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The Evolving Factcheck
October 7, 2004 02:50 PMBy Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang On October 5, four years ago, in the hour following the vice presidential debate, NBC was the only network to run a segment "truth-squadding" the candidates. Lisa Meyers captained the... Continue reading
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Politics
98 Times (For the 98th Time …)
October 5, 2004 03:10 PMJust when Campaign Desk was momentarily heartened by a flurry of fact-checking -- what a novel concept! -- by the press lately, along comes Pete Yost of the Associated Press to remind us: Bad habits are hard to break.... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Mark’s Morning Message
October 4, 2004 01:59 PMBy Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press corps as they accompanied the vice presidential candidate by plane and bus from New York City to... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Care, Feeding, and Habitat of the Traveling Press
October 1, 2004 05:35 PMEditor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press corps as they accompanied the vice presidential candidate by plane and bus from New York City to Pittsburgh to New Jersey... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Where Is Johnny?
October 1, 2004 01:42 PMBy Liz Cox Barrett Editor's note: For two days this week, Campaign Desk's Liz Cox Barrett joined Senator John Edwards' traveling press corps as they accompanied the vice presidential candidate by plane and bus from New York City to... Continue reading
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Politics
The Dark Arts of Predictive Punditry
September 27, 2004 06:02 PMAt this late date in the election season, Campaign Desk is as weary as the next person of conflicting poll results and predictive partisan punditry. So we were game to go along with The Boston Herald's Stephanie Schorow... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Mike Jenner on His Editorial Outburst, The Press’ Focus on the Immediate Rather Than the Significant, and Fair and Balanced Listeners
September 24, 2004 05:17 PMMike Jenner Mike Jenner is the executive editor of The Bakersfield Californian. He joined the Californian in 1993 as the managing editor after working for four years... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Debategate Is Clanging Already
September 23, 2004 01:27 PMOne week until Bush v. Kerry Round One, and the debates debate persists in the blogosphere this morning. "Dumb, Dumb, Dumb" is how Vodkapundit's Stephen Green characterizes John Kerry's recent debate-related quip on "Live with Regis & Kelly."... Continue reading
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Politics
“Security Moms” Are Everywhere!
September 22, 2004 07:36 PMSwing voters and polls, while a far cry from cream-colored ponies and crisp apple streudels, are a few of lazy campaign reporters' favorite things. In the past few days, "security moms" have become all the rage... Continue reading
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Politics
On Deadline? Here’s Your Headline!
September 21, 2004 06:31 PMWhat does it take to ensure that your sound bite gets past all those sophisticated hard-bitten scribes on the campaign bus and into the news reports -- headlines, even? Apparently, all it takes is a rhyme that even a third-grader... Continue reading
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Politics
AP Chalks Up Another Contender
September 20, 2004 06:37 PMAs a Campaign Desk reader pointed out, something strange is afoot in today's Associated Press story by Pauline Jelinek. The headline reads: "Candidates Play on Fears of Attacks, War." In her first sentence, Jelinek lays out how one of... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Left, Right, All Have Questions and Want Answers
September 20, 2004 01:08 PMAs November 2 draws ever closer, left-leaning bloggers are bottom-lining election 2004 -- pondering what the race boils down to and what still must be done. According to Josh Marshall, "what this election is about" is "words and excuses... Continue reading
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Politics
No Heavy Lifting Here Either
September 16, 2004 06:17 PMThe angle on this one is "hidden" because the reporter chose not to pursue it at all. Today, the Associated Press' Tom Raum kindly donates the space below his byline to the candidates to carry out an extended argument... Continue reading
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Politics
Getting It Right in 300 Words
September 10, 2004 12:07 PMThis morning our palsied hands were momentarily steadied when a Campaign Desk reader (along with an Associated Press reporter with the initials S.L.) directed us to this story ... by, sure enough, an AP reporter with the initials... Continue reading
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Politics
More Hat Tips Tragically Cut Down in Their Adolescence
September 9, 2004 05:59 PMSeems lately like every time Campaign Desk reaches upward to tip our hat, our fingers spasm and convulse just before reaching the brim. After months of harping on news organizations big and small for continuing to churn... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Spinners Spin Selves
September 7, 2004 04:03 PMCampaign Desk has previously lamented cable shows whose ideas of "news" is to slap two campaign officials on air to shout talking points at one another with a moderator trying (or frequently not bothering to try) to penetrate the blizzard... Continue reading
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Politics
Frances and Clinton: This Is Campaign News?
September 3, 2004 05:01 PMHurricanes and health scares rarely seem to produce journalism's finer moments (particularly so with broadcast journalism). Both are unpredictable, involve a lot of wait-and-see, and -- with air time to fill -- often lead to speculative and hype-filled reporting. ... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Street Fight: Cardboard Fans at Twenty Paces
September 2, 2004 12:25 PMIf wishes were horses, beggars would ride. And if freebies were viewers, CNN and MSNBC would ride a little higher, at least in convention-week ratings. Every third pedestrian in the vicinity of Madison Square Garden on Tuesday held in... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Watching the BBC Watch “Arnie” and “Bushie”
September 1, 2004 07:19 PMWhat would a non-American reporter -- perhaps, a eurojourno -- make of last night's prime time Republican National Convention speakers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Laura Bush, and how would s/he report on them for audiences across the pond?... Continue reading
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Politics
Visiting the Gnomes of the Loyal Opposition
September 1, 2004 02:17 PMIf the number one wish of the propagandists laboring away in the Democratic National Committee's temporary New York "war room" is to get their two cents into every news story coming out of the Republican Convention this week, then the... Continue reading
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