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  • July 2008

    • McCain Jab on War Most 'Scurrilous' in Memory: Klein

      newser  |  Time  |  Jul 23, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      McCain Jab on War Most 'Scurrilous' in Memory: Klein

      John McCain’s latest jab at Barack Obama—“It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign”–stuns Joe Klein, who writes in Time that the Republican’s Iraq claim is the most “scurrilous statement by a major party candidate” he’s heard in nine elections. “It smacks of desperation,” Klein says. “How sad.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • troop surge  • Iraq exit strategy  • negative campaigning  • media bias

    • European Demands Vex Obama Camp

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Jul 23, 08 3:30 PM CDT

      European Demands Vex Obama Camp

      Barack Obama’s campaign is frustrated that his Berlin visit tomorrow is being over-analyzed, Der Spiegel reports—with Europeans complaining that he’s giving a mere stump speech, or that his address might lack substance. Obama is dropping in to outline his vision for trans-Atlantic alliances—he’s expected to give some tough love—and his people say they don’t appreciate the guff. More »

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      Barack Obama  • European Union  • foreign policy  • Berlin  • media bias  • Brussels

    • Ripping Media on One Hand, Mac Says It's 'Fun to Watch'

      newser  |  Huffington Post  |  Jul 23, 08 2:34 PM CDT

      Ripping Media on One Hand, Mac Says It's 'Fun to Watch'

      Yesterday, as his campaign released an ad mocking the press corps’ affection for Barack Obama—and handed out press credentials rubbing it in—John McCain said the opposite to CBS’ Katie Couric. Mac “doesn’t think” the media has been unfair: “I'm certainly not complaining. And, in fact, I think it’s fun to watch." Observes Rachel Weiner on the Huffington Post, “so much for message discipline.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • France  • Katie Couric  • media bias  • contradiction

    • Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT

      Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential

      The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get,  Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David Petraeus. But there is also an element of arrogance in the trip. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Iraq  • John McCain  • Israel  • Iraq exit strategy  • foreign policy  • Jordan  • media bias  • American media

    • McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Jul 22, 08 7:14 PM CDT

      McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama

      The McCain campaign debuted an Internet video today it says documents the press corps’ one-sided swoon over Barack Obama, ABC News reports. Set to music, the video features on-air personalities—MSNBC's Chris Matthews is among those featured prominently—offering adoring sentiments about Obama. It also airs Democratic-primary complaints from top Hillary Clinton backers who charged a similar bias. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • John McCain  • media bias  • Chris Matthews  • campaign press corps

  • June 2008

    • Olbermann to Media: 'Shut the Hell Up'

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Jun 16, 08 1:42 PM CDT

      Olbermann to Media: 'Shut the Hell Up'

      Keith Olbermann has always been mad as hell, and a parade of ex-colleagues tell the New Yorker they just couldn't take it anymore. The O'Reilly-pummeling, Murrow-channeling ex-sportscaster host of MSNBC's Countdown has consistently alienated both co-workers and higher-ups with the same brusque combativeness he applies nightly to the Bush administration. More »

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      Tim Russert  • MSNBC  • media bias  • Brian Williams  • NBC News  • Keith Olbermann

  • May 2008

    • CNN Reporter: Corp. Execs Pushed Media to Play Up War

      newser  |  Salon  |  May 29, 08 9:58 AM CDT

      CNN Reporter: Corp. Execs Pushed Media to Play Up War

      CNN reporter Jessica Yellin charged on-air last night that “the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives” to present the Iraq war consistently “with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.” Responding to Scott McClellan’s complaint that reporters were too “deferential,” Yellin—who was at ABC in the war run-up—told Anderson Cooper her own pieces were edited to elevate the positive and downplay the critical. More »

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      CNN  • Scott McClellan  • media bias  • corporate execs

    • Journos Pick at McClellan Portrayal

      newser  |  Time  |  May 28, 08 3:56 PM CDT

      Journos Pick at McClellan Portrayal

      Scott McClellan writes in his memoir that “the ‘liberal media’ didn't live up to its reputation” on Iraq. “If it had, the country would have been better served.” Some insider reactions: “You know you're a wussy press corps when the former White House Press Secretary says you were too easy on him,” James Poniewozik writes in Time . He agrees many writers were worried about appearing unpatriotic in the run-up to war, but it’s “pathetic” McClellan was parroting President Bush when he knew better. More »

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      Iraq war  • media bias  • Scott McClellan

    • Hillary's Been 'Denigrated,' Says Bill; Also, I Shoulda Shut Up

      newser  |  CNN  |  May 22, 08 2:20 PM CDT

      Hillary's Been 'Denigrated,' Says Bill; Also, I Shoulda Shut Up

      Hillary Clinton has been “dismissed, denigrated, declared dead” by a press corps in her rival’s pocket, Bill dishes to People . The first spouse wannabe says bias has been such that “I thought I was literally lost in a fun house.” Still, he partly faults himself for his wife’s fortunes, CNN reports, regretting that he spoke “late at night...'cause if you are tired or angry, you shouldn’t be talking.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Chelsea Clinton  • media bias  • the race card

    • Rove: From Politics to Punditry

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 12, 08 8:22 AM CDT

      Rove: From Politics to Punditry

      To stoke interest in cutthroat election coverage, cable news networks and other outlets are recruiting political strategists with credentials and big-time party connections, the New York Times reports. One of the newest pundits? None other than Karl Rove, now an analyst for Fox News and contributor to Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal. A Newsweek editor said he hired Rove in part to “responsibly provoke.” More »

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      election 2008  • Karl Rove  • journalism  • media bias  • political strategists  • pundits  • George Stephanopoulos

    • Race Heats Up for Sunday News Anchors

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 3, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      Race Heats Up for Sunday News Anchors

      They are locked in an epic struggle for the nation's heart, the grizzled veteran versus the up-and-comer, both popular, both controversial. No, not Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Tomorrow, the real showdown is between Tim Russert, who is interviewing Obama, and George Stephanopoulos, who is interviewing Clinton at roughly the same time, the New York Times reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • media  • Tim Russert  • MSNBC  • media bias  • ABC News  • George Stephanopoulos

  • April 2008

    • Clinton Strategist Blasts 'Unfair' Obama Camp

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Apr 25, 08 2:26 PM CDT

      Clinton Strategist Blasts 'Unfair' Obama Camp

      Hillary Clinton's campaign isn't the rough one, top aide Geoff Garin writes in the Washington Post, railing against what he calls "the direct, personal character attacks that the Obama campaign has leveled against Clinton from the beginning of this race." In addition, he charges, the candidate "has joined the character assault from time to time." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • negative campaigning  • media bias

    • Pro-China Cyberattack on CNN Cancelled

      newser  |  ComputerWorld  |  Apr 20, 08 5:53 PM CDT

      Pro-China Cyberattack on CNN Cancelled

      A group of cyberattackers called off a planned virtual onslaught of CNN's main webpage yesterday as excess publicity caused confusion, ComputerWorld reports. A group called Revenge of the Flame wrote that "Our original plan for 19 April has been canceled because too many people are aware of it and the situation is chaotic," but threatened a renewed offensive sometime soon. More »

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      China  • Tibet  • hackers  • CNN  • media bias  • media coverage  • cyberattack

  • March 2008

    • Clinton's Done; Media in Denial

      newser  |  Politico  |  Mar 21, 08 5:06 PM CDT

      Clinton's Done; Media in Denial

      Barack Obama has sewn up the Democratic nomination, but the press refuses to report it, Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen contend. "Reporters and editors love a close race — it’s more fun and it’s good for business," the veteran journalists write. They crunch the numbers every which way and conclude, "Even the Clinton campaign’s own best-case scenario has her finishing behind Obama." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • superdelegates  • media bias

    • 'SNL' Staffers Not Laughing at Hillary Bias Claims

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 13, 08 1:09 PM CDT

      'SNL' Staffers Not Laughing at Hillary Bias Claims

      “Saturday Night Live” staffers are getting serious over accusations of a pro-Clinton bias, with producer Lorne Michaels telling the Los Angeles Times any perception of bias is a "major concern" and assuring “there’s no agenda.” The show’s send-up of a media crush on Barack Obama was credited by some pundits with ending the love fest—but head writer Seth Meyers says watchers are giving “SNL” too much credit. Hillary impersonator Amy Poehler says the show targets "whoever is winning." More »

    • Hill's Bad Press Rallies Women

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Mar 9, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      Hill's Bad Press Rallies Women

      The press may be ganging up on Hillary Clinton—but that’s good news for her campaign, writes Deirdre Depke in Newsweek . When women sense an affront to the senator, they come out for her in droves, as they did in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Texas. The best course for Clinton now, Depke writes, is to “stay on the sidelines while the women of America fight the battle for her.” More »

    • SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 5, 08 5:12 AM CST

      SNL May Have Triggered Tougher Scrutiny of Obama

      A Saturday Night Live sketch 10 days ago lampooning the perceived media bias favoring Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton may have changed the way Obama has been covered in the last several days, AP reports. The SNL debate skit showing starry-eyed journalists fawning over Obama echoed complaints by Clinton's supporters. In the final days before yesterday's primary, many major news organizations ran stories about the fairness issue, and some seemed to be tougher on Obama.  More »

    • Obama, Media Spar Over Coverage

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 4, 08 4:40 PM CST

      Obama, Media Spar Over Coverage

      One day after a grueling press conference, Barack Obama told reporters they were buying into flimsy grievances about media bias, the New York Times reports. “I am a little surprised that all the complaining about the refs has worked,” he said of the Clinton camp's gripes. Indeed, journalists are rethinking the fairness of their coverage, and Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo says reporting on Clinton "has often been unfair on a very fundamental level." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Canada  • media bias  • NAFTA  • Tony Rezko

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