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The Media Consortium | Posted 10.18.2008 | Home

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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 10.05.2008 | Media

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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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Josh Marshall on the Growth of Talking Points Memo and Independent Media

Jeff Cohen | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media

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Jeff Cohen

TPM's Josh Marshall won this year's Polk Award in legal reporting for coverage of the White House firings of U.S. attorneys. This is adapted and condensed from Marshall's Ithaca speech.

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Does Josh Marshall Believe In New Media?

Bart Motes | Posted 09.03.2008 | Media

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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 07.30.2008 | Media

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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 07.24.2008 | Politics

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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 06.22.2008 | Home

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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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Hillary Agrees To NBC Debate

Talking Points Memo | Greg Sargent | Posted 02.13.2008 | Media

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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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New Rule: We Only Talk To Bloggers We Like

Michael Roston | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

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Michael Roston

Try calling the White House press office sometime as a representative of an organ with ".com" in your name, and see if you'll get a call back.

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The Blog Swarm Chris Matthews Never Saw Coming

Eric Boehlert | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

By getting Matthews to apologize, the blogs have already had more impact on how the traditional press covers this presidential campaign than they did during the entire 2004 White House run.

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O'Reilly...New Year. Same Old Bullshit.

Steve Young | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media

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Steve Young

Once again, Bill has spun - meaning, ignored the facts that would have shown Bill was actually just a crazed ideologue - just to get his audience to believe another one of his crazed ideologue lies.

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Talking Points Memo Blogger Josh Marshall Named A GQ Man Of The Year

GQ | Sean Flynn | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media

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The resignation of Alberto Gonzales was one of the brighter moments of the past seven years, a fleeting reprieve for the rule of law and democracy and...

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Memo To Democrats: Talking Points

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

So Petraeus and Crocker have reported, President Bush has spoken to the nation, and the congressional war debate is slated to begin in earnest next we...

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