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Journalists’ campaign-trail secrets revealed

I’ve long suspected that if editors knew how little journalism occurs on the campaign trail, they would never pay our expenses. Forget door-knocking. In reality, it’s more trainspotting. Reporters hang out at candidate appeara [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

Hollywood: Banksy redefines the Oscar campaign

The elusive graffiti artist Banksy, whose film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is nominated for an Academy Award (pictured at right, c/o Paranoid Pictures), made his mark in the underground art scene by developing an anti-establis [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Presidential campaign journalism: farcical, stupid and getti...

I just watched CNN gleefully play up the story that John McCain doesn't know how many houses his family owns, treating it as some sort of transcendent gaffe. Uh, his wife is an heiress who has a lot of property and doesn't do a good job of [...]

Posted On : Aug, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Deadline nears for campaigning journalism award

Time is fast running out for campaigning journalists wishing to enter a prestigious award jointly won by a regional press reporter in 2007. September 1 is the deadline for entries to the Paul Foot Award, sponsored by the Guardian and Priva [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Ex-Network Reporter Leaves Journalism to Join Obamas Campaig...

Linda Douglass, a longtime network news correspondent in Washington now working as a contributing editor to The National Journal, said Wednesday that she would leave the magazine to work for Senator Barack Obama’s campaign. In an int [...]

Posted On : May, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Campaigning in the media

Many print publications take advantage of their wide readership and print persuasive pieces in the form of unsigned editorials that represent the official position of the organization. Despite the ostensible separation between editorial wri [...]

Posted On : Apr, 08 2007 | Comments : 0

Standard Coverage of Political Campaigns

In standard coverage of political campaigns, where one goal is always to appear nonpartisan and above the fray, the master narrative has for a long time been winning— who’s going to win, who seems to be winning, what the candida [...]