Archives
August 2007
Diana, Princess of TalesTen years after her death, the media fascination with Diana lives on
By Megan Garber Fri 31 Aug 2007 03:02 PM What Kind of News do People Really Want?Pew report studies twenty years of American preferences
By Curtis Brainard Fri 31 Aug 2007 12:44 PM FUBARPBS runs into the FCC's nanny-state regulations
By Paul McLeary Fri 31 Aug 2007 12:11 PM Goodbye to All ThatThe decline of the coverage of books isn’t new, benign, or necessary
By Steve Wasserman Fri 31 Aug 2007 09:00 AM The Worst Kind of Toilet HumorThe homophobic New York Post
By Gal Beckerman Thu 30 Aug 2007 02:33 PM Chauncey Bailey: An InterviewBefore his death, the murdered journalist spoke of the significance of community TV
By Kristal Brent Zook Thu 30 Aug 2007 10:49 AM General Petraeus and the domestic information warBy the book
By Paul McLeary Wed 29 Aug 2007 03:47 PM Fox News Has a Beef......with itself
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 29 Aug 2007 03:22 PM Per SuitsThe Journal works on Saturday
By Dean Starkman Wed 29 Aug 2007 10:07 AM A Statesman's DecisionsNew evidence brings old reporting out of the closet
By Clint Hendler Tue 28 Aug 2007 04:20 PM Chinese Pollution in Words, Pictures and MoreThe New York Times makes new strides with multimedia storytelling
By Curtis Brainard Tue 28 Aug 2007 01:36 PM Southern StrategyThe media lobby, free trade, and Central America
By Dorian Block and Lauren McSherry Tue 28 Aug 2007 12:20 PM Onion-y GoodnessAs Henson goes, so goes the nation
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 27 Aug 2007 04:37 PM The Subprime Mess From Mount OlympusWhy James Grant's long view comes up short
By Dean Starkman Mon 27 Aug 2007 03:35 PM What Gonzales Didn't SayWhat goes unspoken stays unspoken
By Gal Beckerman Mon 27 Aug 2007 01:08 PM What do the "surge" and the "Anbar Awakening" have in common?Not much
By Paul McLeary Mon 27 Aug 2007 12:46 PM The Narrative Imperative, ReduxIn the presidential campaign, who's spinning the yarns?
By Megan Garber Mon 27 Aug 2007 11:00 AM When a Comment Just Isn't a CommentJustice Puts a L.A. Times Reporter “Under Siege”
By Clint Hendler Fri 24 Aug 2007 01:40 PM Defining MuqtadaMilitant, radical, firebrand: how do you brand al-Sadr?
By Peter Klein Fri 24 Aug 2007 12:00 PM Fun With NewsFox’s “Anchorwoman” reality show is a little too real
By Clint Hendler Thu 23 Aug 2007 03:58 PM Shafer Wishes Newspapers a Long LifeWe do too
By Gal Beckerman Thu 23 Aug 2007 01:53 PM New York--a city without a countryNational Review blogger says "New York City is not America"
By Paul McLeary Thu 23 Aug 2007 01:01 PM Hyphen HeavenTime magazine's nine-decade celebration of the Homeric epithet
By Tom Grubisich Thu 23 Aug 2007 11:50 AM NYT's Iraq story a mouthfulMore confusing than clarifying
By Paul McLeary Thu 23 Aug 2007 11:49 AM RecommendedAn L.A. Times story on aging Holocaust survivors
By Dean Starkman Thu 23 Aug 2007 10:19 AM Drudge Barks, TV News Bites"YouTube Election" or same old sloppy speculation?
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 22 Aug 2007 04:24 PM AJR's TroublesAnd what CJR really thinks about them
By Mike Hoyt Wed 22 Aug 2007 02:25 PM Rifling Through NASA's ClosetsUSA Today finds nothing, publishes anyway
By Curtis Brainard Wed 22 Aug 2007 01:07 PM Suspicious in SeattleMedia weigh privacy v. public safety
By Paul McLeary Wed 22 Aug 2007 12:40 PM Prime and SubprimeThe New York Times and Business Week led on subprime coverage. Others didn't.
By Dean Starkman Tue 21 Aug 2007 04:58 PM Georgia Court Tests Mass. v. EPABut where’s the press?
By Curtis Brainard Tue 21 Aug 2007 01:04 PM Covering What Didn’t HappenWashington Post on Bush’s “frustrated ambition”
By Gal Beckerman Mon 20 Aug 2007 03:43 PM Page Six Nose Conflict of InterestWhen they smell it
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 20 Aug 2007 02:36 PM Are U.S. Newsmakers Still Ignoring International News?According to the PEJ, they are
By Paul McLeary Mon 20 Aug 2007 11:45 AM Sun-Times Says Boycott BPChicago area newspapers fight permit for new pollution
By Curtis Brainard Fri 17 Aug 2007 03:54 PM The Battle for EyeballsNewspapers pound blogs, but there's a catch
By Paul McLeary Fri 17 Aug 2007 02:18 PM Wolff on MurdochLaughing all the way to the bank
By Brent Cunningham Fri 17 Aug 2007 11:08 AM Brian Tierney’s Grand ExperimentFitting Philly pigs for wings
By Julia M. Klein Fri 17 Aug 2007 08:31 AM Massacre on A6Yesterday's bombings in Iraq get little coverage
By Gal Beckerman Thu 16 Aug 2007 11:28 AM Where's Mike Gravel?The press needs to ask.
By Clint Hendler Thu 16 Aug 2007 11:21 AM Room to RoamRebecca Solnit’s peripatetic education
By Peter Terzian Thu 16 Aug 2007 08:30 AM Check, Please!Let no claim go unchecked
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 15 Aug 2007 03:08 PM The Leon RoarsThe wit of Wieseltier
By Gal Beckerman Wed 15 Aug 2007 12:38 PM The Times and ThompsonMissing the dirt
By Paul McLeary Wed 15 Aug 2007 12:00 PM Rove's ExitNothing left to say? Says who?
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 14 Aug 2007 05:24 PM Baby Buttafuocos?Sexing up a study, stoking parental angst
By Megan Garber Tue 14 Aug 2007 03:30 PM Newsweek v. NewsweekSamuelson rebuts Begley’s cover story
By Curtis Brainard Tue 14 Aug 2007 02:08 PM Desperate times...Call for pathetic measures
By Paul McLeary Tue 14 Aug 2007 10:50 AM Brief EncountersShort reviews of books about political power and the press, the changing role of the editorial, selling anxiety to women, and bearing witness to a changing century
By James Boylan Tue 14 Aug 2007 08:30 AM Rudy's Close UpThe New Yorker leaves on the soft lens
By Gal Beckerman Mon 13 Aug 2007 03:54 PM The Objectivity ProblemFrustration persists, but there's no quick fix
By Paul McLeary Mon 13 Aug 2007 03:35 PM Crandall Canyon and the PressIt's time to look deeper
By Clint Hendler Mon 13 Aug 2007 01:14 PM Dow Jones DownThe WSJ editorial page launches baseless attacks on its competitors' motives—it will fit right in at News Corp.
By Dean Starkman Mon 13 Aug 2007 10:45 AM Krauthammer, Goldfarb, and EmanuelGetting the TNR mess wrong on purpose
By Paul McLeary Fri 10 Aug 2007 03:06 PM The Greenhouse Effect (Updated)Hurricane Linda blows C-SPAN cameras away
By Gal Beckerman Fri 10 Aug 2007 10:12 AM Bohemian RhapsodiesMary Heaton Vorse’s labor reportage
By David Glenn Thu 9 Aug 2007 08:30 AM To Juice or Not to Juice?Journalists float the idea of legalizing sports doping
By Curtis Brainard Wed 8 Aug 2007 02:39 PM Rules of the GamesBeijing 2008: Time Trials for Press Freedom
By Megan Garber Wed 8 Aug 2007 02:30 PM Murdoch, China, and the WSJSteiger isn’t worried? He should be
By Paul McLeary Wed 8 Aug 2007 01:53 PM Obama blames the pressThe senator wasn’t clear on Pakistan, and so he smacks an easy scapegoat
By Gal Beckerman Tue 7 Aug 2007 03:27 PM A couple of notable campaign readsWell worth your attention
By Alexander Heffner Tue 7 Aug 2007 12:59 PM The Good-Citizen QuizWhat Americans know
By Michael Schudson & Tony Dokoupil Tue 7 Aug 2007 08:30 AM L.A. Times Iraq Piece Nails ItSusman conveys the good, the bad, and the mundane
By Paul McLeary Mon 6 Aug 2007 01:40 PM Murdoch the VisionaryYes, he was ahead on the Internet, cable, etc., but to what end?
By Brent Cunningham Mon 6 Aug 2007 01:23 PM Slate goes lowCyber-stalking Giuliani's daughter
By Paul McLeary Mon 6 Aug 2007 01:18 PM Asexual Journalism?LA Times mimics NY Times story on love and desire
By Curtis Brainard Fri 3 Aug 2007 04:14 PM Obama Flamed AgainThis time, though, he wuz robbed
By Adrianne Jeffries Fri 3 Aug 2007 02:15 PM The Times' numbers gameFails to add up
By Samantha Henig Fri 3 Aug 2007 09:12 AM Oval Office or BustThe latest campaign frivolity analyzes Clinton’s other war chest
By Megan Garber Thu 2 Aug 2007 03:40 PM The News Analysis That Wasn'tNYT's Iraq story a case study in caution
By Paul McLeary Thu 2 Aug 2007 02:10 PM A Spoonful of SugarHow to explain the health care crisis
By Kevin Drum Thu 2 Aug 2007 08:30 AM The Rupert WatchHow to read The Wall Street Journal now
By Mike Hoyt Wed 1 Aug 2007 03:52 PM Subway Car ConfessionsA stakeout of the mayor's commuting habits
By Gal Beckerman Wed 1 Aug 2007 12:12 PM Burning the Virtual Shoe LeatherDoes journalism in a computer world matter?
By Stephen Totilo Wed 1 Aug 2007 09:30 AM
