Monthly Archive
November 2005
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Politics
Some Reporters Can’t Resist Even a Sputtering Washing Machine Often, there seems to be a sort of unspoken agreement between the political and reporting classes to wink, nod and let some obvious stretches of the imagination slide when news organizations run with some item that was obviously planted.
By Paul McLeary
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The MSM: Where Bad Reporting - and Cuteness! - Abound In honor of our newest section, The Audit, we'll kick off today's Blog Report with a look at a couple of bloggers' beefs with business reporting.
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Behind the News
Buying the News; L.A. Times Sniffs Out Payola in Iraq PR people are expensive. And often they don't, or can't, produce the results you might like. Wouldn't it be easier to just show up at your local paper with fistfuls of cash, and ask nicely if they'd print what you'd like them to?
By Bryan Keefer
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The Audit
The Media Fall for Some Savvy Marketing It's been almost impossible to ignore the hype surrounding America's newest post-Thanksgiving shopping milestone, "Cyber Monday."
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Behind the News
The New York Times: A Family Newspaper Something more than simple subjectivity seems to be at work in the New York Times' notable books of the year list: Six of the 61 nonfiction books were authored by Times staffers, and another four by regular contributors.
By Paul McLeary
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War and Teas
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Politics
Gaza’s Greenhouses Get the Times All Steamy Coverage of post- disengagement farming in Gaza comes up short on the details.
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The Audit
A Prophet of Doom Cherry-Picks the Numbers Gretchen Morgenson, a New York Times Wall Street reporter with a Pulitzer under her belt, is one of the shrewder financial minds in the business press, so it's always surprising to see her stumble.
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Pajamas Media Rolls Out Of Bed, Falls on Face When an organization whose goal it is to revolutionize the way in which people receive information asks its readers "What should we be?" more than a week after its much-hyped re-launch, odds are it's in trouble.
By Paul McLeary
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The Audit
USA Today Gets Jiggy With Some Gadgets The French philosopher Roland Barthes once proclaimed that in the United States "sex is everywhere, except in sexuality." Recently, the philosophers at USA Today took a stab at supporting Barthes' theory, uncovering indisputable evidence that sex can be found in unlikely places including ... electronic gadgetry.
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The Water Cooler
Ellen Soeteber on Leaving the Post-Dispatch, Changing a Newsroom’s Culture and Covering a “Three-Ring Circus”
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Behind the News
Bringing It All Back Home Are newspapers really dying? Or are rumors of their demise greatly exaggerated? A look at how some newspapers have been able to maintain print readership, and what lessons they might hold for the industry as a whole.
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Behind the News
Sometimes, the Answer Is the Answer The New York Observer gives us a Judith Miller article so counterintuitive as to be downright silly.
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Partisan Infection Strikes Medical Coverage News that the FDA and the CDC will next convene a "scientific meeting" to discuss the deaths of four California women who died several days after taking Mifeprex gets buried by partisan "he said / she said."
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Ted, We Hardly Knew Ye
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Politics
A Joke With an Explosive Punchline?
It's no secret that the Bush administration despises Al Jazeera. But would the U.S. government physically attack a foreign news source just because it offered a countervailing picture of U.S. foreign policy? -
Behind the News
Air Traffic, Out of Control It was a mixed blessing for cable news yesterday when a corporate jet in Oregon developed landing gear troubles soon after takeoff. The upside: dramatic live coverage sure to draw viewers -- almost like a police chase in the sky! The downside: lots of airtime to fill.
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The Audit
Not Covering All the Angles on the Xbox 360 Video games are big business. The release of a major new game system is a story that calls for some digging and tough questions.
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Murtha’s Change of Heart, and a “Third Way” in Iraq The week after Rep. John Murtha's dramatic call to bring the troops home, the nation's major magazines feature a smattering of offerings about the Pennsylvania congressman and the larger question of Iraq.
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Behind the News
Howard Kurtz, Piñata How real is Howard Kurtz's conflict of interest between his roles at CNN and the Washington Post?
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
Rolling Stone Looks At a PR Kingpin It's about time you got to know John Rendon. And thanks to a profile in Rolling Stone, of all places (we can't remember the last time they broke news like this), we can all become better acquainted with "the man who sold the war."
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The Audit
The New York Times Goes Cuckoo for Google These days, you don't have to look far to find a member of the business press with Google on his lips and pompoms in his hands.
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Press Conference Exit Strategies
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The Audit
Little Stories About a Big Company: Wal-Mart
By Paul McLeary
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The Water Cooler
Allan M. Jalon on the Future of Arts Journalism and Cuts at the Los Angeles Times
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Politics
The Phantom of the Operative After a brief intermission, the curtains have once again parted on the most theatrical show in the District. Improbably, the second (or is it the third? or fourth?) act of The Crying Plame seems with each passing moment more like it was scripted by Samuel Beckett than by Patrick Fitzgerald.
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Behind the News
Wen Ho Lee: The Next Patrick Fitzgerald?
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
An Open Letter from Knight Ridder Alumni
By Bryan Keefer
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The Audit
Introducing The Audit
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Politics
Plenty of Access, No Intelligence
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Politics
All for Torture, and Torture for All!
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The Audit
A Lot of Hot Air
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Behind the News
Another Retrenching by the Times
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Incendiary Musings
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The Audit
The Biz Pages: Bedtime Reading
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Behind the News
Dropping the (Soccer) Ball
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Chopping Woodward
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The Audit
Doomsday - or Not?
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Very Hidden
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Politics
What Isn’t Reported Counts As Much As What Is
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Why Did France Burn? A Rorschach Test
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Politics
Bush: Forrester’s Convenient Alibi
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The Audit
From One Journalist to Another - All the Tough Questions
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Anagram Wars
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Does Torture Even Exist? If So, When?
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The Water Cooler
Behind Every Successful Jock Is a …
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Politics
Stenographers at Work Again
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
What’s That Flushing Sound at NBC?
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Behind the News
Even Reporters Have Mastered the Art of Saying Nothing
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
Cyber Wars
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Who Is Lying About Iraq?
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Behind the News
Adios, Judy
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Politics
But What Does it All Mean?
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Behind the News
Clearing Away the Fog of War - Or Adding to It?
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Politics
A “Hit-Back”? How Can I Help?
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It’s Mary Mapes Day in the Blogosphere
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Behind the News
Men - What Good Are They, Anyway?
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Karl Rove - Albatross, or the Only Way Out?
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Politics
Reporting Not Just What Was Said, but What Was Asked
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Politics
“Digital Munich?” Or Jingoistic Hysteria?
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
Allesandra Stanley Pauses for a Commercial Break
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The Audit
Inventing a Fight Over the Internet
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Asking The Wrong Guy
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Bloggers Focus on France Aflame
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The Water Cooler
Bing West on the Marines, the Press, and Iraq
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Caricature: Works With Politicians, Not So Much With Real Life
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Politics
Rich Man, Poor Man
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Bush In Clover - Or Is It Poison Ivy?
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Behind the News
We Were Promised There Would Be No Math
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Behind the News
The Washington Post Gets Scooped - On Purpose?
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Politics
And We Wish It Had Stayed Hidden
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Blogs Lament Setback in Congress, Brooks Lays an Egg
By Paul McLeary
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Behind the News
Put This One on Ice
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Behind the News
Washington Post Tiptoes Into a Black Hole
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Politics
Concentrating on Pyrotechnics, Not Results
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Politics
Picking Presidential Pockets
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Harry Reid Closes Senate, Opens Up Blogosphere
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Verdun? Or Little Bighorn?
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Behind the News
Mary Mapes: Still Defending Her Assassin
By Bryan Keefer
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Politics
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
By Paul McLeary
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Politics
Prying Open Guantanamo
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Behind the News
No Raise for the Herald
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Breakups and Make-ups
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Desks
The Audit Business
- Reuters’s OKC gusher Its outstanding Chesapeake Energy investigation turns toward the gas driller SandRidge
- Audit Notes: insider trading versus CDO fraud, 401(k)s, lead and crime Rough treatment for inside-trading suspects contrasts with CDO probes
The Observatory Science
- Environment coverage TBD The Times says it’s committed, but only time will tell
- Call in the math club Science reporters can help ward off a “Big Data bubble”
United States Project Politics & Policy
- The Frank Luntz script for Congressional Republicans A guide to phrases journos should look for (and scrutinize)
- Hey readers: They’re bluffing! (maybe) The need to put political bargaining positions in context
Behind the News The Media
- German bill would charge for aggregation The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
- Gun permit data wasn’t maximized The choice that faced the Journal News was not simply whether to map gun permit holders’ addresses, but how
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