 PM

   "One hesitates to be too hopeful," Megan wrote earlier today, pointing to HuffPo's "HELLO ECONOMY, GOODBYE LIPSTICK" headline and other evidence suggesting that campaign coverage may, possibly, be taking a turn for the serious and substantial. Here's a... Continue reading

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   How To Start NY Media Salivating

   September 16, 2008 02:05 PM

   Hi, reporter for important New York news outlet? Let's say the wife of a founder of Google founded a genetic testing company, with financial and moral support from assorted media moguls whom she then gathered in one place in New... Continue reading

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   Part 1 of Fox on “First Dude?” Meatless

   September 16, 2008 01:04 PM

   Turns out, Part 2 of what Fox News's on-screen graphic promised would be "Greta Goes to Alaska to Discover the Real Todd Palin," contained all the meat (and by that I mean Van Susteren's reference to caribou and moose... Continue reading

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    “First Dude” Dodges Fox News’s “Are You Cold” Queries

    September 16, 2008 10:13 AM

    Gibson's "Get" wasn't the only one to be gotten. Fox News's Greta Van Susteren got the "first interview" with Todd Palin, Gov. Sarah Palin's husband and kicked off last night's Part 2 of said interview (while donning a North... Continue reading

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    Conduct Unbecoming

    September 16, 2008 09:32 AM

    Richard Cohen in today's Washington Post: John McCain has "soiled" his "integrity." And, according to Cohen, "the precise moment of McCain's abasement came" at the hands of The View's Joy Behar. Continue reading

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    ‘PigGate Places Second?

    September 16, 2008 09:17 AM

    Last week? Very "Palin-centric," according to PEJ's News Coverage Index, which shows Palin starring as "the focal point of the four biggest media narratives—scrutiny of her public record (14% of the newshole), the ABC interview (10%), the 'lipstick on... Continue reading

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    If Hairstyles Could Talk

    September 15, 2008 03:58 PM

    Boston-based hair stylists have had their say. The LA Times's fashion critic, too, http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/what_feeling_do_you_get_from_p.php">has spoken. Now, the New York Times' Sunday Styles tracked down the Wasilla, Alaska hair salon --the Beehive Beauty Salon -- responsible... Continue reading

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    Galveston (And Beyond)

    September 15, 2008 03:40 PM

    There is much to report, from coastal Texas, on what Hurricane Ike wrought. And no shortage of journalists there to tell those stories. (Some incredible images, for example, here. Read a Galveston Daily News reporter's on-the-scene Twitter updates <a... Continue reading

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    Covering “Thanks, But No Thanks”

    September 15, 2008 12:56 PM

    "Thanks, but no thanks." Gov. Sarah Palin is still saying it on the stump. She said it over the weekend while campaigning in Nevada. How did Nevada newspapers report it? Las Vegas Sun: Palin also... Continue reading

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    What Campaign Trail Bubble?

    September 15, 2008 12:36 PM

    The Washington Post 's E.J. Dionne: I can't believe how small a role our economic crisis is playing in the campaign coverage and in the back-and-forth between the candidates. Who is at fault here? Am I more worried about... Continue reading

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    “Even Karl Rove”

    September 15, 2008 11:50 AM

    Pssst, campaign reporters! Permission to say that the McCain campaign has, perhaps, on occasion, stretched the truth: granted! It's ok -- it's safe-- now! Why? Because even Karl Rove has said as much. Rove on Fox News yesterday: ROVE:... Continue reading

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    The Sky Is Falling (Below The Fold)

    September 15, 2008 10:27 AM

    What do you lead with today? With the sky falling in American finance (and the sky having just barely cleared over coastal Texas)? Wall Street Journal: "Crisis on Wall Street..." New York Times: "..FINANCIAL CRISIS..." Continue reading

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    Imagined: Couric on Palin

    September 15, 2008 09:13 AM

    David Carr imagines a Couric-on-Palin interview: It is telling that when the McCain campaign was looking for a soft place to land Governor Palin’s first interview, they turned to Charles Gibson at ABC, not Ms. Couric. It would have... Continue reading

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    Bill’s Back! From Liability to “Swami”

    September 11, 2008 12:03 PM

    On MSNBC this morning: JOE SCARBOROUGH: Barack Obama's biggest mistake in the campaign thus far may have been the fact he waited a month to call Bill Clinton when his advisers were begging him to ...I do not understand. I... Continue reading

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