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   Nine More Minutes of New Yorker “Cover Story” Coverage

   July 15, 2008 12:35 PM

   Adding to what Katia said yesterday: In a ten-minute interview on last night's Hardball (airtime shared with Ron Brownstein of National Journal) Ryan Lizza got ten seconds -- the final ten seconds -- to talk about his New... Continue reading

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   Good Catch, Mika! (Was That So Hard?)

   July 15, 2008 08:47 AM

   A breath of fresh air on MSNBC this morning (fresh not just for MSNBC, but for political reporting in general). Mika Brzezinski caught herself offering he-said/she-said reporting, unnecessarily attributing a factually true statement to someone (in this case "critics"... Continue reading

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   Not Laughing At The New Yorker Cover Cartoon?

   July 15, 2008 08:31 AM

   Well, how about this one, located safely inside this week's issue, complete with caption (additional hint: panhandlers are not the target here; nor are, or perhaps not exclusively, the suited men). Continue reading

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   AP’s Accountability Adviser To Be “Player-Coach”

   July 14, 2008 04:27 PM

   At Politico, Michael Calderone ponders whether the Associated Press's acting Washington bureau chief, Ron Fournier, is "saving or destroying the AP" with his "accountability journalism" (an example of which I wrote about in November). Calderone reports that although... Continue reading

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   Veepstakes: We Have a Winner!

   July 14, 2008 03:58 PM

   "MSNBC.com users have chosen Mitt Romney" as John McCain's running-mate (in that online Veepstakes game). What? You're waiting to see who John McCain chooses? Continue reading

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   That New Yorker Cover (Fox News’ Take and More)

   July 14, 2008 09:23 AM

   There is something both disturbing and hilarious about listening to Fox News (of "terrorist fist jab" and not-so-subtly-digitally-altered-photos-of-New York Times-reporters-who-wrote-ill-of-Fox-News fame) discussing whether this week's New Yorker cover (depicting "terrorist fist jab"-exchanging sketched caricatures of Barack and... Continue reading

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   Tell Me, As The Paper’s Editor of “Visual News,” What Do You Do?

   July 10, 2008 12:52 PM

   Our minds are already "down there" today, so why not have a look at what my colleague just called "the best news graphic ever" (scroll all the way down to the end of the article). Continue reading

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   Media’s Mixed “Nuts” (a.ka. “A Base Phrase”-Gate)

   July 10, 2008 08:45 AM

   This marks the third time* this campaign season the press has had to tackle the question of How To Report A Reference To Certain Manparts. Back in April, the head of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union described Hillary Clinton... Continue reading

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   What Else Can I Do With All This Spin?

   July 9, 2008 03:20 PM

   The Boston Globe's Brian Mooney shows how the spin flows with a minute-by-minute chronology of A Day of Campaign Spin (in this case, yesterday, when both campaigns were frantically spinning reporters on their economic plans). Mooney, in his words,... Continue reading

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    Pollster On That John McCanine Poll

    July 9, 2008 02:43 PM

    Pollster's Mark Blumenthal awards Worst In Show to the Associated Press's interpretation of its own poll (not to mention the poll itself) which we wrote about yesterday-- the one about pet-owning Americans preferring McCain to Obama. Something about... Continue reading

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    No More Malia And Sasha (You Blew It, Cable)!

    July 9, 2008 12:50 PM

    There will be no more interviews with Barack Obama's adorable young daughters, Malia and Sasha. No more chances to find out that Malia is fantasizing about decorating her bedroom in the White House or that Sasha hates when her dad... Continue reading

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    AP on McCain on Budget Deficit: Points For Trying?

    July 9, 2008 11:45 AM

    How's this framing of The Candidates Dueling Economic Plans for the press giving McCain a "mad pass" (Josh Marshall's words) on his pledge to balance the budget? From the Associated Press's Nedra Pickler: Barack Obama says... Continue reading

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    That Crying Child With Leg Casts

    July 9, 2008 08:45 AM

    That recent A-1 New York Times photo of the crying baby in leg casts that stopped me (and, not surprisingly, many Times readers) in my tracks? It seems we were misinformed. Per the Times' correction today: ... Continue reading

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    “Inspired” New York Post Reporting

    July 9, 2008 08:06 AM

    The New York Post reports it was "inspired by sexy CBS reporter Lara Logan's recent foreign affairs" (presumably its own reporting on the matter). "Inspired"... to open a Baghdad bureau? "Inspired" to "come up with 10 on-camera... Continue reading

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    McCain Camp Won’t Call On Corn on Calls?

    July 8, 2008 03:45 PM

    David Corn's first-hand experience has him wondering over at Mother Jones: Is the McCain campaign screening reporters [on its conference calls with aides and surrogates], and, if so, on what basis? A reporter for a progressive media outlet says... Continue reading

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    Kurtz: “In-Bedded” Reporter (Now With Child)!

    July 8, 2008 02:09 PM

    Last week, I complained about Howard Kurtz's handling of all the recent Lara Logan-related news. Basically, Kurtz reprinted five juicy paragraphs of the New York Post’s story for Washington Post readers before adding, helpfully, that it was "not much... Continue reading

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    “Special Political Coverage” (By Any Other Name)

    July 8, 2008 10:57 AM

    No fair! CNN is inflating the Coop's grades with their tricky program-naming scheme! So tattled MSNBC and Fox News to Nielsen, apparently complaining that CNN is "upping the average [ratings]" for Anderson Cooper 360 by titling their 10pm hour during... Continue reading

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    John McCanine

    July 8, 2008 09:56 AM

    More Americans may want to BBQ with Barack, but the Associated Press-Yahoo News throws John a polling bone today: More pet-owning Americans prefer McCain (particularly Americans with dogs) than Obama. Is it me, or is this... Continue reading

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    Press Giving McCain “Mad Pass” On Economic Plan?

    July 8, 2008 08:32 AM

    Josh Marshall argues that the press coverage of McCain's economic plan (which Marshall summarizes as, "He's pledging to balance the budget in four years and when asked for details he says, 'We'll get back to you on that.'" )... Continue reading

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    Intern-al Communication

    July 7, 2008 01:33 PM

    That news meeting? The one where the editor introduced the New Business Model? Here's what it looked like through the eyes of the intern in metro (because of course she blogged about it): Through most of this meeting, I... Continue reading

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