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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged campaign spending

1. August 29, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: the national debt, Bailout, ProPublica on campaign finance

   GOP jujitsu on Obama and deficits

   By Ryan Chittum

   Ezra Klein, anticipating a lot of Republicans disingenuously blaming Obama for the national debt, points to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities chart showing that the increase in the debt comes almost entirely from Bush-era policies: Kevin Drum says, "Their success at convincing half the country that Barack Obama is responsible for our soaring debt is surely one of...

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2. June 26, 2012 10:56 AM

   Stories I’d like to see

   The tax man who could change the 2012 campaign

   By Steven Brill

   In his weekly “Stories I’d like to see” column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The IRS bureaucrat who could upend the campaign finance money flow: Here’s an idea for a story about an obscure government bureaucrat whose decisions could have a...

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3. November 8, 2012 06:50 AM

   WSJ gets lost in the weeds with the Romney campaign

   A too-savvy take and flawed assumptions undermine some interesting reporting

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Wall Street Journal fronts an interesting but seriously flawed story this morning headlined "How Race Slipped Away From Romney." You can probably see the conceptual problem here right away: When was it Romney's to lose? He led in the national polls, which systematically underestimated Obama's support, for about three weeks in October, but never came close to leading in...

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