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Swing States Project
Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’
August 1, 2012 05:15 PMYesterday, The New York Times published an op-ed by Columbia tax law professor Michael J. Graetz, exploring, as the headline had it, “Mitt Romney’s financial mysteries.” In short, why hasn’t Mitt Romney released more... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record
July 27, 2012 03:10 PMJay Jones has already heaped praise this week upon the Las Vegas Sun’s Anjeanette Damon, but we’ll go ahead and give her a laurel for her takedown of a Mitt Romney campaign ad that... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
A dart to the campaign press corps
July 19, 2012 06:18 AMIt’s a diffuse target, but the campaign press corps writ large earns a dart this week for acquiescing to the scenario that Jeremy Peters describes in his much-discussed New York Times article, headlined "Latest... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer
July 11, 2012 03:20 PMBrendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw pointed darts across the media landscape, pricking outlets like the Los Angeles Times, New York... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
A laurel to Politifact Florida
July 6, 2012 06:50 AMOur run of Swing States Project praise continues with a laurel to Politifact Florida, where reporters Tia Mitchell, Katie Sanders, and Jeffrey S. Solochek teamed up earlier this week on... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
A laurel to Denver’s Westword
June 29, 2012 03:59 PMFor months now, CJR has been urging the FCC to improve public access to the “public inspection files” maintained by TV stations, which include up-to-date records of political ad buys—and also encouraging journalists to make more... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
A laurel to WaPo’s debunking of ‘EPA drones’
June 20, 2012 11:44 AMStarting today, we’ll be bringing a venerable CJR tradition, Darts & Laurels, to The Swing States Project. Each Wednesday, we’ll run a short post assigning a dart, a laurel, or both to some noteworthy... Continue reading
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