The Kicker

…Are some of the words most frequently found on the front pages of America’s newspapers today (thanks, Newseum). There’s a sense of… …history in the works: “Un Voto Historico” (Los Angeles, CA) La Opinion “On the Brink of History” New York Post (along with a full-page photo of Obama against an American flag) “Historic Choice” […]

Whenever I remember to read Good magazine, I’m always happy that I found my way there. Today’s foraging found two interesting, intelligent stories on the blogs. First, a reflection on the role of cities in America’s economic landscape: Most Americans simply don’t understand the role that cities play in their own economic well-being. Citified swells […]

Where to tune in election night? So many choices… And so, MSNBC (the channel that back in February gave us “Monster Super Tuesday” complete with exploding logos and “Vote-zilla”) presents: Election Returns On Ice! Which involves a map of the U.S.A. carved into the ice at Rockefeller Center’s skating rink, the states of which will […]

…is as “zesty(?!)” as you’d always imagined.

The candidates are “Battling On All Fronts With One Day To Go,” the New York Times reports today….from a distance. “It has been months since Mr. Obama has ventured with any regularity to the back of his plane where the journalists sit,” writes Jeff Zeleny in the Times‘s A-1 “One Day To Go” Obama piece. […]

At this late hour, cable’s political pundits are feeling reflective. To wit, MSNBC’s Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe earlier: At some point we’ll look at the coverage of this campaign, what we all do for a living and we’re gonna realize because of our tendency to blog every fifteen minutes and to talk every other […]

Election Day hours away. Deadline looming. Must. Find. Angle…Got it: Yet there is, in the national conversation, surprisingly little talk about not accepting the winner if things don’t go your way. Sure, some Democrats joke about moving to Canada, but gauging the severity of responses on the day after is a gauzy exercise in tarot-card […]

Next week, post-election, Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli informed staff today, DC’s hometown paper will create a new Web feature that will cover “the central institution in this town, the federal government.” The Post‘s expanded coverage “will pioneer true newspaper and website collaboration at The Post,” Brauchli wrote in a memo. “We’ll combine the reportorial, […]

David Shuster is, apparently, that dude: the guy at the Halloween party–the smug-looking one, over there in the corner–who is just so above the whole thing, and who keeps informing everyone that he doesn’t do costumes, or that he’s spending the evening as, you know, “himself.” Witness the following exchange between the NBC correspondent and […]

Matt Lauer wants you to have a happy Halloween

The Corner’s Andrew Stuttaford reacts to The Economist‘s Obama endorsement: The Economist….…endorses Obama, as it did John Kerry (2004), Bill Clinton (1992) and no-one (1984, 1988). Yes, it endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980, Bob Dole in 1996 and George W Bush in 2000, but to portray this particular endorsement as an Obamacon moment seems like […]

Robert Draper, in an interview with WWD, answers the Big Question most people had after reading his revealing profile of the McCain campaign in last week’s New York Times Magazine: How did he get all that access? When I began this story in early August, the McCain campaign felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.…Though the […]

Bill Kristol guested on The Daily Show last night, giving way to a lively and rather fascinating exchange. The conversation’s general takeaway: that partisan rhetoric–especially when it comes to the hyperbolic treatment of Obama’s so-called “association with terrorists”–is to some extent a smokescreen. STEWART: You have said about Obama that it’s fair game to talk […]

What was that you were saying yesterday, Jane, about how “it’s important for reporters to refrain from parlaying details from the election’s last week into a more speculative, and ultimately less responsible narrative of Palin’s future trajectory?” “ABC Jumps the Gun on Palin 2012.”

Salon’s Rebecca Traister observes that “several female newscasters…have kicked ass, taken names and otherwise owned the coverage of the 2008 election.” Writes Traister: [I]f 2004 was widely touted as Jon Stewart’s career-making election, then it would be more than plausible to call this year Katie Couric’s (for her eye-crossing serialized interview with Sarah Palin and […]