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Influential Liberal Magazine May Close

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: The Backstory, Robert Kuttner, Ezra Klein, Kit Rachlis, Harold Meyerson, Josh Marshall, The American Prospect, Matt Yglesias, American Prospect, Paul Starr, Magazines, Media News

The American Prospect, an influential liberal politics and policy magazine, could shut its doors at the end of May unless the nonprofit publication ra...

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Gingrich Loses the Media Primary

Dan Kennedy | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Florida, John Ellis, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, John Dickerson, Hugh Hewitt, Mitt Romney, Dana Milbank, Newt Gingrich, Jonathan Bernstein, Scot Lehigh, Republican Primary, Boston Globe, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Buzzfeed, Tim Pawlenty, Rick Perry, Josh Marshall, Casey Anthony, Debates, John Heilemann, Ed Kilgore, Media News
Dan Kennedy

The rough media consensus today is that the Republican contest is, in fact, over. Gingrich is described not so much as a serious contender for the Republican nomination as he is an impediment to Romney's need to unify the party and focus on Barack Obama.

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Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias

Ari Melber | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Jon Heilemann, Deficit, Eugene Robinson, Jay Rosen, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, Jon Stewart, Harrry Reid, Krugman, Josh Marshall, Media News
Ari Melber

The increasingly disorderly fight over raising the debt ceiling has not only exposed the petty dysfunctions of the US Congress, it has also revealed a core failure of American political journalism.

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You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Our Town, Immigration Reform, South Pacific, Entertainment, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Race, New York, Thornton Wilder, Ground Zero Mosque, Arts, Politics News
Michael Winship

As citizens of the nation continue through the summer, distracting themselves by howling at the moon and one another, I spent this past weekend in Manhattan seeing revivals of two classic period pieces of American theater.

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Why McChrystal is a Gift to Obama (as Well as a "Teachable Moment")

John Odum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: McChrystal Rolling Stone, General Stanley McChrystal, Josh Marshall, President Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Politics News
John Odum

Expectations for decisive action by this President have steadily eroded. With today's news, Mr. Obama has stopped that slide among many -- and all thanks to a freebie.

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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Bloggers, Roy Sekoff, Matt Drudge, Josh Marshall, Arianna Huffington, Danny Shea, Robert Quigley, Mediaite, Ryan Tate, Hot Air, Gawker Media, Top Blogger List, Key Bloggers, Kanye West, Top Bloggers List, The Huffington Post, Need to Know Bloggers, Scott Lamb, Nick Denton, Joe Coscarelli, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Influential Bloggers, Michelle Malkin, Top 25 Bloggers, John Cook, Tom Scocca, Copyranter, The Hidden Hand, Mark Copyranter, Amanda Dobbins, AllahPundit, Rihanna, Emily Gould, 25 Most Underrated Bloggers, Abram Sauer, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Fred Mwangaguhunga, Jack Shepherd, Best Bloggers List, Media Take Out, Top Bloggers, Gawker, Part 1, Peggy Wang, Best Bloggers, Allah Pundit, 25 Need to Know Bloggers, Buzzfeed, Media News
Rachel Sklar

Remember when the web used to be about following links to someone's cool blogspot site? Now it's all about the world of ultra-ultra-niche or the secret gems that the big sites troll daily for their unique takes.

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President Obama Loses His Base: He Just Ran Out of Slack

Tom Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Matt Taibbi, Chuck Todd, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care Reform, Josh Marshall, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

The media was quick to declare the Obama honeymoon over this summer. Yet supporters exhilarated by Obama's win in November 2008 were still willing to cut him slack. That slack just ran out.

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Obama Has Off-The-Record Lunch With Journalists At White House

Politico | Posted by Michael Calderone 03:13 PM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Rosenthal, Jon Meacham, Cynthia Tucker, David Gergen, Mara Liasson, Howard Fineman, David Brooks, Mike Allen, Obama Journalists, Josh Marshall, Obama Journalists Lunch, Chris Cillizza, Gail Collins, Media News

The attendees for Friday's lunch were as follows: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Howard Fineman, the...

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WashTimes and Fox News Now Unleashing Mobs On Private Citizens (Including Kids)

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erick Erickson, Redstate, Fox News, Josh Marshall, Michelle Malkin, Talking Points Memo, Washington Times, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The conservative movement has become a mindless mob, and the right-wing media, more and more often, are sending their overeager foot soldiers out on seek-and-destroy missions involving private citizens.

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How Progressive Groupthink Hindered Health Reform

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ezra Klein, Rahm Emanuel, Max Baucus, Paul Krugman, Josh Marshall, Health Reform, Barack Obama, Joan Walsh, Mandates, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

How could the president get the idea that an individual mandate, especially without a public option, was a "goody" for progressives?

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Summer's State of the Union: SCOTUS, Politico & Bruno Bring the Heat

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruno, Ted Johnson, Josh Marshall, Politico, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Arianna Huffington, Wilshire and Washington, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Nobody, especially Sotomayor, is really going to say anything new or dramatic, so can we skip it? No? D'oh! A wise Latina might let us, but we all know how the Republicans feel about them.

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Jason Linkins

Stephen Colbert Demands To Know Why TPM's Josh Marshall Is Not Wearing Bathrobe (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Print Media, Joshua Marshall, Video, Media Criticism, Stephen Colbert, Josh Marshall, The Colbert Report, Talking Points Memo, Eat the Press, Media News

Marshall predicted, jokingly, that TPM would eventually "beat [the New York Times] down." In Colbertian terms, the Times is on Marshall's "on notice" board, but not yet on the "dead to me" list.

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Think Again: Blogosphere to Mainstream Media: Get Off the Bus (and Walk a Mile in Our Shoes)

Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Murray Waas, Bob Woodward, Jay Rosen, Tpm, Bloggers, Sarah Palin, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Eric Boehlert, Washington Post, Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, Alaska, 2008 Election, Greg Sargent, Media News
Eric Alterman

Dowd's accident is yet another sign of how traditional media outlets are increasingly (and to their credit) taking cues from the reporters and commentators that populate the blogosphere.

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Josh Marshall: "I Appreciated" Maureen Dowd's Quick Correction

TPM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Maureen Dowd Plagiarize, Josh Marshall, Maureen Dowd Plagiarism, Maureen Dowd Josh Marshall, Media News

Whatever the mechanics of how it happened, I never thought it was intentional. Dowd and the Times quickly corrected it, which I appreciated....

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Jason Linkins

Dowd Returns To Form In Josh Marshall-Free Column

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Josh Marshall, Maureen Dowd Plagiarize, Maureen Dowd Plagiarism, Maureen Dowd, Donald Rumsfeld, Eat the Press, Media News

One of the ironic things about Maureen Dowd's last, infamous column is that at first glance, people were struck by the sudden emergence of intelligenc...

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Maureen Dowd Is All in Your Head

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plagarism, Newspaper Columnists, New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Talking Points Memo, Michael Wolff, Josh Marshall, Media News
Michael Wolff

Here's the most boring question I've been asked in the last 24 hours: What do you think of Maureen Dowd's plagiarism? Here's the most boring question I'm regularly asked: What do you think of Maureen Dowd?

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What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Blogging, Bloggers, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

I see this latest scandal as a cry for help from Dowd. She's trying to tell us, and her bosses at The New York Times, something very important.

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Say It Ain't So, MoDo

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Plagiarism, New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, Maureen-Dowd-Plagiarism, Newspapers, Maureen Dowd Plagiarize, Media News
John McQuaid

Assuming Dowd's explanation is true, and she's soliciting input from friends and cutting and pasting it into columns, that's worse in some ways than cribbing from published work.

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Once Again, Real Journalism From Comedy Central (VIDEO)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Nickolas

Leave it to Comedy Central -- this time Stephen Colbert -- to do the traditional media's job in exposing the fanatical charlatans like Glenn Beck.

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Sam Stein

Dems Fear Bush Will Tie Obama's Hands On TARP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Banks Money, Trouble Asset Releif Program, Financial Firms, Josh Marshall, TARP Money, Bush Money, Barney Frank, Politics News

There is increasingly anxiety among members of Congress and fiscal watchdogs over the handling of the Troubled Asset Relief Program by the Bush admini...

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Gumbo Granny Blogs From the Bayou for Obama

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Grandmere, Wounded Bird, Southern Culture, Recovery, Louisiana, Hurricanes, Sugar Cane, Obama, Grandmothers, Sugar, Bayou, Gay Rights, Thibodaux, Cajuns, Zydeco, Raceland, Obama Bloggers, Barack Obama, Obama Louisiana, Bloggers Obama, Josh Marshall, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

What you hear again and again here in South Louisiana is that no one has the TIME to work on campaigning. Most families are still recovering from thre...

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Sam Stein

Noonan, York, Toobin And Others Take Aim At McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama, Byron York, Mccain Ailments, Sarah Palin, Josh Marshall, Jeffrey Toobin, Time Warner Panel, Election 2008, McCain Palin, Peggy Noonan, Politics News

With 22 days left before the voters hit the polls, conservative pundits and media commentators are scratching their heads over the lack of direction -...

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Reading The Pictures: The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Marshall, John McCain, RNC 08, Christian Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-09-04-shaw1.jpg As uncomfortable and inappropriate as it feels, the drama surrounding the Palin family -- especially on the visual plane -- has become very much a political issue.

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Does Josh Marshall Believe In New Media?

Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Old Media vs. New Media, Michael Kinsley, Media News
Bart Motes

In a typically astute post about the McCain camp's crocodile tears over Sarah Palin's post-facto media vetting, Josh Marshall observes that for all th...

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Karl Rove Channels Maureen Dowd

John McQuaid | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maureen Dowd, Josh Marshall, Karl Rove, Barack Obama, 2008 Election, Politics News
John McQuaid

Say what you will about the chattering classes' inane regard for the alleged genius of Karl Rove -- it's obvious now he was a disaster for the nation and for not one but two political parties.

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