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   Our “Trouble” With Lies

   September 11, 2008 11:28 AM

   As Michael Kinsley ">sees it: In a democracy, obvious lies and obvious liars should be self-defeating. Why aren’t they? One reason is that the media have trouble calling a lie a lie, or asserting that one... Continue reading

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   Sheepish, Bullish on ‘PigGate

   September 11, 2008 10:03 AM

   Last night, it was with a certain sheepishness that Anderson Cooper kicked off AC360 with, natch, talk of 'PigGate: COOPER: The media has fixed on the [lipstick/pig] controversy. No doubt about that. Tonight we will not. Yes, lipstick will be... Continue reading

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   Quizzical

   September 10, 2008 03:15 PM

   What else? What more can we do with LipStickOnAPigGate? Talk about it. Have dueling surrogates on our channel to talk about it. Interview each other talking about it. Point to how others in the media have talked about it.... Continue reading

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   If I Were Charlie Gibson (List of Lists)

   September 10, 2008 12:20 PM

   Here is a (surely incomplete) list of Lists of Questions ABC News's Charlie Gibson Should Ask Gov. Sarah Palin (this doesn't include all the general advice out there on how Gibson should approach the interview, just the stuff in... Continue reading

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   Fox and Pig

   September 10, 2008 11:57 AM

   Which cable channel has totally pigged out on (it's puns aplenty with this one) LipstickOnAPig-Gate so far? A quick TVEyes search shows how many times the word "lipstick" has come up on the following channels since 6:00pm last night... Continue reading

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   “Catnip to the News Media”

   September 10, 2008 10:40 AM

   Barack Obama just addressed LipstickOnAPig-Gate, calling it "catnip to the news media" (wrong animal, sir!) and lamenting that "the news media decided that it was the lead story." And now Obama is back to talking about education (MSNBC... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   The Balls on the Bus

   September 10, 2008 10:15 AM

   If a reporter from McCain's traveling press corps gave a reporter from Obama's press bus one of her cojones, they'd both have ... none, apparently. There are no balls at all among journalists on the campaign trail; neuters, all. ... Continue reading

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   LipstickOnAPig-Gate

   September 10, 2008 09:29 AM

   That there would be a campaign kerfuffle/scuffle about pork at some point during election 2008 is not surprising. That it would, literally, involve pig? Didn't see that coming. "Boar war! Barack Walks a Swine Line!" (Today's New... Continue reading

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   Obama’s”Working Class” Support (On Press Bus?)

   September 10, 2008 08:40 AM

   Journalists striking that "proletarian pose" might embrace Matt Taibbi's description of Obama's traveling press corps (if not the effect Taibbi says it has on their work product): One thing that makes the cult of Obama difficult to dissect... Continue reading

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    Mayor Palin and The Press

    September 9, 2008 03:38 PM

    Something I learned from Newsweek's Sarah Palin ("Palintology") cover story: As Mayor of Wasilla, Palin "imposed a gag order to keep city personnel from talking to the press." (Oh, and also, as Palin studies up on what a... Continue reading

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    If We Can’t Have Palin…

    September 9, 2008 03:18 PM

    We'll take the woman who beat her in the 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant, Maryline Blackburn, who, in an interview on Fox News just now, offered that Palin (Heath, then) was "a very nice young lady... talented but determined." Did she... Continue reading

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    Is This Seventh Grade?

    September 9, 2008 01:45 PM

    Yes, it is. On MSNBC this morning: MSNBC's CONTESSA BREWER: What we saw was the crowd not only filling the street but overflowing into surrounding areas. Is there any chance that your candidate starts to feel a little, I don't... Continue reading

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    The Impotence of the Fact Check?

    September 9, 2008 12:20 PM

    Hearing Gov. Sarah Palin again saying "Thanks, but no thanks" (the applause line of the McCain-Palin campaign's truth-challenged Bridge to Nowhere claim) on cable news this morning got us talking generally about how journalists fact check candidates and the... Continue reading

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    PEJ on Press on Palin: “Feverish”

    September 9, 2008 10:51 AM

    Per PEJ: "For the week of Sept. 1-7, Palin was a significant or dominant factor in 60% of the campaign stories." Occupying 9.7 percent of the overall campaign news hole? "Palin Family Scandals." Occupying 6.2 percent of the overall... Continue reading

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    Advice for Gibson: “Think of Your Children”

    September 9, 2008 09:43 AM

    ABCNews.com is asking what Charles Gibson should ask Gov. Sarah Palin during The First Palin Interview later this week. Along with suggestions for specific questions (world leader pop quizzes, Fannie and Freddie, global warming, sex ed, etc.), readers are... Continue reading

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    Expert(s) Embrace(d)

    September 9, 2008 08:40 AM

    Hair stylists. Handwriting experts. An astrologer. Body language experts. Feng Shui experts. Some embarrassing, prepubescent-looking guy who wrote a book... Is there an "expert" whose wisdom has not yet been tapped by the... Continue reading

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    What “Feeling” Do You Get From Palin’s Hair?

    September 8, 2008 04:23 PM

    Two thoughts on Booth Moore's (the LA Times' Fashion Critic) take today on "Sarah Palin's Style:" 1) Maybe it's parody? 2) What's left for Robin Givhan to say? Some Moore: Barely a blip on the political... Continue reading

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    Why Is “NO-PRAH” News?

    September 8, 2008 11:09 AM

    There are sins of commission and sins of omission. Oprah's Sin of Omission: not having Gov. Sarah Palin on her show. Oprah confessed -- er, announced -- as much on Friday. Setting aside questions like, So, did Palin ask to... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Just a “Dash” of Media Bash

    September 8, 2008 10:34 AM

    From "Media Bashing 101" (Intro to Media "Criticism" As Campaign Tool?) with the New York Times' Mark Leibovitch: [M]edia bashing may work better in dashes (like paprika) — nothing too relentless or overwhelming... Not the recipe the McCain... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    The Palin Get: ABC’s Gibson, Alaska-Bound!

    September 8, 2008 09:37 AM

    ABC News's Charles Gibson's has landed the "first television interview" with Gov. Sarah Palin since Palin joined the Republican presidential ticket. Per the AP, "Palin will sit down for multiple interviews with Gibson in Alaska over two days, most... Continue reading

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