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1. Politics

   Hello, Cleveland?

   March 17, 2004 06:58 PM

   Sometimes it takes a little while for a story to bounce around the media echo chamber and reverberate into the mainstream. Such is the case with a story in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer by Stephen Koff about Teresa Heinz... Continue reading

2. Politics

   Anatomy of a Foul-Up

   March 17, 2004 09:19 AM

   By Liz Cox Barrett and Thomas Lang In yesterday's New York Times, Jodi Wilgoren informed readers that "the weeklong controversy" over Sen. John Kerry's "recent claim to have international support" for his presidential bid stemmed from an... Continue reading

3. Politics

   Sounds Like a Crock to Us

   March 15, 2004 09:05 PM

   Last week, Jay Rosen opined that the lull between primary season and the conventions will become a "point in the election story when a larger portion of the news is triggered by the decisions of journalists." What, Rosen asked... Continue reading

4. The Water Cooler

   Helen Thomas on Grilling the Pinch Hitter

   March 12, 2004 05:14 PM

   Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House since 1961 -- first as a reporter for United Press International and, since 2000, as a columnist for Hearst News Service -- discusses her interviewing style and how she handles the... Continue reading

5. Politics

   Veepstakes Gone Wild

   March 10, 2004 02:03 PM

   For our part, we're happy to wait until John Kerry himself tells us just who it is that he plans to throw into the arena to take on the fearsome Dick Cheney, who dined with delight on his opponent during... Continue reading

6. Politics

   Who Says So?

   March 8, 2004 11:40 AM

   This morning David Gregory, NBC's White House correspondent, brought "Today Show" viewers a segment on President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch -- featured in a 2000 Bush campaign video -- and on how the ranch is part of "a powerful political... Continue reading

7. Blog Report

   Bush’s Ads Beget Tidal Wave of Bloviation

   March 5, 2004 01:12 PM

   With the benefit of a few additional hours to ponder the president's first wave of campaign ads on TV, bloggers are back on their soapboxes. It strikes Campaign Desk as treacherous ground for a blogger (or anyone else) to suggest... Continue reading

8. Blog Report

   Can Sticks and Stones Break Bonesmen’s Bones?

   March 4, 2004 11:27 AM

   ...And speaking of bones, at The Corner, Tim Graham has one to pick with Katie Couric for calling the arrival of the Bush television advertisements a "massive ad blitz," as if, Graham writes, "it were a bombing raid or... Continue reading

9. Blog Report

   Get Ready to … Fumble … Stumble … Crumble?

   March 3, 2004 11:08 AM

   Innnnn the left corner, wearing the blue trunks ... John "The Real Deal" Kerry. Onnnnn the right, in red ... George "The War President" Bush. The Main Event begins today and the blogosphere is all a-twitter, with rightists fixating on... Continue reading

10. Blog Report

    Super-Cali-Fatalistic…

    March 2, 2004 12:02 PM

    By many a blogger's barometer, Super Tuesday is Foregone Conclusion Day (okay, and there are some polls that support the sentiment, if you still put your stock in that sort of thing). At Daily Kos, kos is already nostalgic... Continue reading

11. Blog Report

    The Envelope, Please …

    March 1, 2004 12:19 PM

    There were two opportunities yesterday to watch nattily-dressed men on television, made up to the point of looking jaundiced, talking well beyond their allotted time. Wonkette! blogs both -- the 76th Academy Awards and the CBS News/New York Times-sponsored Democratic... Continue reading

12. Politics

    Institutionalized: Corps Versus Scott

    February 26, 2004 06:52 PM

    Most White House press briefings go something like this: Reporter: Ask question. Press secretary: Recite talking point. Reporter: Rephrase question. Press secretary: Repeat talking point. Reporter: Phrase question more provocatively.... Continue reading

13. Politics

    Reporters Relish Heinz Kerry’s Spicy Quotes

    February 25, 2004 12:03 PM

    With California's Democratic primary now six days away, the Los Angeles Times' Robin Abcarian today contributes her two cents to the manufactured media debate, Teresa Heinz Kerry: Help or Hindrance? Abcarian tells us that Heinz Kerry, unlike her husband... Continue reading

14. Politics

    The “Shocking” Story That Wasn’t

    February 18, 2004 05:24 PM

    The following headline ran this afternoon on an Associated Press story by Deborah Riechmann: "Laura Bush Says Gay Marriage 'Shocking.'" Readers could be forgiven for thinking that Laura Bush is shocked by gay marriages. But Riechmann disabuses readers... Continue reading

15. Politics

    Drudge, Dickens, and the Death Rattle (?) of a Rumor

    February 17, 2004 02:00 PM

    Yesterday, a crestfallen Matt Drudge downgraded the affair alert on his web site from last week's red ("Campaign Drama Rocks Democrats: Kerry Fights Off Media Probe of Recent Alleged Infidelity") to a defeated yellow ("Kerry Mystery Woman Dated Campaign Finance... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    Cox on Cox: A Window into the Mind of the Beleaguered Drudgette of the Moment

    February 13, 2004 02:39 PM

    You think it's easy being Wonkette? Perish the thought. In a wide-ranging interview with Campaign Desk this morning, the blogette who out-drudged Drudge yesterday by revealing the supposed name of the supposed woman supposedly involved some years... Continue reading

17. Politics

    What Does It Take to Make Page One Around Here?

    February 10, 2004 05:46 PM

    Last night, more than two years after the fact, the White House backed off from a statement made by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address that "diagrams of American nuclear power plants" were... Continue reading

18. Politics

    And Now, Our Story About the Story About the Story About the Scream

    February 10, 2004 10:55 AM

    Building on Diane Sawyer's story last week on how the media had both overplayed Dean's now-infamous post-Iowa address and taken it out of context, David Bauder of the Associated Press manages to squeeze a sheepish admission out of the... Continue reading

19. Politics

    Hey, Wasn�t There A Primary Campaign Going On?

    February 10, 2004 10:54 AM

    With the conventional wisdom telling us that John Kerry's got the nomination all but wrapped up, most bloggers are feeling free not to pay too much attention to today's contests in Virginia and Tennessee. There are two interesting anti-Kerry... Continue reading

20. Politics

    Clark’s Campaign Makeover

    February 5, 2004 01:55 PM

    ABC News's Deborah Apton, on the road with Gen. Wesley Clark, reports today on some of the Clark campaign's recent tactical changes. For one thing, Apton writes, Clark has begun attacking his competition, criticizing "the Johns" on their voting... Continue reading

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