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Politics
Tom Tomorrow Gets It Exactly Right
October 17, 2004 04:57 PMIn today's Week in Review section of The New York Times, Public Editor Daniel Okrent gives over his page two column to two guest columnists, one from the left, one from the right, each rebutting Okrent's contention that the... Continue reading
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Politics
A Call to Arms
October 11, 2004 04:15 PMKudos to The New York Times for a lead editorial today that lends ominous overtones to how things might play out on Nov. 2 this year. "The chances of having an election in which all qualified citizens can cast... Continue reading
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Politics
Betting on the Horse Race
October 10, 2004 02:57 PMAs John Tierney points out in today's New York Times, while instant and overnight polls gave John Kerry the edge after Friday night's debate, and befuddled pundits punted by calling it a draw, there's another group of bettors who... Continue reading
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Politics
Attention Voters: Try to Chill Out!
October 7, 2004 04:06 PMCampaign Desk doesn't spend a lot of time hanging around gossip sheets, but an alert reader to whom one of us is married filled us in on a fascinating item buried in Lloyd Grove's column in today's New York Daily... Continue reading
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Politics
Anonymice Break Out, Go On Rampage
October 4, 2004 12:35 PMFor a brief while last week, it seemed as if New York Times reporters were at long last taking to heart the manifesto issued by the paper's editors in an attempt to cut back on the use of anonymous... Continue reading
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Politics
Paralysis by Analysis
September 30, 2004 12:37 PMOn the front page of today's New York Times, James Bennet, back at home after a distinguished stint as the paper's Jerusalem correspondent, takes a stab at trying to discern the differences between the foreign policy proposals of the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Are These Debates or Synchronized Swimming?
September 28, 2004 02:21 PMKudos to Editor & Publisher for rounding up some of the country's "leading journalists," all of whom are unhappy with the kabuki-like rules to be imposed upon both candidates, moderators and the studio audience in the three presidential debates.... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Knight Ridder: Still the Point Man
September 26, 2004 09:37 PMAs far back as January, we learned that in the months before the invasion of Iraq, Knight Ridder, alone among the American news media, reported in depth that multiple sources in the intelligence community had thrown up red flags... Continue reading
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Behind the News
If You Build It, They Will Come
September 25, 2004 06:55 PMBen Karlin, executive producer of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," during a Q&A Friday on WashingtonPost.com: Question: "Why do YOU think the show resonates so well as a source of political news?" Karlin: "Many people in this country... Continue reading
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Behind the News
A Campaign Desk Honor Roll, of Sorts
September 24, 2004 04:02 PMAs Campaign Desk wobbles into the home stretch of a year of critiquing the campaign press on a daily basis, it occurred to us that readers might find useful a short list of reporters who consistently rise above the superficial... Continue reading
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Politics
Three Peas in a Pod? An Update
September 23, 2004 12:14 PMOn Monday, we posted an item criticizing CNN political analyst Bill Schneider for appearing to endorse the view of House Speaker Dennis Hastert that terrorists would operate more freely in a Kerry administration, and for distorting Hastert's comments in the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Frank Rich on Fox, CNN and Self-Immolation
September 19, 2004 06:58 PMAs Campaign Desk has before him, Frank Rich in today's New York Times bemoans CNN's "casual abandonment of even a fig leaf of impartiality" by keeping James Carville and Paul Belaga on as hosts of "Crossfire" even as... Continue reading
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Politics
This Poll We Paid For Must Mean Something
September 18, 2004 02:55 PMCampaign Desk took a look at this subject -- when polls go bad -- yesterday, but today's brazen display by The New York Times compels us to revisit it. The Times brings us yet another poll measuring public... Continue reading
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Politics
… As If Seeing the Light on the Road to Damascus
September 16, 2004 12:25 PMFor months now, Campaign Desk has been encouraging political reporters to commit two kinds of heresy: first, to put an end to their slavish reliance on anonymous sources, and second, to take one giant step beyond the revered he-said/she-said/I'm-outta-here school... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The CBS Furor
September 14, 2004 03:39 PMA few readers have asked why Campaign Desk hasn't weighed in on the furor over the disputed CBS documents purporting to show President Bush slacking from his National Guard duties 32 years ago. (Indeed, the Weekly Standard Online today <a... Continue reading
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Politics
The Times Crosses the Line
September 11, 2004 04:40 PMIn its lead story in this morning's paper, The New York Times follows President Bush on the campaign trail to Chillicothe, Ohio, where, reporters Richard W. Stevenson and David M. Halbfinger tell us, he "leveled one of his strongest... Continue reading
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Politics
Wherein Campaign Desk Saves You $1,699
September 9, 2004 02:40 PMIf there's an Insider's Bible in Washington D.C., it's National Journal, a thorough weekly compilation of what happened in Washington over the past seven days, and what's about to happen. Campaign Desk hasn't often cited the Journal, partly because it's... Continue reading
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Politics
A Modest Suggestion: Put the News on Page One
August 30, 2004 12:04 PMFar away from the front pages, where political reporters routinely miscalculate and misreport the number of jobs erased and/or created during the Bush administration, a few business reporters are toiling away to come up with a more accurate, and... Continue reading
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Politics
We Give These Guys a 5.275 on This Dive
August 23, 2004 05:21 PMYeah, we know, you're probably getting tired of the Olympics by now, but don't seek surcease by retreating to the campaign press. You'll only find more triple back flips off the high board (or, to coin an acronym, TBFOHBs). We've... Continue reading
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Politics
Truth in Advertising
August 19, 2004 11:49 AMThe New York Times business section today brings us news of an unconventional ad campaign for the city of Houston that "relies on descriptions of urban afflictions and images of giant mosquitoes and cockroachs" to convey a sense of... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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