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1. Campaign Desk

   Primary Night Rally (With Blitzer)

   March 12, 2008 10:09 AM

   After winning yesterday's Democratic primary in Mississippi, Sen. Barack Obama last night appeared on television to thank his supporters. A rousing victory speech in a sweaty auditorium before thousands of swooning citizens of the Magnolia State? Nope. ... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   TNR’s Press Corps Class War

   March 11, 2008 04:47 PM

   There are Two Americas in the Obama traveling press corps, according to The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber. And just like the Two Americas in America, the rich in the Obama press corps get enriched while the “working stiffs” get... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   Covering ‘Client 9’

   March 11, 2008 10:42 AM

   Looks like the New York tabloids did not take any of CJR's humble suggestions for Spitzer-related headlines, going instead with : "Ho No!" (New York Post) and "Pay for Luv Guv" (Daily News) Scanning this morning's coverage,... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Meet the Press? Pass.

   March 10, 2008 10:14 AM

   What do you do if you're a freshman senator—first year on the job—and you very much want to be taken seriously? Or rather, what don't you do? Per yesterday's New York Times piece on the "competing elements" of Sen.... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   CNN’s Old Hat Texas Coverage

   March 5, 2008 09:39 AM

   Jeannie Kever began her Houston Chronicle column yesterday - a column applauding the "US media" for avoiding the "Texas cowboy stereotype" in its primary coverage of her state - as follows: Maybe you've noticed something missing from the national... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Political Punditry: Kids’ Stuff?

   March 4, 2008 12:58 PM

   You know how The Daily Show sometimes gets young kids to read and reenact actual moments in cable punditry, to hilarious effect? Well, ABC's Good Morning America this morning invited a group of 7-and 8-year-olds to pontificate in their... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   Hold the Sauce

   March 3, 2008 05:33 PM

   Sen. John McCain, the candidate who typically speaks his “straight talk” on the record, urged reporters to tuck their notebooks away on Sunday during a cookout for the campaign press at his vacation home in Page Springs, Arizona. Or at... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   It’s The Man Show — on MSNBC!

   February 27, 2008 05:37 PM

   Watching MSNBC this morning I was reminded of a cop-out line from one of Maureen Dowd's recent harshing-on-Hillary New York Times columns (headline: "A Flawed Feminist Test"): "But Hillary is not the best test case for women. We'll never... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Russert Bags “The Marlin”

   February 27, 2008 10:49 AM

   Who won the debate? Who won the debate? That is, of course, the key question for so many in the political press. And the winner of last night's Democratic debate in Cleveland? If the post-debate high-fiving and victory-lapping on... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Stay “Classy,” Clinton

    February 26, 2008 02:07 PM

    Jonathan Alter, the Newsweek columnist and MSNBC political pundit, thinks Hillary Clinton should pack it in ("Hillary Should Get Out Now," is the headline on his recent column). Immediately, if not sooner. Stat. But not, of course, until... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Elephant in the Studio

    February 25, 2008 05:37 PM

    Which of Tim Russert's expert roundtablers did he turn to first on yesterday's Meet the Press to discuss PlagiarismGate (the Clinton campaign's making hay of Barack Obama borrowing phrases from Gov. Deval Patrick)? Russert turned first to Doris... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    A Sorry Situation

    February 21, 2008 09:02 AM

    It was all too predictable, what happened after Cindy McCain on Tuesday riffed on Michelle Obama’s recent “proud of my country” comment. All too predictable. No, not that Michelle Obama would end up having to clarify her original remarks—which she... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Wag the Finger

    February 19, 2008 04:42 PM

    It's been a bumpy campaign season thus far, PR-wise, for MSNBC. One potential bright spot: yesterday, MSNBC owned the story of Bill Clinton and the Hecklers! No other network devoted as many precious pundit-minutes to HecklerGate as MSNBC, where... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    An Obama “Embed” on Access, Inspiration, Oppo

    February 15, 2008 09:13 AM

    Aswini Anburajan is a twenty-seven-year-old campaign reporter (a.k.a. “embed”) who has been traveling with Barack Obama’s campaign for NBC News/National Journal since September 2007. As such, Anburajan: writes for the National Journal and The Hotline’s On Call blog; reports for... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    Who’s Afraid of 60 Minutes?

    February 12, 2008 02:16 PM

    How do you make thirteen of 60 Minutes feel like an eternity? Sic Katie Couric on Senator Hillary Clinton. What struck me first about Couric's questions Sunday night during her thirteen-minute interview of Clinton was not that... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    There Will Be Losers

    February 6, 2008 01:57 PM

    Yes, there were the familiar color-coded cutouts of Super Tuesday states flashing on the screen as they were called (and uncalled) for the Democratic candidates. But what with the small matter of unfinished delegate counts (and, in some cases, unfinished... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    “Chutzpah!” “Hoopla!” “Ambush!” Victory?

    January 31, 2008 10:56 AM

    Tuesday afternoon we wondered—as some campaign reporters were themselves wondering—how the campaign press might cover the Democratic results in Florida. As polls indicated that Senator Clinton would—as she did—win the most votes in Florida, the Clinton and Obama campaigns... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Covering A Non-Victory Victory in Florida

    January 29, 2008 05:55 PM

    How will reporters tonight and tomorrow cover the Democratic results in Florida, a state that will award no delegates (for now), a state where the leading Democratic candidates (pretty much) did not campaign? The Clinton campaign, of course, hopes... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Handshaking, Hand-Clapping, Eye-Rolling

    January 29, 2008 09:56 AM

    CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and John King shared this insightful exchange minutes after President Bush concluded his State of the Union address last night: BLITZER: You know, at this annual event, sometimes the Republicans are standing and the Democrats are sitting.... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    But For the Zapf Dingbats

    January 28, 2008 12:21 PM

    Talk about typecast! Turns out even Mitt Romney's logo is "inconsistent." This, according to graphic designers Sam Berlow and Cyrus Highsmith who analyzed the candidates' signage for an ideas piece in yesterday's Boston Globe. "Typography can subtly or boldly... Continue reading

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