Monthly Archive
August 2006
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Politics
Newsweek Fingers Armitage as Novak’s Source, Bloggers React For some bloggers, the news that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was columnist Robert Novak's mystery source raised more questions than it answered.
By Mark Boyer
August 31, 2006 04:19 PM
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Behind the News
What Couric Left Behind Think she'll be nostalgic for "Today?" Think again.
August 31, 2006 04:08 PM
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Politics
Post Props Up Falsehoods, Then Shoots ‘Em Down When should reporters ignore partisan spin, and when should they confront it head-on with a little reality-based reporting?
By Paul McLeary
August 31, 2006 03:15 PM
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Politics
Setting Fire To Straw Men Why can’t the Wall Street Journal get the Democrats right on Iraq?
By Paul McLeary
August 30, 2006 06:10 PM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Who Needs Business Reporters When You Have Spammers? According to the Economist, many folks appear to be getting their financial news from ... unsolicited email. That's right, spam.
August 30, 2006 04:52 PM
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Politics
Rumsfeld Launches PR Campaign. Bloggers Not Appeased. Rumsfled fires a shot across the bow of critics of the Iraq war, and bloggers on the left fire back.
August 30, 2006 02:12 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Katrina Coverage, by the Numbers Over the past year, television news coverage of the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast has been uneven -- and the numbers prove it.
By Paul McLeary
August 30, 2006 01:58 PM
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Behind the News
The Reporter Who Came In From the Cold In Germany it can be difficult to tell a journalist from a spy, as the story of one German reporter shows all too well.
By Mariah Blake
August 30, 2006 12:11 PM
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Behind the News
After the Circus The press needs to ask itself some questions about the Mark Karr coverage. Here's a starter: Suppose he was guilty after all - would that justify all that ink, all those minutes?
August 29, 2006 05:17 PM
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Behind the News
What’s More Important — Plants, or People? There's an immigration crisis brewing in Spain, yet the New York Times sees fit to bury it in a larger piece about biodiversity.
August 29, 2006 05:10 PM
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Politics
What’s the Object of Objectivity? Context is king in solid, well-reasoned reporting. Anything less fails to tell the whole story, and fails to provide a window on reality. Especially in Iraq.
By Paul McLeary
August 28, 2006 04:58 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
NBC Crashes and Burns in Emmy Sketch Some bloggers reacted angrily to an Emmy sketch last night, some not at all ...
August 28, 2006 01:43 PM
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Politics, The Water Cooler
Roger Weisberg on Waging a Living and How the Press Covers Poverty The award-winning documentary filmmaker discusses the process and challenges of depicting poverty in America.
August 25, 2006 04:00 PM
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Behind the News
Economist Predicts a Dim Future for Newspapers The magazine this week adds a nail to the proverbial coffin containing your daily newspaper -- now shot, stabbed, and drowned a thousand times over.
August 25, 2006 03:30 PM
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Politics
A Breath of Fresh Air This month's New York Times guest columnist Tom Frank brings some much-needed vitality to the paper's often staid Op-Ed page.
August 25, 2006 03:12 PM
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Behind the News
Mystery Beast Slain in Maine, Resurrected for Media Sideshow The first installment of CJR Daily's newest feature takes a look at a contagious, strange story that has already inspired a line of collectibles.
August 25, 2006 02:25 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
The New Yorker Business Section Takes on Pensions Malcolm Gladwell's current essay in the New Yorker is thought provoking, but in the end is little more than a new way to tell an old, and somewhat more complicated story.
By Paul McLeary
August 25, 2006 01:54 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Fox Looks Into Future, Concludes It’s Cloudy Fox News weighs in on the favorites in the 2008 presidential race, and has a hard time making up its mind.
August 25, 2006 01:20 PM
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Behind the News
Putting a Story Archetype To Rest ABC provides convincing evidence why -- past media coverage otherwise -- people are much more dangerous than sharks.
August 24, 2006 05:35 PM
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Politics
Psst! Iran Helped Plan September 11 … Today's front-page stories concerning the Bush administration's saber rattling over Iran raises the question: Is the press going to repeat the mistakes of 2002?
August 24, 2006 03:21 PM Comments (5)
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Behind the News
Isay: Listening is an Act of Love Many people can tell stories, and some can tell them well, but a precious few can spin a tale without speaking at all.
August 24, 2006 01:40 PM
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Behind the News
Bloggers Defend Career Women Forbes tells its male readers to avoid career women if they want to be happy, which doesn't make for a very happy blogosphere.
August 24, 2006 11:52 AM Comments (1)
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Politics
This is Not an Umbrella At what point does a conceptual cliché become an empty reference, rubbed raw by ubiquity? Our answer, in the case of columnists' tired overuse of Munich and 1938, is now.
August 24, 2006 11:16 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
AP Forgets Men, and Context What happens when a reporter, in the interest of writing a focused story, jettisons any attempt at putting data in context? The AP has the answer.
By Paul McLeary
August 23, 2006 03:45 PM
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The Audit
No Slaves Here, Folks, Move Along Please Apple Computer Inc. recently investigated itself, with enviable PR results.
August 23, 2006 03:00 PM
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Behind the News
For Frontline Producer, Katrina’s Wrath Topped Iraq "I was affected more by Katrina than Iraq, by the vastness of the devastation," Martin Smith told an audience at Columbia's J-school Tuesday evening.
August 23, 2006 01:32 PM
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Behind the News
David Ignatius Ponders al-Jazeera. Bloggers React When a pundit talks about the Arab media, you can bet the bloggers will weigh in with their own views on the subject.
August 23, 2006 12:21 PM
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The Audit
Ain’t No Science to Guessing Price of Oil When it comes to war-gaming the price of oil, analysts and reporters rely on little more than educated guesses.
By Paul McLeary
August 22, 2006 02:35 PM
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Politics
The Daily News Takes on Lung Disease and 9/11 A hard-hitting editorial campaign, lambasting the city in full-throated tabloid style, gets results.
August 22, 2006 02:12 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Look Who’s Fair And Balanced On the news broadcasts of the Arab world's dominant all-news channels this summer, polarizing language was rarely heard.
August 22, 2006 12:32 PM
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Behind the News
Spike Lee Documents Hurricane Katrina, Bloggers Cry The latest Spike Lee joint spurs the normally hard-hearted blogosphere to show some compassion.
August 22, 2006 12:10 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
No Media Frenzy for Fox’s Kidnapped Journalists? What happened to those two reporters kidnapped in Gaza? Theories abound as to why the media seems to be laying off the story.
August 21, 2006 01:22 PM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Photographer Aric Mayer on Shooting New Orleans Having spent weeks in the wreckage of New Orleans last September, a photographer puts his work into perspective.
By Paul McLeary
August 21, 2006 12:00 PM
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Politics
No Downy-Soft Treatment for Ridge, This American Morning In an interview the former Secretary of Homeland Security kept bobbing and weaving in his own defense, while CNN host Miles O'Brien kept on the attack.
August 18, 2006 06:20 PM
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Behind the News
The War You See, and the War You Don’t Editors and producers ought to put their foot down: ignore demands for censorship, and make judicious decisions about battle footage case by case.
August 18, 2006 03:15 PM
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Behind the News
Trying to Draw Conclusions About a Fluid Situation Nailing a story in a headline is hardest when a situation is in flux -- and nothing better describes what is happening in south Lebanon than "flux."
August 18, 2006 10:51 AM
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Behind the News
Media Covers Previous Coverage of Ramsey Case A sudden arrest in Thailand led all three network newscasts last night. And with little fresh to go on, self-referential reporting dominated.
August 17, 2006 04:00 PM
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Politics
More on Iraq, and Moving Back to K Street Blogospheric reactions to theNew York Times' news on Iraq and the Washington Post's K Street coverage.
By Paul McLeary
August 17, 2006 12:13 PM
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The Audit
With Analysis, Anything Is Possible We know "speculation" is a powerful force capable of many things (attracting anonymice and influencing journalists, for example) -- but, merging companies?
August 17, 2006 09:26 AM
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Behind the News
Post’s Farhi Scores Clean Tackle - on a Teammate A Style writer takes on a celebrated sports columnist with a bone-crunching review.
August 16, 2006 11:50 AM
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Politics
Times Reports Iraq Carnage, Bloggers Ask for More Good news or bad news -- which to report? Plus, why aren't Iraqis more supportive of the occupation of their country?
By Paul McLeary
August 16, 2006 11:33 AM
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The Audit
News Flash: Some People Want to Be Rich A USA Today story about being rich proves once again that August really is a slow news month.
August 16, 2006 10:28 AM
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Politics
Wallace Flashes Style Over Substance The 60 Minutes newsman used his trademark gruffness to break down the smiling defenses of the Iranian president -- but never really pressed him about anything.
August 15, 2006 04:00 PM
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Behind the News
ABC Shows That Little Errors Add Up Copy editors, reporters needed at ABCNews.com. Any takers?
August 15, 2006 01:55 PM
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Politics
Hurricanes, Hezbollah, and Apartments in New York City The New Republic examines Katrina one year later, the New Yorker publishes Seymour Hersh's latest, and the Believer highlights how one talented journalist practices her trade.
By Paul McLeary
August 15, 2006 01:35 PM
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Politics
Abroad, Ahmadinejad Launches Blog; At Home, Calame Outs Keller Iran's president makes his blogging debut, while the Times' public editor clarifies the timeline behind his paper's delayed publication of its warrantless eavesdropping bombshell.
August 14, 2006 01:48 PM
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Politics
Falsely Accused, the Washington Times Falsely Accuses Another Two people falsely accused of the same crime might be expected to share a certain empathy for one another. But two newspapers? Not so much.
August 14, 2006 10:25 AM
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Behind the News
There’s a PR War Going On in the Middle East Too Throughout the back channels of cyberspace, the Israeli Foreign Ministry is trying to counter the rise of Lebanese blogs.
By Alia Malek
August 14, 2006 10:15 AM
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The Audit
Reporter Qualifies for Wal-Mart Job … in China Reuters bests the AP in the race for the week's most repetitive and mediocre article about people who work for Wal-Mart.
August 11, 2006 05:10 PM
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Politics, The Water Cooler
Neil Vigdor on Joe Lieberman and Living in Greenwich on a Reporter’s Salary The politics reporter for Greenwich Time and The (Stamford) Advocate discusses covering the Connecticut Senate race and the impact of blogs.
August 11, 2006 04:55 PM
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Behind the News
A Chicago Paper Faces Up to the Facts A Chicago daily faces up to some unpleasant facts about its parent company's finances.
August 11, 2006 01:30 PM Comments (2)
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Politics
Parroting the Party Line As reporting on the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary shows, coverage of Campaign 2006 is already falling prey to the pathologies that plagued the press during 2004.
By Paul McLeary
August 10, 2006 04:33 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Reporter Qualifies for Wal-Mart Job How many times can one story mention Wal-Mart is raising pay for some of its employees? Apparently, quite a few.
August 10, 2006 03:53 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Code Red, Fear-Mongering and Fat Babies It’s business as usual in the blogosphere, where the punching bags du jour include the media, politicians and fellow bloggers.
August 10, 2006 02:37 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Nora Ephron, on Zebras … Lions … Coyotes … and Vultures The essayist and screenwriter, in an interview with New York magazine, comments on mainstream journalism versus the blogosphere.
August 9, 2006 03:28 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Media Stutters While Pipelines Creak In the midst of this year's largest domestic oil crisis, the Washington Times is happily taking its cues from an accounting firm's PR department.
August 9, 2006 03:24 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Lamont Wins, and the Breast-Beating Begins Bloggers celebrate Ned Lamont's victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut and suggest the media have joined Joe Lieberman in Loserville.
August 9, 2006 01:56 PM
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Behind the News
Who’s Least Sincere - Politicians, Journalists, or Readers? David Brooks becomes a one-man wrecking ball for journalism's credibility.
August 9, 2006 01:07 PM
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The Audit
All the Bloomberg News that’s Fit to Print Bloomberg News is apparently evaluating its editors, in part, on how their stories play in the New York Times.
August 8, 2006 02:58 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Contemplating Hell … Heaven … And the End of the War on Terror Life in hell, thoughts on heaven, and what President Bush has on his nightstand and in his dressing room.
August 8, 2006 02:07 PM
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Politics
One of These Things is Not Like the Other A lame attempt to slam liberal bloggers makes the WSJ editorial page look even more desperate than usual.
By Paul McLeary
August 8, 2006 01:04 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Reuters Takes a Hit in the War on the MSM Was it really political bias that led a Reuters freelance photographer to doctor a picture of bomb damage in Beirut?
August 8, 2006 11:24 AM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
Getting It On Time and Online The New York Times Magazine tries something different: publishing a story online well ahead of the print edition.
By Paul McLeary
August 7, 2006 04:19 PM
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The Audit
Weighing in on Bono and His New Toy, Forbes.com Bloggers opine on the U2 rocker's major investment in Forbes Media.
August 7, 2006 01:15 PM
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The Audit
Another China Story, and We’re Still No Smarter Predicting the economic future of China is about as easy as swimming to it, but reporters need to delve beyond the safe and shallow waters of common knowledge.
August 7, 2006 12:25 PM
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Behind the News
An Appreciation of Peter Jennings, One Year Later The senior broadcast producer for ABC’s flagship newscast reflects on the legacy of Peter Jennings on the anniversary of his death.
August 7, 2006 11:24 AM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Megan Stack On War Reporting in Lebanon The Los Angeles Times' Cairo bureau chief discusses the calculated risks inherent in covering the war, and getting close to Hezbollah rocket fire more often than she'd like.
August 4, 2006 04:00 PM
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Politics
How to Twist Words By Not Using Them Some critics are doctoring quotes in order to slam Rep. John Dingell for "condemning" Hezbollah, while not "denouncing" the terrorist group.
By Paul McLeary
August 3, 2006 01:30 PM
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Behind the News
When All the World’s a Stage, Every Camera Is a Weapon Some bloggers and critics are floating the theory that Hezbollah staged the photos of dead civilians in Lebanon, but their critique of the photos was hardly convincing.
By Alia Malek
August 3, 2006 01:00 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Pondering Shutdown of White House Press Briefing Room Bloggers react to the final curtain call of a 20th-century relic.
August 3, 2006 12:30 PM
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Behind the News
Is It Life Imitating Art — Or Is It Journalism? Few subjects in life bring out the trend-mongering instinct in a reporter like misbehaving teenagers.
August 2, 2006 02:40 PM
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Behind the News
Court Imprisons Lone Wolf Blogger The case of a jailed video journalist and blogger has repercussions that extend to the entire journalism -- and blog -- community .
By Paul McLeary
August 2, 2006 02:27 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
It’s Gonna Be a Long Morning Would it be too much to ask that morning news shows use some news judgment when it comes to placement given and time spent covering Mel Gibson's DUI arrest? Of course it's too much to ask.
August 2, 2006 01:25 PM
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Politics
Carter Pleas for Peace, Bloggers Step Up Attack The former president issues an op-ed plea to "Stop the Band-Aid Treatment," which bloggers receive with characteristic restraint and maturity.
August 2, 2006 01:20 PM
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The Audit
Larry Kudlow Goes Stark Raving Mad A National Review writer and CNBC talking head takes an odd look at the conflict in the Middle East.
August 2, 2006 10:11 AM Comments (3)
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Politics
Open Season on Journalists in the Middle East The pen may be "mightier than the sword," but in recent years, the sword has left a trail of spilled ink - and blood. It is time for an international law banning targeted attacks on the media.
August 1, 2006 02:06 PM Comments (2)
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Politics
The Press Briefing Room, Iraq and Citizen Journalism Newsweek previews the rehab of the White House press briefing room, Time offers two takes on the Middle East crisis, and the New Yorker concludes that citizen journalism has brought us … not much.
August 1, 2006 01:45 PM
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