http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:24 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Justin Peters Thoughtful post today about the newspaper industry on the New York Times's Outposts blog. In the wake of "perhaps the bloodiest week yet of a year where many papers are fighting for their lives," Timothy Egan notes that, be it in print or online, more people are reading newspaper content than ever before. Why, then, are newspapers finding it so... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_buy_the_cow.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/why_buy_the_cow.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:11:24 -0500 Clint Hendler The Nation is running a little contest to get people to sign-up for their email lists. The grand prize? One lucky subscriber will spend “A Day at The Nation.” The promo offers a peek at editor in chief Katrina vanden Heuvel’s datebook (“9:30 am-finish article, 11 am—editorial meeting…”). Now doesn’t that sound exciting! The problem here is that actually... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/a_day_at_cjr.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/a_day_at_cjr.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:59:50 -0500 Ryan Chittum The Onion works its customary magic in its newsstand edition this week with a special edition “All-Paper Salute to the Environment”, that's as to-the-point a mocking of the hypocrisy of the publishing industry’s green issues as we’ve seen. Inside it has a well-worth-reading oldie but a goodie headlined “450,000 Unsold Earth Day Issues of ‘Time’ Trucked To Landfill.” Bonus... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/skewering_the_magazine_green_i.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/skewering_the_magazine_green_i.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:35:56 -0500 Megan Garber So the people at Fox & Friends aren't feeling so Fox-&-Friendly, apparently, toward The New York Times. On June 28, the Times published an article, "Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In," written by media reporter Jacques Steinberg and edited by TV editor Steven Reddicliffe, that discussed "ominous trends" in the network's viewership: The most dominant cable... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/fox_and_thehounds.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/fox_and_thehounds.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:58 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett Over at Time.com, Michael Scherer (who once worked here at CJR) observes: Every day, flip-flop charges bang up against the political press like moths on a screen door. And we let some of them in, sometimes with the unexamined conceit that any shift in position is a window into the candidate's lack of character, toughness... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/covering_flipflops_a_howto.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/covering_flipflops_a_howto.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:38:40 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett Yesterday, my colleague Justin questioned the Washington Post's news judgment in running its Obama mortgage story. At Washington Monthly, Kevin Drum "demand[s] that Barack Obama release his FICO score" before wondering, "seriously, folks," whether "the beltway press corps" has gone "insane," calling the story "a complete non-scandal over the fact that people with high incomes generally... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/more_on_that_wapo_obama_mortga.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/more_on_that_wapo_obama_mortga.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:50:00 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett Pat Kiernan, the NY1 News anchor who reads New Yorkers' newspapers to them every morning in his In The Papers segment, offers these thoughts-- in a New York Observer profile -- on what ails TV News : I think the presentation of TV news is as much the problem as the technological changes. People like a more honest presentation... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_cult_of_kiernan.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_cult_of_kiernan.php The Kicker Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:55:05 -0500 Ryan Chittum http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/grasso_tko_needs_some_explaini.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/grasso_tko_needs_some_explaini.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:58:26 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett At one point in his 7,000-plus-word profile of Rush Limbaugh for this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, reporter Zev Chafets lays out his purpose: "I had come to talk to Limbaugh about his role in Republican Party politics." But along the way, it seems Chafets was distracted by all the bling in Rush's World, so that the piece reads... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/nyts_mtv_cribslike_limbaugh_pr.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/nyts_mtv_cribslike_limbaugh_pr.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:18:13 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett "Even human rights purist [and New York Times columnist] Nicholas Kristof" has lauded President Bush's HIV/AIDS work, writes Danielle Maestretti in the Utne Reader in a piece headlined "Bush, the AIDs President? Don't believe everything you read in the newspaper," in which she convincingly questions the congealing conventional wisdom about this Bush "legacy" and whether The New York... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/about_that_cw_on_bushs_hivaids.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/about_that_cw_on_bushs_hivaids.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:31:11 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett Breaking News! More Americans would rather barbecue with Barack Obama than with John McCain. How can McCain get a much-needed BBQ bounce? Time to (hand-)feed the press again at the old Arizona vacation home. But really, it's just a poll (albeit one with an appealing holiday-weekend-during -election-year hook). Just a snapshot. And we have to consider that, given... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/bbq_is_the_new_beer_with.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/bbq_is_the_new_beer_with.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:59:15 -0500 Ryan Chittum The press has written quite a bit about how the price of gasoline is making the exurban lifestyle cost prohibitive for some. The old “drive until you qualify” for a mortgage dictum, especially in high-price places like California, no longer computes, and home prices in those long-commute towns are getting slammed harder than just about anywhere. ... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/gas_hits_rural_america_harder.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/gas_hits_rural_america_harder.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:50:35 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett Already this morning I have been repeatedly exposed (and, admittedly, each time turned to be exposed) to the following "disturbing video" on MSNBC: "BABY LAUNCHED INTO AIR" An infant, seen lying on a large inflated pillow, is then launched into the air as a teenager jumps on the pillow, and finally lands with a thud face-first on the floor several... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/disturbing_video_what_would_ms.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/disturbing_video_what_would_ms.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:08:51 -0500 Ryan Chittum Over at Slate, Liza Featherstone asks a good question: Why doesn’t Wal-Mart pay its employees as well as Costco does? Costco’s stock, after all, has left Wal-Mart’s in the dust over the last few years and it’s gotten reams of good press. We know what Wal-Mart’s (deservedly) gotten. Featherstone doesn't gloss over the fact that Wal-Mart’s low profit... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/working_at_the_big_box.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/working_at_the_big_box.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:02:46 -0500 Liz Cox Barrett One New York Times columnist complains about another New York Times columnist's column about yet another New York Times columnist... via a letter to the editor published in the Times. Sort of like IM'ing your cubicle-mate to ask her to turn down her music rather than swiveling your chair around and making the request yourself? Actually,... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/old_media_interoffice_communic.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/old_media_interoffice_communic.php The Kicker Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:49:52 -0500