The Plum Line Archive: Political media
Bill Keller's wrongheaded attack on HuffPo
A lot of people have weighed in on this already, but I do think it's worth taking a moment to dwell on the attack that New York Times executive editor Bill Keller launched yesterday on The Huffington Post and its...
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Greg Sargent
| March 11, 2011; 5:10 PM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* Lefty groups expand advertising in Wisconsin: Over $400,000 has now flowed in from around the country to support the airing of that ad featuring ordinary Wisconsinites making the case against Governor Scott Walker. And the Progressive Change Campaign Committee's...
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Greg Sargent
| March 4, 2011; 8:28 AM ET |
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House GOPers, Labor, Morning Plum, Political media, Senate Dems, Social Security, budget
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CNN and John King get played
I was hoping to avoid writing any more about Erick Erickson's dishonesty, since the book has already been closed on that topic. But now that CNN and John King have provided Erickson a platform on CNN's Web site to spread...
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Greg Sargent
| March 2, 2011; 11:35 AM ET |
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In which I advocate for union thugs to get violent (not really)
I usually try to avoid getting into blogwars about this kind of stuff. But the buffoonish dishonesty on display today from CNN contributor Erick Erickson and others on the right is revealing and worth responding to in a bit of...
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Greg Sargent
| February 28, 2011; 3:37 PM ET |
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Happy Hour Roundup
* Dem Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana gives Scott Walker some friendly CEO-style advice: If you destroy the morale of your workers, "you are cutting your own throat." * This user-friendly state-by-state guide to all the battles between state governments...
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| February 25, 2011; 6:16 PM ET |
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Bad media coverage makes the people ignorant and stoopid
Yesterday a Kaiser Family Foundation poll brought us some startling news: 22% of Americans wrongly believe the Affordable Care Act has already been repealed, and another 26 percent are unsure whether it has been or are unwilling to say. Today,...
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Greg Sargent
| February 25, 2011; 3:48 PM ET |
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