Campaign Desk

The Press After Citizens United

Campaign finance experts chime in on a new era

By Clint Hendler   Feb 5, 2010 at 02:21 PM

Over the last two weeks, reporters covering campaign finance have ably chronicled the scope and effects of the bitterly divided... More

The Cost of Living Archive

An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” articles

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM

Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” series, in descending order. 02/02/11:... More

The Cost of Living

How cardiologists used the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 5, 2010 at 09:41 AM

Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More

Audit Notes: Bloomberg on Why It’s Hard Being Green; K Street Roll Call; Reuters on AIG’s latest, etc.

By Dean Starkman and Holly Yeager   Feb 4, 2010 at 06:27 PM

--Bloomberg has a smart take on the problem of subsidizing green jobs: a lot of them are created in China.... More

The Ethics of Undercover Journalism

Why journalists get squeamish over James O’Keefe’s tactics

By Greg Marx   Feb 4, 2010 at 02:57 PM

When news broke in late January that James O’Keefe and three other men, two of whom were costumed as telephone... More

Landrieu on the Line

Two Louisiana political reporters on why James O’Keefe’s Landrieu story wasn’t news to them

By Alexandra Fenwick   Feb 4, 2010 at 01:17 PM

When ACORN provocateur James O’Keefe and three accomplices were arrested at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office last week in... More

Hearts, Minds, and the Satellite Dish

America’s televised message in the Arab world is dull and poorly managed

By Justin D. Martin   Feb 4, 2010 at 11:01 AM

CAIRO—The United States government has on occasion distressed over the nature of TV news in the Arab world and its... More

Questions for Question Time

Presidential Q&As may not be the key to better politics

By Greg Marx   Feb 4, 2010 at 08:16 AM

The widespread media enthusiasm that greeted President Obama’s televised Q&A last Friday with Republican congressmen now has an official outlet.... More

Target-Rich Environment

By Holly Yeager   Feb 2, 2010 at 02:34 PM

We’re all for flood-the-zone coverage of the budget, so a tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to The Wall Street... More

Reality Check at the NewsHour

Obama nationalizing health care? Hardly

By Trudy Lieberman   Feb 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM

Republicans may have succeeded in stalling health care reform, at least for now. But that doesn’t mean the press should... More

A Path out of the Health Care Mess?

Still no guidance from the president

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM

As readers of Campaign Desk know, we have long questioned the president’s leadership on health care, his number one domestic... More

A Tale of Two Jonathans

Overusing sources and full disclosure—some lessons for the press

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 28, 2010 at 09:21 AM

Jonathan Gruber is an economist from MIT. Jonathan Oberlander is a political scientist from the University of North Carolina. Both... More

Assessing Obama

The press and the pundits evaluate the State of the Union

By Greg Marx   Jan 28, 2010 at 08:58 AM

President Obama’s first State of the Union address is in the books, and by the morning after the process of... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Take a bow, NYT; LAT on foreign bonds; a WSJ tweak, etc.

By Holly Yeager   Jan 27, 2010 at 03:11 PM

What with the jumble of spending freeze/deficit projection/debt commission/federal budget/State of the Union coverage out there, it wouldn’t surprise us... More

“A Bad Cartoon,” or “A Big Nothing”?

Conservative media reacts to the O’Keefe arrest

By Greg Marx   Jan 27, 2010 at 09:51 AM

The story that had the political media buzzing yesterday was the arrest of James O’Keefe, the conservative, pimp-playing activist who... More