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1. Campaign Desk

   To Check The Facts, You Need The Facts

   January 24, 2008 11:08 AM

   When factchecking candidates’ claims and counter-claims, there is a fine line between mitigating and multiplying the confusion. You need to pick the right man for the job. And provide, maybe, some context. On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Amy Robach attempted to... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   OMG, MSNBC!

   January 23, 2008 05:04 PM

   When you sit around watching cable news coverage of the presidential campaign all day long like it's your job (oh wait, it is!) you grow accustomed (immune, even) to a certain level of idiocy. And still. Every now and... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   B-I-Double-Hockey-Sticks

   January 22, 2008 11:26 AM

   The campaign press and punditry certainly has had a lot to say of late about Bill Clinton's role in Senator Clinton's presidential campaign -- what's appropriate or not, what's effective or not -- and chances are we'll have more to... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   There’s No “I” in Debate Moderator

   January 16, 2008 05:07 PM

   Not thirty minutes into last night's Democratic debate, a heckler was heard interrupting the show from somewhere out in the dark, faceless audience. The heckle, to the best I could hear: "These are race-based questions!" That this heckler directed his... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   The Sky is Falling!

   January 16, 2008 02:43 PM

   You've got to pity the reporter writing the morning paper's straight news account of an event that happened the night before. In today's news environment--choose your own clichés to describe the myriad ways we now have to get news, the... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   Press Plays Vegas, Again

   January 15, 2008 05:56 PM

   The Democratic candidates are back in Nevada and "The Best Political Team on Television" is back to its abuse of Vegas-centric clichés. As if forced gambling references aren't bad enough, CNN provided an example of a gambling... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   The Anti-Chris Matthews Vote

   January 9, 2008 05:13 PM

   As my colleague Gal Beckerman observed earlier today, with last night's New Hampshire victory, Hillary beat the press. Meanwhile, the press spent some time last night beating itself. Here is a sampling of the sort of mild self-flagellation on... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   We Expected More Elephants

   January 9, 2008 01:37 PM

   And today's Elephant in the Room award goes to The New York Times' Patrick Healy and Michael Cooper for the following: Mrs. Clinton's victory came after her advisers had lowered expectations with talk of missteps in strategy and... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   Misty II

   January 8, 2008 11:27 AM

   You may have missed Hillary Clinton's flash of emotion yesterday, so brief was it. But you certainly can't miss the clip of it, which has been on a continuous loop on all the cable channels for nearly twenty-four hours now.... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Russert Becomes Invisible to Himself

    January 8, 2008 10:52 AM

    Since when does Tim Russert (or anyone like him) decline an opportunity to talk about himself? It happened this morning while Russert was offering his campaign-related wisdom to Today viewers on NBC, during this exchange with Matt Lauer (emphasis... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    The Best Political Team On TV…

    December 12, 2007 03:24 PM

    Here's CNN's Candy Crowley, moments before this afternoon's Republican presidential debate, struggling to explain why, after debates, she and her campaign press cohorts flock to a room expressly devoted to "spin." CNN's Kira Phillips: "Let's talk about where you are.... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    America, Will You Accept This Rose?

    December 12, 2007 12:35 PM

    In an Associated Press article headlined, “Bloomberg: A Bachelor President?” reporter Sara Kugler writes: “For all of his billions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lacks one thing all the current presidential candidates proudly display: a spouse.” That and, of course,... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Conduct Unbecoming…

    December 4, 2007 02:38 PM

    Remember what happened to the presidential aspirant the press decided was The Angry Candidate four years ago? Surely, seasoned campaign reporters remember. Today, The New York Times' Patrick Healy strains to identify this year's Angry Candidate in... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    The War that Keeps On Giving

    November 28, 2007 05:00 PM

    With the Thanksgiving Travel Delay Story come and gone - along with its sister story, the one that comes with the continual loop of footage of puffy-coated Americans sitting in lawn chairs outside of Best Buy at midnight -- what's... Continue reading

15. Campaign Desk

    It’s Sunday, Do I Have to Meet the Press?

    November 27, 2007 09:42 AM

    "The race for the White House through the eyes of Carville, Matalin, Murphy and Shrum..." would have been more than enough to send me scrambling to change the channel Sunday morning...were it not my job to watch stuff like NBC's... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    No Mo

    November 21, 2007 08:54 AM

    Many reporters have already pondered the question: Is America ready for a female president? But let's not put the cart before the mare. Because before a female becomes president, of course, she must survive... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    The Audacity

    November 19, 2007 04:20 PM

    Fewer than 365 days until the next presidential election. For candidates, it's go-time/ crunch-time/ choose-your-own-platitude-time. For a lame-duck president, lest we forget, it's legacy-burnishing time. And what better place to start than the front page of The Washington Post,... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    And They Call Fred Thompson Lazy?

    November 13, 2007 03:38 PM

    Today, The New York Times’ Patrick Healy brings us a story about Something Bill Clinton Said and how it, like virtually all things Bill Clinton Says, is a Really Big and Meaningful Deal (at least to reporters and... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    CNN Plays Vegas

    November 13, 2007 11:33 AM

    A plea to campaign reporters: please resist the temptation to use Sin City-centric clichés in your coverage of Thursday's Democratic debate in Las Vegas. No boxing references (which lend themselves to shallow jab/counter-jab coverage). No gambling allusions (which lend themselves... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Has The Mighty Fallen Yet?

    November 7, 2007 03:53 PM

    Three Sundays ago, Chris Matthews, of NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, asked one of his journalist/panelists the following: When does Hillary stop being flawless? Which was the tag we had on her two weeks ago, which was,... Continue reading

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