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April 2008
The Anatomy of AngerAmerica, meet “Angry Obama”
By Megan Garber Wed 30 Apr 2008 05:33 PM MoDowd's Dubious Sourcing StandardsWho is her “Hillary Democrat” and why does he/she get to bash Obama with impunity?
By Zachary Roth Wed 30 Apr 2008 03:32 PM Missing: Single-Payer in PennsylvaniaWhat David Brancaccio, and the rest of the press, left out
By Trudy Lieberman Wed 30 Apr 2008 03:01 PM Dept. of HubrisBy Megan Garber Wed 30 Apr 2008 02:44 PM WSJ committee Must Prove Its Mettle
It gets benefit of doubt, but now it’s time to fight
By Dean Starkman Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:52 AM School for Scandal?A media critic takes aim at journalism education
By Tom Goldstein Wed 30 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Opening Bell: Home Prices PlummetNo end in sight; FBI is after Countrywide; factory farms are bad; Citigroup panhandles; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Wed 30 Apr 2008 07:47 AM Times Op-Ed Page: The Bizarro World EditionWhen partisan lines get crossed
By Megan Garber Tue 29 Apr 2008 05:04 PM AP Buys GOP Spin on McCainWire blows it on Dem’s “100-year” war ad
By Zachary Roth Tue 29 Apr 2008 04:40 PM Together at Last: Hill and Bill (The Other One)!O'Reilly's Clinton factor
By Megan Garber Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:37 PM Bill and Me (and the Tape Recorder)A reporter’s wild week
By Susan Phillips Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:00 PM The Goldberg VariationsBy Megan Garber Tue 29 Apr 2008 12:13 PM Brief Encounters
Short reviews of books about Tarbell's muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar
By James Boylan Tue 29 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Jimmy Carter: I Couldn't Become President in Today's Media WorldBy Megan Garber Tue 29 Apr 2008 08:55 AM Oops! About that Journal Report….
PEJ’s statistical slip
By Curtis Brainard Tue 29 Apr 2008 07:30 AM Opening Bell: $7 A Gallon?Oil production not rising, but demand is; speculators swarm food crisis; Kerkorian buys up Ford stock...watch out; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Tue 29 Apr 2008 07:29 AM NYTimes schools Post, Sun on Arabic SchoolBy Clint Hendler Mon 28 Apr 2008 03:47 PM LAT Shows ABC News How It’s Done
Urges candidates to call reporters on trivial nonsense
By Zachary Roth Mon 28 Apr 2008 03:40 PM Russert Watch: Sunday, 4-27-08In which Tim and team play inside baseball
By Todd Gitlin Mon 28 Apr 2008 01:30 PM Debits & Credits: Hrd on the St.For WSJ, less is less; FT plays Boswell again; NYT unwinds ratings snarl; contrarian runs amok, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:50 AM Elizabeth Bennet, Meet Elizabeth EdwardsThe health care advocate offers an ironic take on campaign coverage
By Megan Garber Mon 28 Apr 2008 11:14 AM Before BenedictThere’s nothing new about the press’s adulation of the Pontiff
By Adam Rose Mon 28 Apr 2008 09:05 AM Crowd ControlBouquets and brickbats for the 'electronic mob'
By Art Winslow Mon 28 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Opening Bell: Will The Fed Wilt?Mortgage industry cries foul over new regs; more Murdoch; hospitals demanding pay upfront; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Mon 28 Apr 2008 07:18 AM Mystery No Longer!Obama’s backgrounders come forward
By Megan Garber Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:32 PM Seats of PowerNPR looks at The Other Campaign: 2008's Senate Race
By Megan Garber Fri 25 Apr 2008 02:31 PM Edward R. Murrow at 100From the archives: an appreciation of the broadcaster’s famous 1958 speech
By The Editors Fri 25 Apr 2008 02:00 PM Health Reform and the Single GirlA fresh take on the candidate’s health care ideas—from Glamour
By Trudy Lieberman Fri 25 Apr 2008 01:06 PM Garbage Island DiaryViceland’s alternative model for environmental reporting
By David Downs Fri 25 Apr 2008 12:19 PM The Big Coal QuestionJournalists catch Obama and Clinton walking a carbon tightrope
By Curtis Brainard Fri 25 Apr 2008 11:40 AM Seriously, Keith?Keith Olbermann provides Exhibit W in the case of Hillary v. MSNBC
By Megan Garber Fri 25 Apr 2008 11:11 AM Sad Sign of the TimesAfter a fewer-than-hoped-for seventy employees of The New York Times accepted buyouts from the paper by this Tuesday's deadline, looks like the paper will now move to involuntary layoffs. Some thirty NYT editorial staff will likely be let go in...
By Megan Garber Fri 25 Apr 2008 09:05 AM Opening Bell: Homes Still Not SellingNew-house sales down sharply; but good jobs news; (another) FAA coverup;
By Ryan Chittum Fri 25 Apr 2008 08:20 AM Why David Broder AnnoysDamn it, man, make your case!
By Zachary Roth Thu 24 Apr 2008 04:50 PM The Whirligig of TIMEBy Megan Garber Thu 24 Apr 2008 04:11 PM The WSJ's Little Committee That Failed...
To protect the paper’s editorial independence
By Dean Starkman Thu 24 Apr 2008 02:47 PM One of the GuysIt's still rare for a reporter to be both fierce and female
By Michael Schudson & Danielle Haas Thu 24 Apr 2008 02:00 PM 2008 Green Issues GuideVanity Fair once again sets the bar, but has competition
By Curtis Brainard Thu 24 Apr 2008 12:54 PM Sobering "Sketch" From MilbankBy Liz Cox Barrett Thu 24 Apr 2008 10:58 AM Reuters On The Rocks
By Liz Cox Barrett Thu 24 Apr 2008 10:39 AM Follow-Up to NYT's "Miitary Analysts" Piece?
By Liz Cox Barrett Thu 24 Apr 2008 09:04 AM Euthanize CBS News?
By Liz Cox Barrett Thu 24 Apr 2008 08:09 AM Opening Bell: Fed To Halt Rate Cuts?
Wants to see if enough is enough; rice quotas in the U.S.; restaurant woes; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Thu 24 Apr 2008 07:27 AM Impatient? Who, Us?By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 03:06 PM NYT's Arresting Lede
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 02:21 PM Mutiny on the Staight Talk Express?
Kevin Drum foresees a future Mutiny on The Straight Talk Express: [G]o ahead, call me an optimist — I suspect that at some point there's going to be a press backlash against McCain. His media image is a bubble, sustained...
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 01:21 PM Primary Night Metaphor-o-rama!MSNBC’s minstrels love analogies as much as they love politics
By Megan Garber Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:21 PM Mitchell, MiscastBy Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:51 AM A Rumble Over Russert
Who gets to critique his journalism?
By Todd Gitlin Wed 23 Apr 2008 11:34 AM There's Always Hope In HillarylandJust ignore the pundits and ignore the math
By Clint Hendler Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:32 AM Two Media Big-Wigs Put Their (Blue Collared) Heads Together?By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:23 AM Pennsylvania Changed...
Nothing. But cable news's need to hype overrides reality
By Zachary Roth Wed 23 Apr 2008 10:07 AM Enter, the Exit PollBy Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 09:03 AM CJR Podcast: The Week's Felix Dennis
The irreverent publisher on the power of the magazine
By The Editors Wed 23 Apr 2008 09:00 AM A Pundit's Hunch. Better Than a Poll!By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 23 Apr 2008 08:24 AM Opening Bell: Murdoch Tightens His Grip...
on the throat of U.S. journalism; cuts at Ford; did the SEC pull its punches with Bear?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Wed 23 Apr 2008 07:42 AM Pennsylvania Vox PopFor voters, local sources reign
By Clint Hendler Tue 22 Apr 2008 07:28 PM Big Bird, Meet the GrouchCable flips out over Obama’s “offensive gesture”
By Megan Garber Tue 22 Apr 2008 04:07 PM Dancing with the Stars: The Trade Summit EditionWhen Bush and NAFTA dance together, the president leads
By Megan Garber Tue 22 Apr 2008 03:08 PM Hillary & Barack? Barack & Hillary? No Way,You Guys!By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 01:40 PM Green Thumb: Earth Day USA
Media sightings on the Greening of America
By Cristine Russell Tue 22 Apr 2008 01:35 PM Brauchli's Exit Is...The end of the beginning of the end of what made the Journal special
By Dean Starkman Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:26 PM Meet the "New Force," Same as...By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 12:24 PM Memo to McCain: Dems Are Not Calling for Government Health Care
Stephanopoulos tries (unsuccessfully) to set the record straight
By Trudy Lieberman Tue 22 Apr 2008 11:00 AM The Latest 'Gate (Served with Syrup!)By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:57 AM Peer Review (In Defense of ABC's Debate)
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:43 AM The Luck of the Amish
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:21 AM Choke Hold
How Jordan tames its press
By Kristen Gillespie Demilio Tue 22 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Pennsylvania's Great Expectations GameWhen a win is a win isn’t a win
By Clint Hendler Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:51 AM Preaching to Their ChoirsBy Liz Cox Barrett Tue 22 Apr 2008 08:27 AM Opening Bell: Journal Editor Quits
Murdoch era now in full flower; is Newsday next?; BoA’s bad day; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Tue 22 Apr 2008 07:44 AM The Papal Visit: By the NumbersCounting the coverage of Benedict XVI's U.S. trip
By Megan Garber Mon 21 Apr 2008 04:31 PM Why, Wolf, Why?By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 04:01 PM Ignoring Stengel, PA Papers Endorse
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 02:55 PM The "What If" Story Gone Wild
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 01:35 PM Cable, Try A Little Earnestness
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:18 PM Debits & Credits: 10,000 Words in Search of a Trend
Plus: Undue credit-taking at the WSJ; Wilson Quarterly's wise look at schools; Variety's empty Olympics coverage, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Mon 21 Apr 2008 11:33 AM Russert Watch: Sunday, 4-20-08In which Tim goes the Charlie Gibson route on Obama
By Todd Gitlin Mon 21 Apr 2008 11:00 AM Lauren Conrad, Hallmark of News Media "Relevance"By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:52 AM Mind Games: CJR on the Military's Media Manipulation
Some context for the NYT’s excellent investigation
By The Editors Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:30 AM Counting the "Ha!'s" in a Matthews InterviewBy Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 10:21 AM TV News Driven By "Mentally Ill Martinets"
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:43 AM Victoria Clarke on "Service to the Media"
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 09:09 AM Rummy's "Message Force Multipliers"
And you thought this administration had done no post-Iraq-invasion planning? About those "military analysts" you've grown accustomed to seeing on cable and network TV, waxing authoritative on all things post-9/11: [A] Pentagon information apparatus...has used those analysts in a campaign...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 21 Apr 2008 08:19 AM Opening Bell: FrankenfoodFood crisis alters thinking on GMC; bailouts abound; borrowers gone wild!; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Mon 21 Apr 2008 07:46 AM The Keystone State?In Pennsylvania, the press sees a race. Sort of.
By Clint Hendler Fri 18 Apr 2008 05:04 PM Kurtz Stays Above The FrayWaPo media critic’s silence on ABC’s Debate Debacle
By Zachary Roth Fri 18 Apr 2008 04:05 PM Inflation investigationBy Ryan Chittum Fri 18 Apr 2008 03:21 PM Kicker Mailbag: "The questions asked by Stephanopoulos and Gibson matter to voters"
By Megan Garber Fri 18 Apr 2008 02:43 PM Mayhill Fowler on the Post Heard 'Round the World
The blogger who started BitterGate: "I had a sense of peace about it"
By Jordan Michael Smith Fri 18 Apr 2008 01:00 PM Connecting Climate Change and CitiesHarvard conference gives reporters a new language
By Cristine Russell Fri 18 Apr 2008 11:02 AM Jon Stewart weighs in on the ABC debateBy Megan Garber Fri 18 Apr 2008 10:19 AM McCain's Quiet Medicare Bombshell
Privatizing Medicare one inch at a time
By Trudy Lieberman Fri 18 Apr 2008 10:00 AM 19,742By Megan Garber Fri 18 Apr 2008 08:32 AM Opening Bell: The Hours
Americans are working fewer, but not by choice; cuts on Wall Street; jobless ranks swell; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Fri 18 Apr 2008 07:14 AM Annotating Bush’s Climate SpeechDot Earth takes a novel approach to the coverage
By Curtis Brainard Thu 17 Apr 2008 03:03 PM Rock the Vote (Don't Rock the Vote, Baby...)Debate dissonance in Philly
By Megan Garber Thu 17 Apr 2008 02:53 PM ABC's Dispiriting DebateWhat’s the point of rolling in the mud?
By Mike Hoyt Thu 17 Apr 2008 12:49 PM Newspapers' Sad SistersOn the (empty) floor at NEXPO
By Michael Meyer Thu 17 Apr 2008 12:22 PM Brooks Puts the "A" in ABCBy Liz Cox Barrett Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:41 AM A New Standard for Debate Questions?
By Liz Cox Barrett Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:35 AM The Last Word
Advice for aggrieved writers: zip it
By Gregory Beyer Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:00 AM The Post-Gazette Backs BarackCharm and “change” key to the steeltown daily’s choice
By Clint Hendler Thu 17 Apr 2008 08:47 AM On Debate, ABC Gets A "D"?By Liz Cox Barrett Thu 17 Apr 2008 08:06 AM Opening Bell: Tech Biz Buzzes On
Seems largely impervious to downturn; rice crisis in Oz; Sallie Mae wants more cash; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Thu 17 Apr 2008 07:08 AM "The Most Startlingly Tabloid Debate" YetBy Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:56 PM Little Orphan MoDowd
Bittergate brings the press’s paupers out of their townhouses
By Zachary Roth Wed 16 Apr 2008 02:46 PM Future TellingBy Anna Bahney Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:35 PM $17 Million a Day to Influence Congress
Health interests dole out the dough to get their way
By Trudy Lieberman Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:22 PM Global Warming's RainmakersNews outlets launch a glut of green business conferences
By Curtis Brainard Wed 16 Apr 2008 12:47 PM Open Letter to Les MoonvesDon’t pay Couric’s successor $15 million; invest in journalists instead
By Dean Starkman Wed 16 Apr 2008 12:30 PM The Bluest CollarBy Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 12:17 PM ABC's Debate "Restrictions" Will Change...What?
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 10:36 AM Breaking: "Drudge Rules The World!"
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 10:09 AM In Sync
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:29 AM Secret's Out!
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:14 AM CJR Podcast: Delacorte Lecture with Susan Lyne
The president and CEO on the makings of a media empire
By The Editors Wed 16 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Whadda Ya Mean, Elite?The final sentence in today's New York Times "Political Memo" telling the "back story" of BitterGate, that campaign controversy that has all of cable considering, Is There An Elitist Amongt Us?: "We are a news site," said Ms. [Arianna] Huffington,...
By Liz Cox Barrett Wed 16 Apr 2008 08:29 AM Opening Bell: What Recession?Super-rich keep raking it in; Are banks lying about Libor?; Bush flip-flops on global warming; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Wed 16 Apr 2008 07:04 AM McCain and Global WarmingNYT says it's "central" to his campaign. Since when?
By Zachary Roth Tue 15 Apr 2008 05:03 PM Bilal Hussein to be freed. Really!By Clint Hendler Tue 15 Apr 2008 02:55 PM When Online Stories "Evolve"
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 15 Apr 2008 01:18 PM Blasts in Baqubah, Ramadi
Dozens of Iraqis were killed in multiple bombings across Iraq earlier today, including a car bomb that claimed at least 35 in Baqubah. You can't miss this news at the LA Times' home page (as of 1:00pm EST). Not so...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 15 Apr 2008 12:17 PM Scolds and Salutes For TV Suits"Show me Night Rider drunk on the floor and I won't care about a lack of health care for my kid." So said Tim Robbins yesterday to a roomful of broadcast suits gathered in Vegas for the annual NAB-RTNDA event....
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 15 Apr 2008 10:10 AM Flattery Will Get You...Reading the transcript of Sen. McCain's speech at the AP annual meeting yesterday, I was struck by how much time and effort McCain (even for this venue) devoted to stroking journalists' egos-- at the expense of stump speechifying and BitterGate...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 15 Apr 2008 09:23 AM Science in ArabicA conversation with the leaders of the Arab Science Journalists Association
By Curtis Brainard Tue 15 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Better Bitter BitTV news folks have had five days now -- the duration thus far of BitterGate-- to hone their headlines in order to best capture this latest campaign kerfuffle (and viewers). So what works of chyron-ic genius have we seen on...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:28 AM Opening Bell: Retail RutBankruptcies, empty stores, flat sales; America’s lousy credit; Brazil’s black gold; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Tue 15 Apr 2008 07:20 AM It's a Bittersweet Symphony...PA voters: to be (bitter) or not to be (bitter)
By Megan Garber Mon 14 Apr 2008 04:56 PM Neuroscience Reporting, DebuggedFlackery and extrapolation plague stories about the brain
By David Downs Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:50 PM No Coverage, Not "So Startling?""[President Bush] was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding and other widely-condemned interrogation techniques," writes The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin in his "White House Watch" column today. Froomkin points...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:17 PM Us Versus UsWriters vs. editors! (Michael Kinsley describes that "Battle For the Ages). Print reporters vs. TV reporters! (Charles Gasparino on how the former regards the latter.)...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 02:56 PM Not to Nitpick, But...A List, for people who like that sort of thing: TV Week's annual ranking of the "10 Most Powerful People in TV News" has Tim Russert at number 4 (up one in the ranks from last year!). Each ranking includes...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 01:35 PM MSNBC's BitterGate UpdateKeeping cable viewers current on the latest exchange in the Campaign Gaffe of the Week is hard work. From the campaign trail by phone just now, NBC's Ron Allen moved the BitterGate ball forward for the MSNBC audience: I wasn't...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 12:18 PM Debits & Credits: Fortune and The Nation on Same PagePlus: LAT's Couric flipflop; FT channels Wal-Mart; WSJ covers it; a missing pipeline detail; etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Mon 14 Apr 2008 12:10 PM Should The Press Report...Via Michael Calderone, in the wake of recent Spitzer (and Paterson) news, Crain's New York Business polled New York voters and asked them, among other things: "Do you think the press should report limited illegal drug use by a politician...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 09:38 AM The Forgotten Health IssueWhy is no one talking about long-term care?
By Trudy Lieberman Mon 14 Apr 2008 09:00 AM "W(h)ither the Cable Blowhard?"The most memorable moment in Mark Leibovich's New York Times magazine cover piece on Chris Matthews -- in which we learn that Matthews "craves [Tim] Russert's approval like that of an older brother" and that the Meet the Press host...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:37 AM Congress and the Press—Together AgainOversight helps the business press, too
By Dean Starkman Mon 14 Apr 2008 08:31 AM Opening Bell: Hat In HandWachovia the latest charity case; food crisis mounts; the rich party on; Delta and Northwest ready to merge; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Mon 14 Apr 2008 07:10 AM Samantha Power Goofed AgainCanadian reporter was right to publish her words
By Zachary Roth Fri 11 Apr 2008 04:21 PM Matt Taibbi Isn't SexistHe dislikes everyone, equally
By Megan Garber Fri 11 Apr 2008 02:48 PM Science's Path to the PulitzersExplanatory category is a longtime entrée to the prestigious award
By Cristine Russell Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:17 PM Obama's Ignored BundlersThank you, WaPo, for showing the obvious.
By Clint Hendler Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:14 PM BP Logo Pulled from TNR's New BlogReaders complain about placement above energy/environment coverage
By Curtis Brainard Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:01 PM Airing...Dirty Laundry?By Megan Garber Fri 11 Apr 2008 12:55 PM In Which Bill Clinton Won't Let Sleeping Dogs...Well, You Know
Bill, Bill, Bill. Shh...
By Megan Garber Fri 11 Apr 2008 11:20 AM Opening Bell: Dems Dodge Trade VoteBush Colombia pact stalled; and U.S. free-trade cred suffers; how Moody’s changed its ratings tune; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Fri 11 Apr 2008 07:17 AM Quote me once, shame on you. Quote me twice...By Clint Hendler Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:23 PM The Rather Suit: What Was Dismissed
...and what remains
By Megan Garber Thu 10 Apr 2008 05:18 PM McCain Not So Torn on Foreign PolicyNYT’s piece balances a decidedly imbalanced reality
By Zachary Roth Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:50 PM And That's the Rest of the Story...By Clint Hendler Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:33 PM 1,000 Words...of Crazy
The Times sells McCain short
By Megan Garber Thu 10 Apr 2008 02:43 PM Pulitzer-Spurned Editorialists SpeakBy Clint Hendler Thu 10 Apr 2008 02:08 PM Mortgage Broker Mojo
By Anna Bahney Thu 10 Apr 2008 11:22 AM Blogging the Coup
When their press was silent, Thai citizens delivered
By Dustin Roasa Thu 10 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Doping's Next FrontierSports Illustrated reporter explains the intersection of gene therapy, athletics, and the press
By Michele Wilson Thu 10 Apr 2008 08:00 AM Opening Bell: FAA (Finally) Gets ToughNearly half of American Airlines flights grounded; Yahoo enlists AOL in Microsoft fight; Couric on her way out at CBS?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Thu 10 Apr 2008 07:23 AM Charges Against AP's Hussein DismissedBy Clint Hendler Wed 9 Apr 2008 06:27 PM Food (and Energy) for Thought
By Anna Bahney Wed 9 Apr 2008 03:19 PM Candidates Decline Science Debate
Proxies seem to be the only option
By Curtis Brainard Wed 9 Apr 2008 01:10 PM Audit Mailbag: 'Stop the Class Warfare'So says an editor; The Journal's use of a housing stat sparks a squabble; we are praised, etc.
By Dean Starkman Wed 9 Apr 2008 12:54 PM Flame-agandaBy Megan Garber Wed 9 Apr 2008 11:29 AM Opening Bell: Justice Under Bush
‘A reflection of the environment of greed’; Will the Fed raise its debt?; To eat, or worry about the birds; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Wed 9 Apr 2008 07:58 AM What’s Missing in Petraeus/Crocker CoveragePublic sentiment on Iraq and the way forward
By Zachary Roth Tue 8 Apr 2008 03:34 PM Big Play for Candidates' Green CredPress revives environment’s role in the campaign…sort of
By Curtis Brainard Tue 8 Apr 2008 02:00 PM You Read Us! You Really Read Us!Know how Us Weekly sometimes runs pictures of famous people - and they’re candid photos, of course - studying the latest issue of Us Weekly at their local newsstand or trendy outdoor café? I guess this is sort of like...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 01:59 PM If You Don't Cut That Hair...Wondering what it takes to break into CNN? It may be a hair thing. U.S. News reports that former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, back in the day and at the suggestion of an agent helping her land a job, "had...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 01:14 PM Globe Dissects McCain’s Health PlanMore questions raised than answered
By Trudy Lieberman Tue 8 Apr 2008 12:54 PM The Times: (Grammar) SchooledBy Megan Garber Tue 8 Apr 2008 12:23 PM Pulitzers A Triumph For Investigations
Nothing like this on a blog
By Dean Starkman Tue 8 Apr 2008 12:23 PM Grey Lady Green?By Megan Garber Tue 8 Apr 2008 12:05 PM Hey, It's Just Like Blogging!
By Brent Cunningham Tue 8 Apr 2008 11:43 AM WaPo, NYT Liveblogging "Petraeuspalooza"
Both The Washington Post (military beat reporter and author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Tom Ricks) and The New York Times (The Lede's Mike Nizza) are liveblogging the Petraeus-Crocker testimony (and promoting their liveblogging on their home...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 10:06 AM Medical Stories Take Four PulitzersInvestigations of health/ethics issues carry the day
By Curtis Brainard Tue 8 Apr 2008 09:48 AM Voting Clinton? But Mooooom!Mom. C'mon, Mom. Please? Vote for Obama. Okay? Mom? You're voting for Obama, right? Why do you hate hope? Mooooom! MOM! Young people are apparently nagging their parents into voting for Obama, we learn from the front page of today's...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 09:20 AM Putting on PutinCriticism gets creative at Russian Esquire
By Alexander Galperin Tue 8 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Obama on "100-Years-War Calumny"Obama defended (dialed-back? clarified?) his McCain's for a 100-years-war statement on the Today Show this morning (hat tip, Michael Calderone): Meredith Vieira: Senator, both you and Senator Clinton have said that Senator McCain favors 100 more years of war in...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 08:50 AM High School NewsicalSays Amanda, the bespectacled copy editor for Cyprus Bay High School's "award-winning" newspaper, The Circuit, and star of MTV's upcoming "reality" show, The Paper: Being a journalist is the most important job in the world. And a tease from the...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 8 Apr 2008 08:17 AM Opening Bell: Penn-ing A New Trade DealColombia pact dissected; Greenspan protests too much; CBS wants to turn its journalism over to CNN; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Tue 8 Apr 2008 07:06 AM Previewing (Coverage of) Petraeus HearingThe Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman previews the inevitable politicization of Army Gen. David H. Petraeus' and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker's Capitol Hill testimony tomorrow. Writes Weisman: "[Petraeus and Crocker] might be the ones before the microphones, but the cameras will...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 02:55 PM Foreign Policy Chops? "First Lady Puffery?"Genius! Rather than having a Clinton surrogate and an Obama surrogate duke it out over Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience or lack thereof, the folks at Politifact took a look at all of the overseas trips Clinton made as First...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 01:15 PM Debits & Credits: Hold the Brass BandPlus: Names, please?; too easy on boards; vivid scenes from Calcutta; and an east Texas courthouse, etc.
By Elinore Longobardi Mon 7 Apr 2008 12:00 PM McCain’s Big Ticket?Mac has miles to go before he Veeps
By Megan Garber Mon 7 Apr 2008 11:50 AM Hillary's Bad FactsHow should the press handle a health care stumble?
By Trudy Lieberman Mon 7 Apr 2008 11:45 AM Report: Barry Bearak ReleasedIC Publications is reporting that both the New York Times' Barry Bearak (who was arrested in Zimbabwe last Thursday, initially charged with working as a journalist without accreditation ) and a "British national" arrested along with Bearak have been released...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 11:33 AM "100-Years-War Calumny," FranklyA crocus pushing through long-dormant earth signals spring. A Frank Rich column focusing on something other than The Clintons --might it signal that the general election is almost afoot? In yesterday’s New York Times, Rich zeroed in on McCain and...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 11:26 AM Starring "The News?"The headline on today's Alessandra Stanley piece in The New York Times caught my eye: "A New Star as Campaign Programs Shuffle: The News." The new campaign-focused cable TV shows (MSNBC's Race For the White House, CNN's Election Center and...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 09:34 AM Happy Monday, Cable News!All together now, all day long: Polygamist sect. Women and children. West Texas compound. (Cue Branch Davidian footage from back in the day)....
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 09:14 AM Blogging Kills?Quiz for anyone who read -- or even glanced at the front page of -- yesterday's New York Times: What's the most-blogged-about story on the Times' Web site this morning? (Yup, that A-1 piece about how the blogging life or...
By Liz Cox Barrett Mon 7 Apr 2008 08:22 AM Opening Bell: WaMu's AngelThe bank’s $5 billion Band-Aid; Bill Gates, corporate raider; George Washington, bailout master; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Mon 7 Apr 2008 07:43 AM The Superdelegate Black BoxHaven’t heard of the ‘add-on delegates’? They hurt Clinton
By Clint Hendler Fri 4 Apr 2008 02:38 PM Oops!FNC's chyron an Al-batross
By Megan Garber Fri 4 Apr 2008 02:32 PM Bubble TroubleBy Megan Garber Fri 4 Apr 2008 02:17 PM Aggregate This! (Part II)
By Megan Garber Fri 4 Apr 2008 02:15 PM Dr. King's Last Moments
Memphis magazine provides a moving tick-tock
By Megan Garber Fri 4 Apr 2008 01:17 PM Remember FutureGen?American press silent while Oz launches first carbon storage plant
By Curtis Brainard Fri 4 Apr 2008 01:04 PM Dave Marash: Why I QuitThe veteran newsman says Al Jazeera English’s mission changed
By Brent Cunningham Fri 4 Apr 2008 11:26 AM Martin in the MorningBy Mike Hoyt Fri 4 Apr 2008 10:57 AM Opening Bell: Job Drop
Unemployment soars; Jamie Dimon, welfare king; Apple eclipses Wal-Mart; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Fri 4 Apr 2008 07:04 AM Rejoice, Katie!Will Couric have her moment of moderation?
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 05:26 PM Rivalry AsideWill the candidates put politics on the back burner to pay tribute to Dr. King?
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 04:39 PM How Many Times Can You Call People "Big Fucking Whores" Before It Gets, You Know, Kinda Uncool?For Air America’s Randi Rhodes: Three Times!
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 04:14 PM WSJ: Soon to Play ‘Endorsement Mad Libs'?Under Murdoch, the paper may make its first endorsement since Hoover
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 03:26 PM Katie, Al, and the InternetCBS News’s astonishingly obtuse report
By Zachary Roth Thu 3 Apr 2008 03:15 PM Matthews's Leg: Still Thrilled?Barack Obama, media critic!
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 02:15 PM Looking Under Hillary’s CapsOn health care costs, readers need help with the fine print
By Trudy Lieberman Thu 3 Apr 2008 01:18 PM RIP: Stand-Alone Biz SectionThey were thin, sure, but they were something
By Elinore Longobardi Thu 3 Apr 2008 01:07 PM Soros on Market MythsBy Anna Bahney Thu 3 Apr 2008 12:42 PM Gore Wants You!
The anatomy and coverage of his “We” PR blitz
By Russ Juskalian Thu 3 Apr 2008 11:35 AM Say It Ain't Joe!By Clint Hendler Thu 3 Apr 2008 11:07 AM The Best Unintentionally Ironic MSNBC Ad Yet!
The "Vote-zilla" crew strikes again...
By Megan Garber Thu 3 Apr 2008 11:04 AM A Super MessThe Times’s slowpoke superdelegate survey
By Clint Hendler Thu 3 Apr 2008 10:19 AM Think You Know Your Web Traffic?Think again. The scramble for online measures
By David Cohn Thu 3 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Opening Bell: Back-Scratching 101Senate relief plan would spread the goodies; Big Ben’s bad day; Bush’s MBA doesn’t seem to help; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Thu 3 Apr 2008 07:14 AM MoDowd's One MoveHer characterization of Obama as “effete” shows she hasn’t been paying attention
By Zachary Roth Wed 2 Apr 2008 05:15 PM Aggregate This, Arianna!Radar is reporting today that Tina Brown, erstwhile Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor, celebrity biographer, and media maven, plans to launch her own news aggregator Web site. The journalist, Neel Shah writes, will partner with cajillionaire mogul Barry Diller...
By Megan Garber Wed 2 Apr 2008 04:13 PM Avril Lavigne...the Next Janice Min?Looks like celeb journalism is another thing Avril Lavigne doesn't like to be comp-li-ca-ted. After her concert in Atlantic City on Saturday, the pop star told the New York Daily News that she'd like to start her own gossip magazine...a...
By Megan Garber Wed 2 Apr 2008 03:19 PM Peabody Awards to Iraq-Injured JournosAmong today’s thirty-five Peabody Award winners are two journalists wounded on assignment in Iraq. Here’s the AP: Peabodys went to "Wounds of War — The Long Road Home for Our Nation's Veterans," a series of reports by ABC News correspondent...
By Megan Garber Wed 2 Apr 2008 03:07 PM Punch Drunk?The media jab Clinton's metaphor
By Megan Garber Wed 2 Apr 2008 01:26 PM The Silent Side of OilPress needs to pump information on peak supply
By Katherine Bagley Wed 2 Apr 2008 01:03 PM The NYO: Booked on a FeelingFinally, a bit of good news for those of us who’ve been quietly mourning the decline of books coverage in newspapers. Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan is reporting that the New York Observer, NYC’s delightfully Pepto Bismol-hued newspaper, will soon start observing…books....
By Megan Garber Wed 2 Apr 2008 12:05 PM CJR Podcast: Delacorte Lecture with Bitch’s Andi ZeislerThe editor discusses feminist journalism
By The Editors Wed 2 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Opening Bell: When Down Is UpMarket soars on bad news; blame it on the shorts; perilous bank balance sheets; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Wed 2 Apr 2008 07:06 AM Happy Hour on MSNBC?B-roll. It is essential to television news. That at-your-fingertips file footage used to illustrate the news you can use du jour. New study on obesity? Cue canned clip of overweight people, from the neck down, walking along crowded sidewalk. Reporting...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 1 Apr 2008 05:45 PM The U.S., Iraq, and 100 YearsPress needs to call Obama on distortion of McCain’s statement
By Zachary Roth Tue 1 Apr 2008 05:07 PM Surrogate Scandal!The April Fool's edition
By Megan Garber Tue 1 Apr 2008 04:40 PM Newsflash: HUD Scandal Broke Last FallNational Journal series was largely ignored by rest of the press
By Clint Hendler Tue 1 Apr 2008 04:20 PM Elizabeth Edwards on John McCain's Health PolicySomeone has to translate
By Trudy Lieberman Tue 1 Apr 2008 01:50 PM E-lectionWant a recap of the many ways the Internet has affected the 2008 presidential race to date? The Washington Post has one today. And it’s a solid summary (forgive the writer this sentence: “This interactive medium is rebooting the first...
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 1 Apr 2008 12:55 PM The Inevitable Chelsea ShieldBy Clint Hendler Tue 1 Apr 2008 12:01 PM No Challenger? No Challenging
By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 1 Apr 2008 11:06 AM E&E News Launches ClimateWire
New pub aims to dig deep into “sprawling” topic
By Curtis Brainard Tue 1 Apr 2008 09:59 AM CNN on "The Vanna Vote"By Liz Cox Barrett Tue 1 Apr 2008 09:50 AM The Grave Dancer
Sam Zell and Tribune's fate
By Ryan Chittum and Hannah Fairfield Tue 1 Apr 2008 09:00 AM Opening Bell: Subprime Mess Snares UBSSwiss bank’s massive write-down; Bush regulatory plan panned; central banks scramble; etc.
By Ryan Chittum Tue 1 Apr 2008 07:42 AM
