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09.19.2008 12:22 pm

Do you trust the truth squads?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An article in the Christian Science Monitor  reports that media truth squads are hard at work trying to gauge the accuracy of the presidential candidates’ campaigns claims.

To show how difficult that challenge is the article notes that:

“A recent Gallup poll…

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09.15.2008 6:19 pm

Do voters care about the facts?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An article in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch by the Associated Press’ Charles Babington raised the question of whether John McCain and –  to a lesser extent — Barack Obama are playing too loose with facts and voters don’t really care.

The article was…

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09.15.2008 11:44 am

Reader asks: Give us the whole story

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sunday’s New York Times featured a lengthy Page One article examining Sarah Palin’s style of governing. The Times’ headlines reflect the premise: “Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes. Governor’s Style of Politics is Highly Personal.”

The Post-Dispatch published a reduced version of…

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09.11.2008 11:31 am

Lipstick on a pig

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Of all the issues in this presidential campaign, who would have thought putting “lipstick on a pig” would emerge as the latest battleground?

Slate.com has an interesting article on the origins and meaning of “lipstick on a pig.” It finds a 1926…

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09.10.2008 12:30 pm

Why did Palin pick ABC’s Gibson?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Of all the journalists out there, why did Sarah Palin choose ABC News’ Charles Gibson for her first exclusive interview since being named to the GOP ticket? The interview is scheduled for tomorrow and Friday, and the network plans to…

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09.08.2008 4:31 pm

The news media and Palin

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There’s an interesting give-and-take going on between many in the media and the GOP about examining the record of Sarah Palin. Even as  journalists report on Palin,  they also seem to feel the need to rationalize doing so.

The New York…

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09.05.2008 11:21 am

Hockey moms are special because….

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

soccer.jpgUnless you’ve been in a cave this past week, you know that Sarah Palin is a hockey mom.  That’s what she calls herself — and it’s a description that supporters and pundits alike have embraced.

What’s it mean? Youth hockey is…

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09.04.2008 11:43 am

Palin headline on point?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Palin pledges to shake up D.C.” is the lead headline on the top story in today’s Post-Dispatch.  “Making history” is the second headline and the third: “First woman on GOP ticket throws quick jabs at Obama.”

Slate.com’s  synopsis of major national papers indicates…

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09.03.2008 10:53 am

Paper favoring McCain or Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Politics makes for some strange perceptions.

A caller this morning decried what she called our obvious bias toward McCain.

“I noticed last week when the DNC was going on you couldn’t run a story about Obama without a story about McCain right…

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06.10.2008 10:18 am

Biased Obama coverage, II

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A follow-up thought — from one of our political writers — to yesterday’s posting on Sunday’s huge Obama coverage:

Just for the record — and I’ve mentioned this to Parker already — our local coverage on the presidential candidates, when they…

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