Josh Marshall
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Stepping Back
I believe we're at one of those moments when it is a help to step back from the rhetorical flurry and see where each side stands -- call it the Fog of Spin. The Iraq War is very unpopular. The...more »
Posted on July 7, 2008 12:41 AM
Digital Bamboozle
Andrew flagged this post for me at TheNextRight, which claims that our series of posts last week on BMW Direct and their oddly inefficient direct mail fundraising is actually an attempt to 'delegitimize direct mail fundraising', which would be a...more »
Posted on July 6, 2008 7:01 PM
AP On McCain: We're Loven It!
Yesterday we flagged the AP's Jennifer Loven's 'analysis' piece flogging the McCain/RNC spin on Obama's run to the center. Well, as every crack communication operation knows, message repetition is the key to success. And so today we have another 'analysis'...more »
Posted on July 5, 2008 7:07 PM
Research
For a few new projects we're going to be working on, we're looking for some good freelance researchers/writers. So if you're a freelancer or have a job that allows you to do some freelancing, and you've ever been interested in...more »
Posted on July 5, 2008 12:22 PM
Paying Attention?
When I read Jennifer Loven's AP piece on Obama, which I flagged in the post below, it made my eyes bleed so bad I hardly knew where to start in cataloguing the awfulness. But TPM Reader CO points out a...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 11:03 PM
Major Endorsement
Associated Press officially endorses McCain. (ed.note: Well, pretty much.) Late Update: Some recent fun AP-McCain moments (during the courtship phase) ... McCain's moderators, the AP's Ron Fournier and Liz Sidoti, greeted McCain with a box of Dunkin' Donuts. "We spend...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 9:16 PM
Happy Fourth
While the barbeques are getting underway and the fireworks are being prepared, a Happy 4th of July from TPM. Organize and vote. Do it for your country....more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 4:58 PM
Au Contraire ...
Says TPM Reader BH ... I agree with the points of your "Please, please, reporters with brains" entry, but I think you might need to be included in the group of reporters/bloggers/etc. that is following the McCain script. As usual,...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 2:50 PM
Welcome to our New Blog
Greeting, TPM Readers, and welcome to our newest blog, TPMtv.com. As you know, we've been bringing you four daily episodes of TPMtv since April 2007. And for some time we've wanted to start a new blog to showcase not only...more »
Posted on July 4, 2008 12:14 AM
Please, Please, Reporters with Brains
I spent most of today in bed with some kind of nasty cold. So I only caught up on any news this evening. And I must confess to being little short of astounded by the avalanche of press BS I'm...more »
Posted on July 3, 2008 10:19 PM
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make that "isn't" quite ready for the pasture.
Posted at July 4, 2008 11:07 AM in response to Welcome to our New Blog
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The horse is quite ready for the pasture. It's being relocated to TPMCafe. More on this soon.
Posted at July 4, 2008 11:07 AM in response to Welcome to our New Blog
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Sigh, we don't go around banning people for saying things we disagree with or even things we find a bit offensive. The banning is pretty few and far between and it's reserved for people who are consistently violating the terms of use -- which inmost cases means abusive language, intentionally disrupting conversation, hate speech, etc.
Posted at July 2, 2008 9:04 PM in response to Free MassDem
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Ahoy MassDem, I've told Lila that I want to up the vigilance for rule-breaking here at TPMCafe. But our rods of correction are limited to corrective emails and banning. What you're describing isn't any sort of banning or punishment, to the best of my knowledge. That's the response you get in comments if the spam filter suspects it's seeing spam. Putting in lots of urls can trip it off, and various other stuff. So this is either a glitch affecting your account or your putting in some sort of funky characters of lots of urls that's tripping the alarm. I'd shoot lila an email. lila (at) you know what and see if she can figure out what's up. Josh
Posted at July 2, 2008 8:50 PM in response to Free MassDem
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more than harsh. that's complete nonsense. he linked to a page that has all brian's stuff. you think we're using this as an opportunity to push the FISA story?
Posted at July 2, 2008 4:36 PM in response to Well Known Liberal Blogger Shot In Washington, D.C.
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You really need to climb out of that rabbit-hole, Matthew. It's almost getting sad at this point.
Posted at June 19, 2008 9:56 PM in response to McCain Campaign: Obama's Public Finance Decision "All About Money"
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We use google analytics, which actually tracks each individual visit to the site, and addition to some other tools. Alexa is a based on people who've installed the alexa toolbar on their browswers. it's not a good measure.
Posted at June 17, 2008 12:42 AM in response to Are you as fed up with TPM as I?
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I fully agree. How to set it up?
Posted at June 12, 2008 11:13 PM in response to TPM Needs a Humor Section
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Now that you've mentioned it, I'm going to sit down with Andrew and give it another look and try to see if we can get to the bottom of what happened. But I assure you, no one on the staff has ever knowingly taken down a Coffee House post, though we occasionally take down individually comments for violating the TOS -- foul language, hate speech, etc. In any case, we'll give it a look and report back. All I would ask is that on these various different grounds, I'd ask people at least assume things are errors until we have a chance to answer/explain. Most of the issues like this are either misunderstandings or problems caused by our staff being stretched thin. Josh
Posted at June 6, 2008 9:42 PM in response to Unprofessional, dishonest editing of a TPM report
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This is not true. If you're the one who's asked about the issue with MJ's post, you haven't been ignored. We've been very clear that we've never taken down one of MJ's posts. If one's have disappeared it's been a matter of a technical glitch, not editing on the staff's part.
Posted at June 6, 2008 6:57 PM in response to Unprofessional, dishonest editing of a TPM report
