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January 2008

Campaign Desk

“McCain Lies His Ass Off”? Florida, Simi Valley, and The Real World

By Megan Garber

January 31, 2008 03:39 PM Comments (2)
Campaign Desk

CNN’s Reagan Mystique Last night, it was morning in America. Again.

By Clint Hendler

January 31, 2008 01:12 PM
The Observatory

WSJ Launches New Environment Blog Is this Murdoch’s influence?

By Curtis Brainard

January 31, 2008 12:40 PM Comments (4)
The Audit

Stretched Ethics Incoming head of WSJ’s new luxury magazine plugged her own yoga business, quoted a partner in Times of London columns

By Dean Starkman

January 31, 2008 12:20 PM Comments (3)
Campaign Desk

“Chutzpah!” “Hoopla!” “Ambush!” Victory? Reporting the Democratic results in Florida

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 31, 2008 10:56 AM Comments (1)
Q and A

Keeping Poverty on the Page Covering an old problem in new ways

By Mary Ellen Schoonmaker

January 31, 2008 09:00 AM
Campaign Desk

Ay, There’s the Snub Clinton, Obama, and the silly story du jour

By Megan Garber

January 30, 2008 03:19 PM
Campaign Desk

Politics as Sport Rudy Tuesday and Super Sunday

By Clint Hendler

January 30, 2008 01:17 PM
Campaign Desk

A Guide That Isn’t Too much brevity at the Chronicle

By Trudy Lieberman

January 30, 2008 10:00 AM
Campaign Desk

“The Snub,” Circa 1980 Teddy Kennedy: Lancelot? Mordred?

By Roger Mudd

January 30, 2008 09:21 AM
The Audit

Or What? Business reporters need to finish the thought on bailouts

By Ryan Chittum

January 30, 2008 08:45 AM
Campaign Desk

Covering A Non-Victory Victory in Florida "What will we do? We're the media, right?"

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 29, 2008 05:55 PM
Campaign Desk

Clinton-ex-Camelot Kennedy and Clinton: he’d grown accustomed to her face?

By Megan Garber

January 29, 2008 03:53 PM
Campaign Desk

Nuance And Narrative in SC Do national media tell local voters what to think?

By Gal Beckerman

January 29, 2008 03:39 PM
Campaign Desk

The Candidates on California’s Emissions Waiver The SacBee gets some answers, sort of

By Curtis Brainard

January 29, 2008 11:13 AM
Campaign Desk

Handshaking, Hand-Clapping, Eye-Rolling All you need to know about SOTU

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 29, 2008 09:56 AM
Essay

What Would You Do? The journalism that tweaks reality, then reports what happens

By Daniel Weiss

January 29, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (2)
Campaign Desk

No, No, NOW The women’s org lashes out at Kennedy

By Megan Garber

January 28, 2008 05:17 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

But For the Zapf Dingbats Fred Thompson's campaign might have really caught on

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 28, 2008 12:21 PM
Campaign Desk

Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask John McCain On the surge and beyond

By Todd Gitlin

January 28, 2008 12:00 PM Comments (4)
The Audit

Debits and Credits Gates’s banality on WSJ’s page one; FT, NYT beat WSJ to bond insurers; cliché storm drenches Wall Street to metaphorical skin, causing proverbial cold; etc.

By Anna Bahney

January 28, 2008 11:43 AM
Campaign Desk

“Discovering” Delegates …when they’ve always been there.

By Clint Hendler

January 28, 2008 11:43 AM
Campaign Desk

Mass Media Criticism Obama’s fans tell off CNN

By Gal Beckerman

January 27, 2008 01:07 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Waiting for Obama If the press doesn’t witness a campaign event, did it happen?

By Gal Beckerman

January 26, 2008 12:12 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Seeing the Light in South Carolina In the flesh, Obama is easy…maybe too easy

By Gal Beckerman

January 25, 2008 04:27 PM Comments (7)
Campaign Desk

Desperately Seeking Soundbite Russertism strikes again

By Megan Garber

January 25, 2008 04:07 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Times Have Changed Now Rudy's happy to be insulted by his hometown paper

By Clint Hendler

January 25, 2008 11:52 AM
The Observatory

News Director Quits Over Hospital Deal WEAU-TV in Wisconsin’s arrangement called unethical

By Curtis Brainard

January 25, 2008 09:37 AM Comments (1)
The Kicker

The War Card

By Clint Hendler

January 24, 2008 05:53 PM Comments (2)
Campaign Desk

Gang of Four Everybody hates Mitt?

By Megan Garber

January 24, 2008 01:57 PM
The Observatory

Bismarck Tribune Walks a Tightrope Carbon series balances concerns for climate and local economy

By Curtis Brainard

January 24, 2008 11:55 AM
The Audit

Comcast CEO Is/Is Not Loved By Shareholders You need to read three separate articles to find out

By Elinore Longobardi

January 24, 2008 11:46 AM
Campaign Desk

To Check The Facts, You Need The Facts MSNBC’s fact-check segment falls short

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 24, 2008 11:08 AM
Review

Big Fish and Small Fry In his new book, Robert McChesney overstates the threat to democracy posed by corporate media

By Carlin Romano

January 24, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (6)
Campaign Desk

Fred Thompson’s Tall Order The candidate, the press, and the way we were

By Megan Garber

January 24, 2008 08:55 AM
Campaign Desk

Fight Club The most contentious debate = the highest-rated debate. Coincidence?

By Megan Garber

January 23, 2008 06:26 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

OMG, MSNBC! Worst. Cable. Segment. Ever?

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 23, 2008 05:04 PM Comments (1)
The Audit

The End of Clever Angles Financial calamity sobers up an NYT columnist

By Anna Bahney

January 23, 2008 04:20 PM Comments (3)
Behind the News

Heath Ledger and the Web The MSM played catch-up

By Megan Garber

January 23, 2008 02:42 PM
Campaign Desk

Mitt’s Health Plan, Debunked Why isn’t the press paying attention?

By Trudy Lieberman

January 23, 2008 11:10 AM
The Kicker

GEO TV Back On Air

By Clint Hendler

January 22, 2008 05:11 PM
Campaign Desk

Where’s Education? Part II The fierce urgency of...when?

By Megan Garber

January 22, 2008 05:01 PM
Campaign Desk

Announcing Last Night’s Rashomon Awards Today’s Oscar announcement? It’s got nothing on the ‘Demmys’

By Megan Garber

January 22, 2008 12:14 PM
Campaign Desk

The Candidates did the Dirty Work CNN didn’t get a chance to look bad

By Clint Hendler

January 22, 2008 12:13 PM
Campaign Desk

Insta-Analysis Takes Another Hit S.C. debate leaves pundits speechless…sort of

By Gal Beckerman

January 22, 2008 12:01 PM
Campaign Desk

B-I-Double-Hockey-Sticks Is there anything he can('t) do?

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 22, 2008 11:26 AM
The Audit

Zell The Manager This year's management theory

By Dean Starkman

January 22, 2008 10:35 AM
The Observatory

The MRSA-Gay Connection Press slaps its own wrist for mischaracterizing research

By Curtis Brainard

January 22, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (4)
Darts and Laurels

Laurel to the editorial staff of Stars and Stripes Send tips and suggestions to dartsandlaurels@cjr.org

By Clint Hendler

January 22, 2008 09:00 AM
The Kicker

L’Affaire Scaife

By Clint Hendler

January 21, 2008 05:24 PM
Campaign Desk

Delegate This Clinton did not win the Nevada “vote”

By Clint Hendler

January 21, 2008 04:10 PM
Campaign Desk

The Reagan Myth, Redux Krugman goes cherry-picking

By Megan Garber

January 21, 2008 03:08 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Buzzing the Nation With Goldwater Tales from the Yai-Bi-Kin

By Roger Mudd

January 21, 2008 02:26 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

A Sight for Fresh Eyes The circus comes to The State’s state

By Gal Beckerman

January 21, 2008 01:04 PM
Campaign Desk

Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Clinton And not a single one about race!

By Todd Gitlin

January 21, 2008 12:56 PM Comments (4)
Campaign Desk

Hearts, Mouths, and Hardball That mea culpa from Chris Matthews

By Jules Witcover

January 21, 2008 11:29 AM Comments (1)
The Audit

Debits and Credits WP's Johnson unearths prosecutorial log-rolling; WSJ leaves something out; CNBC's rotten Apple 'scoop'

By Anna Bahney

January 21, 2008 10:44 AM
Campaign Desk

Health Care: Passing Along the Confusion The Times unclarifies

By Trudy Lieberman

January 21, 2008 10:00 AM
Campaign Desk

No Need to Apologize, AP A reporter gets loud, and we like it

By Megan Garber

January 18, 2008 04:39 PM
Campaign Desk

Moving the boundaries A Pennsylvania paper dares to cover single payer

By Trudy Lieberman

January 18, 2008 04:00 PM
The Audit

A High-Tech Rumor Mill FT pushes thinly sourced Blu-ray scoop too far while Variety and others hold their fire

By Elinore Longobardi

January 18, 2008 03:56 PM
Campaign Desk

More Candidate Bloomberg NPR weighs in with absurd bingo report

By Gal Beckerman

January 18, 2008 01:21 PM
Campaign Desk

Recommended Reading Two articles answer questions about the rise of Huckabee and Obama

By Gal Beckerman

January 17, 2008 01:07 PM
The Observatory

Journalism 2.0 on Science 2.0 How the Web is shaping next-generation reporting

By Curtis Brainard

January 17, 2008 11:47 AM Comments (2)
On the Job

Blogonomics Bloggers of the world, unite!

By Chris Mooney

January 17, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (8)
Campaign Desk

There’s No “I” in Debate Moderator Someone tell Tim Russert

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 16, 2008 05:07 PM
Campaign Desk

The Sky is Falling! Tell me something I don't know

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 16, 2008 02:43 PM
The Audit

Can’t Get Any Worse? Newspaper companies’ wildly inflated balance sheets

By Ryan Chittum

January 16, 2008 10:40 AM
Campaign Desk

‘Surrogate’ Labor Does the term-of-the-moment need its own stand-in?

By Megan Garber

January 16, 2008 09:23 AM
Campaign Desk

Dennis the Menace? The Vegas debate, missing in…Vegas

By Megan Garber

January 16, 2008 09:20 AM Comments (4)
Campaign Desk

Press Plays Vegas, Again Clichés Away!

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 15, 2008 05:56 PM
Campaign Desk

Lessons From Concessions Past Spinning second (or third or last) place

By Roger Mudd

January 15, 2008 01:34 PM
Campaign Desk

The Bloomer Mill How a handful of Manhattanites kept Mayor Mike’s “candidacy” alive

By Gal Beckerman

January 15, 2008 12:55 PM Comments (1)
The Audit

Tale of a Winning Bet Against Predators WSJ scores with great subprime story

By Dean Starkman

January 15, 2008 12:41 PM
Campaign Desk

Playing Telephone with MLK How the press fanned the Dems' "racial tension"

By Megan Garber

January 15, 2008 10:44 AM Comments (2)
Editorial

Supply and Demand Journalism must invest in educated consumers

By The Editors

January 15, 2008 09:00 AM
The Observatory

Pushing for a Science Debate Journalists join effort to convince the candidates

By Curtis Brainard

January 15, 2008 08:00 AM Comments (2)
The Observatory

CJR Launches The Observatory A new department to critique the coverage of science and the environment

By Curtis Brainard

January 15, 2008 07:00 AM Comments (8)
Campaign Desk

Revisiting the New Hampshire Polls Trade group readies a panel

By Clint Hendler

January 14, 2008 03:42 PM Comments (1)
The Audit

Debits and Credits A.P. abandons commonsense; Morgenson does it again; Forbes forgets something; Up in smoke?

By Anna Bahney

January 14, 2008 01:22 PM
Campaign Desk

Health Care: Who Will Be at the Table? Following the (insurance company) money

By Trudy Lieberman

January 14, 2008 01:19 PM
Campaign Desk

The Candidates’ own Health Care Rovner asks a good question, gets few answers

By Clint Hendler

January 14, 2008 12:58 PM
The Kicker

Dowd in Derry

By Clint Hendler

January 11, 2008 01:27 PM
Campaign Desk

Rolling Craps in New Hampshire The storied prediction markets fared little better than the polls

By Curtis Brainard

January 11, 2008 09:52 AM
Campaign Desk

Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Mitt Romney From welfare moms to "doubling Guantánamo"

By Todd Gitlin

January 11, 2008 09:11 AM
Campaign Desk

Men in the Diner Manchester’s media darlings, after the storm

By Megan Garber

January 10, 2008 04:24 PM
The Audit

Journalism Makes Them Uncomfortable A mutant strain of journalism criticism

By Dean Starkman

January 10, 2008 12:19 PM Comments (1)
The Kicker

Blogging From Air Force One

By Paul McLeary

January 10, 2008 12:12 PM
Cover Story

Secrets of the City What The Wire reveals about urban journalism

By Lawrence Lanahan

January 10, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (3)
Campaign Desk

On Radio Row A peek inside the Talk Radio factory

By Megan Garber

January 9, 2008 06:15 PM
Campaign Desk

The Anti-Chris Matthews Vote And how it sparked some media soul-searching (though not from Matthews)

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 9, 2008 05:13 PM Comments (5)
Campaign Desk

The Polls: What the #$!% Happened? ABC's pollster surveys the wreckage

By Clint Hendler

January 9, 2008 05:12 PM Comments (4)
The Audit

Business Writing for Everyone LAT provides needed context for the non-specialist; others don't

By Elinore Longobardi

January 9, 2008 04:18 PM
Campaign Desk

“Pundits, Savants and Gurus,” Oh My! The slow dissolution of conventional wisdom at CNN

By Curtis Brainard

January 9, 2008 03:46 PM
Campaign Desk

The Tears and the Clowns File under "cynics"

By Paul McLeary

January 9, 2008 02:19 PM
Campaign Desk

We Expected More Elephants NYT delivers

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 9, 2008 01:37 PM
Campaign Desk

Clinton Ran Against The Press—And Won Public believed her, not her coverage

By Gal Beckerman

January 9, 2008 01:36 PM Comments (2)
Campaign Desk

All’s Quiet on the Obama Front Behind the scenes at last night's Obama rally in Nashua

By Megan Garber

January 9, 2008 10:56 AM
The Kicker

Hillary Clinton is not the underdog…

By Michael Meyer

January 8, 2008 04:03 PM
The Audit

Job Well Done WSJ shines light on Wall Street 'hairball'

By Ryan Chittum

January 8, 2008 01:26 PM
Campaign Desk

Misty II Cable considers Clinton

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 8, 2008 11:27 AM
Campaign Desk

Play Misty for Me The media on The Moment

By Megan Garber

January 8, 2008 11:26 AM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Russert Becomes Invisible to Himself The elephant is still in the room

By Liz Cox Barrett

January 8, 2008 10:52 AM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Romney Points his Finger And there's a story or two behind that

By Roger Mudd

January 8, 2008 10:01 AM
Campaign Desk

Bill Clinton: Media Critic Is Hillary getting a "raw deal?"

By Gal Beckerman

January 8, 2008 09:59 AM
Feature

Transcript: “The Language of Strangers” A town comes together to discuss the role of a community newspaper

By Elizabeth Whitney

January 8, 2008 09:00 AM
Feature

The Language of Strangers How a hotshot editor with big ideas failed to comprehend the soul of community journalism

By Jonathan Rowe

January 8, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (6)
Campaign Desk

The Edwards Slog Little sleep, little news

By Clint Hendler

January 8, 2008 08:52 AM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

The Energy Issue Not that one, the other one

By Megan Garber

January 8, 2008 06:14 AM
The Observatory

Weighing the Environmental Vote From Iowa to New Hampshire, more enthusiasm than action

By Curtis Brainard

January 7, 2008 04:47 PM
Campaign Desk

The Magical New York Times Reads the mind of Hillary Clinton

By Paul McLeary

January 7, 2008 04:44 PM
Campaign Desk

Radio Waves Voting = luvin' in New Hampshire

By Megan Garber

January 7, 2008 01:05 PM
Campaign Desk

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Gibson A classy move at Saturday's Manchester debate

By Megan Garber

January 7, 2008 12:43 PM
The Audit

Debits and Credits Business Week slips on Perle; Eisinger's interesting warning; WSJ arrives late to an accident, etc.

By Anna Bahney

January 7, 2008 12:20 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Back on the Hustings Back to disenchantment with the political press corps

By Paul McLeary

January 7, 2008 10:28 AM
The Audit

Audit Arbiter : Coming Soon

By Admin Person

January 6, 2008 11:08 PM
Campaign Desk

The Other Winner in Iowa How The Des Moines Register Got it (Mostly) Right

By Clint Hendler

January 4, 2008 03:25 PM
Essay

Checkbook Journalism Revisited Sometimes we owe our sources everything

By Robert Boynton

January 4, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

The Glamorous Life on the Campaign Trail Or is it? The scene in an unwired basement at the last Romney rally

By Clint Hendler

January 3, 2008 06:13 PM
The Audit

New York Times Nails Nevada Local press has homer blindness on land-use story

By Elinore Longobardi

January 3, 2008 04:18 PM
The Kicker

Outtakes From Election Day

By Paul McLeary

January 3, 2008 04:00 PM
Behind the News

Enough Wrong To Go Around Washington Times joins the 'liberal media' in getting Iraq wrong

By Paul McLeary

January 3, 2008 02:22 PM
The Observatory

Science And Religion Journal's survey delivers best reporting yet on presidential hopefuls and a host of scientific issues

By Curtis Brainard

January 3, 2008 01:37 PM
Feature

The Redemption of Chris Rose Like his city and his newspaper, a survivor

By Barry Yeoman

January 3, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (4)
Campaign Desk

John’s Joke Needling the press, for points

By Clint Hendler

January 2, 2008 04:58 PM
Campaign Desk

Edwards: Gives Coffee, Takes Questions Succumbs to pressure for "presser"

By Clint Hendler

January 2, 2008 03:39 PM
Campaign Desk

Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Obama The war and more

By Todd Gitlin

January 2, 2008 02:58 PM Comments (25)
Campaign Desk

Medicare Mystery Why the conspiracy of silence?

By Trudy Lieberman

January 2, 2008 02:03 PM Comments (1)
The Audit

Unsupported and Untrue WSJ lacks evidence to support a sweeping, front-page claim against mortgage borrowers

By Dean Starkman

January 2, 2008 01:33 PM Comments (6)
Campaign Desk

Reporters Are Sick of Iowa Passive aggressive reporting from the Hawkeye state

By Paul McLeary

January 2, 2008 12:30 PM Comments (1)
Campaign Desk

Iowa and the Search for Power On the Edwards bus, laptops are low

By Clint Hendler

January 2, 2008 09:37 AM
Campaign Desk

Iowa: Land of the Midnight Fun New Year's Eve with the Press Corps

By Clint Hendler

January 1, 2008 02:48 PM
Language Corner

Says Who? "According to" is a basic, uncomplicated phrase of attribution. But mischievous spirits hover.

By Evan Jenkins

January 1, 2008 09:00 AM

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