There is a very real chance that the Katie Couric/Sarah Palin interview–“the gift that keeps on giving” to some; “the itchy rash that won’t go away” to others–will be part of our lives, like hope and love and cockroaches and styrofoam, forever. And today has brought even more evidence of the infamous exchange’s utter-refusal-to-leave-us-alone, this […]

The New Republic‘s Noam Scheiber makes a find that demonstrates why those time-honored journalistic mandates—”go there,” “check it out,” “gather evidence”—have become mandates in the first place. While in Alaska, reporting his excellent TNR profile of Sarah Palin, Scheiber found this fascinating bit of Sarah-bilia—a leaf of paper from the Wasilla city budget (from 1996, […]

We expend a lot of energy decrying pontification on cable news, in the op-ed pages of the major papers, in the blogosphere, etc. But when the pontification is literal–as it is in the case of an article in the Times of London, headlined “Pope says world financial system ‘built on sand’”–delicacy and, above all, accuracy […]

A couple months ago, when Veepstakes speculation was at its inane/pointless/baffling height, Campaign Desk asked a favor of the press: that, in the flurry of Veep speculation, they’d take a moment to step back and contemplate, in light of The Cheney Years, what the role of the vice president should be in the next administration. […]

Triumph beats truth in today’s spate of voter-registration stories

While we’re on the subject of The Economist… The magazine’s Increasing Cultural Cred and its Desire for Creative Publicity have, it seems, united as one. In the form, specifically, of Off the Page, a total rip-off of the New Yorker festival weekend of events sponsored by the magazine. Events, um, vaguely reminiscent of the New […]

More Monday Morning Movie-ing, this one courtesy of the good people at Slate V. The clip below offers a neat little summary of the campaign thus far…tongue in cheek, yes, but if you’re one of those mythical voters who are, you know, Just Now Starting To Pay Attention To The Campaign, it’s actually a quite […]

Tina Fey And The Gang might just have outdone themselves:

An update from our publicity department: Columbia Journalism Review, the magazine, will soon be advertising on the side of falafel carts in Midtown Manhattan. And featured in special-edition game sets of Monopoly (journalistic real estate: everything’s for sale!). And sponsoring special performances of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Just kidding. But, apparently, it’s […]

The New York Observer, discussing Carl Cameron’s nabbing of a Palin interview, keeps a “tally of correspondents/anchors from each network who have interviewed Governor Palin so far”: Fox News: 2 ABC News: 1 CBS News: 1 CNN: 0 NBC News: 0 MSNBC: 0 PBS: 0