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   Pity, That

   July 30, 2008 08:44 AM

   In a piece about how John McCain has and should handle his status as onetime campaign press "it" candidate running against the media's current crush (move on, seems to be the consensus from pundits from the left and right), MSNBC's... Continue reading

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   (MS)NBC Reaches For More Gravitas for Earthquake Coverage

   July 29, 2008 03:03 PM

   I was just watching a female reporter on MSNBC reporting about about the earthquake that has apparently just struck the Los Angeles area. Suddenly, she was interrupted by that Serious Breaking News From NBC music and there was Brian Williams... Continue reading

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   For “Inactive Grannies”… There’s Always 2012?

   July 29, 2008 02:03 PM

   Someone's still willing to pay for (or, at least willing to lend a platform for) "advice" from Mark J. Penn. In Politico, in a piece headlined, "'Active grannies' the new socer moms," Penn writes: With 18 percent of seniors... Continue reading

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   The Economy: No One “Pouncing”

   July 29, 2008 12:03 PM

   In his New York Times column today Bob Herbert writes that the economy "is the issue on which the Obama people should long since have pounced." (If not because so many Americans are experiencing "pervasive anxiety" from our troubled... Continue reading

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   Barefoot and Blogging (In NYT Styles)

   July 29, 2008 09:43 AM

   Location! Location! Location! Sometimes, stories about blogging and bloggers make the New York Times' front-page. A-1. Juxtaposed with the critical stories of the day. Other times, they can be found among articles about brides Botoxing their bridesmaids and... Continue reading

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   Chris Matthews’s Heroic Refusal To Discuss Robert Novak

   July 29, 2008 08:41 AM

   From a (Harrisburg, PA) Patriot-News profile of Chris Matthews packed with will-he-or-won't-he-run-for-Senate speculation: A Senate run would demand discipline, said Chris Borick, a political analyst at Muhlenberg College. "It would be interesting to see if he could control... Continue reading

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   “Media Frenzy” Explains Further Frenzied Media

   July 28, 2008 02:43 PM

   Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah Howell declares her paper's Chandra Levy series "not worth 13 days, all on page 1," adding that "the new information wasn't highlighted sufficiently." In Howell's column about readers' reactions to the series ("All... Continue reading

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   De Gall!

   July 28, 2008 02:08 PM

   Christiane Amanpour's question for President Nicolas Sarkozy during a Paris press conference with Barack Obama late last week: (h/t TVNewser): Continue reading

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   Embracing “Dr. No”

   July 28, 2008 11:26 AM

   Speaking of reading body language, both the Washington Post and the New York Times put on their front pages today pieces about Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) and, specifically, per the Times, Democrats' efforts to "break grip of... Continue reading

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    “Body Language Investigations” Abound

    July 28, 2008 09:13 AM

    "It's a body language investigation!" The IRE should have an award for this. Granted, no shoe leather was harmed (not a scuff!) during this investigation. It doesn't require the resources of, say, a year-long re-reporting of "Washington's... Continue reading

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    Easy “Breezy”

    July 28, 2008 08:34 AM

    "Breathtakingly inappropriate," is how Eric Boehlert describes Ron Fournier's email exchanges with Karl Rove from 2004 (Fournier was an AP political reporter at the time; he is now the Washington bureau chief). Writes Boehlert, in a piece titled "The... Continue reading

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    Cut No Slack

    July 24, 2008 11:07 AM

    James Rainey in today's LA Times (emphasis mine): It seems like just about everybody has spent the last week beating up on the media for showering too much love on Barack Obama, during what John McCain's camp derides... Continue reading

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    Say What, Shafer?*

    July 24, 2008 10:22 AM

    I often enjoy (and often agree with) Jack Shafer's stuff. But, what's up with this? Shafer wonders "why hasn't the press commented" on a recent National Enquirer story involving John Edwards supposedly visiting a supposed love child. "Is... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Russert’s Road (And Runway?)

    July 24, 2008 10:04 AM

    The Buffalo News reports that President Bush today signed a bill renaming part of Route 20A near Ralph Wilson Stadium [in Buffalo] after Tim Russert. The bill, which Congress passed overwhelmingly, renames the section of the highway... Continue reading

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    Novak in the News

    July 24, 2008 09:19 AM

    There's the Bob Novak-and-his-black-Corvette-hit-a-guy-yesterday story on Politico (according to a witness, "a black Corvette convertible with top closed plows into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed into the windshield.") And Novak's name also appears in another... Continue reading

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    Ohama? Versus…Cheney?

    July 23, 2008 02:58 PM

    Among coverage of Obama's Overseas Trip on the Jerusalem Post's web site was the video below, in which The Media Line ("The MidEast News Source") asks "shoppers at a Jerusalem supermarket" to identify photos of Barack Obama and John... Continue reading

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    A Stumper

    July 23, 2008 12:38 PM

    Here is Jon Friedman's "MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY:" What do you think is the relationship between politics and journalism -- and sex? "-- and sex?" This isn't exactly like your friend who, when reading aloud the fortune... Continue reading

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    The Tanking Economy (For Dummies)

    July 23, 2008 12:12 PM

    What happened? "Wall Street got drunk;" got a tattoo (which didn't look "gargantuan, inevitably tacky, gauche and ugly" at the time). Taken together, President Bush's recent "off-camera" remarks (now "no longer available" on YouTube) and Richard Cohen's <a... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Matthews: Reporting “All Senses” (And Sensations)

    July 23, 2008 10:41 AM

    Chris Matthews to Jay Leno Monday night, talking about his "thrill up my leg" (from Obama speech) comment (h/t TVNewser and HuffPost): Ha! You know, some journalists report only what a guy says, what they hear, what... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Anonymous Cable News Interns: Have At It!

    July 23, 2008 08:45 AM

    Radar Online "polled a number of current and former producers—the people with the best view of the tantrums and shouting matches—as well as some professional TV reporters and had them dish the dirt" (anonymously, of course) on who's nasty... Continue reading

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