Campaign Coverage

Lipschtick and Pigs

Mary Lyon | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Lipstick, Palin Fact Check, Republican Convention, 2008 Campaign Coverage, Sarah Palin, Campaign Coverage, Mccain Fact Check, Campaign Coverage Faults, John McCain, Politics News

Amazing what a difference a week makes. Something has changed since Sarah Palin burst into the Republican Convention and started living it up by the...

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Why Don't They Just Issue Swami Turbans at MSNBC?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Democratic Convention, Pat Buchanan, Cnn, Talking Heads, Campaign Coverage, Convention Coverage, Media News

So this is what political journalism has come to -- evidence-free, unaccountable, redfaced, shouted, demagogic cocksure mindreading.

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Historian: 2008 Press Corps Isn't The Worst Ever, Fox Is The Best

MarketWatch | Jon Friedman | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media

Read More: 2008 Press Corps, Fox News, Sean Wilentz, Campaign Coverage, Media News

In 2006, Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz wrote a cover story for Rolling Stone titled: "The Worst President in History?" The acco...

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Jeremiah Wright, Star Newsmaker

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: McCain Media, Campaign Coverage, Clinton Obama, Obama Race Speech, Hillary Clinton, Obama Wright, Media Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Media Clinton, Media News

Congratulations, Jeremiah Wright! This week you are once again the man in and/or behind the headlines, according to the Project for Excellence in Jour...

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Who Are You Calling a Tabloid?

Lara Cohen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Britney Spears, Celebrity Media, Barack Obama Reverend Wright, Angelina Jolie, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Media Coverage, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Us Weekly, Brad Pitt, Media Coverage of 2008, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Flood the Zone, The HIlls, Celebrity Journalism, Reverend Wright, Campaign Coverage, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media News

At Us Weekly we know that every celebrity breakup has two sides -- yet the news media failed to apply that same basic due diligence to the Wright story.

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Cost-Cutting Papers No Longer Shadowing Candidates Full-Time On The Trail

New York Times | JACQUES STEINBERG | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Newspapers, Campaign Coverage, Media, Barack Obama, Media News

As Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama debated in Cleveland on a snowy evening in late February, 650 journalists descended on the city to...

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In Week Of Iraq War Anniversary, Obama's Race Speech Dominated Media Coverage

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Media Coverage, Campaign Coverage, Hillary Clinton, Obama Race Speech, U.S. Economy, Media News

Last week was a big one for news: On Monday, the markets opened to news that Bear Stearns had collapsed and was being bought out by JP Morgan; on Tues...

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Framing MLK And LBJ

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Rights Act, Primary, Framing, 1964, Civil Rights, Mlk, Campaign Coverage, Racial, Campaign, Media, Race, 2008 Election, 08 Elections, Barack Obama, Dreamer, Racial Politics, Primaries, Martin Luther King, Lbj, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Race Card, Politics News

King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.

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Friday Talking Points [14]

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fisa, Campaign Coverage, Legacy, Campaign, Media, Auschwitz, Peace, 08 Elections, Telecom, Bush, Primaries, 2008, Middle East, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Heck of a Job, Peace Process, Primary, Party of Ideas, Democrat, Congress, 2008 Elections, 08, Approval Rating, Democrats, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, 08 Election, New Hampshire Primary, Mddotw, Wiretapping, Schip, Wiretap, Hillary Clinton, Aclu, Fbi, Warrantless, Incompetence, Politics News

Time for another fun round of Democratic talking points for the weekend ahead! After a hiatus for the year-end awards, and then a special "all electi...

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Do Journalists Allow Campaigns To Perpetuate Negative Storylines?

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 12.17.2007 | Media

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Campaign Coverage, Campaign Coverage Faults, Political Coverage, Media News

Memo to political reporters: Enough already. Is it really necessary to allow operatives from one campaign to attack another candidate without their n...

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Two Media Myths of Campaign Coverage Debunked

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media

Read More: Legitimate Candidates, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Media Myths, Media Coverage, Campaign Coverage, Donations, Fundraising, Fringe Candidates, John McCain, Ron Paul Fundraising, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Media News

There is far more "fringe candidate" bias in the media than there is liberal or conservative bias. Once the media decides you're a fringe candidate, you better create miracles to overcome that.

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NYTimes Fails To Examine Mitt's Record

Zephyr Teachout | Posted 12.02.2007 | Home

Read More: New York Times, Horse Race, Mitt Romney, Huffington Post's OffTheBus, Huffington Post Offthebus, Political Journalism, Campaign Coverage, Campaign Coverage Faults, 2008 Election, Home News

If a citizen chose to use the New York Times as its source for learning about whether or not to support Governor Romney, she would be disappointed.

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Democrats Hating Democrats: How Al Gore Was Reviled Before He Was Beatified

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Coverage of Gore, Campaign 2000, Maureen Dowd, Al Gore, Media Bias, John Kerry, Campaign Coverage, Politics News

Gore today is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, beloved of most progressives, most everywhere. The question is, did Gore change, or did we? Was the portrait of Gore-the-Bore true at the time?

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Dems Dancing To GOP & Media's Song...

Martin Lewis | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Presidential Race, Media Bias, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Campaign Coverage, Politics News

The Democratic candidates are being goaded by media pundits to claw at each other instead of taking on the true enemy.

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The Cafferty Fool Wrongly Assails John Edwards

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.30.2007 | Media

Read More: Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer, Cnn, John Edwards, Campaign Coverage, Cafferty's Commentary on Edwards, Edwards Campaign Fundraising, Jack Cafferty, Media News

Why does Cafferty assail Edwards for trying to level the playing field and removing the "For Sale" sign from the White House?

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