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DD: How NBC Is Using FourSquare to Cover the Presidential Campaign

DD: The Life and Legacy of Mike Wallace

Daily Download's Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn discuss the life and legacy of CBS' legendary newsman.

DD on C-SPAN: Hilary Rosen v. Ann Romney

The Daily Download team was on C-SPAN this morning, discussing the interaction of politics and social media. It was the perfect moment to do so, after a Twitter debate raged last night and into today.

Oprah Who? Twitter Is the New Confessional

Goodbye, Oprah’s couch; hello, Twitter. You want to say you’re sorry in this day and age, tweet it. God forbid you pick up the phone and call someone.

It took lobbyist Hilary Rosen half a news cycle yesterday to apologize for sticking her foot in her mouth the night before on CNN by saying Ann Romney, a mother of five who has suffered from breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, “never worked a day in her life.”

When asked by Wolf Blitzer later in the day what she had to say to Romney, Rosen did not say she was sorry. When Wolf called her on it, Rosen seemed to think the electronic version was enough: “Well, I assume that Mrs. Romney saw my apology this afternoon, but, if not, I apologize.”

Take a look at:  Ann Romney’s Body Language Analysis

Republicans Love Diet Dr. Pepper. But Why?

A recent study from National Media Research Planning & Placement identified particular brands that resonate also political lines, such as Diet Dr. Pepper’s strength with Republicans. But: why?

How Police Forensics Saved A Novel

Trish Vickers is an author, who writes her novels by hand. Trish is also blind. When she recently discovered that she’d written 26 pages with a dry pen, she and her family took the manuscript to the local police to see if they could help recover what she’d written

CREEP Returns To The Watergate

Someone with a keen sense of both humor and history has registered a new SuperPAC named “The Committee to Re-Elect the President.” Or CREEP for short. And it’s mailing address will sound awfully familiar.