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Media Coverage of 2008 Election

"The Media," Now Perpetually in Scare Quotes

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media

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Andrew Sargus Klein

If influential blogs -- say, Drudge, Daily Kos, National Review Online or Talking Points Memo -- go out and say "X, Y and Z," it's now assumed then "the media" is saying "X, Y and Z".

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Why the Democrats Need to Dumb It Down

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Haimoff

She makes them laugh and lets them think that they'll all head over to Culver's later for frozen custard and ButterBurgers.

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Speak Up, Hillary!

Lisa Gans | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Lisa Gans

It is now time for her to unleash her oratory power and, in this case, well-deserved indignation, against John McCain and his choice for vice president.

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Palin, Satire & False Equivalence via the 2004 Presidential Election

George Spyros | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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George Spyros

The fate of our country is in the hands of Tina Fey Yesterday I was faced with the choice of whether or not to post to TreeHugger a clip from Gina ...

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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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Post-Palin Depression

Marty Kaplan | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

A therapist I know told me that I'd be astonished if I knew how many emergency calls she got the night that Sarah Palin gave her convention speech. Actually, I wasn't that surprised.

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Beyond the Pale - A Spineless Media Lets McCain Call the Shots on Questions of Sarah Palin's Qualifications

Mario Almonte | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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Mario Almonte

Presidential candidate John McCain's refusal to give free and immediate media access to VP nominee Sarah Palin - his decision to present her only unde...

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The McCain-Palin Lies and the Neil Armstrong Principle

Paul Begala | Posted 10.10.2008 | Media

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Paul Begala

The media have an obligation to point out when a politician is lying about a matter of fact, but the right-wing attack machine has so cowed some of them you can almost hear them moo.

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Close Presidential Race? Don't Blame the Media, Blame the Voters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Mitchell Bard

Voters have (or could have) all the information they need to make a choice this year. They're just making a choice that those on the left would consider a bad one.

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Sarah Palin: Resuscitating the Fourth Estate

Cindy Handler | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

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Cindy Handler

There's been a shocking amount of credulousness in the media's willingness to swallow what the administration feeds them, without investigating original sources first to see if it's true.

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We're Gonna Frickin' Lose this Thing

Adam McKay | Posted 10.09.2008 | Media

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Adam McKay

"Stop saying that!" my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I'm not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we're gonna frickin' lose this thing.

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Beating the Press -- Literally

Rory O'Connor | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

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Rory O'Connor

Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart run against his own party, which has governed while controlling most of the institutional levers of power.

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Let's Lay Off Sarah Palin

William Klein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

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William Klein

Karl Rove and his disciples on the McCain campaign are leading us into a trap by making it so easy to focus our fire on Sarah Palin.

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Cue REM: It's the End of the World As We Know It

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Robyn O'Brien

We realized that we can no longer expect one person, one party, to be able to return our country to its former greatness, giving our children what they so rightly deserve.

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JFK, Marilyn Monroe and, uh, Sarah Palin -- The French Recollection

Lisa Nesselson | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

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Lisa Nesselson

Pesky foreigners like Forestier probably think Sarah Palin was manufactured in a lab -- or pulled out of a hat -- in order to pander to specific demographics.

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PalinDrones

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Glenn W. Smith

Why would Wolf Blitzer and others call Palin's speech "a grand slam," when they know in their hearts that her remarks were little more than a pedestrian speech writer's angry and somewhat juvenile words?

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Strengthening the Message

Max Bergmann | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Max Bergmann

The McCain campaign lost the press last night. The space is now open for a full-on Bush-McCain ad offensive. The press finally buys it.

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Palin & GOP Attack Media: A Look at The Playbook

Josh Silver | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Josh Silver

In the absence of a legitimate argument, and in the presence of half-truths and outright lies, McCain operatives are fiercely attacking news outlets that ask tough questions and dig up the truth.

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RNC Day Three: Palin's Provocations

Nicholas Brown | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

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Nicholas Brown

The game continues to be about goading with half-truths, overstatements, and provocations. Was Palin's speech energizing? Yes. We are energized alright, livid, ready to throttle something, anything.

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U.S.-Russian Relations: Current Tensions Reflect Past Foreign Policy Failures

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Mark Weisbrot

The Bush administration now pretends it can bully the Russians by threatening to kick them out of the G-8 and deny them membership in the WTO. This not only won't work, it is a dangerous delusion.

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The Most Diverse Convention/The Least Diverse Coverage

John Ridley | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media

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John Ridley

Diversity is not something at which the media has been historically successful. And you got the feeling the media knew they weren't fielding a representative team. Not since Bill O'Reilly dined with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's have news people displayed such latent discomfort.

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Big Media, Big Politics, and Change

Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media

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Rory O'Connor

Precisely four years and one month ago, after seeing an unknown state senator from Illinois electrify the Democratic convention floor with a keynote speech, I wrote the following words...

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Peggy Noonan and the Two-Headed Bowling Ball Child

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media

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Marty Kaplan

For the right-wing commentariat, Peggy Noonan's snark this morning was a Katrina moment. It was a benchmark for how out of it and, well, disgusting, that crowd is.

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Cable News Covering The DNC With Republican Cue Cards

Bob Cesca | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

The DNC coverage this week definitely appears to follow a preordained law: When the Republicans attack, repeat the attack over and over. When the Democrats attack, attack the Democrats. It explains everything we're observing on cable news this week.

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Networks Sleep While Democracy Burns

Timothy Karr | Posted 09.26.2008 | Media

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Timothy Karr

While the networks yuk it up with sitcoms and teen libido, the message they're sending the American public is that the most important political gatherings of the last four years don't merit the nation's full attention.

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