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   Covering Beijing; Reporters Feel The Heat

   August 6, 2008 11:58 AM

   Two separate and unequal press centers; ever-changing rules for Who Can Report From/About Tiananmen Square (And Other Landmarks) and When; balancing "business prerogatives" and "saying serious things about serious topics." These are some of the challenges for reporters covering the... Continue reading

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   McCain Likes Not (Knows Not?) What He Does

   August 6, 2008 10:14 AM

   Today, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd diagnoses John McCain with an advanced case of "boy envy" (Barack Obama being, as Dowd says he was for Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton and John Edwards, The Envied One). Writes... Continue reading

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   How Do “Indelible Images” Get That Way?

   August 6, 2008 08:43 AM

   The Boston Globe has an article today about how the presidential candidates "strive to establish [an] image and make it stick." Not once in the article does the reporter mention the very vital role reporters play in "making it... Continue reading

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   PEJ Index: Special Snaps For Cable TV!

   August 5, 2008 04:13 PM

   I know I'm supposed to be focusing on the headline to the PEJ's Campaign Coverage Index (that last week "McCain makes as much news as Obama" "for the first time since this general election campaign began in early June")... Continue reading

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   Obama: “Way Cooler,” Preferred Carpooler

   August 5, 2008 03:47 PM

   "Young people finding Obama way cooler than McCain," reports the Associated Press, based on a few cool-kid-on-the-street interviews (prompted, it seems, by a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll showing "Obama has a 2-to-1 lead over McCain among 18-to-34-year-olds.")... Continue reading

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   ABC News Will Not Moderate Fall Debates

   August 5, 2008 12:05 PM

   Well-known news anchors for CBS, NBC and PBS will moderate the four scheduled presidential and vice-presidential debates this fall, per Swampland. Missing from that line-up? ABC News. (After those "shoddy, despicable performances" from Gibson and Stephanopoulos during that... Continue reading

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   Mission Accomplished For (That Other) Harper’s

   August 5, 2008 10:38 AM

   CJR writing about MSNBC talking about the New York Post writing about* Harper's Bazaar (and its Tyra Banks-as-Michelle-Obama photo shoot and accompanying article in the magazine's September issue). <br... Continue reading

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   Noah: That Story On Obama’s Eyebrows? Pluck It.

   August 5, 2008 08:50 AM

   Not only was that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Wall Street Journal article...let's call it...thinly sourced, it also, according to Tim Noah at Slate, carried a "racial subtext." Writes Noah: "When white people are invited to... Continue reading

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   ABC News’s Bentonite Story: What Now?

   August 4, 2008 04:10 PM

   This ABC News-bentonite story that Glenn Greenwald has been all over at Salon raises so many Big Questions For Journalism (some of which we will get into as the week progresses). Kevin Drum asks a few: What should... Continue reading

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    How “onlinebeerbellygirl” Made the WSJ and NYT!

    August 4, 2008 01:46 PM

    Remember that "could Obama's skinniness be a liability?" story from Friday's Wall Street Journal? The one about which Megan wrote, "No, this isn't from The Onion"? The one in which the reporter, Amy Chozick, managed to find both... Continue reading

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    “The End of Rakan’s War”

    August 4, 2008 11:53 AM

    "Would he still be alive if I didn't write about him?" is one of the heartbreaking questions Kevin Cullen, a Boston Globe columnist asked himself yesterday. "He" being Rakan, a young Iraqi boy who in 2006 was shot and... Continue reading

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    Honesty In Column-Writing (Brady on Carr)

    August 4, 2008 10:07 AM

    Did Forbes.com columnist James Brady perhaps just mean to think what he actually wrote? Brady is disappointed with Night of the Gun, the book by the New York Times' David Carr (or at least Brady's disappointed with... Continue reading

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    Who’s Gaining Ground In “The News Game”

    August 4, 2008 09:29 AM

    Nightly network news ratings for the first half of 2008 are down from the year prior and broadcasters saw no ratings "bounces" from sending their Big Anchors overseas with Obama, according to today's New York Times. But some news... Continue reading

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    War “Monuments”

    August 4, 2008 08:47 AM

    Clark Hoyt, the New York Times' public editor, wrote yesterday: Two hundred twenty-one American soldiers and Marines have been killed in Iraq this year, but until eight days ago, the Times had not published a photo of one... Continue reading

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    Do Wear Tennis Whites, Don’t Talk To Reporters

    July 31, 2008 10:13 AM

    Among the things members of the Phoneix Country Club are forbidden to do: 1) Use foul language or wear capri pants on the tennis courts. 2) Be a woman and be in the Grill Room. 3)... Continue reading

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    Ohio Papers: McCain’s “Celeb” Ad? “Zero” Truth

    July 31, 2008 08:27 AM

    A group of newspapers in Ohio (a Battleground State, you recall) is rating campaign ads on a scale* of 0 to 10 (0 being "misleading" and 10 "truthful"). These papers (The Plain Dealer " in cooperation with" The Canton... Continue reading

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    A Little Bit Louder Now (Shout)

    July 31, 2008 08:14 AM

    The Presidential Campaign as Experienced on Cable News over the past 24 hours (though it’s not just cable and it’s not just these 24 hours or even this election) is reminding me of this fifth grade schoolyard shouting match: ... Continue reading

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    When “News” Becomes News

    July 30, 2008 02:12 PM

    First it was a report of a woman's eye maimed by her own faulty thong. Then it was the story of an injured mountain climber using her bra to, ahem, rouse help. Today, we have two additional instances... Continue reading

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    Dress For The Job You Want?

    July 30, 2008 12:46 PM

    First, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank catches one of the guys running for president Acting Presidential again. "Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee," writes Milbank today. (See Todd Gitlin for... Continue reading

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    MoDo On Team Obama: Such Good Sports!

    July 30, 2008 10:07 AM

    As Obama's World Tour wound down, Maureen Dowd was on hand to observe (and then to share with us in her column today) that the candidate and the campaign "weren't as wary with the press." Indeed: The senator left... Continue reading

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