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Swing States Project
For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers
May 15, 2012 06:50 AMWhen Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign last month, the former Pennsylvania senator all but sealed Mitt Romney’s easy victory in the state’s April 24 primary. Santorum also dashed the expectations of his home state’s broadcasters, who... Continue reading
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The Kicker
So you think you can dance?
May 11, 2012 11:56 AMSarah Tressler, the Houston Chronicle society reporter who was fired in March shortly after the Houston Press exposed she also moonlighted as a stripper at Houston’s high-end gentlemen clubs—and blogged about it under the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/angrystripper"... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Nikki Haley Strikes a Pose
April 26, 2012 11:09 AMThe intersecting sliver of the “Tea Party”-“Vogue” Venn diagram would seem to be a razor-thin one, but the latest politician to receive characteristic puff-piece treatment from the fashion magazine is Tea Party darling (circa 2010)-turned-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Looking beyond Kony
April 20, 2012 08:59 AMIn Kenya in early March, a grenade blast linked to the terrorist group Al-Shabaab killed six people and injured 63. Despite the isolated nature of the incident, CNN International reported the story as if the violence were widespread; on the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Freelancers on the Front Lines
April 17, 2012 12:06 PMIt was almost one year ago that photojournalist and Restrepo director Sebastian Junger lost his good friend and colleague, Tim Hetherington, to a shrapnel wound suffered while covering the conflict in Libya. Photojournalist Chris Hondros was also killed, and two... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The AOL-HuffPost Show: Who’s Really in Control?
April 11, 2012 12:10 PMLast Thursday, The New York Times ran a story titled “Huffington Gains More Control in AOL Revamping.” Later that day, Business Insider challenged that account, blogging: “Actually, Arianna Huffington Has Been Demoted.” By Friday morning,... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Romney, BuzzFeed, and that “Hidden” Op-Ed
March 21, 2012 12:05 PMIt was four o’clock on a Friday afternoon when BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, a 22-year old student at St. John’s College, made a serendipitous discovery. Kaczynski, who has already generated a lot of buzz this election season... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
When JFK made Santorum sick
March 6, 2012 01:48 PMIt has been more than a week since Rick Santorum went on the Sunday talk circuit and made news by saying that John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech about his religion made him want to “throw up.” But... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Romney and the “Mormon Moment”
March 2, 2012 04:41 PMMore than once this election cycle, it has been declared “The Mormon Moment.” Look no further than Broadway (The Book of Mormon is a hit) or television (Big Love and Sister Wives, about the polygamous lives... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Why We Love The Political Gabfest
February 17, 2012 04:24 PMIt was a little before five last Wednesday evening when the “tall Mormon” walked into Antarctica, a bar in lower Manhattan (“where the drinks are big and the memories are short”). “Oh, you’re the tall guy,” David Plotz, Slate magazine’s... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Mitt Romney’s Soul: The Search is On
February 10, 2012 10:35 AMMitt Romney is: A phony An Eagle Scout The Dad who’s never home The man you want to marry but not the kind of man who... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Pew on Gingrich’s Receding Storyline
February 7, 2012 10:06 AMLast week, I wrote about the trend in political reporters confessing their bias for an exciting, close primary race; a few of them accordingly professed the media’s affection for Newt Gingrich, whose colorful, unconventional candidacy—propelled by bombast and... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Dana Milbank Was Right
February 2, 2012 03:27 PMEarlier today, I posted this story about the number of political journalists who have recently admitted to having a “rooting interest” in the Republican primary—favoring an extended campaign, and specifically an extended campaign involving Newt Gingrich. I... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Rooting for the Race
February 2, 2012 12:29 PMIn a column earlier this week, The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank penned a public love letter—to Newt Gingrich. Taking on the mantle of spurned lover for the entire political press corps, Milbank pleaded with the candidate who loves... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
Edsall: ‘Newt Gingrich’s History is Fair Game’
January 27, 2012 06:00 AMLast week, at CNN’s “First in the South” debate in Charleston, Newt Gingrich ripped into moderator John King for beginning the debate with a question about allegations made by Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne, that he had asked her... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Voters to Press: Tell Us Where the Candidates Stand
January 25, 2012 03:43 PMOne of the main media frames for the 2012 presidential campaign is the way in which media frames are changing. And they are, too—but not all of them. Plenty of stories have been written—including here <a... Continue reading
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The Kicker
About that Univision debate boycott …
January 25, 2012 02:14 PMRemember that ugly incident back in October when Republican candidates Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum pledged to boycott Univision’s Republican debate? (We reported the back story here). Funny,... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
Newt Gingrich, Media Critic
January 23, 2012 06:00 AMCOLUMBIA, S.C. — All campaign long, Newt Gingrich has been known to knock the media, but at his victory party Saturday night in Columbia, having won the South Carolina primary... Continue reading
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Swing States Project
What I Saw at the South Carolina Debate
January 20, 2012 03:12 PMSOUTH CAROLINA — The campaign media horde congregated in Charleston Thursday night for the Republican presidential debate, eagerly billed by host network CNN as the “First in the South.” I was there, too—not for the debate, but for the horde.... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
A Day in the Life of South Carolina’s ‘Sic Willie’
January 20, 2012 06:00 AMSOUTH CAROLINA — On most days, you will find Will Folks, aka “Sic Willie”—South Carolina’s blogger provacateur, the prolific force behind FITSNews.com and that Nikki Haley story—where you’d least expect... Continue reading
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The Audit Business
- Audit notes: Commercialization, GM and Facebook, Saverin’s taxes
- For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal
The Observatory Science
- Attachment parenting, detached debate Time’s titillating cover overshadows article’s substance
- The ice melt cometh But flawless coverage about happenings in Antarctica has been rare
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- Health costs: Is Mass. the only model? What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)
- For TV, campaigns create big winners, (relative) losers Political ads may not be all “gravy” for local stations—but they’re still an awfully good deal
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