Monthly Archive
March 2007
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Politics
Romney Drops Meaningless VP Names, AP Gives ‘Em Meaning In the latest sign of a presidential campaign in overdrive, the Associated Press ran a story last night on Mitt Romney's potential VP picks.
March 30, 2007 02:30 PM
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Behind the News
Charting the Connection Between Booze and News In "Depression, Drink and Dissipation," Doug Underwood has produced an extensive new review of the psycho-sexual hang-ups of 187 famous "journalist-literary figures."
March 30, 2007 01:43 PM
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Politics
The MSM Even Hates British Troops! Bloggers say lots of stupid things -- particularly when it comes to criticizing the hated "MSM."
By Paul McLeary
March 29, 2007 03:55 PM
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Behind the News
‘All-Knowing’ News Network Debuts to Mixed Reaction The fake news business just got a little bigger.
By Satta Sarmah
March 29, 2007 02:10 PM
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Behind the News
Amid Death Threats, Blogger Goes Offline Kathy Sierra is considering never posting on her blog again because of the severity of threats she's received online.
March 28, 2007 03:42 PM
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Behind the News
The Worrying Case of an Ambitious Afghan Journalist An Afghan journalist was kidnapped by the Taliban twenty-two days ago. What happened to him?
March 27, 2007 04:06 PM
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Politics
Partisan Research Dressed Up As News It's sloppy for reporters to use vague references to partisan opposition research in their stories without providing facts to either prop it up, or shoot it down.
By Paul McLeary
March 27, 2007 12:59 PM
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Politics
Couric Plays Devil’s Advocate, Bloggers Deliver Unseemly Hit CBS's anchor pushed and challenged John and Elizabeth Edwards; she was skeptical, not cynical. But many bloggers' responses to her 60 Minutes interview were unjustifiably unkind.
By Dan Goldberg
March 26, 2007 12:45 PM
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Behind the News
Navy, Meet Fact Checkers; Fact Checkers, Meet Timely Queries A New York Times Magazine piece dropped the ball when it came time to fact-check some of the claims one of its subjects made.
By Paul McLeary
March 26, 2007 11:40 AM
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Behind the News
After Four Years, the U.S. Military is Still Learning How to Manage the Media in Iraq A look inside the working conditions of an embedded journalist in Iraq.
By Paul McLeary
March 23, 2007 03:38 PM
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Behind the News
As Gore Looks to Future, Networks Stuck in Everyday Politics Gore's message of what could be done on global warming was almost completely lost on the big three's evening news programs last night.
March 22, 2007 04:44 PM
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Politics
Politico’s One-Source Wonder How often have you opened a newspaper and seen these words: "My apologies to our readers for passing on bad information"? Never.
March 22, 2007 04:36 PM
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Politics
Viral Ads and the New Democratic Moment Will user-generated political ads lead to more openness, or simply bring digital mudslinging into the mainstream?
By Satta Sarmah
March 22, 2007 02:27 PM
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The Audit
CNN Defends Chiquita on a Very Slippery Slope In a jaw-dropping defense, a CNNMoney journalist argues that the iconic banana company has gotten "a raw deal."
March 22, 2007 11:11 AM Comments (1)
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Politics
The McCain “Maverick Watch” ‘08 While some reporters cast a wistful eye to yesteryear, when John McCain was a "maverick," others can't seem to let go.
By Paul McLeary
March 21, 2007 02:14 PM
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Politics
CNN Elevates Discourse, Tackles Question of Edwards’ Good Looks With the presidential campaign under way early, it would have been nice if the press could have delayed the inevitable deluge of inanity that the season brings. No such luck.
March 20, 2007 12:05 PM
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Politics
Journalism and Politics Makes for Some Uncomfortable Pillow Talk Are promises of "disclosure" enough to remove the taint of association between some journalists and their politically-connected spouses? We're skeptical.
By Paul McLeary
March 19, 2007 04:21 PM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Writing About, and Through, Cancer Newsday reporter Lauren Terrazzano on how she writes her weekly column "Life, With Cancer," and how the media usually portrays the disease.
By Satta Sarmah
March 19, 2007 12:46 PM
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Politics
As Thompson Ponders Run, Bloggers Dissect His Chances The Law and Order star's indecision is creating chatter from bloggers hoping for or cringing at the thought of his run for the GOP nomination.
By Dan Goldberg
March 19, 2007 12:35 PM
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Behind the News
(not) WANTED: Careerist Journalists for a New Epoch A new PEJ study looks at the future of journalism.
March 16, 2007 02:16 PM
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Behind the News
Globe Manufactures New Summers ‘Controversy’ Is a public figure with a lot of baggage in his past doomed to be haunted by "controversy" wherever he goes?
March 16, 2007 01:05 PM
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Politics
Clinton, Obama ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Eliciting Outrage While both candidates have come under fire from gay rights groups and others who are calling the senators flip-floppers, most of the anger is directed at Clinton.
By Satta Sarmah
March 15, 2007 03:38 PM
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Politics
Do You Know Why the U.S. Attorneys Were Canned? The press needs to do a better job explaining what, exactly, happened.
March 15, 2007 03:02 PM
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Behind the News
How TalkingPointsMemo Beat the Big Boys on the U.S. Attorney Story Can a mixture of "Web reporting" and old-fashioned investigative work be the wave of the future for journalism?
By Paul McLeary
March 15, 2007 01:53 PM
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Politics
Some Bloggers Get Debate Canceled, Other Bloggers Not Pleased The Politico reveals why a Democratic debate in Nevada was scrapped, and bloggers are not particularly happy about it.
By Dan Goldberg
March 14, 2007 02:51 PM
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Politics
A Cynic’s Take on Media Bias It's time for a spin war!
By Paul McLeary
March 13, 2007 05:05 PM
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Politics
NYT Gives Bush a Pass on New Bedford Raid The Times's account of what went down in an immigration raid in Massachusetts last week was notable for what it left out.
March 13, 2007 04:40 PM
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Politics
Bloggers Lavish Post Scribe’s Surge Assertion With Skepticism Robert Kagan argues that President Bush's Iraq troop surge is working, and bloggers are appropriately skeptical.
March 12, 2007 03:44 PM
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Behind the News, The Water Cooler
Want a Well-Designed Newspaper? Go to Europe. The president of the Society for News Design on why American newspapers are lacking, visually.
March 12, 2007 01:18 PM
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Behind the News
Who’s A Journalist? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Every few months, media critics get themselves all in a twist over the single most overblown issue in contemporary journalism.
By Paul McLeary
March 09, 2007 03:43 PM
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Behind the News
Obama’s Parking Tickets: Who Cares? A little story about the candidate's parking tickets during his law school days got way more play than it deserved.
March 09, 2007 12:56 PM Comments (4)
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Politics
Quick, What’s AFRICOM? Our mainstream press is dropping the ball on a big international story.
By Paul McLeary
March 08, 2007 02:21 PM
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Behind the News
Kurt Eichenwald, $2K and the Curious Ways of Investigative Reporters It's disingenuous for the Times to suggest that the $2,000 was anything other than part of the reporting process.
March 08, 2007 12:22 PM
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Politics
Bush Has a Record in Latin America. So What Is It? There was a gaping hole in Tuesday's coverage of the president's new effort to engage Latin America: what has his administration done there up to this point?
March 07, 2007 04:30 PM
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Behind the News
Nightmare Over, the Press and Bloggers Consider Libby Trial’s Legacy Many media outlets and bloggers are questioning the trial's effect on journalism. The consensus: it doesn't look good.
March 07, 2007 03:43 PM
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Behind the News
What, Exactly, Is Stengel Doing to Time? What kind of "understanding" did Time's managing editor have with Apple's CEO?
By Paul McLeary
March 07, 2007 12:50 PM
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Behind the News
Cutting Katie Some Slack Couric continues to inspire criticism as catty as the day she opened her first broadcast with a friendly, "Hi, everyone."
March 06, 2007 12:47 PM
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Politics
Coulter Attack Condemned in Blogosphere Bloggers called the conservative pundit all sorts of names not fit to print -- but more than a few were also disappointed in John Edwards' response.
By Dan Goldberg
March 05, 2007 01:03 PM
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Behind the News
Gore’s Press Popularity Enters a New Phase Whether or not Al Gore decides to run in '08, the press appears intent on keeping the possibility alive.
March 02, 2007 03:38 PM
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Politics
McCain Quasi-Launches Campaign, Bloggers Largely Disapprove The Arizona senator opted to announce his presidential run on Letterman, but many bloggers don't quite see the point.
By Satta Sarmah
March 01, 2007 03:56 PM
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Politics
Taranto and the Right Need a History Lesson on Digital Death Threats Stupidity and classlessness aren't ideological issues -- they strike liberals and conservatives in equal measure.
By Paul McLeary
March 01, 2007 03:12 PM
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Behind the News
Army Tries to Spin Walter Reed Story, Gets Bitten in the Ass The Army found itself facing an attack on two fronts, forced to answer not just the Post's account, but the Army Times's story as well.
By Alia Malek
March 01, 2007 11:00 AM
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On the Job
Dark Days Labor loses more ground in the newsroom
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Feature
The Epidemic That gee-whiz medical segment on your local TV news? It was produced and written by the very hospital it's touting.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Darts and Laurels
Darts & Laurels Send tips and comments to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Profile
Capturing Cuba Ann Louise Bardach has spent fifteen years in relentless pursuit of the island nation, its dictator, its exiles, and their secrets.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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On the Contrary
Missing Middle That gaping hole in our national news report is called the Midwest.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Essay
The Opt-Out Myth Most mothers have to work to make ends meet but the press writes mostly about the elite few who don't.
By E.J. Graff
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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On the Job
When Beats Collide When an oil refinery blew, reporters at The Houston Chronicle got a lesson in synergy.
By Lynn J. Cook
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Editorial
Blinded by Dubai While the press gawks, workers are dying.
By The Editors
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Cover Story
The Race Newspapers have a bright future as print-digital hybrids after all -- but they'd better hurry.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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The Research Report
A Long View of Layoffs A reason to worry less about the future of the newspaper industry
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Feature
Before Jon Stewart Fake news is back, but our tolerance for it isn't what it was before journalism donned the mantle of authority.
By Robert Love
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Q and A
Beyond the Cartoon Controversy: Q & A with Flemming Rose Fifteen months after he enraged the Muslim world, Danish editor Flemming Rose's conscience is clear.
By Alia Malek
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Second Read
Corps Values Thomas E. Rick's 1997 book Making the Corps describes a society's relationship to its warriors.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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Review
Crude Realities Two histories of the oil business.
March 01, 2007 08:30 AM
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