Monthly Archive

December 2006

• Behind the News

  How Long Is a Tenth of a Second? The Knicks' stunning victory at Madison Square Garden the other night has led to some excitable sports writing.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 22, 2006 05:05 PM

• Behind the News

  Poverty Pendulum Swings, Press Yawns The recent news from the Brookings Institution that more Americans now live in poverty in suburbs than in cities has not been well covered by the press.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 21, 2006 03:03 PM

• Politics

  Is Laura Bush Leading the Debate? It began as a ripple, then a rumble, and now it's beginning to really roll. Who would have thought that a few simple comments by the First Lady about media bias would cause such a stir?

  By Paul McLeary

  December 21, 2006 02:36 PM Comments (37)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Lash Out Against Santa Barbara Lawsuit Mostly, bloggers commenting on the latest News-Press turmoil feel that Wendy McCaw has gone a bit overboard.

  By Mark Boyer

  December 20, 2006 12:51 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Newsweek Ignores Its Own Poll, Launches ‘08 Race If you want to know what Newsweek's recent Election 2008-related poll found, try reading the New York Post or Newsday.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 20, 2006 12:47 PM

• Politics, The Water Cooler

  Adam Bellow, Pamphleteer for the 21st Century Adam Bellow has earned a name for himself as an editor of famously controversial and conservative books, and his new venture aims to "reinvent the book for the 21st century."

  By Gal Beckerman

  December 20, 2006 12:25 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  No Need to Worry: FP Has Swept Bird Flu Under Rug According to the magazine, "the cure seems worse than the disease."

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 20, 2006 10:50 AM

• Behind the News

  Where Is the Outrage as U.S. Refuses to Open Doors For Iraqi Refugees? Iraq's porous borders have been leaking citizens for nearly two years -- so why did it take so long for the press to start pressing the issue?

  By Andrew Bielak

  December 19, 2006 05:23 PM

• Politics

  Will History Be Forgotten Once Again? When it comes to the "troop surge" issue in Iraq, will newspapers continue to ignore historical context?

  By Paul McLeary

  December 19, 2006 12:53 PM Comments (5)

• Behind the News

  Time’s “You” a Harbinger of New American Century Nonsense By giving the award to "You," Time effectively gave the award to no one -- insulting its readers with the assumption that they are too vain and gullible to know the difference.

  By Christian Vachon

  December 19, 2006 11:00 AM

• Politics

  A Forgotten Piece of the Middle East Puzzle A reporter travels to Lebanon to check in with the United Nations troops stationed there.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 18, 2006 01:46 PM

• Behind the News

  In Baltimore, Sun Shines On “Ground Rent” Outrage Sometimes, we're reminded how journalism can change things for the better when a newspaper remembers that it's part of a community.

  By Alia Malek

  December 18, 2006 01:17 PM

• Behind the News

  Time Names POY, Bloggers Not Tickled Bloggers respond to their new honor with witty puns and sarcastic punditry.

  By Mark Boyer

  December 18, 2006 01:09 PM

• Behind the News, The Water Cooler

  Times-Pic Reporter Finds Lessons For New Orleans in Japan Gordon Russell on what New Orleans can learn from Tokyo and Kobe, and the rewards of working in a city where people are now much more engaged in the news.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 15, 2006 04:35 PM

• Politics

  More Troops in Iraq? We’ve Got History on That Coverage of the McCain/Lieberman/Kagan proposal for more U.S. troops in Iraq shows, once again, how journalists are often possessed of pretty short memories.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 15, 2006 02:55 PM

• Behind the News

  Snow Offers Olive Branch, Bloggers Remain Partisan Tony Snow apologizes to David Gregory, sending shockwaves rippling through the blogosphere.

  By Mark Boyer

  December 15, 2006 12:20 PM

• Politics

  The “Good News” Chorus Sings On The First Lady takes a shot at the press, harping on a silly argument.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 14, 2006 03:42 PM Comments (18)

• Behind the News

  Jesus Christ, Cover Star It's that time of year again for the newsweeklies: Christ-as-Cover-Boy time. How has the Jesus Cover Story been packaged over the years? How has it changed (or not)?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 14, 2006 01:35 PM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  As Clichés Go, Airline Merger Already a Success A "flurry" of talks about airlines joining forces has led to some clunky journalistic prose.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 13, 2006 05:26 PM

• Politics

  (Re)Writing Pinochet’s Legacy Conservative or liberal, editorial pages can only expect to be taken seriously if they are consistent. Call a monster a monster.

  By Gal Beckerman

  December 12, 2006 05:42 PM Comments (4)

• Politics

  Pinochet Dies, But the Blogging Debate Continues In the blogosphere, our favorite online pundits debate what the Chilean dictator wrought.

  By Andrew Bielak

  December 12, 2006 04:58 PM

• Behind the News

  GMA Does Its Part to Keep the Nation Scared Yesterday, on Good Morning America, ABC took a look at the dangers posed by exotic pets.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 12, 2006 04:29 PM

• Politics

  CNN (Humorously) Practices the Art of Character Assassination Jeff Greenfield goes after Barack Obama -- in the most amateurish way possible.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 12, 2006 02:08 PM Comments (5)

• Politics

  Neocon Critics of the ISG Report Have a Lot of Explaining To Do An entertaining look back at the uneven track record of some conservative critics of the Baker-Hamilton report.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 11, 2006 03:19 PM Comments (23)

• Behind the News

  NY Post Officially No Longer a Newspaper The New York Post runs one of the more absurd front pages in recent memory, creating self-fulfilling news.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 8, 2006 05:36 PM

• Politics

  Hillary, Meet Barack. America, Meet the New Storyline. The Washington Post offers up some news you can use. Or not.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 8, 2006 04:38 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Newsosaur Sparks News Desk Debate Amid the clamorous discussion over the dire future of daily newspapers, a new debate was opened this week over the value of continuous news desks.

  By Andrew Bielak

  December 7, 2006 04:13 PM

• Politics

  Hey, Victor Davis Hanson! It’s Not Our Fault A columnist uses a rhetorical device in order to make a point -- and misses the point in the process.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 7, 2006 03:23 PM Comments (11)

• Politics

  ‘Way Forward’ Unveiled, Bloggers Not Impressed Early today, bloggers have been responding to both the Baker-Hamilton Report and the ISG's televised press conference in real time.

  By Mark Boyer

  December 6, 2006 01:55 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  “Boomlets” Abound at New York Mag This week's magazine reports on the "Bloomberg 2008 boomlet," contributing to said boomlet with a cover story pronouncing that Bloomberg is "serious" about a presidential run in '08.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  December 6, 2006 01:10 PM

• The Audit

  McDonald’s Expands in China, Sun-Times Does Its Part The Chicago paper engages in a bit of overseas reporting, of a sort.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 6, 2006 12:40 PM

• Politics

  An Obsessive Press (Not the ISG) May Force Bush’s Hand On Iraq The media frenzy surrounding the Iraq Study Group report is going to be a sight to behold.

  By Paul McLeary

  December 5, 2006 02:02 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  The Atlantic’s Top 100 List Is Lazy, Boring The list of American icons that inhabits 21 pages of the magazine is dominated by dead white guys whose accomplishments are summed up in a single terse sentence.

  By Mark Boyer

  December 5, 2006 11:45 AM Comments (6)

• Behind the News

  Prison Population Sets Record, Few Notice Press coverage of the latest numbers on the state of America's huge prison population has been minimal, but two reports have gone in the right direction.

  By Edward B. Colby

  December 5, 2006 09:27 AM

• Behind the News

  Scientific American’s Experiment in Wiki-Reporting When the news of the oldest hominid fossil on record broke this fall, the magazine's lineup was packed -- so its editors tried an experiment they had been kicking around for months.

  By Curtis Brainard

  December 4, 2006 01:25 PM

• Politics

  The Curse of the ‘Small Innaccuracy’ In many cases of purported "media bias," the political has trumped the practical.

  By Gal Beckerman

  December 4, 2006 10:24 AM Comments (5)

• Behind the News

  The Definition Delay In many ways the press has a duty to be the caretaker of our public discourse, and that means paying attention to the language used in that discourse.

  By Andrew Bielak

  December 1, 2006 03:31 PM Comments (1)

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