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Ambush Makeover
June 18, 2008 02:13 PMAs of 2:20pm, the word "makeover" (in relation to Michelle Obama) has been mentioned on MSNBC today at the following times: 2:17 2:12 2:04 1:34 1:21 12:52 12:49 10:51 9:30 9:29 9:13 7:44 7:43 6:45 6:39 6:13 6:01 ... Continue reading
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Last Week’s “Debates Over Several Key Issues” (What, You Missed Them?)
June 18, 2008 12:37 PMPer PEJ: In the first official week of the general election, the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on issues ranging from the economy to Iraq constituted the media’s main campaign narrative. Together, the debates over several key... Continue reading
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Michelle on The View!
June 18, 2008 11:15 AMMichelle Obama has taken her image makeover tour to ABC's The View this morning. But so far, we've learned more about The View's regular hosts than today's honored guest host, including that Barbara Walters-- "out of respect for you,"... Continue reading
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How Not To Torture (Covering the Experts)
June 18, 2008 10:15 AMIt must have been, um, agony maintaining the required poker face of detachment while writing the "straight news" account for the Washington Post or any news outlet of yesterday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing (including such revelations as what... Continue reading
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Wanted: More On Iraq From Candidates
June 18, 2008 08:51 AMIs this, in some part, media criticism on the New York Times op-ed page? In today's column Thomas Friedman writes: "What we do next in Iraq-- and how and why-- is barely getting discussed in the presidential campaign," and... Continue reading
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Dancin’ With The Candidate
June 17, 2008 11:11 AMThe Washington Post's Dana Milbank writes up John McCain's evolving stance on offshore oil drilling and his overall efforts to appeal both "to independent voters" and "the still-suspicious Republican base" as choreographed, if not particularly fluid, dance steps (kicking... Continue reading
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B-Team Barack Now Bringing A-Game!
June 17, 2008 09:14 AMPer the Associated Press: Confined to the bench back in his high school basketball days, Barack Obama felt the fierce urgency of now....[But] Obama found himself stuck behind a couple of veteran forwards. Thirty years later, as the presidential... Continue reading
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Michelle Obama’s Southern Strategy
June 17, 2008 08:32 AMThe following strikes me as bad advice, all around. Not the least because can you imagine the column Maureen Dowd would write (earth tones, anyone?) if Michelle Obama actually made the radical dress and comportment transformation suggested... Continue reading
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Backstage at Fox News
June 16, 2008 03:45 PMFox News' s "Live Desk" this afternoon is taking viewers on a "behind-the-scenes tour" of the Fox News operation ("How we do what we do," per anchor Trace Gallagher ) kicking it off with a look around Fox News' "nerve... Continue reading
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When Narratives Collide?
June 16, 2008 02:25 PMPatti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton's onetime campaign manager (who was pushed out a few months ago amid a fund-raising crunch; who got and, for a while, retained her job not because of experience but because Above All Else... Continue reading
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From Journalist to Spokeswoman: Finally Free To “Tell The Truth?”
June 16, 2008 12:14 PMLinda Douglass, who for years worked in television journalism, spoke to Howard Kurtz about becoming Barack Obama's spokeswoman: [Obama] wants me to tell the truth. Coming from a background in journalism as opposed to PR, that was really the... Continue reading
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One TV Critic’s Campaign Coverage Wish
June 16, 2008 11:03 AMI hope journalists learn to save the thumb-sucking explainer pieces for when they're really needed. So wishes Eric Deggans, the St. Petersburg Times' TV/Media critic, in his column yesterday about the explanatory press coverage sparked by the Obamas' "playful... Continue reading
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The Axis of Earnest
June 16, 2008 10:15 AMAccording to the "Blogopticon" from Vanity Fair (which really means, of course, according to "high-end Hollywood dinner party gossip"), this blog resides in the most "earnest" (and "news"-iest? "news"-oriented?) reaches of the blogosphere. (Speaking of plotting, don't... Continue reading
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What’s Next for NBC News
June 16, 2008 08:29 AMCropping up now among the remembrances of Tim Russert (including those of Russert's remarkably poised 22-year-old son Luke, who spoke to Matt Lauer this morning) are some "What now?" stories about NBC News' next move. Bob Schieffer <a... Continue reading
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WaPo on Satire and Democracy (Yadda Yadda)
June 12, 2008 10:41 AMToday the Washington Post weighs in on a topic that will never make any List of Underreported Stories: The Daily Show (SNL/Colbert/Maher) Effect. I have a quibble with this bit: For those who don't follow the media closely,... Continue reading
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Fox News: On The Heels of “Terrorist Fist Jab”
June 12, 2008 09:39 AMMichelle Obama! Come on down! You ARE the next contestant on "Kill the Witch!" As such, Fox News will attempt to belittle you in this on-screen graphic, using "urban" slang to reduce you to The Now-Disposed Vessel for Barack... Continue reading
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Reflections: “Hooting” Hillary Off The Stage?
June 12, 2008 08:26 AMA page from Katie Couric's CBS News Reporter's Notebook yesterday, in which she declared that in the "endles" media post-mortems of the Clinton campaign, "Senator Clinton has received her fair share of the blame and so has her political team... Continue reading
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Campaign ‘08, Newshole Hog
June 11, 2008 02:56 PMLast week campaign coverage filled 50% of the overall newshole, "its third-highest level of weekly coverage in 2008," says the Project for Excellence in Journalism's News Coverage Index from June 2-8. "The biggest week, coming in at 55% of... Continue reading
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Witch Watch
June 11, 2008 02:29 PMSpeaking of witches, Rachel Sklar sees one in the illustration accompanying Michael Crowley's "What Undid Hillary" piece from Sunday's LA Times. Which witch? Well, not Glinda the Good Witch... Continue reading
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Redemption in Baghdad?
June 11, 2008 12:24 PMGeorge Packer tells the New York Observer: The press did discredit itself in the lead-up to the war. But I think the press redeemed in Baghdad what it missed in Washington. I’m not sure the public even knows that.... Continue reading
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