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Slate's generally excellent Jack Shafer today offers an impassioned defense of Matt Drudge's continued importance. Among his claims: If you could access only one home page for breaking news and chose Washingtonpost.com or CNN.com over the Drudge...
In today's Boston Herald, the inimitable Joe Fitzgerald wonders: why all the fuss over Sarah Palin ? Then he offers some theories. Palin's detractors--"self-styled suffragettes," as Fitzgerald puts it--resent her 1) comeliness, 2) happy...
That's the conclusion of Politico's Roger Simon: The real problem for McCain is that Palin is running a separate--and scary--campaign that does not seem to be under anybody’s control. She storms around the country saying: “Our opponent ... is...
This Politico piece by Jonathan Martin, who's been covering the Republicans during the presidential campaign, is an absolute must-read. First off, his description of the anger he's been seeing on the trail is chilling: With McCain passing up the...
In which I ponder the pluses and minuses of the press's new pet technology.
--As Dan Kennedy notes, the National Enquirer's reporting on Sarah Palin and her family poses a challenge for the mainstream media. Should they follow the Enquirer's lead, since the tabloid got John Edwards' affair right? Or should they leave...
Maybe you thought Barack Obama's fake presidential seal was just a stupid gaffe, kind of like Mitt Romney's podium screw-up back in 2006. But no! It's much, much more than that. Mickey Kaus, take it away : [T]he faux seal was a disaster not...
