Archives
May 2007
Quitting TimeIn Venezuela, one newspaper exemplifies a bad trend
By Rachel Jones Thu 31 May 2007 01:59 PM Al Gore's press problemIt's baaaack....
By Paul McLeary Thu 31 May 2007 01:43 PM A word about leadershipAnd one reason Dow Jones lost the war
By Dean Starkman Thu 31 May 2007 01:19 PM And now for something completly differentGates on the case
By Paul McLeary Thu 31 May 2007 12:17 PM Blogs Heat Up over Global WarmingHere we go...
By Eric Hirsch Thu 31 May 2007 12:16 PM Kill your televisionAl Gore says so!
By Gal Beckerman Thu 31 May 2007 11:09 AM Water Under the Dam? Hardly.The fight for water
By Curtis Brainard Thu 31 May 2007 10:56 AM NYT's "Basics" column needs an editorBack to basics
By Curtis Brainard Wed 30 May 2007 01:01 PM The "Law & Order" candidateFred Thompson in?
By Eric Hirsch Wed 30 May 2007 12:48 PM More bad news from MexicoThings are looking rough
By Paul McLeary Wed 30 May 2007 11:53 AM Of Lepers and Lou DobbsDobbs has a leprosy problem
By Dean Starkman Wed 30 May 2007 10:30 AM Three year-old scandal made new!Somehow, we still care...
By Paul McLeary Tue 29 May 2007 02:18 PM Mexican newsroomsWorse than you think
By Paul McLeary Tue 29 May 2007 01:58 PM Cleeland lets looseTimes takes it on the chin
By Gal Beckerman Tue 29 May 2007 12:20 PM Bloggers dissect SheehanThings get ugly
By Eric Hirsch Tue 29 May 2007 11:46 AM Salon's Greenwald is wrong about KleinThough Klein was misleading
By Paul McLeary Fri 25 May 2007 02:36 PM Memorial day evergreenSame as it ever was
By Gal Beckerman Fri 25 May 2007 02:17 PM Blogging on war spendingBlog report
By Eric Hirsch Fri 25 May 2007 01:25 PM And they're off!Horse race coverage dominates
By Paul McLeary Fri 25 May 2007 11:20 AM Piling onReporters who don't hate America
By Paul McLeary Thu 24 May 2007 03:25 PM Olbermann stirs the potBlogs v. Dems
By Eric Hirsch Thu 24 May 2007 12:32 PM Stein on stocksThey're like Nazis!
By Gal Beckerman Thu 24 May 2007 11:53 AM Blog fight!Droppin' the gloves
By Paul McLeary Thu 24 May 2007 11:29 AM Live and DirectIraq dispatch
By Gal Beckerman Wed 23 May 2007 02:35 PM Drunk Germans, tattooed fishNews that ain't
By Paul McLeary Wed 23 May 2007 01:05 PM In Maysan province, the press misses an opportunity to go deepYon picks up the slack
By Paul McLeary Wed 23 May 2007 12:31 PM A Subversive Press? Covert Operations in IranBloggers react to ABC's "covert operations" scoop
By Eric Hirsch Wed 23 May 2007 12:21 PM FT on DJDon't do us any favors
By Dean Starkman Wed 23 May 2007 11:45 AM A Good One on Drug TrialsBig Pharma
By Dean Starkman Wed 23 May 2007 11:20 AM Not Your Grandma's Science FairCNN stands out
By Curtis Brainard Wed 23 May 2007 10:57 AM Sports pages vs. military reportingOne of these things is not like the other...
By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 04:14 PM Girl goes missing, news peg foundThe Brits are no better off than we are
By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 03:12 PM Smart people gather to talk about politics and the Web, nothing interesting is saidBlogging confabs bring out the smart guys, but few new ideas are ever aired.
By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 01:37 PM Iraq beats IraqNews coverage moves from D.C. to Baghdad
By Paul McLeary Tue 22 May 2007 12:29 PM We have been promised monsters!But where are they?
By Curtis Brainard Mon 21 May 2007 04:44 PM Gore on the horse raceMore of the same
By Gal Beckerman Mon 21 May 2007 01:45 PM More Iraqi journos killedAnother young journalist snuffed out
By Paul McLeary Mon 21 May 2007 12:44 PM Bloggers vs. book reviewersRound II!
By Gal Beckerman Mon 21 May 2007 12:11 PM The best source of environmental stories that you’ve never heard ofWhat you should know about "green" ads.
By Curtis Brainard Mon 21 May 2007 08:39 AM How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories?Not very often
By Tony Dokoupil Mon 21 May 2007 07:36 AM The Tragedy of Peter KannA devoted son of Dow Jones brings down the company.
By Dean Starkman Mon 21 May 2007 07:04 AM Yeah, Wolfie is out, stop cheeringWill the press be as interested in Wolfowitz's replacement as it was with him?
By Gal Beckerman Fri 18 May 2007 05:44 PM Don't believe the hypeA day at the Personal Democracy Forum
By Paul McLeary Fri 18 May 2007 05:02 PM Banning the bad news in IraqThe Iraqi government is chasing journalists away from covering stories.
By Paul McLeary Wed 16 May 2007 02:05 PM If the networks and the Pentagon hate it, 'Hometown Baghdad' is surely must-see TVPentagon stomps on YouTube, cutting off an unvarnished look at the war.
By Gal Beckerman Tue 15 May 2007 03:39 PM Opposition research, tall tales, and the dregs of campaign reportingTurnabout might be fair play, but it doesn't make for good journalism.
By Paul McLeary Mon 14 May 2007 03:43 PM A Moment in the Demise of NightlineA "debate" over the existence of God reveals the sad state of the nightly news, as guided by the steady hand of Martin Bashir.
By Paul McLeary Fri 11 May 2007 01:49 PM Newspapers Are Killing Cartoonists—Another Brilliant Business MoveHave editorial cartoons been silenced by "fearful editors" who want, among other things, to "appease conservatives"?
By Tony Dokoupil Fri 11 May 2007 10:47 AM Ooooooh, Web Ads!Web ads are great, but the political battles will still be fought, for better or worse, in the old media.
By Paul McLeary Thu 10 May 2007 03:17 PM What’s Good For the Bancrofts Is Bad for the JournalThe Wall Street Journal's parent has been paying outsized cash dividends, to the primary benefit of the controlling Bancroft family, instead of reinvesting to keep the company independent of Murdoch and other predators.
By Dean Starkman Thu 10 May 2007 02:44 PM The Shield BearerHow a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalisms best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.
By Bree Nordenson Thu 10 May 2007 01:02 PM Will Fort Dix plotters turn out to be the next ‘Seas of David’?Not all terror plots are created equal, as we've found out over the last several years.
By Paul McLeary Wed 9 May 2007 02:18 PM Steiger Sat On What?!Rupert Murdoch's "reassuring" e-mail about a live offer for the Wall Street Journal's parent creates a journalistic fiasco. Thanks, Rupert. We feel better already.
By Dean Starkman Tue 8 May 2007 04:49 PM Look Who's Dining with the QueenMore mixing of reporters with politicians over a polite dinner shouldn't sit well with the public.
By Gal Beckerman Tue 8 May 2007 04:12 PM UnspokenForeign correspondents and sexual abuse
By Judith Matloff Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Superiority ComplexWhy the Brits think theyre better
By Susan Hansen Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Soldiers StoriesWhat fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover
By Alia Malek Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM The Curious Case of Victor PeyWhy the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.
By John Dinges Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Rules of EngagementA year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.
By John Laurence Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM New Grub StreetHow did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?
By Christopher Shea Tue 8 May 2007 08:30 AM Hansen v. Cockburn in the The Nation, With Nothing at StakeThe global warming debate goes nowhere in this slow-motion battle of wits.
By Curtis Brainard Mon 7 May 2007 03:32 PM A New Shield Law in Washington StateThe author of the nation's thirty-second state law protecting journalists' confidential sources says it should boost prospects for a federal version.
By Bree Nordenson Fri 4 May 2007 12:46 PM Is This What the Army Thinks of Us?A new Army manual paints American reporters as a national security threat.
By Paul McLeary Thu 3 May 2007 02:17 PM The Trouble With Insurance ReportingThe business press accepts insurance industry assumptions that are utterly bogus—and, yes, it matters a lot.
By Dean Starkman Thu 3 May 2007 10:10 AM The End of Dow JonesCovering Your Own Downfall
By Dean Starkman Wed 2 May 2007 02:39 PM Congested CoverageForget "congestion pricing," PlaNYC needs the press’s deep and sustained attention.
By Curtis Brainard Wed 2 May 2007 12:30 PM The Organic Link Between Books and NewspapersDo newspapers really want to sacrifice the cultural authority that book reviews provide?
By Gal Beckerman Tue 1 May 2007 01:45 PM