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News Orgs Resist Romney Campaign Deciding Press Pool Members

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.02.2012

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NEW YORK -- News organizations pushed back Wednesday after Mitt Romney's campaign decided the website BuzzFeed should be excluded from a rotating pres...

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11 Pop Culture Blogs Who Could Hire Journalists

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 12.12.2011

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The announcement that BuzzFeed hired POLITICO journalist Ben Smith in the new position of editor-in-chief shocked many in the media world. After all, ...

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Star Politico Writer Makes Surprising Jump

politico.com | 12/12/11 12:56 AM EST | Posted 02.11.2012

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After nearly five years of blogging in this space, and seven years of writing a political blog every day, I have a bit of self-referential media news:...

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Experts: Latino Voters Don’t Care About Immigration As Much As Politicians Think

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 12.04.2011

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“I don’t care about immigration – I just don’t,” said Chiqui Cartagena, VP of Corporate Marketing for Univision. The audience giggled. Thre...

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Beltway Reporters' Garters Popping In Aftermath Of Bardella Email Flap

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

On Tuesday afternoon, Kurt Bardella, a spokesman for House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), was fired after it came to light that he had sh...

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Journalists Try Avoiding Violent Language After Arizona Shooting

Yahoo! News | Michael Calderone | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the debate over political rhetoric dominating the post-Tucson media conversation, some journalists have begun pausing before reaching for well-wo...

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Newt's Park51 Stance Puts Him 'To The Right' Of Il Duce

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Smith's been digging into whether Newt Gingrich's call -- "There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches...

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What the Final Days of the Colorado Senate Race Say About the Media and the Movement

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last days of the Colorado Senate Democratic primary tell us about the Beltway media's perverse priorities -- and about a persistent strategic failure of the progressive movement.

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For Palin's Facebook Friends, It's Complicated

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Are Palin's Facebook "friends" and followers truly a constituency-in-waiting, or more of a passive media audience?

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To Heilemann, Halperin and Politico: I'll Proudly Defend Hillary Clinton, On the Record

Peter Daou | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's important to state for the record, contra Game Change or at least Politico's interpretation of the book, that if anything, Hillary's campaign let her down, not the reverse.

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GOP: This Is Your Future Calling (and Sorry, It's Brown)

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republican politicians have been guilty of using immigrants as a wedge issue for so long that they are in real danger of sacrificing their future with Latino, minority, and swing voters.

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Media Playground: Obama Calls on HuffPost, Michael Calderone Pouts, Ben Smith Calls Us Names, Dana Milbank Gets His Facts All Wrong

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was an exciting moment for new media and citizen engagement. It's a pity so many in the traditional media didn't get it. READ MORE Lobbyists on a Roll: Gutting Reform on Banking, Energy, and Health Care Remember all that change Americans voted for in November? Well, there's been a change in the plans for change. The detour has come courtesy of a familiar nemesis: DC lobbyists. READ MORE New York, New York, It's a Helluva Town... And Gets Its Own Section: Introducing HuffPost New York HuffPost New York brings you the best New York news coverage, plus a collection of bloggers eager to share their takes on everything from local politics to the city's fashion, food, and entertainment. READ MORE

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Huckabee: "Maria" Sotomayor Comes From "The Far Left"

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Huckabee was ahead of the pack today in releasing a statement criticizing President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court. ...

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Steve Schmidt, McCain Campaign Manager: 'When Lehman Collapsed...The Campaign Was Finished'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Smith reports on a joint appearance by opposing campaign gurus Steve Schmidt and David Plouffe, who gave the students of the University of Delawar...

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Rahm Emanuel's Think Tankers Enforce 'Message Discipline' Among 'Liberals'

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.

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Liberal Bloggers To White House: We're Not Stenographers

firedoglake.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Smith has an article on Common Purpose, one of the many groups Rahm Emanuel has set up to coordinate messaging among liberal interest groups. The...

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HuffPo Readers Wax Poetic in Comments

Paul Peete | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the comment section of a recent story on the Huffington Post, posters started making up limericks and poetry about the article's subject, Gov. Palin.

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Right-Wing Bloggers Leave Their Stain On The Campaign

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week was a perfect example of how the conservative blogosphere's leading lights have been demoted to ridicule, simply because their efforts have become so thoroughly laughable.

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Sarah Palin Choice: Republicans Try to Telegraph That "Murphy Brown" Has Become a Social Conservative

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Politico's Ben Smith has posted a hot mic clip of Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy trashing the McCain selection of Sarah Palin. I've been having cha...

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P.O.W., It's the New Teflon

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

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McCain has been tweaking his P.O.W. story, with some variation, for many years. For Democrats, critiquing its overuse is too little, too late.

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Carville Knocks Politico Reporter: "I Don't Know If I'd Know Ben Smith If He Fell On Me"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Carville appeared on CNN Friday night to talk with Anderson Cooper about just how behind Obama the Clintons really are. During the discussion Co...

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Personal Democracy Forum: Blogging The Thin Nerdy Line

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.

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Message Testing: Hear It For Yourself

Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Late last week, a North Carolina musician named David LaMotte received a survey call from Garin-Hart-Yang, the firm of Clinton pollster Geoff Garin. T...

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Hillary Agrees To NBC Debate

Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Clinton campaign has just confirmed to me that contrary to expectations, she will in fact be taking part in the NBC debate in Ohio on Feb. 26th, a...

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Hillary Says Putin Has No Soul

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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This isn't going to play well in Moscow. Speaking in Hampton this evening, Hillary Rodham Clinton said the president of Russia "doesn't have a soul."...

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