“Hey! You know what says ‘We’ve got a regularly updating but superficial politics page?” said one Time PR exec to another. “A go-cart! With free t-shirts!” If you get too close (say, if you are angling for your very own medium-sized schwag shirt), a trying-to-be-helpful, blue shirt wearing Page-ette will offer to program The Page […]

Want to know what The Best Political Team on Television looks like when they are not on television? Answer: About the same, just less bushy-tailed. Bonus shot of the CBS’s teamless Katie Couric, just a couple of dozen sweaty delegates and onlookers away:

Light, heat, and drama before Clinton took the stage

Convention delegates call foul on primary coverage

Think that MSNBC has gone fully around the liberal bend, becoming the unimpeachable favorite of the left-leaning blogosphere? ‘Fraid not. Here in “The Big Tent,” the blogger friendly para-convention posting, eating, drinking and socializing space, was featuring a disjointed broadcast experience. On a half dozen or so flatscreen and projection TVs, the crowd was watching […]

Yes, we hear there is serious news to be found at these conventions. But there’s also ample opportunity for the biggie political pressters to get face-time and build a little name-rec with their journalism colleagues, and the politicos who love them. To that end, Campaign Desk is inaugurating what we’re afraid will be a regular […]

The Washington Monthly’s blogger goes West. Virtually.

Recently The Atlantic’s James Fallows took on the laudable but unenviable task of watching all 47 of the primary debates. He arrives at some fascinating conclusions about these vaudeville inquisitions—conclusions that were hard to see when the debates machine gunned through the early part of the season. For example, take this explanation of the evolution […]

Barack "Hollywood" Obama

Earlier this week, CJR received a nice invitation for a party on the eve of St. Paul’s Republican National Convention from the folks at the Minneapolis-based Utne Reader, or as I like to call it, the Readers’ Digest of the Left. Tucked inside a (handmade in Rwanda, of recycled materials) elephant-bedecked card is a note […]