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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged South Carolina

1. September 11, 2012 07:00 AM

   Et tu, Ryan?

   Ryan Lizza's dubious Bill Clinton quote

   By Todd Gitlin

   Ryan Lizza is one of the most perceptive political journalists going. His reporting on Barack Obama’s White House thinking, earlier this year, was one of the handful of indispensable profiles of a president whom many journalists find elusive. Moreover, his profile of Paul Ryan in the August 6 New Yorker is the most revealing of the campaign, using biographical detail...

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2. October 12, 2012 07:00 AM

   Hey coach, lighten up!

   Steve Spurrier and his coaching cohorts get pissy with the press

   By Robert Weintraub

   Steve Spurrier, the wisecrackin’ ol’ ballcoach at the University of South Carolina, has the Gamecocks in rarefied air. After demolishing Georgia last weekend, a team that traditionally stomped Carolina, Spurrier’s squad is undefeated and ranked third in the nation. A huge game looms Saturday, when South Carolina visits LSU, last year’s national runner up, in Baton Rouge. But with...

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3. June 27, 2011 05:01 PM

   What’s A Local Site To Do?

   Small and hyper-local sites gear up for the GOP primary

   By Joel Meares

   In June 2010, Craig Robinson got a midterm scoop that no other media outlet, national or local, was able to get. Robinson, the editor-in-chief of the website Iowa Republican was attending a campaign event for GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Terry Branstad in Jefferson, a small town fifty miles northwest of Des Moines. During a break in Branstad’s address, an aide...

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