Monthly Archive
October 2006
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Politics
The Pentagon Just Wants to Share The Department of Defense is rolling out a robust new PR machine. But the question is: will they be upfront about what's news, and what's PR?
By Paul McLeary
October 31, 2006 03:41 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Investigative Story Joins Football Coverage in Top Ten Why is a piece of high-minded investigative journalism hanging out with the usual empty-headed rabble on the most-popular list at the Denver Post?
October 31, 2006 03:05 PM
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Behind the News
NY Post’s Circ Surge: Fuzzy Math or Election Weather Vane? What to make of the New York Post's circulation uptick? Bloggers discuss.
By Mark Boyer
October 31, 2006 01:14 PM
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Behind the News
Reporters Turn Ghostbusters for Halloween Surprising, but true: A smattering of reporters managed to ditch the lame cliches of writing about Halloween to actually do some timely reporting.
October 31, 2006 12:19 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
See Slime Run (But Try Not To Follow) Even more strange twists and turns in the already strange Virginia Senate race.
October 30, 2006 05:46 PM Comments (3)
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Politics
Times Tries to Predict Future, Bloggers Disagree The Blog Report is a regular feature in which CJR Daily looks at how big news stories are playing in the blogosphere.
October 30, 2006 02:00 PM
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Behind the News
Will the Times Steer Its Car Coverage Out of the Sunday Paper? If there's so much pent-up demand for mid-week auto ads, why not hop behind the wheel of the regular Sunday Automobiles section and re-park that sucker mid-week?
October 27, 2006 04:55 PM
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Politics
Where’s the Wisdom in the WaPo Profiles of Allen, Webb? Two lengthy profiles in the Washington Post of George Allen and James Webb fail to dig the Senatorial race in Virginia out from all the mud.
October 27, 2006 02:48 PM
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Politics
Bloggers Consider Impact of Lost Soldiers The mudslinging of the current campaign season continued Thursday night in Virginia. At issue: tawdry fiction writing.
October 27, 2006 01:23 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Why Does it Take a Newspaper Two Stories to Report the Facts? Newspapers usually offer three different views of an important story: straight reporting, analysis, and opinion. One of these often seems the odd man out.
By Paul McLeary
October 26, 2006 05:50 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Some Jerk Discovers Nice People in Offices The Christian Science Monitor breaks the news -- and it's news to us -- that, "At Work, 'Nice' is On the Rise."
October 26, 2006 04:36 PM
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Politics
Amid Tennessee Hubbub, Bloggers March to Battle One of the more dirty campaign seasons in recent memory got a little muckier in recent days thanks to two political ads in Tennessee.
October 26, 2006 02:09 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Why CNN’s Critics are Wrong About the Sniper Video CNN didn't air a recruiting film for the insurgency. It merely brought home a disturbing reality of the war in Iraq that many of our nation's enemies are already well aware of.
By Paul McLeary
October 25, 2006 04:54 PM Comments (10)
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Politics
Crossfire on the Today Show Plaza Why not invite the heads of the Republican and Democratic National Committees on your show to "talk" about the upcoming election/s? Exhibit A.
October 25, 2006 03:52 PM
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Behind the News
What Makes an Article About Bed-Sharing So … Share-able? Somewhat improbably, an article about a book on bed-sharing cracks the New York Times' most emailed list -- and stays there for 30 days.
October 25, 2006 02:48 PM
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Politics
Bloggers in a Spin About Dubious Paraguay Land Deal Today in the 'sphere: bloggers undeterred by the highly speculative nature of the president's supposed land speculation.
By Mark Boyer
October 25, 2006 01:39 PM
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Behind the News
Has the Chicago Tribune Heard of “Splogs”? While some writers celebrate the explosion of the blogosphere, they don't seem to be in possession of all the facts.
October 24, 2006 03:25 PM
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The Audit
Bloomberg Markets Uncovers a Staggering Scandal The magazine reports on $7 billion in phantom bonds issued by local governments across the country over the past decade, making an arcane issue come alive.
October 24, 2006 02:45 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Changing Direction, or Changing the Rhetoric? Traditional journalism isn't always at its best when parsing the difference between real change, and lip service.
October 24, 2006 02:23 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
God Versus Science — Back in the News A new book about religious belief has been burning up the pages of newspapers and magazines lately, and the outlook for a peaceful solution looks bleak.
October 24, 2006 01:33 PM Comments (5)
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Politics
Emotions Flare as Bloggers Judge CNN’s ‘Unvarnished Truth’ Bloggers weigh the costs and benefits of CNN's decision to air footage from a videotape made by Iraqi insurgents.
By Mark Boyer
October 24, 2006 01:33 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Is the Narrative Shifting From Horse Race to Game Over? No single story line has dominated campaign coverage this season. But recently, we've seen a shift toward highly flattering portraits of the Democrats' main players.
By Paul McLeary
October 23, 2006 04:33 PM
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Politics
Media Stokes Obama Drama, Bloggers Less Coy The senator's Meet the Press interview propelled talk about a possible 2008 presidential run to a new level, not least in the blogosphere.
By Mark Boyer
October 23, 2006 12:45 PM
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Behind the News
Zebra Mussels and Mitten Crabs and Govt. Regs, Oh My! Perhaps the criticism that the government treats invasive species as a regional, rather than international, problem applies to the press as well.
October 20, 2006 03:50 PM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Wired Scribe Tells How He Busted A MySpace Sex Offender Having written an automated script that searched MySpace profiles for registered sex offenders, a reporter details how he put the story together.
October 20, 2006 02:18 PM
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The Audit
Tempered Praise for the Amazing, Self-Parking Car A car that can park itself? Now that's incredible news. But how well does it actually work?
October 20, 2006 10:38 AM
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Behind the News
Humanizing the North Korean Nukes Story We're awash in stories about the political gamesmanship involved in North Korea's nuclear test. But how do the people of South Korea, Japan and China feel about it?
October 19, 2006 02:15 PM
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Politics
Nothing New, in 3,800 Words Robert Kagan takes to the pages of The New Republic to spout vain platitudes and engage in some vapid myth-making.
By Paul McLeary
October 19, 2006 01:15 PM
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Politics
Bloggers on Tet, Iraq, and Snuffleupagus As usual, the mere mention of Iraq and Vietnam in the same sentence was sufficient to ignite a feeding frenzy.
October 19, 2006 12:55 PM
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The Audit
Dow Crosses Barrier, ABC Goes Berserk As the Dow passes another milestone, ABC makes the news known in inimitable fashion.
October 18, 2006 04:55 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Roller Derby Revival at the Times What's this we hear about a roller derby revival?
October 18, 2006 02:01 PM
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Behind the News
Al Roker Sure Loves His “Man Candy” Seems Al Roker, of NBC's Today Show, has a sweet spot for the expression "man candy."
October 18, 2006 01:55 PM Comments (4)
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Politics
‘Gay Activist Blogger’ Sets Off ‘Spheric Furor Michael Rogers tries to out a senator, and bloggers respond with a ton of indignation.
By Mark Boyer
October 18, 2006 01:30 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Why Did 60 Minutes Censor on the Web But Not on the Air? The backstory of why an exotic dancer's comments ran unaltered Sunday night, yet were censored on CBSNews.com.
October 17, 2006 01:39 PM
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Behind the News
Trachsel Gets Pounded, Again and Again In case you haven't heard, Mets starter Steve Trachsel pitched horribly in Game 3 of the NLCS in St. Louis Saturday night.
October 17, 2006 01:20 PM
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Politics
Tony Snow Hits the Road, Blogosphere Hits Back The New York Times, and several bloggers, get all worked up over Tony Snow's recent performance in Chicago.
By Mark Boyer
October 17, 2006 11:31 AM
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Behind the News
Half Full or Half Empty? U.S. Glass has 300 Million Drops of Water As the United States population reached 300 million early this morning, reporters took the opportunity to provide a State of the Union address of sorts.
October 17, 2006 10:49 AM Comments (1)
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Politics
Post Fact-Checks ‘Islamist Loonies’ The New York paper hyped up an empty controversy, giving attention to a message that deserved none.
October 16, 2006 05:26 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
SF Chronicle Forecasts Doom, Earth Delivers Early Every reporter fears the possibility that unforeseen events will somehow render their work obsolete. Sometimes, however, events can also render the work portentous.
October 16, 2006 05:02 PM
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Behind the News
Is the Post Taking Woodward’s Table Scraps? Bob Woodward again uses the valuable real estate of the Washington Post as a place to dump stuff he can't use in his books.
By Paul McLeary
October 16, 2006 04:26 PM
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Politics
GOP Diverts Funds, Liberal Bloggers Pounce If there's one thing that can get the partisan blogosphere going, it's an election-season article by Adam Nagourney in the New York Times.
October 16, 2006 02:10 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Two Toronto Editors on an Afternoon Newspaper Experiment Can an online PDF version of an afternoon paper work? The Toronto Star is in the process of finding out.
October 13, 2006 04:30 PM
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Behind the News
The Former Mayor Keeps on Moving Since leaving office, Ed Koch has embarked on a varied media career and become the ultimate platform-agnostic octogenarian.
October 13, 2006 02:29 PM
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Behind the News
Bloggers Ponder Future of Los Angeles Times Anew For bloggers, news yesterday about the paper's so-called "Manhattan Project" provided plenty of fodder for discussion.
October 13, 2006 01:26 PM
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Behind the News
How Do You Photograph the Amish? Let Us Count the Ways Covering a grieving community whose beliefs prohibit them from being photographed is a tricky, sensitive assignment -- but an eminently doable one.
October 12, 2006 04:30 PM Comments (4)
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Politics
The Devil (Or the Full Story) Is in the Details On North Korean nukes, who has successfully distilled this complex political story -- and who has churned out the Cliffs Notes version?
By Paul McLeary
October 12, 2006 04:10 PM Comments (4)
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Politics
Debating the Body Count in Iraq The press should be less skeptical of a recent academic study which found that so far 654,965 Iraqis have died due to the fighting, sectarian and otherwise.
October 12, 2006 04:05 PM Comments (15)
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Politics
Bloggers Dive Into Murky Details of Reid Land Sale The blogosphere is just wild about Harry -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, that is. The swarms have been out in force today, talking about a land deal the leader was involved in.
October 12, 2006 02:18 PM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
The Meandering Life of a Toxic Sludge Story As American news organizations cut back on foreign coverage, stories like a toxic spill sickening people in the Ivory Coast must travel a strange route stateside.
October 12, 2006 01:46 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
London Times Prints ‘Rumour,’ Market Goes Gaga London Times' "Rumour of the day" sets U.S. financial press -- save the St. Louis Business Journal -- a-speculating.
October 11, 2006 03:41 PM
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The Audit
YouTube Deal is Doomed Just Because It Is A surprising number of journalists expect every business event to fit neatly into an established pattern. Witness the Times on Google's purchase of YouTube.
October 10, 2006 05:14 PM
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Politics
Is PageGate the Midterm Clincher? Not Exactly Will the complexities of this midterm Congressional election be reduced to the creepy emails Mark Foley sent to Congressional pages?
By Paul McLeary
October 10, 2006 04:25 PM
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Behind the News
Uncertainty and Bloggers Surround Blast in North Korea. Bloggers react to news reports that the blast in North Korea might have been triggered by little more than conventional explosives.
By Mark Boyer
October 10, 2006 12:28 PM
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Politics
Woodward as Easy Target In criticizing Bob Woodward's latest book, some critics fail to take an honest look at the true, and enduring, impact of his work.
By Paul McLeary
October 9, 2006 05:00 PM Comments (24)
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Politics
Do Blumenthal and Lapham Lack A Sense of Humor? Bloggers debate Jennifer Senior's unflattering reviews of two books taking aim at the Bush administration.
By Mark Boyer
October 9, 2006 12:21 PM
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Behind the News
The Press Must Lead the Debate, Not Just Reflect it As the role of the press continues to be hotly debated, one thing remains clear: it has never been just a passive observer.
October 9, 2006 12:04 PM Comments (5)
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Behind the News
For CNN, Joke’s on Colonial Overlords, FEMA The network needed a little levity in its seven o'clock hour this morning -- and a "FEMA Field Trip" was certainly ripe for the picking.
October 6, 2006 04:45 PM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
‘A Good, Old-Fashioned Human Triumph’ G. Wayne Miller of the Providence Journal on devoting an entire year of reporting to "an ordinary person who has done some extraordinary things."
October 6, 2006 04:02 PM
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Politics
Wired’s Tired Portrait of an Overly Familiar Blogger What's not to like about the magazine's profile featuring one celeb-blogger writing about another? At first glance it has all the makings of the must-read article of ... 2004.
October 6, 2006 10:40 AM
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Politics
Dancing With Who Brung Ya … Dennis Hastert works the partisan angle one time too many, and in doing so reminds us of a strange story from 2004.
By Paul McLeary
October 5, 2006 02:46 PM Comments (6)
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Politics
Is the Foley Scandal Bringing the Blogosphere Together? Bloggers on both the Right and the Left can agree on one thing, and one thing only: the GOP leadership isn't doing a good job at spin control.
October 5, 2006 01:40 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Are Lower Taxes Really Benefiting All Americans? Viewed another way, the supposedly beneficial tax cuts highlighted by a recent study actually contribute to something else for American taxpayers: a huge future liability.
October 5, 2006 11:27 AM Comments (1)
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Politics
There’s No Conspiracy Behind an Error at Fox News Before salivating bloggers go bonkers spinning Fox's Mark Foley mistake into a grand plot, they might want to go back and look at the actual record. Oops, too late.
October 4, 2006 05:19 PM Comments (9)
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Behind the News
The Newspaper That the National Media Forgot? While not as high-profile as New Orleans, the staff of the Biloxi, Miss. Sun Herald stayed at their posts during Katrina, too.
By Mark Boyer
October 4, 2006 02:18 PM
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Behind the News
NG Bites the Hand That Feeds It … and the Hand Bites Back The row between National Geographic and the Environmental Working Group overlooks a more interesting point about author David Duncan's approach to covering "The Pollution Within."
October 4, 2006 11:57 AM
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The Audit
Two Reporters Paid to Xerox One Story Both Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires rehash the New York Times' latest news about Wal-Mart, with unenviable results.
October 3, 2006 04:30 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
“The Ethicist” Snarls His Way to Irrelevance on CNN Anderson Cooper hands the keys off to John Roberts for the night, and Randy Cohen wrecks the joint.
By Paul McLeary
October 3, 2006 03:31 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Who Are the Amish? Daily News Shows; Post Calls After the Pennsylvania school shooting, a couple of New York tabloids struggle to explain these mysterious Amish to us.
October 3, 2006 03:26 PM Comments (2)
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Politics
Bloggers on Foley and Hastert’s Future In a surprise move this morning, the editorial page of the Washington Times declared Dennis Hastert must "resign his speakership at once."
By Mark Boyer
October 3, 2006 12:35 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
In DeWine v. Brown, AP Goes Beyond Finger-Wagging When it came to sorting through Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown's various charges and countercharges, one report stood out.
October 2, 2006 05:00 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
What Trent Lott Might Want to Know About Iraq While talking heads and politicians debate the meaning of the debate about the war, Iraq continues to burn.
By Paul McLeary
October 2, 2006 02:36 PM Comments (4)
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Politics
Woodward Roils the Blogosphere Everyone is weighing in on Bob Woodward's new book -- and, as usual, there is little common ground between the Left and the Right.
October 2, 2006 02:00 PM Comments (12)
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Behind the News
Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Jew? The politics of identity can sometimes make for some uncomfortable questions -- and our major newspapers apparently aren't afraid to ask them.
October 2, 2006 01:28 PM Comments (3)
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Politics
A Newfangled Journalism Technique Leaps Across the Country Taking the Los Angeles Times' lead, a daily newspaper in Maine is drawing attention to the plight of a local river in a quirky way.
October 2, 2006 12:49 PM Comments (1)
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