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1. Campaign Desk

   Target Corp.’s “Perfect Storm”

   September 14, 2010 01:05 PM

   The big news for Target Corp. this summer might have been the unveiling, after a “decade of wooing, of its first Manhattan store, in East Harlem. But just weeks after that grand opening (Jerry Seinfeld! Doug E Fresh!... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   A “9/11 Widow” on the Press & Park51

   September 8, 2010 12:22 PM

   Back in May, when the words "Ground Zero mosque" began making headlines, CNN wanted to know: "As a family member of someone who was killed in the attacks on 9/11, what do you think about the decision to construct a... Continue reading

3. The Kicker

   Parker Spitzer (Awkward Already)

   September 7, 2010 04:28 PM

   CNN.com today posted this promo in which Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer pretend to argue over the name of their upcoming 8pm show, and Parker at one point mock-scolds Spitzer with these ill-chosen (or, is it just me?) words:... Continue reading

4. The Kicker

   AP: Election 2010 is “Bursting With Money”

   September 7, 2010 03:56 PM

   The AP today lays out evidence that "politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry," in that "this year's volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Congress and “Corporate-Financed Philanthropy”

   September 7, 2010 01:23 PM

   In yesterday's New York Times, Eric Lipton described how some members of Congress are able to “run something akin to a permanent political campaign,” giving back to their communities through charities that they set up but that local companies... Continue reading

6. The Kicker

   Reflections of an Iraqi Journalist

   September 7, 2010 01:03 PM

   Here's Faris al-Qaisi, a 47-year-old Iraqi cameraman for AP Television News, reflecting on "what it has been like to live through and record the war" in Iraq and on the declared end of the American combat mission there: For... Continue reading

7. The Kicker

   NYT Advances Oval Office Gets New Rug, Chairs Story

   September 2, 2010 11:51 AM

   The New York Times today publishes its third piece on the recent "subtle redo" of the Oval Office. There was, yesterday, Sheryl Gay Stolberg's A-12 news story about the Now More Neutral room, and Maureen Dowd's column... Continue reading

8. The Kicker

   On Palin (“Off The Record?”)

   September 1, 2010 04:58 PM

   Some excerpts from Michael Joseph Gross's, er, unflattering Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin -- a piece that brought Politico's Ben Smith to the conclusion, after identifying at least one anecdote "embellished almost beyond recognition," that "you can... Continue reading

9. The Kicker

   Police? There’s a Man Who Looks Like Anderson Cooper on my Lawn

   August 19, 2010 09:18 AM

   Today, the New York Times has an interesting piece describing the complex task the jurors on the Blagojevich case faced. The judge had handed them instructions that ran to more than a hundred pages. The verdict sheet was as... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Blago in Bold, The Morning After

    August 18, 2010 09:43 AM

    A selection of front pages from Chicago-area newspapers today, the morning after a jury found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich guilty of one of twenty-four counts against him --lying to the FBI-- but deadlocked on the others, prosecutors pledged to... Continue reading

11. The Kicker

    “Hello, yarn hipster hat,” “I’m that obnoxious meat hipster”

    August 17, 2010 04:18 PM

    As Joel noted, the New York Times’s Philip B. Corbett has added “hipster” to the newspaper's Official Words To Now Avoid List, where it joins “tweet” and, apparently, "spokesperson"(?). Corbett’s concerns are of clarity and of a... Continue reading

12. The Kicker

    “You Love Journalism… But You Love Your Life More”

    August 17, 2010 09:58 AM

    Another chilling report from the LA Times's "Mexico Under Siege" series, this one, by Tracy Wilkinson, focusing on what Wilkinson calls "narco-censorship." As the drug war scales new heights of savagery, one of the devastating byproducts of the... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    AP Calls It: “Name-Calling is Winner This Campaign Season”

    August 16, 2010 03:02 PM

    With no precincts reporting, the AP is projecting that name-calling has won the 2010 election. From a piece headlined "Insults abound in 2010 campaigns:" Name-calling is a winner this campaign season. By a landslide... Political insults... Continue reading

14. The Kicker

    Gallup: Americans Lack Confidence in Banks, Newspapers, TV News

    August 16, 2010 10:02 AM

    From Gallup's annual "Confidence in Institutions" survey: Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news -- with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Touring Gitmo (“Rules Inconvenience Reporters”)

    August 12, 2010 09:54 AM

    From the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, who recently took a "media tour" of Guantánamo Bay: Several times a month, the military parades groups of journalists through the detention camps at the naval station here in an effort... Continue reading

16. The Kicker

    News Broker/Newsbreaker Larry Garrison’s Next Get?

    August 11, 2010 12:06 PM

    Among the 177 (and counting) mentions on cable news over the past two days of The World's Most Famous Ex-Flight Attendant, Steven Slater, Slater has been called: "a rock star," CNN "a hero," CNN "a folk hero," Fox News,... Continue reading

17. The Kicker

    Investigation: Town Cars Idle Outside Condé Nast Building

    August 11, 2010 09:40 AM

    For an investigation of MTA buses and livery cabs idling in violation of New York City law (there is a three-minute idling limit) and "causing adverse health effects and untold damage to the environment," the student reporters at Princeton... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Untangling the “Influence Web” (With a Click)

    August 10, 2010 03:27 PM

    For your reading and reporting tool box, an addition: an influence detector, as Poligraft is described by its creator, the Sunlight Foundation (which, by the way, funds CJR's reporting on transparency). Poligraft is, in Sunlight's words a... Continue reading

19. The Kicker

    Boston Globe Damning CNN With Faint Praise?

    August 10, 2010 09:35 AM

    The Boston Globe has an editorial today (via Romo) headlined, "Back off, critics-- TV news benefits from fresher voices," addressing critics of CNN's hiring of Eliot Spitzer, ex-governor of New York (and Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker) --... Continue reading

20. The Kicker

    Reporting on the “Almost Irrelevant”

    August 9, 2010 08:18 PM

    Here's Politico's John Harris, during a roundtable on yesterday's This Week (with "globe-trotter Fancy-Pants" Christiane Amanpour), chiming in on the recent jobs report and, as Amanpour asked, on "what is this going to do for these upcoming... Continue reading

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