http://www.cjr.org/ en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:50 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Clint Hendler Time’s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There’s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the rule of law and Obama’s campaign rhetoric pointed... http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/greg_craig_and_transparency.php http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/greg_craig_and_transparency.php Campaign Desk Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:50 -0500 Greg Marx http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/well_it_may_deserve_an_award_i.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/well_it_may_deserve_an_award_i.php The Kicker Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:12:13 -0500 Greg Marx Today’s New York Times features a front-page news analysis by Kevin Sack about the controversy sparked by the new cancer screening guidelines. The article closes with this graf: “It’s going to take time, there’s no doubt about it,” said Louise B. Russell, a research professor at the Rutgers University Institute of Health who has studied whether prevention necessarily... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/now_a_little_bit_less_excluded.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/now_a_little_bit_less_excluded.php The Kicker Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:38 -0500 Greg Marx As anyone who’s read my writing can probably tell, I think political journalism should pay more attention to what political scientists have to say. So I was heartened to see that today’s New York Times includes an op-ed co-authored by Andrew Gelman, the Columbia statistician and political scientist, along with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com and Columbia... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/on_the_gelmansilver_oped.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/on_the_gelmansilver_oped.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:10 -0500 Alexandra Fenwick Today's "quirky" front-page story in the New York Times - there's always one - is a Styles section type piece, perhaps worthy of the Business section, with the headline, "Luxury Stores Trim Inventory and Discounts." But the story gets a lot more interesting inside the jump, thanks to an unfortunately placed Saks Fifth Avenue ad. As the... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_luxury_store_has_no_clothe.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_luxury_store_has_no_clothe.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:06:36 -0500 Megan Garber If you felt, yesterday evening, a faint feeling of emptiness...a vague notion of despair...a more-pronounced-than-usual sense of ennui: it was probably because, for a sad span of nine hours last night, The Daily Dish...went dark. Yes, we know. It was a difficult time for us all. But! After the darkness: light! Our... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/after_the_darkness_light.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/after_the_darkness_light.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:25:29 -0500 Megan Garber To piggyback on Greg's note about today's Gail Collins op-ed on the mammogram controversy...I have to say, I found it to be one of the most powerful columns she's written to date: I am going out on a limb to say that the real problem with a test that creates a lot of false-positive results is that... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_breast_brouhaha_continued.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_breast_brouhaha_continued.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:22:59 -0500 Greg Marx The lead story in today’s special “Business of Green” section in The New York Times is about the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce’s stance on climate change. Reporter John M. Broder notes that some high-profile members have left the group over the issue. And just how big is the Chamber’s membership? Here’s Broder: The chamber represents its... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/kudos_to_times_on_chamber_memb.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/kudos_to_times_on_chamber_memb.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:05:56 -0500 Greg Marx Gail Collins owns up to a writer's truth today: I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column. The rest--which has to do with the current mammogram controversy--is here. http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/collins_outlines_the_columnist.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/collins_outlines_the_columnist.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:24:57 -0500 Clint Hendler http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/senate_judiciary_considers_shi.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/senate_judiciary_considers_shi.php The Kicker Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:18:08 -0500 Alexandra Fenwick Add that headline to the list of best/worst newspaper contests to go down in history. The New York Post is promoting a contest to win one of three polo shirts embroidered with the logo of Bernie Madoff's 55-foot yacht, "Bull." The Post purchased the shirts at an auction of Madoff's assets for $1,300. The contest... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/win_the_shirt_off_madoffs_back.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/win_the_shirt_off_madoffs_back.php The Kicker Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:35:45 -0500 Greg Marx David Brooks, in his column today, writes: “The standard thing these days is for Americans to scold each other for our profligacy, to urge fiscal Puritanism. But it’s not clear Americans have ever really been self-disciplined.” That sort of phrasing suggests that there’s something wrong with “the standard thing.” Which is a bit odd, because over the past... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/brooks_vs_brooks_on_fiscal_pur.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/brooks_vs_brooks_on_fiscal_pur.php The Kicker Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:44 -0500 Clint Hendler This morning, I was a guest on The Exchange, a New Hampshire Public Radio talk show. Up for discussion was the contemporary legal landscape as the First Amendment and shield laws meet the internet age. The Granite State has been hosting one such clash, as CJR noted in April, after a mortgage company based there... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/cjr_on_the_radio.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/cjr_on_the_radio.php The Kicker Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:04:27 -0500 Clint Hendler Via @jackshafer, I came across this moving, photo-heavy blog post from the Washington City Paper recording the sudden and unexpected death of the Washington Blade, one of the most prominent and valued publications in the gay press, at the hands of their corporate owners, Window Media. One optimistic take away: it seems that some of the... http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_blades_last_cut.php http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/the_blades_last_cut.php The Kicker Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:18:22 -0500 Terry McDermott Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching – yes! – a tipping point. The critiques have come from a variety of angles – literary critics lambast his glibness; The Daily Beast doesn’t like his dating habits; The Nation doesn’t like, well, anything about him. The New Republic’s Issac... http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/criticism_of_gladwell_reaches.php http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/criticism_of_gladwell_reaches.php The Observatory Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:03:22 -0500