ANALYSIS
Incoming White House chief of staff Emanuel leaves trail of mangling idiom
Politico Nov 11, 08 4:07 PM CST
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Now that Rahm Emanuel is back in the spotlight, political junkies can look forward to more of his malapropisms, Politico reports. Emanuel is affectionately remembered from his first White House stint as an inveterate phrase-mangler. When the President-elect’s chief of staff appeared on Face the Nation on Sunday, he talked of “crises you can no longer afford to kick down the can.”
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ABC's Gibson
gets first shot at
grilling McCain's
running mate
Chicago Tribune Sep 8, 08 1:58 AM CDT
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Sarah Palin will sit for her first press interview since accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination, reports the Chicago Tribune . She'll be interviewed by ABC anchor Charlie Gibson in Alaska later this week. The McCain camp has kept Palin from the press so far, calling its coverage of the Alaska governor sexist and intrusive.
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OPINION
Mainstream media, not knowing what to do, fumbled reportage
Washington Post Aug 11, 08 3:24 PM CDT
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The mainstream media found itself in an awkward bind when evidence of John Edwards' affair began trickling in, writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post . Why such a half-hearted effort to confirm the story? Kurtz doesn't think the liberal bias charge holds up and says sympathy for Elizabeth Edwards, disdain for the National Enquirer , and even staff cutbacks for such investigations played bigger roles.
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OPINION
General-election voters want answers, not just a clean suit
Slate Jul 30, 08 7:55 PM CDT
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Barack Obama has admitted that all politicians have a “reptilian side,” but the candidate’s slipperiness is so well-cloaked by his affable persona that he must be the “koala of iguanas,” Jack Shafer writes for Slate. Nothing sticks to Obama in part because he has anticipated all attacks and pre-admitted his mistakes, as far back as his book, Dreams From My Father .
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Acutely aware of scrutiny, campaign takes control of image
New York Times Jun 19, 08 8:37 AM CDT
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As Barack Obama's campaign transitions from Democratic frontrunner to nominee, his team is ratcheting down control over the candidate's public image and media access to him. But yesterday's revelation that Obama campaign volunteers prohibited two Muslim women wearing headscarves from sitting behind him at a rally underscores the challenges facing the nation's first black nominee, writes the New York Times .
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ANALYSIS
Clinton's crowing over W. Va. falls in deaf ears among punditry
Politico May 14, 08 6:54 PM CDT
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Hillary Clinton can crow all she wants about West Virginia, but the media won't hear. “This may be the first time in election history,” Roger Simon writes on Politico, “in which the press has withdrawn from a race before the candidate.” Barack Obama was off campaigning in Missouri—a state he already won—and the media agreed with him: The primaries are over.
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What bloggers, media outlets put online creates friction with pro leagues
New York Times Apr 21, 08 9:40 AM CDT
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As bloggers multiply and media outlets aim to put more audio, video and photo content on their websites, tensions mount with professional sports leagues. Leagues argue that outlets making such content widely available steps on the toes of the broadcasters who have paid to present games—but, the New York Times reports, limiting the media's scope might impinge on free speech.
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OPINION
TV critic decries 'new—and wrinkle-free!—elephant in the living room'
Los Angeles Times Apr 14, 08 2:07 PM CDT
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Cosmetic surgery is out of control, TV critic Mary McNamara contends in the Los Angeles Times , and it's time to break the taboo of talking about it in mainstream criticism. TV reviews shouldn’t descend into blogospheric dissections of cosmetic work, but obvious surgery not connected to an actor’s role “can affect not only their performance but the whole tone of the show.”
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Sudden drops in polls make for bumpy rides, 'flight attendant'
Clinton warns press
CBS Jan 17, 08 7:49 AM CST
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Hillary Clinton played flight attendant yesterday as she inaugurated her new campaign jet, dubbed "Hill Force One." The candidate traded up to a chartered Boeing 737 from a small jet, and had a little fun with the press corps on board. "I am going to switch off the 'Fasten Your Seat Belt' sign. However, I've learned that things can get awfully bumpy," she quipped into the mike.
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Forget liberal bias, the press likes their politicians Machiavellian
PressThink Aug 14, 07 5:00 PM CDT
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What people don't understand about the press, Jay Rosen writes, is that reporters care less about ideology than they do about being savvy—"shrewd, practical, well-informed, perceptive, ironic, unseminental." That's what they aspire to, that's what they worship; it's their religion, if you will. Karl Rove is all those things.
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The McCanns refuse interviews, questions
Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 12, 07 10:03 PM CDT
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The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are at the center of a bitter war with the Portuguese press and the residents of Praia del Luz, the town where their daughter disappeared over 100 days ago. Kate and Gerry McCann, both doctors, have stirred the ire of local reporters by refusing to answer questions about that night.
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How service will protect against pranksters is unknown
Ars Technica Aug 8, 07 9:54 PM CDT
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People who want to talk back to the press received a major invitation from Google News yesterday when it announced a plan to post user comments alongside links to news articles, ars technica reports. But only people and groups specifically mentioned in the articles will be allowed into Google’s new peanut gallery, which will open its doors later in this week.
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The tale of two papers and
the Sunni insurgency
IraqSlogger Jun 1, 07 10:05 AM CDT
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It definitely is the worst of times in Iraq, the New York Times and the Washington Post seem to agree, but today, the nation's most prestigious dailies differed on the details. One fact is indisputable: Sunni insurgents clashed in Baghdad's Amiriya district this week, but the papers disagree on the cause of the fighting and whether US forces were involved.
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Freelance journalists hired by citizens stay one step ahead of censors
Washington Post May 2, 07 2:38 PM CDT
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A new breed of journalist is evolving out of China’s censored media: the web-based hired gun. The Washington Post reports on freelance muckrakers who investigate corruption the mainstream press can't touch and post the results on their sites. They're paid—if meagerly—by the aggrieved parties.
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Washington Post Mar 28, 07 7:53 AM CDT
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White House press secretary Tony Snow has cancer again, and this time it's spread to his liver. Doctors discovered the recurrence when they removed a growth from his lower abdomen yesterday. Snow, who's 51, underwent surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer two years ago.
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Scooter Libby: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
Vanity Fair Mar 18, 07 8:43 PM CDT
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Michael Wolff attends the trial of Scooter Libby, concluding that Cheney's factotum was hung, drawn, and quartered because he failed to do well what Republicans have always (until now) done well: PR.
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