Monthly Archive
May 2006
-
Politics, The Water Cooler
Peter Beinart on Liberals, Terrorism and the War in Iraq The former New Republic editor discusses his new book about liberalism's response to the threat posed by terrorism.
By Paul McLeary
May 31, 2006 03:15 PM Comments (1)
-
Behind the News
Tears and Jeers for Katie’s Farewell Oh Katie -- you're really gone! Oh, wait, you're just moving to another network ...
May 31, 2006 01:44 PM Comments (2)
-
Behind the News
Times Fails to Get Even a Cliché Right The paper runs a story that's not only tired, but that also manages to contradict both itself and another piece that ran just a few days earlier.
May 31, 2006 01:37 PM Comments (1)
-
The Audit
Journal Outdone by Buffalo, Detroit Over the past week, the Wall Street Journal has given a cursory treatment to the important news about General Motors' buyout program.
May 31, 2006 12:49 PM
-
Behind the News
Court Rules in Favor of Journalism An appeals court puts bloggers and journalists employed by professional news organizations on equal footing - at least in the state of California.
May 31, 2006 12:48 PM
-
Behind the News
Newsweek Discovers Doomed Spinsters Marrying It's not often that we have to wait 20 years for a correction, but this is one of those times.
May 30, 2006 02:48 PM
-
Politics
Okay, It’s Hard to Get 2006 Right - But 1994? A New Yorker article typifies the Washington press corps' tendency to hew to conventional wisdom, no matter how many times that wisdom has been proved wrong.
By Paul McLeary
May 30, 2006 02:04 PM
-
Behind the News
Iraq: For Journalists, the Deadliest War Three more reporters are caught in the violence in Iraq, and the war has now proved more costly for journalists than any other in history.
May 30, 2006 12:57 PM
-
Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Lara Setrakian on Untold Stories from Guantanamo Bay The ABC News reporter discusses her interview with a group of recently freed Guantanamo detainees - and how Gitmo should be covered.
May 29, 2006 09:00 AM
-
Behind the News
What the F—k Are They Driving At? The New York Times changes a quote to omit an obscenity - and turns fury into mild exasperation.
May 26, 2006 04:12 PM
-
The Audit
Mindreaders Befuddled by Enron Jury As the nation waited to hear the outcome of the Enron trial, television news hosts struggled to fill empty airtime.
May 26, 2006 01:37 PM
-
Politics
White House Press Corps Stricken by Sudden Feebleness Covering a joint press conference with George W. Bush and Tony Blair, the entire Washington media establishment recycled the same cheap shot at the two leaders.
By Paul McLeary
May 26, 2006 01:29 PM
-
Behind the News
A Reporter’s Reporter in Iraq Nir Rosen operates outside up-armored news bureau compounds to bring the muffled voices of Iraqis back home to the States.
By Paul McLeary
May 25, 2006 03:18 PM
-
The Audit
Market “Jitters” Up, Down, Up: Who Cares? Newspapers are dropping their daily stock listings -- shouldn't market round-up stories be next?
May 25, 2006 01:55 PM
-
Politics
Bloggers Respond Warmly to Dobbs’ Fire and Brimstone The CNN anchor launches another attack on Bush administration policies, and online commentators respond in kind.
May 25, 2006 12:57 PM
-
Politics
Prefrontal Cortexes Fuel Talk Radio? As you read this, experts are hard at work studying the brains of people suffering from myriad ills, from Alzheimer's to dyslexia ... to, apparently, political passion.
May 24, 2006 02:04 PM
-
Behind the News
Bloggers React to Anchor Shuffle With Dismay Elizabeth Vargas fans respond with anger and disappointment to the announcement of her departure from ABC’s anchor desk.
May 24, 2006 01:42 PM Comments (1)
-
Politics
Wanted: “Un-Journalists” to Cover the 2008 Election What's a political reporter to do when the presidential primaries are nearly two years away? Why, hand out meaningless titles, like “The Un-Hillary”!
May 24, 2006 12:09 PM
-
Behind the News
“Good News” from Iraq Found - in Northern Virginia The Washington Times rushes to page one with positive tidings from Iraq, but overlooks one minor detail - actually gathering the news.
May 23, 2006 04:06 PM Comments (1)
-
Politics
Gore Running on Fumes, Addington Running the White House A series of profiles in this week's magazines goes inside the heads of some powerful men -- and the nanny who raised one of them.
May 23, 2006 02:52 PM Comments (1)
-
Politics
Harper’s Ben Metcalf Throws Hissy Fit, Spits Up Would somebody please give the magazine's literary editor a back rub? Or maybe pour him a cup of sleepy-time tea?
May 22, 2006 03:40 PM Comments (3)
-
Politics
Bloggers Get Riled Up Over Illegal Immigration Newsflash As the debate over immigration continues, the San Francisco Chronicle weighed in Sunday with a story that sparked heated commentary from conservative blogs.
May 22, 2006 11:55 AM Comments (1)
-
Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Vaughn Ververs on Transparency, Focus and Critics The editor of CBS's Public Eye discusses better-than-expected cooperation from CBS employees and answers some of the blog's critics.
By Bryan Keefer
May 19, 2006 04:52 PM
-
Politics
And Just What Is Congress.org? Journalists love lists - so much so that this week, most didn't bother telling readers about the source behind a "power ranking" of Congressional leaders.
May 19, 2006 02:54 PM Comments (1)
-
Behind the News
KPIX Leads the Way on the Kaiser Investigation The San Francisco CBS affiliate’s series of reports on Kaiser this month shows just how good local television news can be, when it wants to.
May 19, 2006 01:30 PM
-
Politics
Aliens: A Topic Made for Blogging The blogosphere is busy dissecting the media's (mis)handling of the immigration debate -- and in most cases, amnesty is not being offered.
May 18, 2006 02:30 PM
-
The Audit
Round ‘Em Up! Ride ‘Em In! Raw … Talent? Are U.S. companies really looking to outsource jobs to rural America? A CNN story, backed by a single source, says yes. Logic says, probably not.
May 18, 2006 01:58 PM
-
Behind the News
At CNN, “Who Knows?” Counts as Reporting On Wednesday, Paul McCartney and his wife announced they were separating, blaming an intrusive media as a factor. A CNN report on the split effectively proved their point.
May 18, 2006 12:47 PM
-
Behind the News
Once There Were Giants Time Inc. has laid off the nation's premier investigative team: Donald Barlett and James Steele, who for more than 30 years have set standards others could admire only from afar.
May 18, 2006 11:48 AM Comments (5)
-
Politics
Morning Shows Buried By Snowstorm On Wednesday, Tony Snow did William Ginsburg one better, appearing (or appearing to appear) on all three network morning shows at the same time.
May 18, 2006 10:48 AM
-
Behind the News
International News, Falling By the Wayside The U.N. wonders why many international stories don't receive the coverage they deserve. The short answer (at least in the U.S.) is: Editors know their audience.
By Paul McLeary
May 17, 2006 02:42 PM Comments (2)
-
Behind the News
Tony Snow Show Snows Bloggers While news outlets gave Tony Snow's debut high marks, what did bloggers think?
May 17, 2006 01:59 PM
-
The Audit
The Atlantic Shows That Ideas Can Be News In the current issue of the magazine Joshua Green provides a detailed portrait of how Wal-Mart's heath-care woes are impacting the health of the American economy, and vice versa.
May 16, 2006 06:03 PM
-
Behind the News
A Kinder, Gentler Press Briefing? It’s hard to imagine Scott McClellan or Ari Fleischer tearing up at the podium, but Tony Snow did just that today in his on-camera debut as White House press secretary.
May 16, 2006 05:40 PM
-
Politics
Iraq, Christians, and the “Time 100” Party More on reporters in Iraq, permanent-looking military bases, and inane conversations among celebrities.
By Paul McLeary
May 16, 2006 02:00 PM
-
Politics
The Spooks Are Falling Out of the Woodwork ABC News reports that the federal government may be tracking its phone calls. Will this story disappear just like previous revelations about reporters caught up in domestic surveillance programs?
By Paul McLeary
May 15, 2006 03:32 PM
-
Politics
Michael Schiavo, Blogger, Stirs Things Up Again The battle over the future of Terri Schiavo may have ended months ago, but the battle over Michael Schiavo's blogging future is just getting started.
May 15, 2006 12:32 PM
-
Behind the News, The Water Cooler
David Dusek on Golf, Editing and a National Magazine Award The Ellie winner discusses his winning feature, "The New Way to Putt," his own golf handicap and magazine articles that can shift paradigms.
May 12, 2006 05:26 PM
-
Politics
White House Goes on Offensive Against Press A barrage of press releases claiming media inaccuracies shows that new Press Secretary Tony Snow may be more nimble and adept than his predecessor – but not any more correct.
By Paul McLeary
May 12, 2006 04:32 PM Comments (1)
-
Behind the News
Blowing the Whistle on a Potential Owner The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that a bidder for both that paper and the Daily News is looking to gut them. With offers due Tuesday, the city's newspaper journalism is up for grabs.
May 12, 2006 04:19 PM
-
The Audit
Business Press Misses Politics of the Pump There are many reasons for the soaring cost of gas, but looking at the relationship between politicians and energy companies seems to be off-limits for some reporters.
By Paul McLeary
May 12, 2006 04:01 PM Comments (2)
-
Politics
Press Pretends It’s Not a Player in the Saga of Al Gore Political journalists like to pretend they're umpires, not players. But political journalists, whether they acknowledge it or not, are setting the stage for a Gore comeback.
May 12, 2006 01:26 PM Comments (2)
-
Behind the News
Spooks Have Your Phone Bill; Daughtry Tossed Off Idol How did the morning shows handle the "shocking" news about NSA data collection relative to the "stunning" news of an American Idol contestant's dismissal? Nimbly, as ever.
May 11, 2006 05:32 PM
-
Behind the News
New York Times, USA Today Reverse Roles A comparison of the two papers’ home pages this morning reveals USA Today had better reporting, better news judgment and made better use of the Web.
By Bryan Keefer
May 11, 2006 01:30 PM
-
Behind the News
Do It Now, Fix It Later! A blogger's discovery of a "major security hole" on nytimes.com makes clear that the Gray Lady is still learning to swim in the tumultuous seas of the blogosphere.
May 11, 2006 12:52 PM
-
Politics
New York Times Goes Medieval On Us What with all the "jousting" and "skirmishing" going on in the paper’s story about appeals court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, certain basic facts fell through the cracks.
May 10, 2006 04:06 PM Comments (1)
-
The Audit
Local TV Gets Static from iTunes A few stories, culled from different news outlets, paint a curious picture for local television stations.
By Paul McLeary
May 10, 2006 02:36 PM
-
Politics
CNN Catches Wind of an Explosive Story What if the government triggered a 700 ton blast in the Nevada desert, but no news organization bothered to cover it?
May 10, 2006 02:25 PM Comments (3)
-
Politics
Blogs Respond to Cohen Responding to Blogs Responding to Cohen Netizens fill the inbox of a Washington Post columnist with emails "emanating raw hatred," then tell him that digital lynch mobs are, well, to be expected.
May 10, 2006 12:56 PM Comments (2)
-
The Audit
Chronicle Jumps on ‘Huge’ Story - From Last Month It's by and large a 24/7 news world now, though occasionally one still comes across exceptions.
May 9, 2006 05:39 PM
-
Politics
Running Out of Goss American magazines this week hover backstage and try to provide some analysis of what exactly is going on behind the tattered curtains at the CIA.
May 9, 2006 02:12 PM
-
The Audit
Los Angeles Times Contributor Successfully Mixes Booze and GDP What do you get when you cross a noir-inspired op-ed with a think tank economist? An enjoyable business column.
By Paul McLeary
May 8, 2006 05:05 PM Comments (1)
-
Politics
Kos Pummels Hillary; Left & Right Pummel Kos The ubiquitous political blogger launches a broadside on the New York Senator and her presidential prospects, leading fellow liberal bloggers to take turns pile-driving him to the mat.
May 8, 2006 01:17 PM Comments (3)
-
Behind the News
Los Angeles Times Produces An Investigation That Pays Off The newspaper digs into the troubled kidney transplant program run by California's largest HMO, providing the very definition of a public service.
May 8, 2006 12:30 PM Comments (2)
-
Politics
Americans Don’t Trust the Media, Bloggers Quibble Over It The New Republic and RedState.org don't see eye-to-eye over a new poll about how much Ameicans trust the media.
By Paul McLeary
May 5, 2006 04:56 PM Comments (1)
-
Behind the News, The Water Cooler
A Veteran Critic, on the Press and on Critics Mark Jurkowitz on the difference between writing for newspapers, alt-weeklies and blogs, and his new role at the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
By Paul McLeary
May 5, 2006 02:47 PM Comments (2)
-
Behind the News
The Times: Where Editors Sleep Standing Up How many corrections -- and updates of corrections -- does one story warrant?
May 5, 2006 02:35 PM
-
The Audit
Man Porn! Bites Porn! Dog Porn! Computerworld sexes up a story on the ongoing battle for DVD supremacy between two next-generation, high-definition formats.
May 5, 2006 11:19 AM
-
Behind the News
Chronicle Kills Babe Ruth Prematurely, Then Hints at Time Travel The legend of the Sultan of Swat took a few mystifying turns on the Web site of the San Francisco newspaper this morning.
May 4, 2006 02:45 PM
-
Behind the News
Of Singleton and San Francisco The Bay Guardian gets fired up defending the status quo of daily journalism in the Bay Area - a situation which to us hardly seems worth preserving.
May 4, 2006 02:05 PM
-
Politics
Moussaoui Gets Life, Bloggers Get Reflective Failed 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui gets life in prison, instead of the death penalty for his knowledge of the plot, and the blogosphere steps back to reflect on what this all means.
By Paul McLeary
May 4, 2006 12:07 PM
-
The Audit
CNBC, Money Honey Fake Out the Markets The Money Honey (and her CNBC cohorts) hyped her “surprising” scoop then feigned surprise when viewers were actually surprised by what she reported.
May 4, 2006 09:19 AM Comments (1)
-
The Audit
CNNMoney Delves Into Problem of Mom Salaries The financial news site recycles a PR gambit into a feature story.
May 3, 2006 03:18 PM
-
Politics
MSNBC Drops Plame Bomb, Blogosphere Ignites A correspondent for the network reports yet another sensitive thread of the Valerie Plame story, bringing forth much chatter from bloggers.
By Paul McLeary
May 3, 2006 02:00 PM
-
The Audit
Flack Says Ogle Google Girl, Reporters Comply ABC News grants "Google's First Female Engineer" two chances to spread the company's good news - and spread it thick.
May 2, 2006 04:18 PM
-
Behind the News
NBC’s “Exclusive” Enters Third Dimension If there were a protective shelter for words abused at the hands of American journalists, one word in particular would deserve a special, quiet recovery room.
May 2, 2006 03:54 PM
-
Behind the News
Faux Southerners, Threats from Pellicano and Yet Another Rant on Iraq The New Republic punctures the image of a blowhard, while Reason takes a cheap shot at reporters in Iraq.
By Paul McLeary
May 2, 2006 02:09 PM
-
Politics
Ephron Confuses “Embedded” With “Bedded” The writer decries the military's program for embedding journalists with military units, but she misses the point entirely - and misreads history.
By Paul McLeary
May 1, 2006 04:05 PM
-
Behind the News
Disaster Season Upon Us; Dispatch Boiling Lava Reporters Soonest! Reporting on disasters - especially disasters yet to occur - offers up endless possibilities for the mainstream media.
May 1, 2006 03:43 PM
-
Politics
Al Qaeda On the Run From - Bloggers?? Bloggers react to a story about expanded presidential authority, news that al Qaeda has allegedly been defeated in Iraq and Stephen Colbert's Sunday speech mocking the Washington press corps.
By Paul McLeary
May 1, 2006 12:34 PM
- « December 2008
- « November 2008
- « October 2008
- « September 2008
- « August 2008
- « July 2008
- « June 2008
- « May 2008
- « April 2008
- « March 2008
- « February 2008
- « January 2008
- « December 2007
- « November 2007
- « October 2007
- « September 2007
- « August 2007
- « July 2007
- « June 2007
- « May 2007
- « April 2007
- « March 2007
- « February 2007
- « January 2007
- « December 2006
- « November 2006
- « October 2006
- « September 2006
- « August 2006
- « July 2006
- « June 2006
- « May 2006
- « April 2006
- « March 2006
- « February 2006
- « January 2006
- « December 2005
- « November 2005
- « October 2005
- « September 2005
- « August 2005
- « July 2005
- « June 2005
- « May 2005
- « April 2005
- « March 2005
- « February 2005
- « January 2005
- « December 2004
- « November 2004
- « October 2004
- « September 2004
- « August 2004
- « July 2004
- « June 2004
- « May 2004
- « April 2004
- « March 2004
- « February 2004
- « January 2004
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
Blog
The Kicker last updated: Wed 12:13 PM
- Pass the #popcorn
- Should Center Square Journal shut down?
- Must-reads of the week
- WaPo: Got agency?
- On building trust
The Future of Media
News Startups Guide last updated: Mon 3:27 PM
- ACEsTooHigh.com Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
- ACEsConnection.com A niche social network for professionals working in science, education, and policy related to childhood trauma
Editors' Picks
-
The Bo scandal: how we got that story Thanks to the web, you can follow the money online—even in China
-
Liz Cox Barrett picks her top stories from 2011 Best of 2011: Liz Cox Barrett
-
A VIP pass to cover the Iowa presidential caucuses Access and amenities for a cost
-
How the media has shaped the Social Security debate The press plays a dubious role
-
Explore CJR’s extensive guide to digital news startups Discover the Guide to Online News Startups
