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Politics
Strike Out
March 27, 2004 05:06 PMIt's Saturday. It's been a long and politically charged week, and we here at Campaign Desk were hoping we could find a reporter out there somewhere with an eye toward recording the absurdities of this thing called politics. Our... Continue reading
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Politics
Numbers Munchers
March 25, 2004 10:43 AMWith budget numbers flying around like spitballs on the campaign trail these days, The Washington Post's Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei deliver exactly the kind of analysis that readers -- hey, remember they're also voters -- have been hankering... Continue reading
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Politics
Ahead of the Curve
March 24, 2004 12:25 PMYou may think the verbal smackdowns and choke-slams of this early campaign season were unusually heated, but a day may come when all of us may look back on 2004 as the Age of Innocence. As The Boston Herald's Elisabeth... Continue reading
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Politics
The Economy, In Pieces
March 23, 2004 03:24 PMAs the campaign lurches forward, economic stories are destined to become a staple of the American diet, with Republicans trying to paint a rosy picture, Democrats a bleak one, and journalists struggling to make sense of the numbers. Undoubtedly, we'll... Continue reading
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Politics
Who Didn’t?
March 22, 2004 04:05 PMToday was to have been the day when David Bohrman, CNN's new Washington bureau chief, was to rally the troops, fresh off the kind of scoop he hoped would reinvigorate the network and boost ratings over rival Fox News. At... Continue reading
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Politics
We’re Still Waiting for a Whistle
March 22, 2004 11:43 AMApparently, those of us at Campaign Desk weren't the only ones who decided to devote Saturday to basketball rather than good journalism: The anonymous source referees at The New York Times obviously walked off the job themselves. How else to... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Dick Polman on Contrarianism and Rubber Chicken
March 19, 2004 06:52 PMDick Polman has covered politics for the Philadelphia Inquirer since the 1992 presidential campaign. This year, he became the paper's national political correspondent, a title, he says, that allows him to "dispense with the talking heads" and do his own... Continue reading
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Politics
That Cart Needs a Horse!
March 19, 2004 11:50 AMThe news cycle these days is so fast and furious that reporters sometimes zoom off into hyperspeed. That undoubtedly explains why CNN's Heidi Collins last night was taking viewers into some sort of bizarro time warp. (Thanks to an alert... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Fandango Continues
March 18, 2004 11:06 AMThe "lateral arabesque" around the new anonymous source rule at The New York Times takes a nifty little tango dip today, thanks once more to the stylish choreography of Elisabeth Bumiller. Bumiller's footwork vastly outshines today's two-step by John... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Score to Date: Anonymous 4, Editors 0
March 15, 2004 11:02 AMSo much for firm resolve. As Campaign Desk reported Friday, The New York Times and The Washington Post are talking tough and carrying a tiny twig when it comes to new rules cracking down on the use of anonymous... Continue reading
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Politics
Lots, Few, Who’s Counting?
March 12, 2004 03:30 PMWe're a day late here (and needed an alert reader to tip us off), but we're still getting our ruler out from our drawer and aiming for some knuckles on this one. In this case, the knuckles belong to Paula... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Indignation Abounds
March 12, 2004 10:49 AMThe Bush campaign's newest TV ad sent indignant bloggers hustling to their keyboards, with many linking directly to Ryan Lizza's "Campaign Journal" comments about the spot on the New Republic Online. Just as Bush's first ad -- featuring... Continue reading
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Blog Report
If We Hear “Flip-Flop” One More Time …
March 11, 2004 12:26 PMGeorge Bush went to economically-battered Ohio yesterday to talk up the economy on the same day it was announced the United States' trade deficit climbed to a record $43.1 billion in January, thanks to imports from China and sagging domestic... Continue reading
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Politics
Monitoring Haiti, Then Florida
March 10, 2004 06:18 PMFlorida, where ballot-counting can be a life-altering experience, experienced few problems during yesterday's primary, reports the Associated Press' Jill Barton. The state's new touch-screen voting machines performed well everywhere but tiny Bay County; a recount is scheduled there. The... Continue reading
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Politics
Nice Try, Kid
March 10, 2004 02:53 PMLeave it to an 11-year-old to ask the question nobody's yet been brave enough to raise: What the heck are we all going to do for the next eight months? The Boston Globe's Patrick Healy writes today that an... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Flip-Flops and the Lincoln Bedroom
March 10, 2004 11:40 AMFact-checking is all of a sudden in fashion these days, and we at Campaign Desk couldn't be prouder. This morning, the blogosphere lets loose a fusillade from several directions, piling on the Bush campaign for distorting Sen. John Kerry's voting... Continue reading
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Politics
Back in The Tank Again
March 10, 2004 10:22 AMYes, we know, we chided the Associated Press and its reporter Liz Sidoti yesterday, but this appears to be one of those weeks when the misdeeds of the wire service and the intrepid Sidoti are like the pop-up ducks at... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Laurence Harvey for President?
March 9, 2004 11:45 AMJohn Kerry's foreign policy credentials are under scrutiny by blogsters today, thanks to his recent interview on the subject with Time magazine, and a comment the candidate made to Reuters. "Without naming anybody, Kerry said he had... Continue reading
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Politics
Practicing for Prime Time
March 8, 2004 04:03 PMThere are lots of reasons to run for president: Because a political ground swell has pushed your name to the forefront ... because you think the country is heading the wrong way ... because you lost your job as a... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Where There’s a Poll, There’s a Pundit Pontificating
March 8, 2004 12:05 PMThe Blogosphere has decamped to the Sunshine State (not a bad idea, frankly) and is busy chewing over the meaning of a poll published Sunday by the Miami Herald showing Sen. John Kerry ahead of President Bush in Florida.... 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
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