Election 2008 What's with the Democratic Reagan Rhetoric? January 25, 2008 • In their latest debate, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed over comments Obama made about former President Ronald Reagan. Obama called Reagan a "transformational president." David Folkenflik looks at the political wisdom of a Democratic candidate invoking the memory of a Republican president. What's with the Democratic Reagan Rhetoric? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/18415475/18415454" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Election 2008 South Carolina Smear Campaigns Turn High-Tech January 18, 2008 • What Cooperstown is to baseball, what Nashville is to country music, South Carolina is to the political hit job. This year, the practitioners are taking aim with increasingly sophisticated electronic techniques. South Carolina Smear Campaigns Turn High-Tech Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/18227997/18227983" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Media Missing the Boat on the New Hampshire Vote January 10, 2008 • Pollsters are taking it on the chin for failing to anticipate Sen. Hillary Clinton's victory in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. But reporters were barking up the wrong tree, too. How did the prognosticators miscalculate? Missing the Boat on the New Hampshire Vote Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/17984543/17984724" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Election 2008 Candidates Adopt 'Change' Mantra in N.H. Debates January 6, 2008 • If you listened to the Republican and Democratic debates Saturday night, you heard one word over and over and over again: "change." The phrase has become the mantra of the 2008 presidential race. Candidates Adopt 'Change' Mantra in N.H. Debates Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/17887075/17887066" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Election 2008 Obama, Huckabee Have Media Mastery in Common January 4, 2008 • Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee succeeded in large measure because they mastered the media game. Each in his own way charmed the public through the news and entertainment media. That has implications for the rest of their campaign and their political fates. Obama, Huckabee Have Media Mastery in Common Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/17854246/17854219" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Media 'The Wire' to Focus on Baltimore Newspaper December 28, 2007 • The final season of the HBO series The Wire, which dramatizes how real-world institutions and leaders repeatedly failed the people of Baltimore, gets under way Jan. 6. Creator David Simon is turning his critical eye on journalism, namely The Baltimore Sun. 'The Wire' to Focus on Baltimore Newspaper Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/17668964/17669232" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Media FCC Opens Way for Media Conglomerates December 19, 2007 • The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to allow companies that own television stations in the country's 20 largest markets also to own newspapers. The vote to overturn a 32-year-ban on such multi-media ownership saw the FCC's three Republicans in favor and two Democrats vehemently opposed. FCC Opens Way for Media Conglomerates Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/17389997/17389946" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National Magazine Questions Accuracy of Soldier's Reports December 4, 2007 • The New Republic magazine has stated that it will no longer stand by the accuracy of The Baghdad Diarist, a series of reports by a U.S. Army private serving in Iraq who had been writing under a pseudonym. Editors say they are no longer confident that events occurred as the soldier described them. Magazine Questions Accuracy of Soldier's Reports Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16890484/16890454" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Politics Bid for More Cable Regulation Divides FCC November 30, 2007 • FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tried to push for more regulation of cable this week, and ended up opening a split in the commission. On one side is the moral conservative push for "a la carte" cable, free from offensive programming. On the other side, a pro-business objection to more regulation. Bid for More Cable Regulation Divides FCC Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16783080/16783042" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Election 2008 Huckabee Finally Commands Attention November 28, 2007 • Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee suddenly finds himself in the media's spotlight. He has hovered just below the media radar and had not been taken seriously for the GOP presidential nomination. But his lead in one Iowa poll changes that. Huckabee Finally Commands Attention Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16686526/16685796" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Media Counting Down on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann November 23, 2007 • A numbered list of things worth knowing about one of cable's most talked-about talkers — and one of TV's most prominent Bush-administration critics. Counting Down on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16517458/16571662" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National Ex-Press Secretary Blames Bush for CIA Leak November 21, 2007 • Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says in an upcoming book that he passed false information to the media about the Valerie Plame CIA leak case that had been provided by high officials in the administration, including President Bush. Ex-Press Secretary Blames Bush for CIA Leak Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16523603/16523569" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Law Publisher Regan Says News Corp. Urged Her to Lie November 16, 2007 • In the latest twist in a long-running New York story, publisher Judith Regan says she was pressured to lie about former lover Bernard Kerik (the former police commissioner) by executives at News Corp. — the owner of Fox News and the HarperCollins publishing house — who are intent on protecting the political viability of former mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Publisher Regan Says News Corp. Urged Her to Lie Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/16368944/16368906" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Social Security Debate Clinton, Obama Spar over Social Security in Ads November 2, 2007 • Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are running dueling television ads on Social Security. The issue, however, is beside the point. Clinton, Obama Spar over Social Security in Ads Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15863060/15876204" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Media Don Imus Will Make a Comeback to Radio November 1, 2007 • Nine months after a racist, sexist remark threatened to end Don Imus' career, the shock jock is reportedly making a comeback. New York's WABC-AM annouced Thursday that Imus would return to its airwaves. Don Imus Will Make a Comeback to Radio Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/15871184/15871168" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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