2012 U.S. Election: 71 Stories |
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Veteran pollster and author David W. Moore presents the 2013 Fifth Annual Top Ten “Dubious Polling” Awards. Designed as a satirical, though serious look, at some of the most questionable polling practices or... |
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National Public Radio updated its stylebook guidelines for the President of the United States Jan. 17 after complaints of bias, NPR's ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos reported. At the heart of the issue was... |
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CNN's typo in a quote about Mitt Romney significantly changed the meaning of the comment, made by billionaire John Catsimatidis. The "typo" is significant since the article is about "financial... |
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The post-mortem for Romney’s campaign finds many different reasons why he lost.
Republican strategist David Frum blames the Republican Party for its extremism and unresponsiveness to the country’s... |
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An Illinois woman, Sharon Bialek, is suing CBS Chicago and its anchor Bill Kurtis for his 2011 comments on WLS radio about her claims of sexual harassment by Repulican presidential candidate Herman Cain, according to the... |
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In the final days before the election, some major conservative pundits – such as Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner, Dick Morris for Fox News, and Steve Lombardo at the Huffington Post – predicted... |
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won't give political endorsements anymore in order to remain independent, according to Editorial Page Editor David D. Haynes' Oct. 26 announcement.
The daily newspaper has... |
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CNN unpublished an article that "did not meet the editorial standards of CNN," Mediaite reported. The story has been replaced with a post disclosing the unpublishing that reads:
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The Gallup Poll has come under attack for recent changes in its likely voter model. While they were apparently designed to overcome some of the shortcomings noted by Mark Blumenthal at Huffington Post, the results produced... |
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The Associated Press made a "caption addition" to an Oct. 8 photo of Mitt Romney that "clarifies" that a girl pictured in the background looked shocked "because Mitt Romney will be posing for a photo... |
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Mitt Romney was a news organization’s dream last week, when he resuscitated a moribund campaign with what many feel was a stellar debate performance. Now we’re all excitedly examining new polls to tell us exactly... |
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The New York Times "replaced" an article on Mitt Romney with a less critical report on Romney earlier this month.
The original article, “Behind Romney’s Decision to Attack Obama on... |
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Some Mitt Romney supporters have been arguing recently that most of the polls showing Obama surging in swing states, and even nationally, are wrong, because the polls have too many Democrats in the samples. These... |
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NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos blogged Sept. 12 to remind NPR's reporters that it is inaccurate to refer to the "Democrat Party," after a listener complained.
As Schumacher-Matos... |
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Fox News used a 2009 photo from Barack Obama's Twitter account in a segment last week to claim Obama was meeting a pirate instead of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Fox News' Brian Kilmeade said, "The White House... |
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Pollsters and pundits apparently can't figure out what this election is all about. While “It’s The Economy, Stupid” is so 1992, this year the polls continue to show that “the most important... |
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Where were you when you first learned that Obama got a “bounce” from the Democratic National Convention? Such exciting news will remain with you…oh, you didn’t know he got a... |
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With about nine weeks remaining in the presidential campaign, but…what?...a century or so since it’s been under way, are there any voters out there who haven’t already made up their minds whether they... |
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The Orlando Sentinel published its positive reaction to a Mitt Romney speech before the event happened, Jim Romenesko reported.
According to Romenesko, the Sentinel's Mike Lafferty said "the text was... |
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Massaging sources for information is not a new phenomenon in journalism but apparently Arianna Huffington has taken the old adage quite literally. She has spent the past week with her arms deep in massage cream as she,... |
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Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief David Chalian for "inappropriate" comments during the Republican National Convention. Chalian is quoted as saying of the Romney campaign:
"They're not... |
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Denver CBS affiliate KCNC-TV 4 reporter Shaun Boyd told viewers when airing her interview with Mitt Romney that Romney put restrictions on the interview preventing her from asking "him about abortion or Todd Akin... |
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The Washington Post corrected a blogpost and a tweet that claimed a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama was Photoshopped.
As visual journalist Charles Apple pointed out, the Washington Post tweeted August 22... |
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The New York Times highlighted a quote approval practice with U.S. 2012 presidential campaign reporters recently.
The July 15 New York Times article reported that press offices for presidential election campaigns can... |
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The Chicago Sun-Times turned off comments and added an editor's note to an article about the death of an Obama campaign staff member, Alex Okrent.
The editor's note reads:
"EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to... |
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Mitt Romney's campaign has criticized The Washington Post's reporting on the candidate twice this summer, as we've written.
And now, the campaign... |
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Politico and its suspended White House correspondent Joe Williams "mutually decided that the best step for him is to begin a transition to the next phase of his career," Mediaite reported Politico''s John... |
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Mitt Romney's campaign has again challenged the Washington Post's reporting on Romney, and the Post has again stood by its... |
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Mitt Romney's presidential election campaign outlined a series of complaints about the Washington Post's reporting, the newspaper's ombudsman reported June... |
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On June 20, Bloomberg released a new poll showing President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney by 13 points, 53% to 40%, among likely voters. The very next day, AP released its new poll – conducted over... |
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POLITICO's Joe Williams was suspended June 22 for comments about Mitt Romney. Williams' POLITICO bio identifies him as the "White House Correspondent" and his LinkedIn page says he has been with... |
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While public opinion polls suggest a very close race for the presidency in 2012, Professor of History Allan Lichtman of American University assures us that the contest has already been determined.
His arguments are... |
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Asking respondents who they will vote for in the presidential election several months away is a bit problematic. A lot of people simply haven’t made up their minds yet and won’t begin to think about the... |
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Recently, the ABC News/Washington Post poll reported that Mitt Romney “has emerged from the Republican primary season with the weakest favorability rating on record for a presumptive nominee…trailing a resurgent... |
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell apologized April 11 for his comments on Mormonism, Mediaite... |
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Just before April 1, the Bakersfield Californian issued a retraction for an "item in Friday's Outdoors column, by Steve Merlo." According to the retraction, the portion of the column "Foreign trout... |
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Selecting which facts to present in news stories is mostly a matter of judgment. Some alleged news organizations intentionally present biased information, while other news outlets claim to strive for objectivity.
The... |
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The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation gave the Oklahoma City University's Mass Communications department a $50,000 grant to help pay for the department's "10-episode series" called "Ethics... |
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New York Times op-ed columnist Charles M. Blow apologized for his Feb. 22 tweet about Mitt Romney, the National Review's Jim Geraghty... |
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All over the news this week are the amazing results of a Gallup tracking poll, which shows Rick Santorum leading Mitt Romney among Republicans nationally by 10 points!
Even after winning Iowa (in a delayed count),... |
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U.S. congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed the Boston Globe's story "that speculated she'd be throwing her support behind Mitt Romney" during his Feb. 1 visit to Minnesota, the Boston... |
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BusinessWeek withheld its cover image picturing Mitt Romney with a black eye and cuts and bruises. New York Magazine, however, went ahead with a similarly themed cover photo of Romney, Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich... |
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Last week, an e-mail posing as a CNN news alert was "sent to Republican activists in South Carolina" on Jan. 19 before the South Carolina Republican primary, the Daily Caller reported.
The phony e-mail, which... |
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In a Jan. 19 article posted on Slate, Josh Voorhees summarizes the latest South Carolina poll results in these words:
"A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Newt Gingrich leading Mitt Romney, 33-31, in the state... |
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POLITICO suggested Jan. 1 that the Huffington Post got an "exclusive interview" with Mitt Romney because the CEO for Huffington Post's owner, AOL, made a donation to Romney's campaign.
The... |
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With the Iowa Caucuses only days away, and close to three-quarters of potential voters reportedly undecided as to whom they will support, The New York Times recently enlisted some respected academics to engage in serious... |
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Fox Latin America apologized to readers for a Facebook poll, the Associated Press reported.
According to the AP, a staff member created a poll on Facebook asking readers "who they think is responsible for the death... |
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MSNBC's Chris Matthews apologized to Mitt Romney and his campaign Dec. 14 after MSNBC "showed an appalling lack of judgment" in airing a brief report claiming Romney's slogan "Keep America... |
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Since the middle of November, national polls of Republicans have shown Newt Gingrich the new frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, with Gingrich now substantially ahead of Mitt Romney. But these polls are highly... |
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Yahoo News questioned why Fox News' Greta Van Susteren didn't disclose in her Nov. 29 segment on Herman Cain that her husband is an adviser to Cain, the scandal-ridden Republican presidential candidate..
As ABC... |
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Commentary
Since last April, I’ve written several stories that suggest it’s premature to talk about Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann and, most recently, Herman Cain as frontrunners in the 2012 GOP presidential... |
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About two weeks ago, I warned readers on this website not to be fooled into thinking that Herman Cain was a GOP frontrunner.
Since then, several national polls of Republican voters have shown Cain leading all the other... |
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CNN called for Mitt Romney to remove its Oct. 19 advertisement featuring footage from a CNN-hosted GOP debate, Yahoo News reported. A spokesperson for Romney, Andrea Saul, is quoted as telling Yahoo... |
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In light of Sarah Palin's early October announcement that she would not be running for president in 2012, American Journalism Review called on journalists to "overcome their Sarah Palin addiction" and... |
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We have a new phantom frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination: former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain. He’s not the frontrunner exactly, but as the New York Times reports, Mitt Romney and Cain are... |
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The New Republic has removed a photoshopped image that cut-and-pasted Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry into a month-old photo of the Republican debates.
The "original photo"... |
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Michele Bachmann recently announced she is running for the Republican presidential nomination. (Credit: YouTube, PBS News Hour, screenshot)
In recent days, Minnesota Congressional Representative Michele Bachmann... |
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The White House denied the Boston Herald access to a Barack Obama fundraiser and accused the newspaper of bias, the Herald reported. But, The Herald hasn't been permanently banned from being included in the press... |
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Is Donald Trump a viable presidential candidate? (Credit: Gothamist, screenshot detail)
Look at the recent poll results showing Donald Trump as a leading candidate for president. Does anyone seriously believe... |
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