Monthly Archive

September 2006

• Politics

  Bloggers Debate Detainees’ Rights, Habeas Corpus Bloggers are reacting to the Senate's approval of the Bush administration's detainee bill with triumphant glee, cynicism, and dejectedness.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 29, 2006 01:18 PM Comments (16)

• The Audit

  Reuters: Cash-Strapped Fools to Drown Sorrows — Yeah! Every autumn comes interested industry parties predicting strong holiday sales -- and reporters who find such forecasts newsworthy.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 28, 2006 06:29 PM

• The Audit

  The Dow Wastes Journalists’ Time Business writers spent another day today reporting on things that didn't happen.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 28, 2006 05:18 PM

• Behind the News

  Inhofe, Climate Change and Those Alarmist Reporters On Monday, Sen. James Inhofe railed against climate research and the scientific press. But untangling his arguments about bad science and bad reporting is a difficult task.

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 28, 2006 03:00 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Another Poll For Bloggers to Mull Bloggers chew on -- and try to digest -- a poll of Iraqis revealing, among other things, that six out of 10 surveyed support attacks against coalition forces.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 28, 2006 01:46 PM Comments (4)

• Politics

  Post Goes For Flash, Dispatch For Substance In its story yesterday on an Ohio congressional race, the D.C. paper focused almost entirely on political scandal.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 28, 2006 01:30 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Frank Rich Cranks Out the Story — Again It's hard to write a review of Frank Rich's new book -- because it's a hard book to read.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 28, 2006 12:45 PM

• Behind the News

  T.O. Racks Up Yardage on the Most Viewed Lists News producers and news consumers go crazy for the latest bit of T.O. drama. Sigh.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 28, 2006 12:03 PM

• The Audit

  Business Mag Crunches Numbers, Figures It All Out Today BusinessWeek Online provided the state of the nation in a nutshell. More precisely, America is 6. It is not 1. Need we know more?

  By Mark R. Mitchell

  September 27, 2006 05:42 PM

• Politics

  Clinton’s Leg-acy: “Unsightly Man-Calf” Tip to politicians and other public figures: want to distract at least some media types from talking too much about timely topics? Show some leg.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 27, 2006 05:03 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Bloggers Dissect Meaning, Upshot of NIE Web scribes debate Tuesday's declassification of a National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 27, 2006 01:15 PM Comments (2)

• Politics

  Praise Fit For a King in the Queen City The Cincinnati Post ran three Bush appearance-related pieces on Tuesday, but one simply did not belong.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 27, 2006 10:25 AM Comments (2)

• Politics

  New York Post Could Learn From Fox’s Chris Wallace Rupert Murdoch-owned companies sure seem to be sucking every last bit of life out of the Wallace/Clinton interview on Sunday.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 26, 2006 05:00 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Sports Illustrated Makes a Big Bet on Fantasy Sports The venerable sports magazine extends its coverage in order to snare that number-crunching, sports-loving demographic who can't get enough.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 26, 2006 10:50 AM

• Behind the News

  Couric Tosses Softballs, Rice Knocks ‘em Out of the Park Everyone's talking about Chris Wallace's interview with Bill Clinton -- something that Katie Couric and CBS News should be thankful for after the anchor's embarrassing sit-down with Condi Rice.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 25, 2006 05:40 PM Comments (3)

• Politics

  Behind All the Macaca, a Vital Debate of Ideas When ideas are lost in the tabloid shuffle of election-year politics, it's up to reporters to set the record straight. In the Virginia Senate race, they're not doing a very good job of it.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 25, 2006 01:38 PM Comments (6)

• Politics

  The Scorecard on Clinton V. Wallace Bill Clinton turned a humdrum interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace into this weekend's must-see moment.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 25, 2006 12:28 PM Comments (8)

• The Audit

  Striking a Blow For Transparency It's about time that readers had access to the same statistics that columnists use to make economic arguments -- and it may be beginning to happen.

  By Bree Nordenson

  September 25, 2006 11:22 AM

• Behind the News

  Tribune Is Teetering … Let’s Get on With It Suddenly everything is on the table for Tribune, from going private, to selling off its TV stations, to a sale of the entire company.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 22, 2006 04:45 PM

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Waiting For Macaca The reporter who broke the news of Virginia Senator George Allen's Jewish ancestry tells how she got the story.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 22, 2006 04:03 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  All the ‘News’ That’s Fit to Charge $19,000 For CNN is caught airing news segments that have been paid for by corporate interests -- without telling viewers that they're watching a jazzed-up paid advertisement.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 22, 2006 01:14 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Bloggers on Sulfur, Evil, and Contempt Yesterday Hugo Chavez referred to President Bush as "the devil" -- leading countless bloggers to revel in the deviltry afterwards.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 21, 2006 03:30 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Child Pornography: To See, or Not to See? Do reporters need to see child pornography to write about it?

  By Alia Malek

  September 21, 2006 03:15 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  The AJC Takes the CDC’s Temperature On Sunday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke yet another solid investigative story about the Centers for Disease Control.

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 21, 2006 12:56 PM

• Politics

  When All Things Are Not Equal While the Voice of America under Kenneth Tomlinson's direction has taken some hits to its credibility, a little perspective is in order.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 20, 2006 05:20 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  The Smell of Marketing in the Morning If you're an anxious marketing manager in an industry desperate for a hit holiday-season product, where in the media might you go to hype your newest ware?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 20, 2006 04:53 PM

• Behind the News

  What Next, a Pound of Flesh? Among the various tightropes that the modern newspaper walks is the one between appealing to its readers' better natures or basest instincts. The choice is not always so clear.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 20, 2006 04:15 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Spies in the Newsroom More revelations from the investigation of HP's attempt to spy on journalists have some bloggers looking for the bigger story.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 20, 2006 01:40 PM

• Behind the News

  In Defense of Brent Musburger In the imbroglio over the ABC broadcaster's on-air revelation of a quarterback hand signal, it was USC that overstepped, not Musburger.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 20, 2006 10:20 AM

• Behind the News

  NYT, LAT, Wires Get the Story in Somalia Following an attack on Somalia's president yesterday, readers of American newspapers could actually find considerable coverage on the bombing this morning.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 19, 2006 03:36 PM

• Behind the News

  As Times-Tribune Co. Standoff Grows, Bloggers Take Sides The standoff between the suits at the Tribune Co. and Los Angeles Times editor Dean Baquet is reaching the level of epic saga.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 19, 2006 01:52 PM Comments (8)

• Behind the News

  The Restaurant Review, Baghdad-Style Not every story filed from Iraq's capital is full of blood and carnage -- but even the most innocuous piece of reportage is incredibly dangerous and difficult to get.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 19, 2006 11:30 AM

• Behind the News

  A Reporting Error Frozen in Time? Writing about issues such as global warming is complicated, and too few reporters brush up on their science when doing so.

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 19, 2006 10:23 AM

• Politics

  How Reliable Is the Zogby-Journal Poll? How much weight should journalists give to the interactive poll as midterm elections approach?

  By Felix Gillette

  September 18, 2006 05:58 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Give Expert Legal Opinions on AP Photog Case The AP argues for the release from custody of one of its own in Iraq, and bloggers get to the bottom of it.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 18, 2006 01:24 PM

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Tamara Jones on One Extraordinary 9/11 Mother The Washington Post feature writer discusses Marilynn Rosenthal, a sociologist who set out on a quest to understand the hijacker who killed her son.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 15, 2006 05:30 PM

• The Audit

  The Sun-Times, and the Lure of Beans "CVS spices up the drugstore," the Chicago newspaper declared today.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 15, 2006 05:05 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  New City, New Boss, a Sharper Atlantic Over half a year into the tenure of James Bennet at the relocated magazine, we take a look at where the Atlantic stands -- and like what we see.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 15, 2006 04:45 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Bloggers on Barnes on Bush on bin Laden This morning the Weekly Standard editor suggested that catching Osama bin Laden is "no longer a top priority" of President Bush's war on terror. Disbelief and dismay ensued.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 15, 2006 01:44 PM Comments (2)

• Politics

  Can the Press Find a Narrative Before the November Elections? Instead of a single, overarching theme around which political reporters can structure their coverage, things seem to be more complicated this year.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 15, 2006 11:38 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The Economist Wants to Put Greenbacks Behind Green Industry In presenting the story of global warming, the convention of providing journalistic "balance" runs up against its logical limit.

  By Curtis Brainard

  September 14, 2006 05:13 PM

• Behind the News

  Americans, Too Busy to Do Errands, Read About Them Instead Recently it dawned on the Most Post that there are plenty of people out there who like to read about gofers -- human gofers.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 14, 2006 03:15 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Bloggers Air Out Air America’s Financial Troubles With the liberal radio network in reportedly dire straits, bloggers are alternatively lamenting and celebrating.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 14, 2006 02:52 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Reporters Jump on Reports from Reporters The speculation surrounding Ford Motor Co. this week has been special, to say the least.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 13, 2006 06:00 PM

• Behind the News

  Los Angeles Times Refuses to Identify Already Identified Source Today the paper succeeded at steering the issue of protecting one's sources safely back into the realm of the absurd.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 13, 2006 05:13 PM

• Politics

  Fluff is on the March The New York Times dips its toes into the world of gossip again -- while trying to pretend that it isn't.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 13, 2006 01:44 PM

• The Audit

  The Dogma Behind the Pay Wall The New York Times' Paul Krugman and David Brooks cherry pick statistics while reducing a complicated economic issue to platitudes and politicking.

  By Bree Nordenson

  September 13, 2006 01:15 PM Comments (6)

• Politics

  Press Considers ‘2nd Run’ for Gore — Er, ‘3rd’ The AP brings us a breakthrough report from Australia concerning the political future of a certain former vice president.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 12, 2006 03:15 PM

• Behind the News

  Path to 9/11: A Belch in the Nation’s Slow Digestion of a Day With the end of the second episode of ABC's 9/11 movie, it's time to let the fiction begin its march into oblivion.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 12, 2006 03:06 PM Comments (13)

• Politics

  Journalist Inspires DHS Investigation, ‘Spheric Outrage Greg Palast's announcement that he and a colleague are being investigated for film work near New Orleans has brought near-unanimous indignation from bloggers.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 12, 2006 01:20 PM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  Chicago Bids Adieu to Dept. Stores, Uncritical Coverage Ensues Once the nostalgia is dispensed with, out comes the picture of a bright future. But what are the Chicago papers not asking as two landmark stores close?

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 11, 2006 05:10 PM

• Behind the News

  Has Killer Right Hand. Will Interview. MSNBC goes for the lowest common denominator by repeatedly airing footage of a reporter being pummeled by the enraged subject of his story.

  By Felix Gillette

  September 11, 2006 03:23 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Bloggers Express Guilt, Anxiety, Disgust Over 9/11 Replay Bloggers are not too happy about CNN Pipeline's all-day, real-time re-broadcast of 9/11/01 coverage today.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 11, 2006 02:08 PM

• Politics, The Water Cooler

  How Well Has the Press Covered Torture? A Q&A with the author of a new CJR piece which looks at how the press has covered allegations of the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 8, 2006 03:30 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  So, Who Else Is At Gitmo? What about the 400 or so other prisoners who have been held at Guantanamo Bay now for up to five years?

  By Eric Umansky

  September 8, 2006 02:45 PM Comments (7)

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Chandler Burr Brings a Point de Repère to Perfume Criticism The New York Times' new perfume critic explains what "smelling fresh insecticide while locked in an aluminum cell" might be like.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 8, 2006 01:22 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  ABC Loves Tennis Star, ‘Marketing Engine’ In a hyperbolic feature, the network uses an awful lot of superlatives to describe the 19-year-old Russian who sets men's eyes a-twittering across the globe.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 8, 2006 01:20 PM

• The Audit

  New One-Stop Stat Explains Everything Soon the 300 millionth American will come kicking and screaming into this world. In a special report, BusinessWeek, like an anxious midwife, yanks the babe out early.

  By Gal Beckerman

  September 7, 2006 03:45 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Apple Gets Reporters With Same Old Trick In the latest iteration of its foolproof mind game, the company electronically invited journalists to a "special event" in San Francisco, setting off speculative convulsions.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 7, 2006 02:25 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Mull Over Intriguing Episode From Anchor’s Past Radar reveals a shadowy episode from Anderson Cooper's college days -- but despite his assurances that it wasn't news, bloggers couldn't quite let it go.

  By Mark Boyer

  September 7, 2006 01:50 PM

• Behind the News

  Critics on Couric: She’s Got Legs! But Will Her Broadcast? Yesterday's crop of Couric reviews had a predictable, Mad Libs quality about them, and a finality that belied the fact that this was night one of a four-year contract.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  September 7, 2006 12:52 PM

• Politics

  The Forgotten Story of Abu Zubaydah Today's coverage of the president's speech about the interrogation of terrorists leaves out some choice bits of information.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 7, 2006 12:49 PM Comments (9)

• The Audit

  All You Need to Know About Splogs Wired takes a much-needed, critical look at the blogosphere and its nonsensical, computer-generated sites known as "splogs."

  By Felix Gillette

  September 6, 2006 05:13 PM

• Politics

  What’s in a Name? It's time to rethink how reporters handle dubious claims by politicians -- as the recent use of the term "Islamofascist" shows.

  By Alia Malek

  September 6, 2006 02:51 PM

• Politics

  The President of Iran, Bloggers, and Higher Education Why are liberal bloggers comparing the president of Iran to American conservatives?

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 6, 2006 02:06 PM

• Politics

  CBS Sanitizes Reality for the “Family” In the never-ending fight by cultural critics over profanity on television, it's Groundhog Day.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 5, 2006 04:35 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers, Sock Puppets, and The New Republic The magazine suspends an editor and shuts down his blog. Bloggers quickly fill the void.

  By Andrew Bielak

  September 5, 2006 02:30 PM

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Carl Hartman On One Long Career In a belated nod to Labor Day, an interview with the AP's longest-serving newsman.

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 5, 2006 02:15 PM

• Behind the News

  Fewer Beacons of Light in Akron What is it like when a newsroom suddenly loses a quarter of its staff?

  By Edward B. Colby

  September 1, 2006 05:00 PM

• Politics

  Reporters Stick to the Script in Salt Lake Cookie-cutter, "he said, she said" political reporting is the rule, rather than the exception. But every now and again, a newspaper will come along and offer something new.

  By Paul McLeary

  September 1, 2006 04:03 PM

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