The Kicker

Appears on Daily Show–a surefire way to get the (uncritical) attention of the campaign press. McCain talked about how, as the Democratic primary continues, he has been out there “raising money” and “doing townhall meetings,” to which Stewart replied: So that still happens, even when the news media doesn’t report? What does the news media […]

At washingtonmonthly.com, Kevin Drum is asking his readers: If you could have only one source of news in the world, what would it be? You may pick one (1) magazine, newspaper, news broadcast, radio show, blog, or newsletter. Only one. And it’s the only source of news you get. What would it be? Some of […]

Luckily, my quest for ever more juicy campaign minutiae brought me to Time‘s Swampland blog just now where I found — yes, minutiae (Last night? On Clinton’s campaign plane? Before anyone knew for sure the outcome in Indiana? Clinton’s campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe “came back to talk to the press with a glass of red […]

How The Media Works 101: Can’t Walk and Chew Gum, with Professors Chris Matthews and Tim Russert (and input from grad students/T.A.s Rachel Maddow and Dan Abrams) on MSNBC last night. MATTHEWS: Do you think [Democrats worrying about the effects of ongoing primary] are aware of the way the media works? I was explaining this […]

NBC’s Today Show this morning: “Is it over?” ABC’s Good Morning America: “End of the Road?” Front page of today’s New York Post: And then there’s the print version of today’s Wall Street Journal (damn you, early deadline!) informing readers on A-1 that: “Obama Wins N. Carolina; Indiana Too Close to Call.”

In a single exchange with Keith Olbermann last night describing Clinton’s and Obama’s primary night speeches, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews managed to invoke nearly an entire day’s worth of ninth grade parochial school classes: from biology (Clinton and Obama performing a mating dance); to religion (a “reunification ritual!”); to P.E. (Clinton, in keeping with her new […]

The Guardian reports (via Gawker): The Economist‘s bid to appeal to more youthful readers seems to be paying off after two 17-year-olds created a rap about the business title… The rap, created by US students Ike Edgerton and Chris Misa under the name Psikotic, is a tribute that includes samples of Economist journalists such as […]

Back in March, Mark Leibovich drew up for the New York Times a “Scorecard On Conventional Wisdom” this election season. Upshot: “The accuracy rate of ‘conventional wisdom’ in this presidential election has plummeted to new lows.” Today, Mary Anne Ostrom writes a similar piece for the San Jose Mercury News containing a couple of annoyingly […]

Can’t get snatches of Rev. Wright’s sermons and speeches out of your head? The Project for Excellence in Journalism explains why with its News Coverage Index for April 28-May 4 (emphasis mine): In a number of recent presidential campaigns, someone or something has emerged from obscurity to become a household word and an integral part […]

On Imus in the Morning yesterday, Tim Russert supplied an answer to that question — bubbling online and, yesterday, on the New York Times‘ op-ed page — given WrightGate, where is HageeGate? You know, not that it’s an apples-to-apples comparison (Obama’s relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and McCain’s relationship with Rev. John Hagee) but why […]

The New York Times‘ veteran political reporter, Adam Nagourney, summons his expertise to tip readers to “three possible outcomes to watch for Tuesday:” 1) Clinton might win Indiana and North Carolina. 2) Obama might win Indiana and North Carolina. 3) One candidate might win one state while the other candidate wins the other. You know, […]

If you, too, are experiencing Dowd dread, expand your op-ed horizons by checking out the Council on Foreign Relations new daily roundup of opinion pages from English-language newspapers around the world. For example, the roundup links to an editorial in today’s (UK) Telegraph which reads: After Mr Obama’s relaxed and confident performance on American television […]

If all I thought I did in my career was to help rich people decide where to eat, I’d be sad. I thought of this yesterday — a paraphrase of something that Ruth Reichl, the onetime New York Times restaurant critic, said during a profile of her running on NY1 News (“NYC’s 24-hour news channel”). […]

From the latest New York Times/CBS News poll (not to distract you from all of its WrightGate-related findings and the real news that “Obama Survives Furor,” but): “Compared with the way the news media have treated other candidates, have the news media been harder on Hillary Clinton, easier on Hillary Clinton, or have they treated […]

It’s been an incredibly long campaign…even for those of us in journalism…it’s like one of those long bus rides home from the beach in a too-tight bathing suit. It just goes on and on and on… Dan Rather’s digest of the 2008 presidential campaign on The Chris Matthews Show yesterday.