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   Doubletake: John Burns’s Doppelganger?

   July 22, 2008 03:32 PM

   Here is Ashley Gilbertson, a photographer for the New York Times, talking about some of his (pretty stunning) images from Baghdad on MSNBC just now: Here is the... Continue reading

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   McCain Campaign Pursues Anti-Chris-Matthews Vote

   July 22, 2008 12:42 PM

   What was that John Heilemann was saying in New York magazine about the McCain campaign turning into the Clinton campaign? The press is fetching pillows for Obama! the McCain campaign seems to be saying (also: We Want... Continue reading

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   Press Release: Bestest Republican National Convention Ever!

   July 22, 2008 11:48 AM

   I don't know why I was even initially startled, given Today's Media Environment. But: today, six weeks before the Republican National Convention, the Republican National Convention sent out a press release touting that "Convention Preparations On Target." But don't... Continue reading

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   Fourth Place For Last Week’s New Yorker Cover

   July 22, 2008 11:19 AM

   According to the new PEJ study, last week's New Yorker cover* only came in fourth in quantity of press coverage received -- behind "Obama's trip," "Iraq war as an issue," and "Obama and McCain speak at NAACP." Except... Continue reading

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   Obama’s “Hope” During “Presser”

   July 22, 2008 10:24 AM

   Barack Obama in response to a question just now during his press conference in Jordan (I couldn't hear the question, but safe to assume it contained some variation on the words "McCain says"): My hope is to avoid a colloquy... Continue reading

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   Veepstakes Hometown Dates

   July 22, 2008 08:55 AM

   Last night, Jon Stewart compared Obama's courting of the press prior to and during his overseas trip to the reality TV show, The Bachelor ("As I understand it on each night of the trip Barack Obama will give a... Continue reading

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   I Bought My “Table Of Contents For the World” From Barack Obama

   July 21, 2008 02:42 PM

   Per Lyn Sweet: During one school year at Columbia, Obama was a telemarketer in midtown Manhattan selling New York Times subscriptions over the phone, wearing a headset. He did not like the job because "he worried that some of... Continue reading

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   Goodbye To Most Of That

   July 21, 2008 01:56 PM

   The LA Times reportedly will replace its Sunday Book Review with "a smaller number of pages appended to the Calendar section," a move that several former editors of the section, including Steve Wasserman, are protesting. Wasserman wrote about... Continue reading

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   If You Ask A Superficial Question…

   July 21, 2008 01:12 PM

   MSNBC teasing a segment on Obama's overseas travel: Will this trip add enough meat to his foreign policy experience to quiet the critics? Sort of sums up what's often wrong with campaign reporting: The focus on strategy, whether something... Continue reading

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    LAT Still Hasn’t Found What NYT Looking For

    July 21, 2008 11:23 AM

    "Obama spoofers walk a fine line," reports today's LA Times. Didn't the New York Times tell us this last Tuesday ("Want Obama In A Punchine? First, Find A Joke)? Well, the LA Times's story is datelined... Continue reading

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    How (When?) To Overshare on the Cover of NYT Magazine

    July 21, 2008 10:05 AM

    Remember when ex-Gawker employee Emily Gould overshared on the cover of the New York Times Magazine? When she, in the course of 8,000 words, pondered Questions She's Faced In Life such as: But how could I convey to... Continue reading

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    CNBC’s “Ultimate Growth Stock” Wants To Know

    July 21, 2008 08:46 AM

    I'm no economist, but I think I have an answer to the question Erin Burnett, the 32-year-old CNBC anchor whom the channel regards as its "ultimate growth stock," asked just now on MSNBC. After talking about yesterday's front... Continue reading

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    McCain: Good Sport? Grump?

    July 17, 2008 11:47 AM

    Like my colleague Katia, the LA Times' James Rainey, too, called up some editorial cartoonists recently (we did it in the wake of Cover-Gate; Rainey had been working prior to Cover-Gate on a piece about how "cartoonists... Continue reading

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    ObamaGuy?

    July 17, 2008 11:22 AM

    More "tasteless and offensive" political satire (h/t NRO Media Blog). Continue reading

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    I’m Getting A New Seatmate! (Please Be Brian Williams!)

    July 17, 2008 09:18 AM

    Plenty of meaty topics for political reporters to probe as Sen. Obama prepares to travel across the pond and beyond. The New York Times tucks right in: [T]he regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seatmates: star... Continue reading

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    On MSNBC: “It’s Come To This”

    July 16, 2008 10:14 AM

    Contessa Brewer on MSNBC this morning: "Hillary Clinton had a new look when she showed up for a big speech* in the Senate yesterday." And what do you think the remainder of Brewer's report was about? (No, cable news... Continue reading

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    The -Gate That Got Away

    July 16, 2008 09:44 AM

    As self-appointed -Gate-keepers, I wanted to acknowledge that we missed one last week (a -Gated -Gate, no less): Brandenburg Gate-Gate, overshadowed by or lost somewhere between Nuts-Gate and Cover-Gate. If you, too, missed what I believe was... Continue reading

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    Shafer v. Anonymice (Take 47)

    July 16, 2008 09:30 AM

    Which reporter in which major newspaper recently granted anonymity to a source for a quotation, the lot about which Jack Shafer says: "I've gleaned more useful data from infomercials" and to which Shafer gives a "5" rating ("awful") on... Continue reading

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    WaPo-Induced Flashback

    July 15, 2008 04:44 PM

    Surely I'm not the only person who thought I'd clicked on an old washingtonpost.com link -- like, one from 2001 -- when my eye caught the headline "Who Killed Chandra Levy?" on the paper's homepage today. Turns out, the... Continue reading

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    More Testosterone for NBC, Less for MSNBC?

    July 15, 2008 02:53 PM

    I'm probably just still recovering from last week's Nuts-Gate, but a pair of passages stood out to me from two separate pieces (both worth a read in their entireties) in the current issue of New York magazine. The first... Continue reading

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