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The political media’s mirage
The Politico’s John Harris identifies an important source of the pathology afflicting campaign coverage — web traffic: Important stories, sometimes the product of months of serious reporting, that in...
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How much of what Politico does is really journalism?
We all know the Washington media swims in an ever-shifting stream of “narratives” that drive coverage in one direction or another on an hourly basis – or, if one really has juice, can dominate coverage...
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Maureen Dowd and Dick Cheney agree: Obama isn't scaring us enough
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia So diametrically opposed, yet substance-free, are the views and perspectives of Maureen Dowd and Dick Cheney – whether in ideology, politics, gender or diction...
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Bring me the head of David Weigel
At first, I couldn’t quite understand why David Weigel, the Washington Post politics blogger who just resigned, would merit his own feeding frenzy. He’s not Helen Thomas: he hasn’t been around for...
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If the Washington press corps tried to cover reality
Image by Getty Images via @daylife It’s a cruel summer for Democrats, and the media are filled with analyses of what’s gone wrong with the Obama presidency. The main problem with these pieces is that...
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