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1. June 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   Romney’s ‘job killer’ narrative: time for an X-ray

   Some reporters are asking: Does Obamacare really destroy jobs?

   By Trudy Lieberman

   ONNtv.com, which bills itself as Ohio’s channel for news, is one of the latest media outlets to casually pass along one of Mitt Romney’s favorite campaign messages—the one that blames Obamacare for "killing jobs." ONN reporter Jim Heath, traveling with Romney on his campaign bus, sat down for a one-on-one with the presumptive nominee. Romney told Heath: “Get rid of...

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2. May 6, 2011 12:18 PM

   “Obama Osama bin Laden Is Dead”

   The Osama/Obama error is an international phenomenon

   By Craig Silverman

   Of all the mistaken headlines, verbal gaffes, and erroneous tweets that resulted from the Sunday announcement that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, this tour de force of Obama/Osama confusion defeats all comers: I take special pride in the fact that the offending anchor is a fellow Canadian. (She works for Global TV.) It also goes to show that the...

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3. February 7, 2011 12:44 PM

   “Bill, I know football.”

   O’Reilly and Obama in the Fox Bowl

   By Joel Meares

   So, it turns out Bill O’Reilly and the president give a better pregame show than Christina Aguilera. In the fifteen-minute live chat that preceded the cheeseheads’ victory last night, O’Reilly got his first bit of face time with Obama since the president assumed office and all-in-all he used it reasonably well. O’Reilly led with Egypt in typically blunt style—“Alright, Mubarak—is...

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4. March 30, 2011 12:29 PM

   Times’s Solid Report on Failed Mortgage Rescue Programs

   An economic calamity and its human faces

   By Joel Meares

   A must-read A1 story in The New York Times today digs into the multi-level failings of President Obama’s foreclosure rescue plans. As the country preps for a budget slice-and-dice that will target discretionary spending—or a government shutdown in lieu of that—Michael Powell and Andrew Martin’s piece, “Foreclosure Aid Fell Short, and Is Fading,” shows the importance of government spending under...

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5. June 8, 2011 02:39 PM

   WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

   A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

   By Ryan Chittum

   You can sense a surge in criticism of the Obama administration coming, both from within and from former members of Obama's economic team—something not unexpected as the rats see the ship start to sink again. Here's a speech Christina Romer gave recently that's on the leading edge here: 'Like the Federal Reserve, the Administration and Congress should have done more...

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6. May 4, 2011 06:07 PM

   A Photo of History Being Made (Up)?

   Spot the presidential address reenactment photo!

   By Liz Cox Barrett

   One of the images below is of President Obama delivering his historic "justice has been done" address live to the nation on Sunday night. The other image is of President Obama re-reading a portion of that address in front of a group of photographers shortly after delivering the full address to the nation (so that the photographers could get a...

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7. November 15, 2012 01:12 PM

   An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage

   Coverage? Yes. Guidance? Not so much

   By Trudy Lieberman

   In mid-August, when Paul Ryan burst on the scene with his voucher scheme for Medicare, the 47-year old program suddenly became hot news. Until then, the media had paid scant attention to Medicare, except in the fall when they served up some “how-to” stories for choosing new Medicare Advantage plans. This time it was different. Ryan’s plans for transforming Medicare...

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8. October 23, 2012 11:26 AM

   Ask Obama and Romney this: Where is Africa?

   An enormous opportunity for the US could slip past

   By Howard W. French

   Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can put to the presidential candidates. So far we’ve asked President Obama about his short term jobs plan and about housing, and Governor Romney about his plans for...

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9. October 24, 2012 03:12 PM

   Ask Obama This: Can you imagine criminal justice reform?

   A nearly forgotten topic that impacts the budget, families, and communities

   By Farai Chideya

   Over the final days of the campaign, CJR is publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can consider posing to the presidential candidates. This installment focuses on questions that could (and should) be asked of both candidates, but that seems particularly pressing for the...

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10. November 2, 2012 10:28 AM

    Ask Romney This: What will replace Obamacare?

    A vague healthcare plan raises many questions

    By Trudy Lieberman

    Over the final weeks of the campaign, CJR has been publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can consider posing to the presidential candidates. There’s not much time left for that, of course, but the questions this series raises will be around for the...

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11. June 23, 2011 02:36 PM

    Attack of the Drones

    Finding the real meaning in Obama’s Afghanistan speech

    By Greg Marx

    In the wake of President Obama’s big speech on Afghanistan last night, the basic points of his message—a reversal of the troop “surge” starting this year and concluding before the 2012 election, with further drawdowns through 2014; a shift from counterinsurgency to counterterrorism; a willingness to negotiate with the Taliban—have been widely reported. And if you’re looking for a little...

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12. August 21, 2012 03:00 PM

    Candidates clam up on climate

    Reporters call out Obama and Romney’s silence

    By Curtis Brainard

    Nary a word has been spoken about climate change on the presidential campaign trail, and it’s a silence that some journalists find deafening. In the last few weeks, a variety of reporters have called out the candidates for utterly ignoring the issue. The Associated Press’s Steven R. Hurst, for instance, reminded readers that just four months ago, Barack Obama told...

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13. October 5, 2011 12:49 PM

    CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska

    Obama’s disconnect with the voters

    By Trudy Lieberman

    In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living in migrant worker camps had no toys for Christmas. “Don’t tell me any more, Helen,” he said to Helen Gahagan Douglas—who, political junkies will remember, later lost a nasty Senate race to Richard Nixon. Roosevelt, the patrician, could connect to...

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14. September 5, 2012 06:00 PM

    Conventions create climate coverage

    While ScienceDebate.org gets some answers

    By Curtis Brainard

    The presidential candidates are still treating it like a back-burner issue, but the Republican and Democratic national conventions incited a short round of climate-change coverage as reporters dug into the newly approved party platforms. The GOP went first, gathering in Tampa as Tropical Storm Isaac swirled by during the last week of August. The Republican platform highlighted “a fairly dramatic...

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15. November 7, 2012 03:16 PM

    Digital innovation on election night: a report

    From CJR and Tow Center’s “meta newsroom”

    By Mike Hoyt

    About as digital as most Americans get on election night is to operate the channel clicker. But that is steadily becoming less true. The explanatory and informational firepower of emerging online media tools are too alluring to avoid forever. Each election cycle they become more sophisticated yet easier to work, and they draw more readers and viewers. The people who...

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16. November 15, 2012 03:10 PM

    Factchecking the ‘gifts’ theory of politics

    LAT, NYT break news on Mitt Romney's remarks—and also offer a skeptical look

    By Greg Marx

    The big electoral politics story of the day (well, ok, of late Wednesday) is the news that Mitt Romney, on a phone call with contributors to his campaign, attributed his loss to the Obama administration’s strategy of giving “gifts” to groups of voters. As Maeve Reston of the Los Angeles Times tells it: "The Obama campaign was following the old...

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17. June 13, 2011 02:17 PM

    Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt

    Post column misleads on health care reform

    By Greg Marx

    In his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal challenges, Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt provides a near-perfect example of inside-the-Beltway deficit hawkery run amok. Which, as a columnist, is his prerogative. If Hiatt thinks that the “most vexing challenge facing the country” is “how not to...

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18. July 11, 2012 03:20 PM

    Laurels for The New York Times and The Plain Dealer

    Amid some Dart-worthy coverage, a few stories stand out

    By Liz Cox Barrett and Greg Marx

    Brendan Nyhan’s post earlier this week about the lackluster coverage of President Obama’s “outsourcing” attack on Mitt Romney threw pointed darts across the media landscape, pricking outlets like the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, CBS News, and others for failing to truly examine the merits of charges. And when the Romney campaign and the Republican Party this week...

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19. October 23, 2012 12:50 PM

    Let Detroit do what?

    New interest in an old Op-Ed

    By Mike Hoyt

    What is the most viewed story on The New York Times website right now? It's an Op-Ed piece from nearly four years ago, November 18 2008. The author is one Mitt Romney, who may regret the headline: Let Detroit Go Bankrupt. The reason, of course, is that the piece came up in Monday night's debate, followed by a long debate...

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20. June 24, 2011 11:47 AM

    Misquotes That Refuse to Die

    Things that David Plouffe, Captain Kirk, and others didn’t say

    By Craig Silverman

    Back in 2009, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign manager, David Plouffe, said some rather kind words about Utah governor Jon Huntsman, and he has probably been regretting them ever since. As detailed this week by The New York Times Magazine’s Matt Bai, Plouffe’s comments were mangled into an erroneous quote that has been republished in outlets including The Economist, Newsweek, UPI,...

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