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1. The Kicker

   Foreign Policy Chops? “First Lady Puffery?”

   April 7, 2008 01:15 PM

   Genius! Rather than having a Clinton surrogate and an Obama surrogate duke it out over Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience or lack thereof, the folks at Politifact took a look at all of the overseas trips Clinton made as... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Report: Barry Bearak Released

   April 7, 2008 11:33 AM

   IC Publications is reporting that both the New York Times' Barry Bearak (who was arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday, initially charged with working as a journalist without accreditation ) and a "British national" arrested along with Bearak... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   “100-Years-War Calumny,” Frankly

   April 7, 2008 11:26 AM

   A crocus pushing through long-dormant earth signals spring. A Frank Rich column focusing on something other than The Clintons --might it signal that the general election is almost afoot? In yesterday’s New York Times, Rich zeroed in on McCain... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   Starring “The News?”

   April 7, 2008 09:34 AM

   The headline on today's Alessandra Stanley piece in The New York Times caught my eye: "A New Star as Campaign Programs Shuffle: The News." The new campaign-focused cable TV shows (MSNBC's Race For the White House, CNN's Election Center... Continue reading

5. The Kicker

   Happy Monday, Cable News!

   April 7, 2008 09:14 AM

   All together now, all day long: Polygamist sect. Women and children. West Texas compound. (Cue Branch Davidian footage from back in the day). Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Blogging Kills?

   April 7, 2008 08:22 AM

   Quiz for anyone who read -- or even glanced at the front page of -- yesterday's New York Times: What's the most-blogged-about story on the Times' Web site this morning? (Yup, that A-1 piece about how the blogging... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   Happy Hour on MSNBC?

   April 1, 2008 05:45 PM

   B-roll. It is essential to television news. That at-your-fingertips file footage used to illustrate the news you can use du jour. New study on obesity? Cue canned clip of overweight people, from the neck down, walking along crowded sidewalk. Reporting... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   E-lection

   April 1, 2008 12:55 PM

   Want a recap of the many ways the Internet has affected the 2008 presidential race to date? The Washington Post has one today. And it’s a solid summary (forgive the writer this sentence: “This interactive medium is rebooting the... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   No Challenger? No Challenging

   April 1, 2008 11:06 AM

   In case you haven’t had enough Ongoing Democratic Primary: Who Benefits and Who Is Damaged analyses, here is the lede from the Associated Press’ contribution: John McCain's standing in the presidential race grows stronger each day as... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    CNN on “The Vanna Vote”

    April 1, 2008 09:50 AM

    It’s on! The media’s hunt to locate - and coin a snappy moniker for—2008’s must-get swing vote (that subset of the population who, by dint of sharing a single trait, might be counted on to vote monolithically and therefore swing... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    Dith Pran’s NYT “Video Obit”

    March 31, 2008 04:21 PM

    If you haven’t seen it yet, The New York Times' "The Last Word: Dith Pran" is well worth watching. You get a brief backgrounder on what happened to Pran and to his people in 1970s Cambodia. And no matter... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    Barack’s Big Lebowski Strategy

    March 31, 2008 01:21 PM

    Help us out: How can we say the same thing, again... differently? A couple of weeks into a pre-Pennsylvania primary voting lull finds candidates not just "campaigning" but, in Obama's case - per MSNBC-- launching a "charm offensive." ... Continue reading

13. The Kicker

    Say Ahhhh!

    March 31, 2008 11:07 AM

    Said Andrea Mitchell on NBC's Today Show this morning, reporting on the protracted Democratic primary: Critics blame [Howard] Dean for creating the calendar and rules that led to the Michigan and Florida debacle, and they say his inability to... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    Wherefore “Sticks” a Candidate’s “Gaffe?”

    March 26, 2008 04:59 PM

    Here is Joe Scarborough on MSNBC this morning, referring to TuzlaGate (Hillary Clinton having more than once exaggerated the danger and drama of a 1996 trip to Tuzla, Bosnia): ...[T]his Bosnia story smacks of gotcha politics. If [Hillary Clinton] had... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Not Ready on Day 1?

    March 26, 2008 11:02 AM

    We've all heard the argument that the next resident of the White House need be Ready on Day 1 to assume the job of commander-in-chief (and the various sales pitches on how one might acquire the requisite readiness). What... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    What’s Good for the Goose…

    March 25, 2008 03:06 PM

    When should the campaign press cut a candidate some slack when he or she says something (more than once) that is not true? Never is probably a good rule of thumb. But when will the campaign press give a candidate... Continue reading

17. Behind the News

    The State of Cable News is…Mature?

    March 19, 2008 05:28 PM

    "Cable television news showed further signs of maturity in 2007." I almost couldn't get past that, the opening sentence of the "Cable TV" section of the recently-released annual "State of the News Media" report from the Project for... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Keystone Clips

    March 19, 2008 03:29 PM

    “The immediate, tawdry issue for the Obama campaign,” according to Joe Klein on Time’s Swampland blog directly after Obama’s Speech on Race yesterday, is: How will the media play it? What will the sound bites be... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    The Bar for Barack

    March 18, 2008 10:20 AM

    As much as anyone, the media is eagerly anticipating Sen. Barack Obama’s Speech On Race this morning. How so? Where is the campaign press (the same people who will soon determine Whether The Speech Was Effective) setting the bar...that they... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Covering a Comeuppance

    March 17, 2008 02:03 PM

    Unsurprisingly, SpitzerGate filled a bit of airtime on the Sunday talking head shows. On the Chris Matthews Show, specifically, the conversation among roundtable journalists went about as one might have expected. There was the invitation to psychoanalyze, delivered by Matthews:... Continue reading

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