Vintage Palin press umbrage from the last frontier

Today The Politico issued a press release announcing its post election plans. Bottom line? They plan to grow, not shrink, after November 4, with more print editions, at least 15 new staffers, and expanded coverage of the executive branch. To read CJR’s convention interview with Politico editor in chief John Harris, where he presaged some […]

A fact check gone wrong

I missed the Todd Palin broadcast debut, but as Megan and Liz have pointed out, that’s no great loss. For a flavor of the interview (which didn’t include a single question on Sarah Palin’s questionable firing of the state’s public safety commissioner, an issue that, by all indications, Todd was well involved in) you could […]

Ben Smith has posted the full pool report from Joe Biden’s visit yesterday to the Football Hall of Fame, written by Perry Bacon of the Washington Post. It’s a fun read, as it describes one of those moments where running for national office (and covering the person running) really seem fun. It’s almost a novella. […]

In a year of viral video, here’s a new one where independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader bemoans the lack of press attention that his campaign (and his issues) are getting by somberly commiserating with a parrot, and wondering to what depths he may have to stoop. It’s a worthy question, deserving of a more serious […]

Politico‘s Jonathan Martin describes the trials of the Palin press: Since being selected a John McCain’s running mate on Aug. 29, Sarah Palin has yet to hold a single news conference or take any questions from reporters beyond one network interview and a chat with People magazine. Reporters travelling with Palin see her only when […]

This morning, The New York Times’s Kate Zernike turns in a sillily even-handed paint-by-the-numbers story (“Both Sides Seeking to Be What Women Want”) on the Obama and McCain campaign’s outreach to women. Both campaigns would like to have the support of women. It’s a close election, in case you haven’t heard. They’d also like to […]

Wall Street brinkmanship. It’s the metaphor that journalists and scotch-swilling brokers use to transubstantiate dollars and cents into bullets and bluster. So this morning, making my way through The New York Times excellent crisis coverage, it shouldn’t have been too surprising to see two metaphors for Uncle Sam and the money-men’s actions that evoke a […]

Interesting thought from Zephyr Teachout, one time Dean campaign web guru, current techPresident blogger: …post-modern political reporters and bloggers act as hack theater critics, judging performances not by how they as individuals respond, but by how they believe the mythical “american people,” “independent voters,” and “women” (and most bizarrely “the media”) will respond. The standard […]