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1. Campaign Desk

   What We Should Have Known All Along about Health Reform

   December 16, 2010 01:53 PM

   This week’s coverage of the Virginia court decision declaring health reform’s individual mandate unconstitutional was surprisingly thorough and contextual. What a pity the points made in the last few days were not presented during the fifteen months the law wound... Continue reading

2. Campaign Desk

   Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Dobbs

   December 15, 2010 02:39 PM

   This is the eighth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the residents of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The entire series is archived here. Throughout this year’s debate on Social Security, there has... Continue reading

3. Campaign Desk

   Other Views of Social Security

   December 13, 2010 10:34 AM

   Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security picture. So we were pleased to see that some other voices are now being heard.... Continue reading

4. Campaign Desk

   Frank Luntz Rides Again

   December 10, 2010 07:42 AM

   Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using the phrase “public option” to describe a proposal hotly debated during the health reform debate. That option, proposed by Yale... Continue reading

5. Campaign Desk

   Social Security in the Heartland: Jude Love

   December 8, 2010 11:57 AM

   This is the seventh in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the residents of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The entire series is archived here. The president’s deficit commission has now presented the broad... Continue reading

6. Campaign Desk

   USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message

   December 6, 2010 01:09 PM

   On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9 trillion over the next decade, providing momentum for future spending cuts and tax increases but falling short of... Continue reading

7. Campaign Desk

   NPR Plays Ebenezer Scrooge

   December 2, 2010 10:21 AM

   It was really hard to tell whether NPR’s Morning Edition segment yesterday—part of the program’s “Ghosts of Debts Past, Present and Future” series—was an editorial or a news story. It was about as blurry as the visions of... Continue reading

8. Campaign Desk

   CBS Fumbles Again

   November 29, 2010 01:15 PM

   If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on the CBS Evening News before Thanksgiving would make a great candidate. In a breathless recitation of the... Continue reading

9. Campaign Desk

   A Curious Omission at the Times

   November 24, 2010 09:44 AM

   It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline: “Deficit Panels Go Where Politicians Won’t.” That, of course, conveyed the notion that politicos may be shying away... Continue reading

10. Campaign Desk

    Enterprise Reporting at the AP

    November 23, 2010 10:47 AM

    Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that raising the retirement age for full Social Security benefits would disproportionately hurt workers with low incomes. That would... Continue reading

11. Campaign Desk

    Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean

    November 18, 2010 10:57 AM

    This is the sixth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the residents of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The entire series is archived here. Jim Bean is just the sort of person Social... Continue reading

12. Campaign Desk

    The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris

    November 16, 2010 12:33 PM

    Politico published a rather astonishing story yesterday that should make the constituents of Maryland’s first congressional district scratch their heads in wonderment. It seems that their new congressman, Andy Harris, is a bit short on the details of... Continue reading

13. Campaign Desk

    Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock?

    November 12, 2010 03:15 PM

    Ouch! That was the media’s general reaction yesterday to the ideas in the report issued by the co-chairs of the president’s deficit commission. Had news outlets been following this story since the beginning of the year, when the... Continue reading

14. Campaign Desk

    The Education of Sen. Bennet

    November 11, 2010 11:34 AM

    The squeaker victory of Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet landed him a spot on NPR’s Morning Edition the other day, and with it came a megaphone to talk about some timely topics such as health reform, extending the Bush... Continue reading

15. The Kicker

    Yes, Virginia, it Really Was a Republican Plan

    November 9, 2010 11:40 AM

    Sunday, the president admitted to Steve Kroft of CBS that the health reform law now known in the vernacular as Obamacare wasn’t really Obamacare after all. It was actually a Republican plan—something we’ve been saying for quite some time... Continue reading

16. Campaign Desk

    What Should John Boehner Do?

    November 8, 2010 11:24 AM

    One of the more interesting and informative pieces of journalism to cross my computer screen in recent months was a story from Kaiser Health News that was a simple compilation of answers to this question: If you ended... Continue reading

17. Campaign Desk

    The Election Story Not Told

    November 4, 2010 10:43 AM

    For months we knew that health reform was in big trouble. Tuesday night, we found out how big. Health care was the second most important issue to voters, behind the economy. (Nineteen percent of voters said health care... Continue reading

18. Campaign Desk

    Medicare Beat Memo

    November 1, 2010 12:04 PM

    There are some uncomfortable truths about Medicare changes lurking in the health reform law. Because the pols on both sides of the aisle supported these changes, it’s not surprising that almost no one has been eager to talk about them... Continue reading

19. Campaign Desk

    Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads

    November 1, 2010 11:54 AM

    Pity the senior citizens in the voting booth Tuesday. Who should they believe about Medicare—the Dems and their surrogates, who say health reform has strengthened the program, or the GOP and its allies, who charge that reform has gutted it?... Continue reading

20. Campaign Desk

    Social Security in Perspective, Part II

    October 27, 2010 12:22 PM

    Proposals to change the Social Security system are fast taking shape, and many of them call for substantial benefit cuts for young workers. While a handful of journalists have discussed these “tweaks,” as the president calls them, there has... Continue reading

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