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1. The Kicker

   Sasha Obama, This Could Be You!

   July 7, 2008 01:20 PM

   Here's an Associated Press article that pretends to be about what the White House offers child residents ("an unparalleled view of history in the making, and worldly experiences other children can only dream of") when it's really about what... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Time: Rolling the Dice on McCain?

   July 7, 2008 10:46 AM

   Bill Clinton famously suggested to Charlie Rose last December that to vote for Barack Obama, given what Clinton called his limited experience in national politics, is to "roll the dice" on the presidency. Time this week suggests that... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Press Contrition Over Clark Coverage?

   July 7, 2008 08:38 AM

   About all those election-related "media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place," as Paul Krugman described them in his column* Friday (What Wes Said being the most recent, Howard Dean's "scream" being a familiar... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Covering Flip-Flops (A How-To)

   July 3, 2008 10:38 AM

   Over at Time.com, Michael Scherer (who once worked here at CJR) observes: Every day, flip-flop charges bang up against the political press like moths on a screen door. And we let some of them in,... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   More on That WaPo Obama Mortgage Story

   July 3, 2008 09:50 AM

   Yesterday, my colleague Justin questioned the Washington Post's news judgment in running its Obama mortgage story. At Washington Monthly, Kevin Drum "demand[s] that Barack Obama release his FICO score" before wondering, "seriously, folks," whether "the beltway... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   The Cult of Kiernan

   July 3, 2008 08:55 AM

   Pat Kiernan, the NY1 News anchor who reads New Yorkers' newspapers to them every morning in his In The Papers segment, offers these thoughts-- in a New York Observer profile -- on what ails TV News : I think... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   NYT’s MTV Cribs-Like Limbaugh Profile

   July 2, 2008 01:18 PM

   At one point in his 7,000-plus-word profile of Rush Limbaugh for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, reporter Zev Chafets lays out his purpose: "I had come to talk to Limbaugh about his role in Republican Party politics." But... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   About That CW on Bush’s HIV/AIDS Legacy

   July 2, 2008 12:31 PM

   "Even human rights purist [and New York Times columnist] Nicholas Kristof" has lauded President Bush's HIV/AIDS work, writes Danielle Maestretti in the Utne Reader in a piece headlined "Bush, the AIDs President? Don't believe everything you read in... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   BBQ is the New “Beer With”

   July 2, 2008 11:59 AM

   Breaking News! More Americans would rather barbecue with Barack Obama than with John McCain. How can McCain get a much-needed BBQ bounce? Time to (hand-)feed the press again at the old Arizona vacation home. But really, it's just... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    “Disturbing Video” (What Would MSNBC Be Without It?)

    July 2, 2008 10:08 AM

    Already this morning I have been repeatedly exposed (and, admittedly, each time turned to be exposed) to the following "disturbing video" on MSNBC: "BABY LAUNCHED INTO AIR" An infant, seen lying on a large inflated pillow, is then launched into... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Old Media Intra-Office Communication?

    July 2, 2008 09:49 AM

    One New York Times columnist complains about another New York Times columnist's column about yet another New York Times columnist... via a letter to the editor published in the Times. Sort of like IM'ing your cubicle-mate... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    On Last Week’s Lara Logan “News”

    July 2, 2008 09:01 AM

    “Isn’t anyone bothered by the Lara Logan sex scandal coverage?” asks Washington City Paper’s Angela Valdez. I’ll get to what bothers me about it in a minute. Although I can’t claim to speak for any other media critics,... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Oops! Gitmo Training “To Elicit False Confessions?”

    July 2, 2008 08:49 AM

    If that powerful McClatchy series whet your appetite for Gitmo news: the New York Times' Scott Shane reports today on "a chart of 'coercive management techniques'" (like "Exploitation of Wounds" and "Filthy, Infested Surroundings") and the effects of... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Cringe-Making Parody of Morning News Tools

    July 1, 2008 11:40 AM

    Thanks to a CJR reader for pointing us to The Onion News Network's sharp parody of the always cringe-making, often crass product placement/promotion woven into the typical morning news show -- in this case, it is Today Now!'s "Home... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    CNN Segment: “Swiftboating McCain?”

    July 1, 2008 10:18 AM

    More on press coverage of What Wes Said. Zack wrote yesterday: It’s crucially important that we have a political debate in this country that’s at least sophisticated enough to be able to handle the following rather basic idea:... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    Carville, Media Critic, On What Wes Said

    July 1, 2008 09:08 AM

    Yesterday, Zack wrote here that some of the press coverage of What Wes Said* (an exchange between Gen. Wesley Clark and CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation on Sunday) "is the perfect embodiment of the press’s unbelievably... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Breaking: Be Not Afraid, Be Not Very Afraid

    July 1, 2008 08:31 AM

    Usually when something doesn't happen or something isn't expected to happen, it's not news. Even if the government issues a bulletin to tell us about the absence of this thing. But I guess that's pre-9/11 journalism. CNN has been... Continue reading

18. The Kicker

    Fox News’ Slow Mo’?

    June 30, 2008 04:02 PM

    From Jacques Steinberg in Saturday's http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/arts/television/28rati.html?ref=business">New York Times, when it comes to prime-time viewership Fox News' "momentum has effectively stalled, at least when measured over years past" (something that can't be explained away by "disproportionate interest in the Democratic... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Those “False Obama Rumors” Have Legs

    June 30, 2008 01:43 PM

    And they’re “meander[ing] freely across the flatlands of northwest Ohio—through bars and baseball fields, retirement homes and restaurants," and onto the front page of the Washington Post (a place, I'd add, some of these rumors have been before).... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    White House: NYT’s A-1 Al Qaeda Story Old News

    June 30, 2008 12:43 PM

    The New York Times deemed newsy enough to merit lead story placement its piece, based on "more than four dozen interviews," about Al Qaeda "rebuilding" and now "thriv[ing] in tribal lands" in Pakistan while in Washington a "secret" Bush... Continue reading

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