Monthly Archive

January 2007

• Politics

  Press Gives Bush’s CENTCOM Nominee A Pass on Iraq What was left out in this morning's papers ...

  By Paul McLeary

  January 31, 2007 02:58 PM

• Politics

  Fox 5 and 24, Together Again The New York City Fox affiliate's promotional obsession with 24 is still going strong.

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 30, 2007 04:55 PM

• Behind the News

  Michael Gordon’s Molehill Becomes A Mountain When can reporters speak -- and about what topics -- without fear of being admonished by their employers?

  By Paul McLeary

  January 30, 2007 02:10 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Insightmag, A Must-Read A lesson in how easy it is -- even for publications with no history of credibility -- to start a scandal.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 29, 2007 02:51 PM Comments (20)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Distressed Over Globe’s Pullback From World The Boston broadsheet announces that it will close its last three foreign bureaus, leaving bloggers feeling relatively unified that the move is a great loss.

  By Dan Goldberg

  January 29, 2007 02:41 PM

• Politics

  Muslim-American Groups Protest GMA’s Hiring Of Glenn Beck As of yet, ABC has not granted the groups a meeting with network executives.

  By Alia Malek

  January 26, 2007 01:14 PM Comments (7)

• Behind the News

  How Does GMA Love YouTube? Let Us Count The Ways Some television news producers are falling in love with the free -- if decidedly unnewsworthy -- content on the Web.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 26, 2007 12:49 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  NYT’s Story Speaks Volumes About Iraqi Army Two embedded reporters get to the heart of the issue.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 25, 2007 04:23 PM Comments (32)

• Politics

  Cowardly Wolf or Cowardly Cheney? Wolf Blitzer surely succeeded in "making news" with his interview of the V.P. on last night's Situation Room -- though, perhaps, not in the way the CNN anchor intended.

  By Satta Sarmah

  January 25, 2007 02:22 PM Comments (12)

• Behind the News

  In Memoriam: Hrant Dink (1954-2007) A Turkish free speech advocate is killed, but hope hasn't died with him.

  By Alia Malek

  January 25, 2007 02:08 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  A Girl’s Got the Gavel! But What’s She Wearing? Despite being an accomplished, powerful woman, some members of the press still can't get over the fact that she's, you know, a girl.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 24, 2007 04:16 PM

• Politics

  Is Being Controversial More Important Than Being Right? Dinesh D'Souza's new book, which is being skewered by both the left and the right, probably won't hurt his career in punditry.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 24, 2007 04:05 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  The Fine Line Between Hype and News The New York Post criticizes, while its own house is hardly in order.

  By Christina Hernandez

  January 23, 2007 10:20 AM Comments (3)

• Politics

  My Kingdom For A Storyline Is John McCain still a "Maverick?" According to the Wall Street Journal, the answer is a resounding "yes!"

  By Paul McLeary

  January 22, 2007 03:54 PM

• Behind the News

  The (D)evolution Of a Story Was the flap over the AP's source in a recent story behind some changes in a Washington Post story this morning?

  By Paul McLeary

  January 22, 2007 12:12 PM Comments (11)

• Politics

  Forget America, is Journalism Ready for a Black President? The first in our newly-minted occasional series of "Research Reports" -- this one looks at how the press has been dealing with the possibility of American voters electing their first African-American president.

  By Tony Dokoupil

  January 22, 2007 11:59 AM

• Behind the News

  Is Technology Ruining Your Morals? Two recent articles by Lakshmi Chaudhry and Michael Agger show cultural criticism at its boorish, insipid worst.

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 19, 2007 04:57 PM Comments (3)

• Politics, The Water Cooler

  Sarah Olson On Her Role In A Court Martial A journalist talks about free speech, and the role of a reporter in a democratic society.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 19, 2007 03:01 PM Comments (7)

• Politics

  Bloomberg to Press: Write What You’re Told Mayor Bloomberg's press aides laid down some ground rules yesterday when announcing some new initiatives, and most of the media played along.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 18, 2007 03:44 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  To NYT and CBS, All Single Women Look Like Carrie and Angie The New York Times serves up another lazy "trend" story by slapping together a few anecdotes, buffered by a minor statistic, and presenting it as important news. CBS mindlessly follows.

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 17, 2007 05:05 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  The Perils of Compassion Fatigue Can reporters cover the daily grind of death and destruction in Iraq with an unwavering urgency, while not falling into a war-as-entertainment approach?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 17, 2007 12:46 PM

• Behind the News

  Reporting (and Blogging) Across the Pond There are some very real differences in the practice of journalism between the United States and the U.K. -- a fact not lost on the bloggers.

  By Dan Goldberg

  January 17, 2007 10:19 AM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Overreaching in a Critique of Iraq Coverage Eason Jordan criticized two newspapers for a lack of coverage of the war on Sunday, but there's something missing.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 16, 2007 02:41 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Cost Radio Station Advertisers, Money A few bloggers stick it to a San Francisco radio station, and advertisers respond.

  By Satta Sarmah

  January 16, 2007 02:15 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Cordesman’s Op-Ed Belongs On Page 1 Anthony Cordesman's annotation of the president's speech in today's Times allows us to take a step back from the rhetoric and actually dissect what we are hearing.

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 12, 2007 05:14 PM

• The Audit

  If They Print (Or Air) It, Is It News? Just because you can publish something doesn't mean you should. This has been revised.

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 12, 2007 01:10 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Pundits Love to Let It Fly, But It’s Got to Land Somewhere The curse of the uninformed pundit strikes again, this time in the inevitable navel-gazing after the president's latest speech.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 11, 2007 03:09 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Score Credentials, Pat Selves on Back Bloggers across the nation have achieved another victory in their quest to dethrone the MSM.

  By Satta Sarmah

  January 11, 2007 03:00 PM

• Politics

  Striking a Unilateral, Preemptive Blow Against the Future Max Boot says that, like Vietnam, journalists are probably going to be blamed for the failures in Iraq.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 10, 2007 04:42 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Before Bush Speaks, Bloggers Take Usual Sides Long before President Bush utters a word of his much-anticipated speech tonight, the rhetorical troops of the blogosphere are already abuzz with opinions.

  By Christina Hernandez

  January 10, 2007 02:05 PM Comments (2)

• Behind the News

  Have Video, Will Air It Hey, TV news producers and reporters: Absurd amateur video footage does not a news story make.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 10, 2007 12:00 PM

• The Audit

  CNN Overcome With ‘Gadgetation’ The confluence of stunning products and stunned reporters at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas makes for easy pickings.

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 10, 2007 11:13 AM

• Politics

  Insurgent TV Coming to a Satellite Near You? A controversial TV channel that is the voice of Iraq's anti-American insurgents tries to open another front in the propaganda war against the U.S. -- in the U.S.

  By Lawrence Pintak

  January 10, 2007 10:01 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Parsing the “Surge” The Bush administration has refined the art of distilling new initiatives into a single word or phrase that at once defines the idea while obscuring its various downsides.

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 9, 2007 05:05 PM Comments (6)

• Behind the News

  Time.com Gets New Start, Bloggers Faintly Critical As Time magazine launches its revamped Web site, bloggers weigh in.

  By Dan Goldberg

  January 8, 2007 03:02 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Recent Events in “You” A couple sad episodes in the recent history of the blogosphere haven't made anyone look good.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 8, 2007 02:10 PM Comments (6)

• The Audit

  As Macworld Approaches, Reporters Rev Up The latest round of buzz, rumor, and speculation surrounding wondrous, soon-to-be-unveiled product(s) from Apple is upon us.

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 5, 2007 03:14 PM

• Behind the News

  Chi Trib Readers Seem to Believe Out in Chicago, a highly intriguing front-page piece about a UFO sighting over O'Hare quickly became a record-setting phenomenon for the Tribune.

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 5, 2007 01:45 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Security Contractors and Reporters, Together Under the Law An "overly aggressive interpretation" of a new law aimed at security contractors in Iraq could, theoretically, ensnare embedded reporters.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 4, 2007 02:28 PM Comments (5)

• Behind the News

  Cairo Ignores U.S. Request to Pull Plug on Jihadi TV in Iraq Sunni-Shia power politics and U.S.-Egyptian relations are at the center of a dispute over a satellite television station that is the latest weapon in the arsenal of Iraq's insurgents.

  By Lawrence Pintak

  January 4, 2007 02:07 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  We Report (What Pat Robertson Says God Told Him), You Decide For cable news, the televangelist’s eye-grabbing prediction for 2007 was a gift from the gods.

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  January 3, 2007 05:12 PM Comments (2)

• Politics

  WaPo’s Obama Piece Takes Old News, Adds Nada When do some 11-year-old, widely-known facts become news? When it's a slow news day ...

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 3, 2007 04:39 PM Comments (4)

• Politics

  It’s Time For the AP to Produce the Phantom Iraqi Source It's been five weeks since a controversial AP story from Baghdad hit the wires, and there is no resolution to be found.

  By Paul McLeary

  January 2, 2007 04:30 PM Comments (16)

• The Audit

  ‘Shrinky-Dink’ WSJ Debuts, Bloggers Muse Blogospheric reviews of the redesigned Wall Street Journal range from starry-eyed ("wowed me") to cynical ("three years too late").

  By Edward B. Colby

  January 2, 2007 03:29 PM

• The Research Report

  The Limits of Live The Research Report

  By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Essay

  Ode to the Author’s Query They fueled her childhood dreams; now they’re vanishing.

  By Penelope Rowlands

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Second Read

  Benevolent Dreamer Ben Yagoda on St. Clair McKelway, who wrote with lucidity about his own mental illness.

  By Ben Yagoda

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Review

  Under the Skin: A History of the Vaccine Debate Goes Deep but Misses the Drama Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver by Arthur Allen.

  By Rebecca Skloot

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Editorial

  Time To Go: Why Tribune is like Rumsfeld The Tribune Company’s Donald Rumsfeld moment.

  By The Editors

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Review

  Owning Up: A New Book Stops Short of Deepening the Discourse on Media Concentration Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media by Eric Klinenberg

  By Michael Schudson

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The New Arab Conversation Young bloggers in the Middle East are talking to the ‘enemy,’ and possibly sowing the seeds of reform.

  By Gal Beckerman

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• On the Job

  Digg This A top 'Digger' worries about his power to drive traffic.

  By David Cohn

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Darts and Laurels

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

  By Gloria Cooper

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Beyond the News Journalists worry that the Web threatens the way they distribute their product. They are slower to see how it threatens the product itself.

  By Mitchell Stephens

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• On the Job

  The Tales We Tell A young reporter winces when his big story lands on the Dr. Phil show.

  By Peter Holley

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  The Shame Game “To Catch a Predator” is propping up NBC’s Dateline, but at what cost?

  By Douglas McCollam

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Essay

  Official Secrets On treason, secrets, and the press, from Suez to the war on terror.

  By Bruce Page

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Essay

  The Communist Way Vietnam: the subtleties of censorship

  By Dusin Roasa

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

• Feature

  Vanity Fire Graydon Carter’s political outrage has fueled a resurgence in Vanity Fair’s serious journalism. But how far can he push the signature high-low mix of this Conde Nast cash cow?

  By Bree Nordenson

  January 1, 2007 08:30 AM

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