Campaign Desk

The Anthem Saga Revisited

What exactly was the Times trying to tell us?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 19, 2010 at 12:04 PM

The story idea seemed reasonable—a follow-up to the news that Anthem Blue Cross planned to raise rates on individual policies... More

Some Stimulus Coverage More Stimulating Than Others

By Holly Yeager   Feb 18, 2010 at 05:22 PM

On the year anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, figuring out good ways to cover the stimulus is... More

Q & A: David Barstow

The New York Times reporter talks about the Tea Party movement

By Greg Marx   Feb 18, 2010 at 08:00 AM

As the conservative Tea Party movement has picked up steam over the past year, leading national media outlets—many of which... More

On the Social Security Battlefront

Reporters and their sources

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 17, 2010 at 05:11 PM

For months, Campaign Desk has observed that reporters covering health reform have used the same sources over and over. Now... More

Does the Path to Middle East Peace Stop in Doha?

Al Jazeera’s influence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Noah Bonsey and Jeb Koogler   Feb 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM

It is no secret that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more deadlocked than at any time since President Obama took office.... More

A Grecian Formula for Globalized News

By Holly Yeager   Feb 16, 2010 at 11:20 AM

The New York Times had a strong Sunday story about Wall Street’s role in masking the Greek debt that is... More

Sounding the Alarm, or Just Sounding Off?

Playing politics with national security may not be a great idea, after all

By Greg Marx   Feb 16, 2010 at 09:13 AM

In his capacity as editor of The Washington Post’s editorial page, Fred Hiatt takes a lot of criticism—some of it... More

The Devil in the Details, Part VI

Needed: a health care primer for Fox News

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 15, 2010 at 01:59 PM

Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More

It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

More indications that the economy drives political outcomes

By Greg Marx   Feb 15, 2010 at 01:55 PM

One of the side effects of what’s been dubbed the “the permanent campaign” is a proliferation of reporting on public... More

The Times doubles up on Information Access

By Clint Hendler   Feb 15, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Yesterday The New York Times turned in two stories on news organizations’ recent usage of the Freedom of Information Act... More

Regulating Health Care, Part II

Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM

The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More

Health Reform on C-SPAN

Is that really the issue?

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM

Republicans waved a new flag of health reform opposition right after New Year’s, when Florida governor Charlie Crist attacked the... More

Unforced Error at Salon

“O’Keefe’s race problem” story goes astray on key detail

By Greg Marx   Feb 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM

It’s not often that, barely a week after sparking a mini media circus by being arrested on federal property in... More

Is Health Reform Dead or Alive?

Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM

Last week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The... More

O’Keefe, Etc.

A closer look at a couple more issues surrounding the conservative videographer

By Greg Marx   Feb 5, 2010 at 04:56 PM

James O’Keefe is a hell of a problem for the press. Whatever else he is, O’Keefe is an instigator par... More