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Jason Linkins

HuffPost, TPM In White House Pool: Newspaper Reporters Gripe

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Peter Baker, Pool Reporting, Media Criticism, Sam Stein, Talking Points Memo, White House Press Corps, Huffington Post, White House Press Pool, Pool Reports, Christina Bellantoni, Mike Allen, Media News

According to Politico, a "debate" has been "sparked" over the new White House pool rotation. This debate is raging, I'm sure, among the handful of people who are deeply invested in White House pool reporting.

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You Ain't Nothin' But a Blue Dog

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Talking Points Memo, Brentwood, Orange County, Jane Harman, Iraq War, Loretta Sanchez, Los Angeles, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Robert J. Elisberg

I'm glad to know that Reps. Harman and Sanchez have joined the growing call for a public option. But for the life of me, I do not understand what took Jane Harman so long.

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My Friend Christina and the Downfall of Newspapers

James Boyce | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Downfall of Newspapers, The Washington Times, Bloggers, Talking Points Memo, Traditional News Reporting, Blogging, Online Journalism, Inside DC, Media News
James Boyce

So now, here's a real journalist, with real credentials, who had the audacity to go into the real Iowa last year, now writing for a real ... online news site.

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

Eric Boehlert | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

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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Daily Pulse: Obama to Outline Vision for Health Care Reform

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Congress, Speech, Public Plan, Obama, Reform, The Progressive, Yes Magazine, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, New American Media, Healthcare, The Uptake, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

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Daily Pulse: Baucus Coughs Up a Bill

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lindsay Beyerstein, Senate Finance Committee, Insurance, Public Option, The Media Consortium, Daily Pulse, Obama, Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler, Max Baucus, Tmc, Interview, Healthcare, Bill, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The president lit a fire under Max Baucus (D-Mont) and the Senate Finance Committee by unexpectedly announcing last week that he'd be laying out his own vision for health care reform this Wednesday.

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Daily Pulse: Goldfish and the Public Option

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Talking Points Memo, Insurance, Public Option, Daily Pulse, Vigil, MoveOn.Org, Lindsay Beyerstein, Reform, Obama, Tmc, Washington Independent, The Media Consortium, Healthcare, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

Perhaps the biggest drawback of Obama's hands off approach is that administration can't make a positive case for reform. So, the president has decided to step in and dictate terms to Congress.

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The Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, The Nation, Public Option, Lobbyists, Washington Monthly, Filibuster, Gang of Six, Salon, Mohter Jones, Insurance, The Media Consortium, Health, Daily Pulse, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Healthcare, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.

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Weekly Pulse: Mob Scene

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check, Gun, Weekly Pulse, Seiu, Reform, The Progressive, Riots, Town Hall, The Media Consortium, Protest, George Tiller, Talking Points Memo, Tmc, Tea Party, Alternet, Healthcare, In These Times, Politics News
The Media Consortium

Republicans and their allies are pressuring Democratic healthcare reformers at townhall meetings around the country. Addie Stan has a blockbuster piece in AlterNet that exposes the network behind the mobs.

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Adam Schlesinger, Zachary Roth, Matt Taibbi, The Nation, Robert Reich, Goldman Sachs, Eyal Press, Air America, David Moberg, Salon, Weekly Audit, Mary Kane, The Media Consortium, Laura Flanders, JPMorgan Chase, Zach Carter, Grittv, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent, Tmc, In These Times, Business News
The Media Consortium

Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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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 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Print Media, Joshua Marshall, Video, Media Criticism, Stephen Colbert, Josh Marshall, The Colbert Report, Talking Points Memo, 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 06.22.2009 | Media

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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Maureen Dowd Is All in Your Head

Michael Wolff | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

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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Say It Ain't So, MoDo

John McQuaid | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

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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What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

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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Jason Linkins

The Long Dark Teatime Of Tapper's Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Twitter, Talking Points Memo, Jake Tapper, Idiots, American Prospect, Politics News

Oh, good grief -- Twitter truly has become the Sum Of All Fails.

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Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Spanish Harlem, Roosevelt Island, COBRA Legislation, Mike Bloomberg, Disabled, Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News, Jewish Progressive, Albany, Transgender, Gay, Jonathan Bing, Rainbow Flag, United Federation of Teachers, Bisexual, Micah Kellner, Millionaires’ Tax, Talking Points Memo, Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Education, www.micahkellner.net, Gay Agenda, Harvey Milk, LGBT Seniors, New York City, Daily Beast, Carolyn Maloney, Gay Marriage, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Lesbian, Harlem, New York Post, Bill Thompson, Joel Klein, New York Times, Peter Grannis, The Mayor of Castro Street, New York State Assembly, Huffington Post, Chuck Schumer, New York University, Wheelchair-Accessible, New York, Politics News
Jim Luce

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

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Obama and the Progressive Community

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: H.R. 104, John Conyers, Progressives, Afghanistan War, Women and the Stimulus Package, Amy Goodman, Keith Olbermann, Code Pink, Women and the Economy, Barack Obama, Elana Schor, Iraq War, Jonathan Turley, Rachel Maddow, OpenCongress.Org, Rick Warren, Women for a Fair Economy, Breaking Politics News, Hillary Clinton, Talking Points Memo, Democracy Now, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

The euphoria of November 4th and the upcoming excitement surrounding the inauguration are competing with the reality of each looming crisis, from the economy to Gaza.

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Washington Post Starting New Politics Blog

Talking Points Memo | Posted 02.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post Blog, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, WaPo Blog, Media News

I can't believe I'm writing this, but for the foreseeable future this is my last post at TPM. I'm heading over to The Washington Post, where I'll be ...

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McCain's Kitchen Sink Strategy
McCain NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 11.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Murray Waas, John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Mother Jones, G. Gordon Liddy, Immigration, The Nation, Women's Media Center, Greg Sargent, David Niewert, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, James Ridgeway, Andrew Lam, Peggy Simpson, Steve Benen, Acorn, Washingotn Monthly, Carl Bernstein, Final Presidential Debate, New America Media, Alaska Independence Party, Talking Points Memo, Josh Harkinson, Jonathan Stein, Max Blumenthal, Home News
The Media Consortium

With less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the presidential election, the McCain campaign, with help from the Republican National Committee, co...

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Sunday Watch 10-5-08: In Which Tom Brokaw Goes Foxy

Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Meet the Press, John McCain, Evan Tracey, Peggy Noonan, Tom Brokaw, Sunday Morning Talk Shows, David Yepsen, Des Moines Register, Negative Ad McCain, Campaign Ads, Talking Points Memo, Greg Sargent, Barack Obama, Smear Tactics, Media News
Todd Gitlin

Brokaw's bland evasiveness on Meet the Press does not bode well for what we can expect from his turn as moderator at this Tuesday's debate.

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Does Josh Marshall Believe In New Media?

Bart Motes | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media

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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Don't Hurt Adam Nagourney's Feelings

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Ana Marie Cox, Anne Kornblut, Adam Nagourney, The New Republic, New York Times, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Bush, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It's only considered to be newsworthy, and to be a point of deep media concern, when a Democrat is accused of slighting the press.

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Politico: Republicans Have No Rival To HuffPost, TPM

Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Conservative Commentators, Liberal Blogosphere, Tpm, Republican Blogosphere, Huffpo, Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post, Gop Blogosphere, Politics News

Republicans have no lack of would-be George F. Wills. But what they really need are some more Robert D. Novaks. The distinction between the two prom...

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Obama's FISA Cave In: A Reverse "Souljah" Moment

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 06.30.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Markos Moulitsas, Glenn Greenwald, Fisa, Digby, Talking Points Memo, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Blue Dog Democrats, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

When other candidates tack left or right between the party primary and election day, it's a form of Kabuki; we all know what they really stand for because they've left legislative paper trails that show us.

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