Monthly Archive

November 2006

• Behind the News

  Will Al-Jazeera English Find Its Groove? With its coverage of an assassination in Lebanon, Al-Jazeera English showed signs of finding its footing after an uncertain first week.

  By Lawrence Pintak

  November 30, 2006 12:00 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Did Someone Say Hackneyed? Charlie LeDuff is back, and he brought along his purple prose...

  By Gal Beckerman

  November 29, 2006 03:44 PM Comments (2)

• Politics

  Fox Host Argues With Self, Wins John Gibson delivered a rigorously constructed rebuke of supposedly spineless Americans the other day.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 29, 2006 01:10 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Of Phone Books and Reporters Bloggers react to the Supreme Court's refusal to keep federal prosecutors away from the phone records of two reporters.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 29, 2006 12:06 PM

• The Audit

  “Bad News” Media Strike Again We don’t know what “media” Neil Cavuto was consuming, but we couldn’t escape the Black Friday excitement in the press -- in outlets from sea to shining sea.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 28, 2006 04:48 PM

• Politics

  This Is Not the Media’s Walter Cronkite Moment Over the last two days, print and televised media have managed to work themselves into a state of high dudgeon over NBC News' decision to call the violence in Iraq a "civil war."

  By Paul McLeary

  November 28, 2006 04:26 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Post Buzzes About Next Mayoral Campaign It's never too early to speculate about an election, as the New York tab proved yesterday.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 28, 2006 11:13 AM

• Politics

  K Street Switches Sides — and the Press Notices While it took Time magazine a couple years to discover K Street, they're all over it now.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 27, 2006 03:31 PM

• Politics

  As Iraq Study Group Meets, Bloggers Uniformly Cynical Bloggers of all stripes seemed to come together to express cynicism and unease at the prospects of the commission's upcoming recommendations.

  By Andrew Bielak

  November 27, 2006 02:35 PM

• Behind the News

  More Evidence That Non-Stop News Is Win-Win It's the day before Thanksgiving, which means cable news channels are running a continuous loop of generally useless pre-Turkey Day travel reports.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 22, 2006 03:46 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Revel in New Legal Immunity A California Supreme Court ruling grants immunity to those who repost defamatory material on the Internet, giving bloggers around the country a sense of both relevance and security.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 22, 2006 12:30 PM

• The Audit

  “Envy Malaise” Grips Awestruck Journalists Today we give thanks for something that American journalism is doing well of late: allocating resources to examining jealousy in the economic stratosphere.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 22, 2006 12:00 PM

• Politics

  CNN Goes Full-Court Press Over a Non-Story CNN's Paula Zahn takes a proposal by Rep. Charlie Rangel and morphs it into an intra-party Democratic feud -- despite all evidence to the contrary.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 21, 2006 03:40 PM Comments (39)

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  A Syndicated Column Preaches Beyond the Green Choir Doug Moss, editor of E -- The Environment Magazine, talks about how to present environmental and scientific issues to the public, and promoting his magazine.

  By Curtis Brainard

  November 21, 2006 03:25 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Doubt TVNewser’s Abilities as Trade Columnist The New York Times prints a gushy profile of Brian Stelter, and bloggers respond to his success with admiration and jealousy.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 21, 2006 12:42 PM

• Politics

  The Local Press Takes Up the Cause of Faulty Voting Machines The national press corps seems to have forgotten all about its pre-election concern with persistent problems found in electronic voting machines.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 20, 2006 04:43 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Kristof Becomes Own Worst Enemy Responding to an unhappy reader, Nick Kristof lets his fangs show.

  By Brent Cunningham

  November 20, 2006 10:18 AM

• Behind the News

  Jim O’Neill On One Woman’s Dark Struggle A former Dallas Morning News reporter on his eight-part series detailing one woman's struggle with schizophrenia.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 17, 2006 05:09 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Murdoch Goes Green, and His Empire Follows Rupert Murdoch, traditionally no friend to the science of climate change, has begun to change his tune, will NewsCorp?

  By Curtis Brainard

  November 17, 2006 01:45 PM

• Behind the News

  Blogs Ain’t Everything, But They’re Something How can CBS News make their Web site, CBSNews.com, better? By following the lead of ABC and NBC, and offering more reporter-written blogs.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 17, 2006 12:45 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The Juice is Loose, and That’s a Problem Bloggers let Judith Regan have it for deciding to publish OJ Simpson's new book.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 17, 2006 12:30 PM

• Behind the News

  A Fistfight (or Two) a Day A week after the midterms and it's back to business on cable news -- the business of hyping fluff, that is.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 16, 2006 05:17 PM

• Behind the News

  The Al Jazeera Worldview, Now in English The first 10 hours of Al-Jazeera English sent a number of messages -- some subtle, others less so -- that caught our eye.

  By Alia Malek

  November 16, 2006 04:04 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Fox Memo Leaked! Tells Us Nothing We Didn’t Already Know! The leak of another internal news memo doesn't really do much for the eternal War on Bias -- but it does give lefties something to crow about.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 15, 2006 04:27 PM Comments (20)

• Behind the News

  How Pastor Ted Got Outed The tale of how this latest clerical fall from grace nearly failed to make headlines is a cautionary one for every journalist who has ever wondered when she has enough to go with a story.

  By Christian Vachon

  November 15, 2006 02:59 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Time Provides Lunch — and Stunning Copy The magazine's "Person of the Year" will probably be a person, Advertising Age told us today.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 15, 2006 02:45 PM

• Behind the News

  The Times Does Two Academics One Better A two-part series in the New York Times about the ties that bind the United States and Israel goes deeper than most in assessing the motivations behind, and the tensions within, the relationship.

  By Gal Beckerman

  November 14, 2006 03:28 PM

• Behind the News

  Tierney Gives Bloggers What They Want to Hear Predictably, many bloggers applauded the announcement of the Times Op-Ed columnist's departure.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 14, 2006 01:20 PM

• Politics

  The Liberal Bias of the Washington Post’s Style Section Lifting headlines to point out "liberal bias" at a newspaper is tricky at best, disingenuous at worst.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 13, 2006 05:48 PM Comments (8)

• Politics

  Pelosi Backs Murtha, Bloggers Give Punditry Afterwards, a number of liberal bloggers supported the Democratic leadership, while other commentators found themselves less excited about Murtha's prospects.

  By Andrew Bielak

  November 13, 2006 01:27 PM

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Henry Weinstein On What Great Journalism Can and Cannot Do The 2006 John Chancellor Award winner discusses Dean Baquet's exit, a newsroom carrying on, and the limits of great stories on the bottom line.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 13, 2006 12:45 PM

• Behind the News

  Tim Russert — What’s Going on Over There? Meet the Press has chosen some odd guests for its first show after the big midterm elections.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 10, 2006 03:54 PM Comments (2)

• Politics

  Bloggers Chide Bush For Dissembling, Post For Deletion Bloggers debate how plainly the press should state the president's acknowledgment that he misled reporters.

  By Andrew Bielak

  November 10, 2006 03:42 PM

• Politics

  The Rummyosphere Responds Following the Congressional midterm election and president Bush's sacking of Sec. of Defense Donald Runsfeld, the blogosphere debates the legacy of good old Rummy.

  By Andrew Bielak

  November 9, 2006 02:48 PM

• Behind the News

  In the U.K., a Bang; In the U.S., Whimper There are roughly 3,500 miles between Washington, D.C. and London. For journalists, those miles might as well be light years.

  By Curtis Brainard

  November 9, 2006 12:56 PM

• Politics

  No Joy in Foxville Last Night As Democrats celebrated, Fox News carried election night coverage that was deeply uninspired and strangely disengaged.

  By Gal Beckerman

  November 8, 2006 04:40 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  CNN Pulls Out All the Stops, Crushes the Competition Of all the long hours of election coverage last night, CNN won the race to the top.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 8, 2006 03:43 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Networks Struggle to “Get” Bloggers At some point television news decided that it could no longer ignore political bloggers. But that doesn't mean it has figured out how to cover them.

  By Felix Gillette

  November 8, 2006 02:06 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Pearls From the Pundits Given all the airtime devoted to the elections last night, you knew that the talking heads would sprinkle some gems among their punditry.

  By Brent Cunningham

  November 8, 2006 01:55 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  And Now Back to the Economy Like much of the election season debate over the war in Iraq, much of the recent discussion about the U.S. economy has been willfully distorted along partisan lines.

  By Felix Gillette

  November 7, 2006 04:44 PM

• Behind the News

  Why Are These Two Men Still Talking? This morning, Terry McAuliffe and Ken Mehlman squared off on the Today Show. Again.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 7, 2006 03:40 PM

• Politics

  Does Anyone Get America Like Tucker Carlson? We tuned in to MSNBC last night, forgetting that we would likely encounter Tucker Carlson, and his nonsensical brand of fact-free analysis.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 7, 2006 02:47 PM

• Politics

  Bloggers Confront Exit Polls, Pollsters, Each Other As MSM polling specialists go into lockdown, bloggers give their thoughts.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 7, 2006 02:12 PM

• Behind the News

  CNN’s Mama Would Be Proud It's Game Day for "The Best Political Team on Television."

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 7, 2006 01:33 PM

• Politics

  John Kerry: The Man Behind the Curtain Howard Kurtz forgets the role that editors and reporters play in keeping a story front and center in the public mind.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 6, 2006 04:00 PM Comments (10)

• Politics

  Rumsfeld Takes Editorial Fire, Bloggers Take Sides With Election Day imminent, the Military Times Media Group calls for the defense secretary to resign, leading many bloggers to defend him.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 6, 2006 01:23 PM

• Politics

  The Pigeon-Holing of Keith Ellison (Congress’ First Muslim?) The 43-year-old frontrunner from Minnesota's 5th District is set to make history on Tuesday, and the national press cannot get enough of him.

  By Edward B. Colby

  November 3, 2006 05:15 PM

• Behind the News

  Giving a Little More Than the Latest Casualty Number What happened to those daily roundups of the body count in Iraq? While John Kerry may have distracted most, a few reporters keep the sad tally.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 3, 2006 04:46 PM Comments (4)

• Politics

  Why Do Journalists Bother to Report on “Internal Polls”? Journalists rarely meet a poll they don't like -- even polls conducted by the politicians themselves that (shockingly!) show that they're not doing as bad as evidence may suggest.

  By Felix Gillette

  November 3, 2006 01:50 PM

• Behind the News

  A Day’s Worth of BotchedJokeGate Coverage on CNN In which our tireless reporter spends a day in front of the tube, waiting for the choicest moments of John Kerry coverage.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 3, 2006 12:19 PM Comments (5)

• Behind the News

  Press Blows Up the Kerry Story, Honest Debate Gets Smacked Down The press has mindlessly leaped onto the new controversy, with no thought to how it shed absolutely no light on any of the important issues in these midterms.

  By Gal Beckerman

  November 2, 2006 04:38 PM Comments (7)

• Politics

  Times Publishes, Pentagon Investigates, Bloggers Debate With the paper again under fire for publishing classified intelligence, bloggers consider the importance of the latest leak.

  By Andrew Bielak

  November 2, 2006 02:30 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Matthew Currier Burden on the Endangered Milblog With the military increasingly cracking down on military bloggers, one prominent milblogger collects some of the best examples of the form.

  By Paul McLeary

  November 2, 2006 02:06 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Friedman’s French Friend Stages Intervention Thomas L. Friedman's go-to reporting move (quote-the-cabbie) is stymied. Could it be the end of an "era?"

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  November 1, 2006 02:49 PM

• Politics

  Bloggers Critical of Media’s Handling of Hotel Scuffle A scuffle in a hotel lobby in the Virginia Senate race makes the pages of the Washington Post, adding fuel to the blogging fire.

  By Mark Boyer

  November 1, 2006 01:55 PM Comments (3)

• Feature

  The Embeds What is gained, and what is lost

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Turning Points Everyone has a story about when things began to go bad

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Enemies and Civilians How big stories could hide in plain sight

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Good News The clamor for ‘positive’ stories didn’t fit the reality of Iraq

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Reporting in Iraq The mundane and the profound

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Continuing Story How Iraq is different from, and the same as, other wars

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Liberties and Ambiguities As Iraq began to unravel

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  In the Beginning The early days of the Iraq war gave journalists freedom to report, but also hints of something darker

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Editorial

  Assignment Iraq A note from the editors

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• The Research Report

  Inside Jokes A new take on news and late-night comedy, and a parsing of journalistic courage

  By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Essay

  Fear of Yoga Today, everybody, including the press, loves the Hindu practice of health and spirituality. But it took a couple of centuries to get there.

  By Robert Love

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Review

  The Desegregation Drama The white news media came late to the scene. But when they finally did arrive, the battle was joined.

  By David K. Shipler

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Death of Supply Column 21 A lesson from the Vietnam War on the press, the military, and authority.

  By David Halberstam

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Darts and Laurels

  Darts & Laurels Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

  By Gloria Cooper

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Omens and Incidents Negotiating cultural fault lines in Iraq

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Reign of the CPA An effort to spin the war occasionally veered into the absurd

  By The Editors

  November 1, 2006 08:30 AM

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