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Politics
CNN: Where No Talking Point Goes Challenged
August 31, 2004 11:05 AMJust in case Rudy Giuliani forgot to hit an RNC talking point or two last night during his prime time Republican Convention address, he managed, unchallenged by CNN's Bill Hemmer, to get in another one this morning. During Hemmer's from-the-convention... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Onward Marches Campaign Journalism
August 30, 2004 08:47 PMThe Blonde Babes for Bush (l to r, Amy Stephens, CindyMurphy, and Peggy Littleton) Any delegate gunning for air time at a national political convention... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Sandra Endo on Flirting Candidates, “Colorful” Bush Comments, and Convention-Week Massages
August 27, 2004 04:43 PMSandra Endo Sandra Endo covers local, state and national politics for NY1, where she has worked since 1998. Endo has covered Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the... Continue reading
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Politics
Hidden Is The Word for This News, All Right
August 27, 2004 12:35 PMThis morning, yet more evidence of how Swift BoatGate has dominated mainstream media, and relegated serious election-year issues to the fine print (when they're addressed at all). The New York Times' David E. Sanger and Elisabeth Bumiller today bring... Continue reading
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Politics
Pretty Please, Just Once?
August 26, 2004 03:58 PMYesterday, Campaign Desk offered a big-picture -- and rather damning, if we say so ourselves -- accounting of the press' role in Swift BoatGate. Now, we have a smaller-scale grievance. Our target, however, remains ever the same: to quote... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Bees, Rats and Dancing at Republicans
August 26, 2004 01:23 PMThe blogosphere continues to bubble with John on Jon reviews. Electablog's David Pell speaks for some unnamed group of people announcing that "we will not vote against a guy because he's not funny ... but we will vote against... Continue reading
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Blog Report
By Turns Doubtful, Doleful, and Downright Defensive
August 25, 2004 02:07 PMOn Daily Kos, DemFromCT ponders how journalists will handle the new news about Abu Ghraib -- what with all the other very important things competing for air time and inches -- and somehow comes out doubting the press'... Continue reading
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Politics
“Who, Me? Naw, This Megaphone Is Just a Prop”
August 24, 2004 10:41 AMCampaign Desk had a good, gallows-humor-type chuckle when we saw this stunningly un-self-aware headline on Tom Raum's Associated Press piece yesterday: "Negative Attacks Often Prove Effective." Were it not for pesky wire service word limits, we're sure that... Continue reading
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Blog Report
One of These Things Is Not Like the Other
August 23, 2004 12:28 PMFor members of the mainstream press arriving at work in a Monday morning fog, a virtual "to-do" list awaits you in the blogosphere this morning. Atrios lists the following as among the "Things the Media Needs to Explain": "Why... Continue reading
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Politics
President Bush Nailed by Cheese Cops
August 19, 2004 03:48 PMIt all started yesterday, when CNN, Fox and The New York Times were content to transcribe and transmit President Bush's comment about preferring his Philadelphia cheesesteaks "Whiz with," thereby handing the Bush camp what it was after -- a... Continue reading
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Politics
CNN’s Cheesy Coverage
August 18, 2004 01:57 PMThanks to a Campaign Desk reader for flagging this stomach-turning CNN special. On yesterday's "Inside Politics," wedged between a segment on "the Catholic vote" and one on "the candidates' favorite getaway spots," senior political correspondent Candy Crowley -- standing... Continue reading
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Politics
Hat Tip, Interrupted
August 17, 2004 04:27 PMLast night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews, to use Atrios' words, went "nuclear" on Matthew Dowd, a senior Bush-Cheney strategist and Hardball guest. And it was about time. Here are the circumstances: Matthews played a segment from a video... Continue reading
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Politics
It’s August, and the Dogs Are Eating the Dogs
August 17, 2004 04:15 PMThe traditional August lull in election-year ads is a thing of the past, writes Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press. This month along, Americans will be blitzed with more than $60 million in political commercials put together by the... Continue reading
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Politics
Renee Zellwegger - the New Ohio?
August 16, 2004 04:34 PMHow many swing voter posts in one day is too many? We decide, you retort. Remember, back in the spring, when the press first assigned "swing voter status" to young, unmarried women? "Sex and the City"... Continue reading
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Politics
Oops, They Didn’t Do it Again
August 12, 2004 03:51 PMAdd today's story by Andy Lenderman of the Albuquerque Journal to the What Not to Do list. Lenderman reports that President Bush, while singling out a local small business owner during an "Ask President Bush" appearance in... Continue reading
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Politics
He Said/She Said Rears His/Her Ugly Head - Yet Again
August 11, 2004 03:47 PMAs we've suggested more than once before, it is a dereliction of duty when journalists report a campaign claim and then leave it up to readers to figure out whether or not the claim is true. Politicians being... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Common Man As Parrot
August 10, 2004 06:18 PMFor months now, Campaign Desk has watched as campaign talking points (or key lines from attack ads and campaign speeches) slowly seep into the public's vocabulary like one of those irritating song lyrics that you can't get out of your... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Call it Too Close To Call
August 10, 2004 12:25 PMFeeling uneasy this August? Not quite able to pinpoint the source of your anxiety? Never fear, the newsweeklies are here ... to help us focus our fears on topics including Al Qaeda (Time's cover: "Al-Qaeda in America"; Newsweek's <a... Continue reading
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Politics
Swing Sect?
August 6, 2004 01:01 PMForget Punk Republicans. The Associated Press thinks it has found the real voting bloc that could determine the next president of the United States. That would be a bunch of bearded guys and their bonneted wives who travel by... Continue reading
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Politics
Taking it Beyond He Said/She Said - Not Too Taxing After All
August 5, 2004 03:55 PMToday, one journalist makes the rare effort to examine and de-spin a campaign sound bite, and along the way to offer both his own commentary and criticism, as well as those of outside experts. For that, we tip our hat... Continue reading
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