Dan Balz

Behind The 2012 News (And Noise) Cycle

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 02.07.2012

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Last week, Jon Ralston, a veteran Las Vegas Sun columnist, dared reporters to ignore Donald Trump's unveiling of his presidential endorsement -- with ...

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Media Awards Romney New Hampshire Victory Before Votes Counted

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.11.2012

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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Politico's Mike Allen sounded a bit existential Monday night during a media panel at Saint Anselm College. "Why are we here?" he a...

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Political Reporters Caught In Iowa Media Crush

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 01.03.2012

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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Following days of saturation caucus coverage, Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz was reminded Monday of a fortune cookie...

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Washington Post Looks Back To Improve Future

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.20.2011

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NEW YORK -- The Washington Post newsroom has changed dramatically in recent years, with hundreds of staffers leaving in a series of buyouts and numero...

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Team Obama Hits The Airwaves

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.09.2011

NEW YORK -- Two top campaign advisers to President Barack Obama hit the media circuit this week to help shape a general election narrative against pot...

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Why Mitt Romney's Bypassing National Media

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 12.30.2011

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NEW YORK -- When a group of national political reporters arrived at Mitt Romney's New Hampshire summer house in July 2010 for an off-the-record barbec...

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Exclusive: Washington Post's Dan Balz In Talks With Reuters

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 08.24.2011

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Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz is considering leaving the paper after more than three decades on staff. Balz is currently in talks wit...

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Violent Rhetoric and Media False Balance

Peter Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yes, there are people who called Bush a "modern Hitler," or believed he had some role in the 9/11 attacks. Those people are generally not given talkshows, and cannot be found in positions of power in the Democratic Party.

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Why hasn't Hickenlooper touted Bennet more? (VIDEO)

Kelly Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, maybe there was little to be gained by Hickenlooper, who's running for governor of Colorado, making an endorsement in a contested Democratic Senate primary. But that didn't stop the ENTIRE Democratic Colorado congressional delegation from backing Bennet.

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Misleading Denver Post Story Spreads to Washington Post

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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A March 28 Denver Post article included a misleading anecdote that unfortunately has now spread to the Washington Post.

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Washington Post: Colorado Indicative Of Democrats' National Struggles

Dan Balz | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER In 2008, Colorado became a symbol of the changing politics in a region once firmly in Republican hands -- and also of the grass-roots power an...

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The "Government Take-Over" Isn't About the Public Option

Richard Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even if the public option weren't part of the Obama reform plan, the Right would still be screaming about a "government take-over" as loudly as it is now.

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Dan Balz: Pelosi's Comments Raise Interrogation Debate to New Level

Washington Post | Dan Balz | Posted 05.25.2011

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But in attempting to defend herself, Pelosi took the remarkable step of trying to shift the focus of blame to the CIA and the Bush administration, cla...

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The Torture Moment

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks.

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Publishers Racing To Deliver Election Books

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that President-elect Barack Obama has won the election, the race is already under way among book publishers to examine the historic campaign. Pol...

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Sunday Watch 10-12-08: In Which False Equivalency Struts Its Fraudulent Stuff

Todd Gitlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Once again, Brokaw's round table was a liberal-free zone. He concluded with the idiotic prediction game, John McLaughlin's gift to the game-show-as-phony-sophistication genre.

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Advice for Obama: Listen to Mark Twain

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The problem with the word "change" is that it's soft and vague -- and that's how too many blue collar and undecided voters perceive Obama.

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