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1. Blog Report

   The (Self-)Importance of Being a Blogger

   November 29, 2004 02:57 PM

   Broadcast journalism is the bee in several bloggers' bonnets of late. Pandagon's Jesse Taylor, provoked by a viewing of yesterday's "Chris Matthews Show," buzzes about the lack of "aggressive liberal talking heads" on shows like Matthews', and offers this... Continue reading

2. Politics

   380 Tons of Explosives? What 380 Tons of Explosives?

   November 22, 2004 05:34 PM

   We've discussed before the tendency of the political press during campaigns to slavishly take its cues from the candidates -- to ignore an issue (or to refrain from examining obvious aspects of an issue) unless or until candidates are out... Continue reading

3. Politics

   Beating a Live Horse

   November 17, 2004 04:51 PM

   Two stories on the New York Times' front page today compel us to once again beat that undead horse, the anonymous source. The Times' Elisabeth Bumiller, for one, seems intent on ignoring assistant managing editor Allan M. Siegel's <a... Continue reading

4. Politics

   Elephants? We (Still) Don’t See No Elephants

   November 16, 2004 05:22 PM

   Today, the Boston Globe's Peter S. Canellos, in his weekly "National Perspective" analysis, muses about John Kerry's future, noting that "Kerry might actually be serious about playing an important role over the next few years," and that "he might... Continue reading

5. Politics

   Trivial Pursuits

   November 16, 2004 03:34 PM

   Part five of a series evaluating the media's performance during the 2004 campaign. By Liz Cox Barrett Time and again this election season, the campaign press pursued controversy and trivia over substance. Ironically, it was national news outlets,... Continue reading

6. Politics

   Election Over, Anonymice Scamper Back Onto Page One

   November 12, 2004 03:17 PM

   Nine months ago, the New York Times reaffirmed its commitment to cutting down on anonymous sourcing. All election season long, Campaign Desk did its best to encourage the extermination of "anonymice" that continued to crawl all... Continue reading

7. Politics

   Supply and Demand

   November 11, 2004 03:14 PM

   Election or no election, we shall always have reporters on deadline and in need of a quick dial-a-quote, just as we shall always have pundits waiting by the phone to fulfill that need. In other words, don't look for professor/prognosticator... Continue reading

8. Politics

   Some Wonder Who “Some” Is

   November 5, 2004 05:11 PM

   "Relaxed" is how more than one reporter described President Bush's bearing during his news conference yesterday. Unfortunately, with the frenetic campaign pace now a memory, "relaxed" also describes the antennae of some in the White House press corps.... Continue reading

9. Politics

   Kerry and Bush: A Couple of Wild and Crazy Guys!

   November 1, 2004 01:17 PM

   With one day to go, both campaigns are hustling to portray their candidate as a cocksure prize fighter on the eve of the big match -- "loose," "confident," "relaxed," and "upbeat." That's not too surprising. What's surprising is a press... Continue reading

10. The Water Cooler

    Adam Nagourney on False Equivalence, Spin Beyond Spin Rooms, and Fake Online Diaries

    October 29, 2004 02:53 PM

    Adam Nagourney Adam Nagourney has been chief national political reporter at the New York Times for the past two years. He joined the Times in 1996 as... Continue reading

11. Blog Report

    True Colors Shining Through

    October 28, 2004 12:54 PM

    At least two blue bloggers are seeing red this morning. While Mathew Gross swears "on [his] honor" not to draw "analogies between the Red Sox and the general election," Electablog's David Pell makes no such pledge. "This just... Continue reading

12. Politics

    When Reporters Transcribe

    October 27, 2004 05:40 PM

    At first glance, Bill Adair and Adam C. Smith's article in today's St. Petersburg Times -- headlined, "When Candidates Attack" -- looks like one of those fact-check pieces popping up in newspapers recently. Selected Bush and Kerry comments... Continue reading

13. Blog Report

    Missing: 380 Tons of Ammo, Some Members of UN Security Council, and Talent

    October 25, 2004 02:16 PM

    Today the blogosphere is consumed by three developing stories, each involving something important (or not) that suddenly, um, isn't there. Left-leaning bloggers are focused on the 380 tons of Iraqi explosives that, as reported by The New York Times,... Continue reading

14. Politics

    Yo, Hannity, Your Curveball Is Hanging

    October 21, 2004 03:34 PM

    In case you were otherwise occupied last night (we certainly were), Fox News aired what Alan Colmes teased as co-host Sean Hannity's "rare and exclusive" interview with Vice President Dick Cheney. Hannity -- seated across from Cheney in... Continue reading

15. Magazine Report

    Priceless Eyeballs

    October 19, 2004 12:53 PM

    For anyone who has never heard of ABC's online political newsletter, The Note, David Grann's New Yorker piece this week might qualify as -- in The Note's own very special language -- a "boffo" "must-read." And for... Continue reading

16. Politics

    Whither?

    October 16, 2004 01:41 PM

    It was not so long ago that Campaign Desk was encouraged (for the most part) by the late but welcome eruption of fact-checking efforts launched by networks and newspapers alike after Labor Day. With November 2 nigh upon... Continue reading

17. Politics

    Elephant? What Elephant?

    October 15, 2004 04:38 PM

    Today, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank offers up an "analysis" piece with the headline, "Bush's Cartoon of Kerry Failed to Show Up." The Bush campaign's "ferocious advertising push in the spring and summer and the Republican convention were successful... Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    Will the Real Richard Wolffe Please Step Forward?

    October 14, 2004 06:39 PM

    "TV is about impressions." So said Newsweek's Richard Wolffe on CNN's "Larry King Live" last night. And in watching Wolffe's post-debate pontifications, Campaign Desk got the "impression" that Wolffe believed that Kerry decisively won the debate. Maybe it had... Continue reading

19. Politics

    Washington Post 3, New York Times 1

    October 10, 2004 04:33 PM

    Following Friday night's debate, Campaign Desk was struck by the stark differences between the "fact-checking" efforts of two major newspapers. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post on Saturday offered readers versions of long-overdue ... Continue reading

20. Politics

    Didn’t Fly the First Time, Doesn’t Fly Now

    October 8, 2004 01:48 PM

    What's worse than your typical desperately speculative swing voter story? A recycled desperately speculative swing voter story. With so many troubling election-year issues to explore, Agence France Presse today opts to bring readers a rehash of a... Continue reading

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