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March 4 is over, and we have a winner: the TV networks. America, you lucky country, you are now looking at a full month and a half before Pennsylvania, with only a couple small contests. Meaning that, in the absence of any actual votes, the coverage of the campaign will become the campaign itself, in that that’s what will create any …
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But it’s not all about traditional TV campaign ads this morning. Jack Nicholson released this endorsement montage for Hillary Clinton a couple days ago:
A few thoughts:
* Old People Have the YouTube Channel Too! The ad’s jokey and probably not particularly strategic, but in a real way, it’s also playing to Clinton’s base. There’s …
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I never expected to be quoting TMZ in connection with the presidential campaign, but the showbiz-nooz site reports that not only did Hillary Clinton appear after SNL’s second consecutive the-media-hates-Hillary skit, her campaign also approved the script of the Amy Poehler sketch. Says TMZ, “Sources tell TMZ the skit — featuring Amy …
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Over the weekend, there were two new volleys in the surrogate-video war betwen Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: respectively, a new SNL cold-open skit making Hillary out as the victim of the media, and another celebrity-packed music video dedicateed to Obama from the Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am. As is so often the case with sequels, both …
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My column in the print TIME this week is pretty much a polished-up version of this earlier post on Hillary and SNL, more or less. (Less, actually: it’s 50% shorter and, therefore, 50% better.) But if you haven’t read it yet—then it’s new to you!
You always risk sounding a little ridiculous writing about things like Tina Fey’s sketch …
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One hitch in the theory that the media are in cahoots to get Hillary out of the race—ratings numbers like these, from MSNBC:
MSNBC’s telecast of last night’s Democratic candidates debate drew 7.8 million viewers (9-10:36 p.m. ET), becoming the most watched broadcast in the eleven year history of the network, according to Nielsen Media
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Anyone who believes that corporate synergy does not work in TV should watch last night’s Democratic debate in Ohio. There we saw Hillary Clinton using one NBC Universal property (Saturday Night Live) to attack another NBC Universal property (MSNBC, the debate host) for its treatment of her. Fielding a question about NAFTA, Hillary–whose …
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A while ago, in a story about feminism and TV, I quoted the 30 Rock episode in which Liz Lemon says that, in the upcoming election, there’s an 80 percent chance that she will tell her friends she’s voting for Barack Obama but will secretly vote for John McCain. It turns out, though, that Tina Fey disagrees with Liz Lemon–or, at least, …
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As long as we’re navel-gazing on the subject here this week, I should point out that political reporter Chris Cilizza at The Washington Post blogged yesterday that he does not vote, and asked his readers whether they thought that was the right decision for a reporter or not.
There are over 200 posts as of now. By my count, the vote got …
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Last week I wrote a post on why journalists should disclose who they vote for in elections. As you might have guessed from the fact that almost no journalists do disclose who they vote for in elections, mine is still a minority view.
Such a minority view, in fact, that there’s still a debate raging (well, mildly raging) about whether …
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Writing about election coverage, I have disclosed, probably to the point of tediousness, that I voted for Obama. I think it’s a good thing for you to know, but I really do it for me. It’s important to me that I have enough perspective to critique campaign coverage whether it works for my candidate or against him. Having you know more …
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The dust has cleared and the winner of last night’s Super Tuesday contest is becoming apparent: Steve Jobs. There may not have been actual Apple software or hardware on display (CNN had election analysts sitting at a bank of what were mostly Dell …
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MSNBC just declared Obama the winner of Missouri–sorry, the “Apparent Winner.” This after tonight’s earlier distinction between “too close to call” and “too early to call.” What a range of gradients between “winner” and “loser” they have at NBC News! What’s next? Will they project someone as the pyrrhic victor?
