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Campaign Desk
Being Michael Bloomberg
November 6, 2007 10:57 AMNewsweek's Jon Meacham stretched New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg out on the couch for a lengthy profile for this week's cover story and came away understanding that Bloomberg's lifelong sense of not belonging or feeling different has driven... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Clinton: Gleeful or Glum?
October 31, 2007 01:03 PMCall it one of those were these reporters watching the same debate? moments. According to The New York Times' account of last night's Democratic debate in Philadelphia (per Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller): Mrs.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
So That’s What It’s All About!
October 30, 2007 02:21 PMThe Gloves! They're coming off! Tonight! Isn't it fun to say? (It must be, all the TV types are saying it this week - on CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC.) Isn't it fun to say-- even... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Boob Tube
October 29, 2007 01:31 PMA new poll by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press focusing on the public's perception of campaign press coverage to date finds, among other things, that 57 percent of those polled say they want more... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Fox News Fans Flames
October 25, 2007 09:58 AMJust after 6:30 yesterday morning, Fox News reported that "unrelenting winds continue to spread wildfires across SoCal." Concomitantly, Fox News began to spread speculation and misinformation across the airwaves. To wit, (hat tip, Salon's Tim Grieve): Fox &... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Roundtable Revelations
October 15, 2007 03:47 PMIt's weird. Watching journalists shooting the breeze about, and making predictions about, a contest they're helping to shape -- and rarely acknowledging their role in that shaping. Such is the experience of viewing programs like The Chris Matthews... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
By The Numbers
October 11, 2007 10:55 AM"Thompson Stays On Script," reads the headline on Wednesday's Liz Sidoti-bylined Associated Press article about Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate. Sidoti, too, stayed on script -- the script being her formulaic piece, typical of hour-after/day-after presidential debate... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Klein Whine
October 9, 2007 01:47 PMIowans, in an effort to preserve their first-in-the-nation status, may caucus on January 3rd and/or fifth this year -- a schedule change that could have some unhappy consequences for people planning for the original January 14th date. ... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Wrist? Slap!
September 26, 2007 11:34 AMBe afraid, Karen Ryan! Be very afraid! On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission announced it was fining Comcast for airing, on one if its regional affiliates (CN8) about a year ago, "portions of a... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
“Accountability Journalism,” AP Style
September 19, 2007 02:48 PMThe Associated Press's Ron Fournier drops this little truism into the midst of his "analysis" piece today: "A political attack doesn't need to be right to work..." No, but one thing a political attack does need... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Me! Use Me!
September 12, 2007 02:08 PMTo political campaigns and newspapers alike: beware campaign "advisers" willing to say ill-advised things to reporters--when offered the cloak of anonymity. So much can be achieved when you know your name will not be associated (at least not in print)... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Happy Anniversary, Katie!
September 5, 2007 03:46 PMTime flies when you're having fun! Today marks the one-year anniversary of Katie Couric's ballyhooed debut as the anchor of The CBS Evening News. It has, per the Los Angeles Times, been "a difficult year in which [Couric's]... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Fox News Has a Beef…
August 29, 2007 03:22 PMLike Frankenstein, Fox News disclaimed a monster of its own making this morning. Here's how it went down. Fox & Friend's Gretchen Carlson welcomed viewers just after seven this morning: "Lots coming up in the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Onion-y Goodness
August 27, 2007 04:37 PMWho among us hasn't, upon finishing some news article or another, thought, "This reads like an Onion story." Add this to the pile: As reported by the New York Post today: James Henson, a twenty-six-year-old... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Drudge Barks, TV News Bites
August 22, 2007 04:24 PMThank you, Matt Drudge, for providing us all with a brief respite from what might have otherwise been yet another ho-hum August day of campaign reporting. Because who cares what candidates are saying about Iraq or Cuba or assault rifles... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Page Six Nose Conflict of Interest
August 20, 2007 02:36 PMAbout a year ago when I interviewed the New York Times' then-newly-minted scent critic, Chandler Burr, he told me that he aspired to bring a point de repère (French, Burr explained to me, for "sense of where you are")... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Check, Please!
August 15, 2007 03:08 PMPerhaps you've read about Mitt and Rudy's escalating scrap over who is tougher on illegal immigration? A typical campaign-season clash. Here's how The Associated Press reported on it, in a nutshell: "Romney accuses..." "Giuliani... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Rove’s Exit
August 14, 2007 05:24 PMLast night, Josh Marshall mused: Is it me or is the most remarkable thing about Karl Rove's resignation that it seems almost like a non-event? I had the feeling as the day wore on that all of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
How Does GMA Love YouTube? Let Us Count The Ways
January 26, 2007 12:49 PMAh, television news' infatuation with YouTube goes on (wherein lazy producers fill air time with amateur video, hoping to pass it off as "news"). ABC, for one, is beyond smitten. Good Morning America now... Continue reading
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Behind the News
A Girl’s Got the Gavel! But What’s She Wearing?
January 24, 2007 04:16 PMHere we were, wishfully thinking that the appearance of a certain New York Times' Thursday Style article last week ("Speaking Chic to Power") heralded the end, as a Times' Style piece often does, of a tired development -- the... Continue reading
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