i hate to say this, but articles like this are moving me away from TPM. i've woken-up and gone to bed with this site since it launched; now i'm starting to just not care... because you sound just like everyone else.

you guys are supposed to be smarter, better, faster, stronger than this. or at least, not as blatantly dumb.

greg, especially, but now it's seeping onto josh's front page, too. c'mon, guys.

Posted at May 2, 2008 11:15 AM in response to Poll Measures Public Attitudes Towards Obama's Denunciation Of Wright

no, journalists are accredited and trained, and try to be objective.

simply blogging your opinions just makes you... a blogger.

now, bloggers can be journalists, too (say, like the TPM folks--they have ethics and adhere to a creed).

but is she?

Posted at April 15, 2008 11:49 PM in response to Woman Who Broke "Small Town" Story Says Obama Campaign's Response Was "Classy"

i like the interview at the end from what i'm guessing was POW footage? how do they fit that with his pro-torture stance?

also, this sucker is HEAVY with weighted words that are all subliminal slaps to obama:

-REAL
-READY ON DAY ONE
-SURRENDER
-AMERICAN VALUES

they're all so loaded. "and what must we believe about our president?"

dunno, that he's f'in batshit? that's what i get out of this...

Posted at March 28, 2008 11:37 AM in response to New McCain Ad: "The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For"

are you kidding? are you saying that quote's not news? or that it wasn't immediately of such note in the interview dynamic that the subject immediately tried to retract it?

journalists are OBLIGATED to run with stuff like that, yes. if they don't--if they hold back--then they're not journalists; they're opinion brokers... i.e. nytimes political journalism coverage.

Posted at March 8, 2008 10:40 AM in response to The Reporter Who Launched The "Monster" Story Speaks...

yes!

it's interesting that there are so many media savvy folks here who don't understand how going off the record works.

less blinders, people.

Posted at March 7, 2008 8:28 PM in response to The Reporter Who Launched The "Monster" Story Speaks...

wrong, wrong, wrong.

go to j-school. they don't teach you much, but they do tell you this: off the record is something you give your interviewer, not the other way around.

they can ask for it--but it's up to you (or your editor) to grant it. and certainly, you cannot back up as ms. powers did and line-item-veto what you don't like by saying "that's off the record."

hillary will never have my vote because of this campaign she's running... but this journalist was 100 percent accurate and OBLIGATED to run that quote. as she said, "i don't know how it's done in america... but in britain, any journalist worth their salt" would have run it.

that says quite a bit about the state of our current political coverage...

Posted at March 7, 2008 8:25 PM in response to The Reporter Who Launched The "Monster" Story Speaks...

billy, less snarky ego, more actual value in this thread.

don't respond like this: you know nothing, you're not from new york, hillary has poo that doesn't smell...

it's not grade school; it's our future.

as a side note, as a fellow New Yorker, i'm voting for Obama--even if i write him in. i'll never give her my vote--whether or not you think it means anything--after this campaign.

it means something to me.

Posted at March 6, 2008 12:43 PM in response to Hillary Spokesperson Compares Obama To...Ken Starr!