Monthly Archive

February 2008

• Behind the News

  Harry Situation The British press and “the great silence: redux”

  By Megan Garber

  February 29, 2008 04:12 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Natural Born Campaign-Killer? Canal-birthed McCain, meet China-calved Luce

  By Clint Hendler

  February 29, 2008 01:58 PM

• The Observatory, The Water Cooler

  Wiring Journalism 2.0 Brad Stenger on the intersection of the press and computer science

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 29, 2008 11:00 AM

• The Audit

  Opening Bell In CJR's a.m. business-press roundup: More Street spooks; Jingle mail; WSJ's dollar delay; Bush to recession: Drop dead; and more.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 29, 2008 08:10 AM

• Campaign Desk

  President Bloomberg: RIP Will Mayor Mike’s op-ed finally end this nonsense?

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 28, 2008 11:34 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Shrill-ary Is Clinton’s problem as basic as her voice?

  By Megan Garber

  February 28, 2008 10:26 AM Comments (1)

• The Kicker

  WaPo Says Wii

  By Megan Garber

  February 28, 2008 10:18 AM

• The Observatory

  The Wind Beneath Biofuels’ Wings The press goes giddy over Virgin's "nutty" test flight

  By Russ Juskalian

  February 28, 2008 09:05 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Forbes, Fortune: Jobs Well Done Bizpubs add to excellent work on overseas child, forced labor; Recalling Bloomberg Markets

  By Elinore Longobardi

  February 28, 2008 08:30 AM

• The Audit

  Opening Bell In CJR’s a.m. business-press roundup: Paulson pushes back, WSJ reports; a stunner from Bahrain; Bernanke: Damn the torpedoes, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 28, 2008 08:10 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Off The Map Foreign affairs were missing, and missed, in debate season

  By Clint Hendler

  February 27, 2008 05:50 PM Comments (12)

• Campaign Desk

  It’s The Man Show — on MSNBC! Stick to your knitting, ladies

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 27, 2008 05:37 PM Comments (3)

• The Kicker, The Observatory

  Bro, Sweet Chemistry Tat!

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 27, 2008 05:02 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Teaching vs. Preaching A glimmer of pedagogy in the Ohio debate—were the media learning?

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 27, 2008 04:19 PM

• Behind the News

  From the Archives Victor Navasky on William F. Buckley

  By The Editors

  February 27, 2008 12:00 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The Last Night Final Fights and Russertism

  By Clint Hendler

  February 27, 2008 11:09 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Russert Bags “The Marlin” The most Russert-centric debate to date?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 27, 2008 10:49 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Master Debaters? Moderators, moderation, and a modest proposal

  By Megan Garber

  February 27, 2008 10:37 AM

• Audio

  Delacorte Lecture with Time’s Rick Stengel The managing editor on the unique role of the modern newsweekly

  By The Editors

  February 27, 2008 09:00 AM

• The Audit

  Opening Bell In CJR's a.m. guide to the business press: Grim tidings on housing; WP says a veto threatened on bailouts; 50 bank failures? etc. etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 27, 2008 08:15 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Stengel’s Wrong About Endorsements Editors in Ohio and Texas explain why

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 26, 2008 03:18 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Stay “Classy,” Clinton But not till after tonight's debate, Live on MSNBC!

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 26, 2008 02:07 PM

• Review

  Brief Encounters Short reviews of books: Woodward and Bernstein, the U.S. record on torture, and media populism

  By James Boylan

  February 26, 2008 09:00 AM

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell Pause in the panic; the Times on useless insurance; more bad news for a fallen titan, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 26, 2008 08:07 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Elephant in the Studio Doris Kearns Goodwin on PlagiarismGate 2008

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 25, 2008 05:37 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Mountain, Meet Molehill Why is the Obama photo a story?

  By Megan Garber

  February 25, 2008 04:15 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Accuracy in Truth Squading KTRK-TV's truth meter needs recalibration

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 25, 2008 01:00 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Avoiding Assassination Why we’d rather not talk about it

  By Clint Hendler

  February 25, 2008 12:32 PM

• The Audit

  Debits and Credits Portfolio's weak cover; BW's cool update; Economist instructs; WSJ probes, etc.

  By Anna Bahney

  February 25, 2008 11:35 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Opening Bell Oil shocks; Wachovia bites its own leg off; ChiTrib on Countrywide's skeletons, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 25, 2008 08:03 AM

• The Kicker

  The McCain Article, the Day After

  By Megan Garber

  February 22, 2008 03:43 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Follow the Money There's only one way to interpret Hillary's spending habits

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 22, 2008 01:23 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The Debate Shuffle Pick a storyline, any storyline

  By Clint Hendler

  February 22, 2008 11:31 AM

• The Audit

  The World According to Forbes "Smartest Cities" list is stupid even for a list

  By Elinore Longobardi

  February 22, 2008 11:00 AM Comments (5)

• The Observatory

  Science Journalism Past, present, and futuristic

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 22, 2008 10:55 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Opening Bell One in ten homes underwater: NYT; Microsoft; perils of dried fruit; more gloom, doom

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 22, 2008 07:51 AM

• Campaign Desk

  McCausation How 1 + 1 ads up to $—or XXX

  By Clint Hendler

  February 21, 2008 05:13 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  Five Questions for Bill Keller Now that the "McCain bombshell" has dropped

  By Megan Garber

  February 21, 2008 01:45 PM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk

  A Sorry Situation How do you contain a cable conflagration?

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 21, 2008 09:02 AM

• Short Takes

  Games in Palestine Can a video game replicate reporting in a war-torn country?

  By David Cohn

  February 21, 2008 09:00 AM

• The Observatory

  The Bats and the Bees Population crashes, the press, and the “Holocene extinction”

  By Russ Juskalian

  February 21, 2008 08:09 AM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell Stagflation; a run on anti-panic insurance; "that Armageddon feel," etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 21, 2008 07:52 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Audit

  Popular? Must Be “Populist” Why does the press use “populist” to refer to policies that are simply liberal?

  By Dean Starkman

  February 20, 2008 03:59 PM Comments (2)

• The Kicker

  Don’t Worry, WikiLeaks

  By Clint Hendler

  February 20, 2008 03:54 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The End of the Beginning? Or, for Clinton, the beginning of the end?

  By Megan Garber

  February 20, 2008 02:11 PM

• Campaign Desk

  A Man Made of Teflon and Rubber Why bad press refuses to stick to Obama

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 20, 2008 01:45 PM

• Campaign Desk

  The Definition of Universal, Again Ted Kennedy's take on it

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 20, 2008 10:29 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  Impressive Coverage at the LA Times Exposing warts in the health insurance market

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 20, 2008 09:39 AM

• Audio

  Delacorte Lecture with the Virginia Quarterly Review’s Ted Genoways The editor reveals the secrets of the little mag that could

  By The Editors

  February 20, 2008 09:00 AM

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell There will be triple-digit oil; NYT scores with MBIA; Suisse aftershocks, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 20, 2008 08:08 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Wag the Finger Angry Bill: From embeds' eyes to pundits' lips

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 19, 2008 04:42 PM

• Short Takes

  Military Embeds: The World Tour A military's handling of the media says a lot about its nation

  By David Axe

  February 19, 2008 09:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Plagiarism, the Latest -Gate The latest Democrat tiff gets its airing in the press

  By Megan Garber

  February 19, 2008 08:55 AM

• The Observatory

  Dispatches from AAAS A few thoughts on meeting’s media-oriented panels

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 19, 2008 08:00 AM

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell A Swiss credit bombshell; shaky Rock in the UK; Bay Area housing, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 19, 2008 07:18 AM

• The Kicker

  Whoops

  By Clint Hendler

  February 18, 2008 04:00 PM

• The Observatory

  Dispatches from AAAS The big news from the annual science conference

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 18, 2008 03:45 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Lame Huck How do you cover a candidate-who-isn’t?

  By Megan Garber

  February 18, 2008 03:07 PM

• Campaign Desk

  “Not Voting With Their People”? The Times takes the super out of superdelegates

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 18, 2008 02:02 PM Comments (1)

• The Audit

  Democrats Attack “Business,” “Trade” Or so says The Wall Street Journal on page one

  By Dean Starkman

  February 18, 2008 01:55 PM

• The Audit

  Debits and Credits Times gets debit for no Reuters credit; The Atlantic overreaches; WSJ leder chugs along, etc.

  By Anna Bahney

  February 18, 2008 10:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Story, Resurrected The Atlantic trumps GQ

  By Megan Garber

  February 15, 2008 11:51 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Obama’s Old Boss An FCC blast from the past

  By Clint Hendler

  February 15, 2008 10:45 AM

• Behind the News

  On the Ground: ‘Dances’ With Strongmen Building trust in Iraq, with chai and R-E-S-P-E-C-T

  By Paul McLeary

  February 15, 2008 10:33 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  The Environment, Writ Small Regional coverage has struggled to connect candidates' general goals to local needs

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 15, 2008 10:12 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler

  An Obama “Embed” on Access, Inspiration, Oppo And what not to ask her

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 15, 2008 09:13 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Obama’s Lobbyist Line A "more complicated truth" on campaign contributions

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 15, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (14)

• The Audit

  Opening Bell Spitzer turns the tables; WSJ scoops; renting in Dallas; FT on shaky LBOs, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 15, 2008 08:07 AM

• The Audit

  Mad Money, Bad Blood Why CNBC threw Barron's off its air

  By Dean Starkman

  February 15, 2008 07:45 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  The Bachelor: GOP Edition Who will receive McCain’s red rose?

  By Megan Garber

  February 14, 2008 04:53 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Watching The Washington Post On primary night, a glimpse of the print-digital future

  By Clint Hendler

  February 14, 2008 02:08 PM

• Behind the News

  Welcome Back, Writers! The wind beneath Stewart/Colbert's wings blows again

  By Megan Garber

  February 14, 2008 12:38 PM

• Review

  May I Speak Freely? Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment's march to victory

  By Aryeh Neier

  February 14, 2008 09:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Of Love and Other Demons The press hearts Obama. But is it toxic?

  By Megan Garber

  February 14, 2008 08:55 AM Comments (3)

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell The Audit's new daily column chimes in on new credit problems, Zell's latest moves, bad Chinese drugs, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 14, 2008 08:15 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Love, By The Numbers Fox couldn’t get enough of Obama

  By Adam Rose

  February 13, 2008 05:42 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  Blue Genes (or Red) Are liberal/conservative political beliefs heritable?

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 13, 2008 02:35 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Obama Sells His Narrative Press knew he would win big, but still treated it as HUGE NEWS

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 13, 2008 12:42 PM Comments (5)

• Campaign Desk

  Heisenberg’s Calling Principle MSNBC and Reuters jump the gun in DC

  By Clint Hendler

  February 13, 2008 12:20 PM

• The Kicker

  Hurry Up, Spring Training

  By Brent Cunningham

  February 13, 2008 10:59 AM

• The Audit

  The Opening Bell The Audit's new daily column chimes in on monolines, cars, Paulson, etc.

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 13, 2008 08:13 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Who’s Afraid of 60 Minutes? No worries for the candidates

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 12, 2008 02:16 PM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  Tasty Potomac Predictions The press feasts on the future

  By Megan Garber

  February 12, 2008 02:11 PM

• The Observatory

  Columbia Presents 2007 Oakes Awards Winners cover radioactive pollution, coastal erosion, and melting ice caps

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 12, 2008 12:55 PM Comments (1)

• Review

  Appetite for Fear David Everitt's history of the pamphleteers who hunted 'pinkos'

  By David Hajdu

  February 12, 2008 09:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Fighting Words Gwen Ifill listens through the ears of Clinton and Obama's supporters

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 11, 2008 12:38 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  Beware of “Neuropunditry” Slate keeps tabs on a flimsy new trend

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 11, 2008 12:22 PM

• The Audit

  Debits and Credits A.P. falls for McClatchy's hidden-ball trick; FT shines thrice, etc.

  By Anna Bahney

  February 11, 2008 10:34 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Fact From Fiction At the checkpoints with the Sons of Iraq

  By Paul McLeary

  February 8, 2008 11:16 AM Comments (2)

• Campaign Desk

  A Cautionary Tale for David Brooks and Others What, really, was Jim Cooper’s ‘Clinton Lite?’

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 8, 2008 11:14 AM

• Behind the News

  Grand Experiment: A Public Editor for Education The EWA’s first Public Editor, Linda Perlstein, discusses the state of ed reporting

  By Megan Garber

  February 8, 2008 10:59 AM

• The Audit

  Oklahoma 1999 Lessons on insurance reporting from a nine-year-old disaster

  By Dean Starkman

  February 8, 2008 10:59 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Where Was McCain? The senator’s a no-show on the stimulus-package vote

  By Megan Garber

  February 7, 2008 03:43 PM

• The Observatory

  Is Sustainability Reporting Sustainable? Loving "Green" Stories When They’re Easy

  By Russ Juskalian

  February 7, 2008 02:28 PM

• The Audit

  Free Tunes! Not Business press stampedes into Qtrax blunder

  By Ryan Chittum

  February 7, 2008 11:24 AM Comments (3)

• The Research Report

  Leaps and Bounds Paranoia: as American as your (possibly poisoned) apple pie

  By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas

  February 7, 2008 09:00 AM

• Campaign Desk

  Who Understands Our Electoral System? Political press needs to bone up

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 6, 2008 02:23 PM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Wizard of Odds Karl Rove’s Fox News debut

  By Megan Garber

  February 6, 2008 02:21 PM

• Campaign Desk

  There Will Be Losers Cable talkers see to it

  By Liz Cox Barrett

  February 6, 2008 01:57 PM

• The Audit

  Correction Follies Vegas paper compounds confusion of a bungled rewrite

  By Elinore Longobardi

  February 6, 2008 01:38 PM

• The Kicker

  Meet the Sons of Iraq

  By Paul McLeary

  February 6, 2008 09:14 AM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  “Vote-zilla!” MSNBC takes 'Monster Super Tuesday' a little too literally

  By Megan Garber

  February 5, 2008 02:29 PM

• The Kicker

  Five Years Ago

  By Clint Hendler

  February 5, 2008 01:51 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Conspicuous Assumption The Times recycles discredited myths about personal debt

  By Dean Starkman

  February 5, 2008 01:40 PM Comments (3)

• Campaign Desk

  As goes American Samoa… Voting early, the island enhances its play on Super Tuesday

  By Clint Hendler

  February 5, 2008 12:34 PM Comments (2)

• Second Read

  Uncomfortable Truth P. Sainath reminds us that India is still a poor country

  By Naresh Fernandes

  February 5, 2008 09:00 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  Obama’s Energy Equivocations NYT follows up on another flip-flop

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 5, 2008 08:52 AM

• The Kicker

  Wikileaked onto A-10

  By Clint Hendler

  February 4, 2008 05:15 PM

• Behind the News

  Up Close With the Counterinsurgency The most important thing the U.S military is doing in Iraq is complicated and largely uncovered

  By Paul McLeary

  February 4, 2008 04:58 PM Comments (6)

• Campaign Desk

  Harry and Louise Redux? The media miss the point

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 4, 2008 04:26 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Spoiling for a Fight NYT lets CNN off the hook in debate story

  By Brent Cunningham

  February 4, 2008 01:11 PM

• Campaign Desk

  Who You Gonna Call? The importance of fact-checking

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 4, 2008 12:51 PM

• The Audit

  Debits and Credits Two cheers for Newsweek; Portfolio's foresight; FT, eh; etc

  By Anna Bahney

  February 4, 2008 11:34 AM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  GOP Candidates Back Emissions Waiver Who saw that consensus coming?

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 1, 2008 03:14 PM

• Campaign Desk, The Observatory

  A “Slow-Blog” Movement? Clinton’s cryptic quote causes frustration

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 1, 2008 03:06 PM Comments (1)

• The Observatory

  Blowing in the Wind When it comes to hurricanes, what to cover?

  By Michele Wilson

  February 1, 2008 01:11 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  Casino Heiress Plays Reuters Wire-service puff piece serves subject, not readers

  By Elinore Longobardi

  February 1, 2008 11:44 AM

• Campaign Desk

  AP readies for Super Tuesday Q&A with Sr. Managing Editor Mike Silverman

  By Clint Hendler

  February 1, 2008 11:39 AM Comments (1)

• Campaign Desk

  Tax Credits Explained…Finally The Salt Lake Tribune takes a deeper view

  By Trudy Lieberman

  February 1, 2008 10:16 AM

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