tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4 2009-11-20T21:44:45Z Movable Type 3.2 tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22603 2009-11-20T21:43:50Z 2009-11-20T21:44:45Z

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... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22602 2009-11-20T19:12:13Z 2009-11-20T19:12:59Z

Greg Marx Admin4B! tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22600 2009-11-20T17:08:41Z 2009-11-20T17:13:17Z

It’s not OK for journalists to be bad at math

Craig Silverman Every year, Scott Maier, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, asks his students to raise their hands if they went into journalism because they love writing. Unsurprisingly, most of them put their hands in the air. “Then I ask how many of them got into journalism because they love math and numbers, and the hands... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22599 2009-11-20T17:01:03Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Former NYT Shanghai bureau chief Howard French on the coverage of Obama's trip to Asia

Alexandra Fenwick The past week’s flurry of stories and opinion pieces chronicling President Barack Obama’s fortunes in the Far East made much of the global recession and China's role as a major investor in the U.S. In almost every analysis of the trip, Chinese officials were portrayed as optimistic and newly emboldened to stand up to American interests and Obama... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22598 2009-11-20T16:44:42Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Strong Politico story takes a close look at the Tea Party movement

Greg Marx Admin4B! In Politico today, Ken Vogel has a very interesting and worthwhile article about the emerging internal conflicts—both philosophical and personal—within the Tea Party movement. Vogel writes: The grass-roots activists powering the movement have become increasingly divided on core questions such as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22597 2009-11-20T15:31:43Z 2009-11-20T20:18:46Z

MSNBC wades into new territory with environmental documentary 100 Heartbeats

Curtis Brainard While filming his new documentary, 100 Heartbeats, Jeff Corwin cut off the horn of a black rhino to protect it from poachers, broke four ribs transporting Sumatran orangutans to a wildlife sanctuary, and helped raid a Cambodian restaurant serving endangered species like pangolin and soft-shelled turtle. “I wanted to tell these stories in a way that hadn’t... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22596 2009-11-20T15:12:02Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Ryan Chittum I wrote twice on Tuesday about the bizarre Tim Geithner quote that "the financial condition of the counterparties was not a relevant factor" in his decision to bail out AIG. I called it a "stunner" and said it ought to be "second-day-story number one." Now we're to the fourth day and it's just us and now The Wall... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22595 2009-11-20T14:37:38Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Greg Marx Admin4B! 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... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22593 2009-11-20T14:08:40Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Dean Starkman Admin4B! The Journal Inquirer, of Manchester, Conn., which over the summer forced its larger rival, the Hartford Courant, to admit to plagiarizing some of the JI's local news coverage, took its dispute a step further yesterday, suing the Courant for copyright infringement and seeking unspecified money damages. The JI has never been a shrinking violet when it comes to... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22591 2009-11-20T13:00:00Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Atlantic, Economist arrive at strikingly similar cover designs

Greg Marx Admin4B! I think half the news sites I read have lately been running a highly irritating ad for The Economist, which covers the entire screen when you click on a link. I usually skip the thing as fast as I can, but before I managed to do so the other day, this image—showing a cover from the magazine’s issue for the... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22594 2009-11-20T00:44:22Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Ryan Chittum The Wall Street Journal has a very good page-one leder on Ken Griffin's giant hedge fund firm Citadel, which is not as giant as it was, cratering 55 percent last year (it's made up a decent amount of it back this year). The Journal gets inside the company to put some color on its well-known woes. It reports that... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22592 2009-11-19T21:52:10Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

The press pretends to be surprised that Obama's charm didn't work wonders in Asia

Greg Marx Admin4B! As media narratives go, this whole “Barack Obama is a popular individual and a gifted speaker with a compelling personal story, but doesn’t automatically get everything he wants!” thing is getting awfully old, awfully fast. The theme popped up months ago, when the press began to notice that though America had elected a “change” president, the world was—surprise!—not changing overnight.... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22588 2009-11-19T19:24:10Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Greg Marx Admin4B! 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... tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22590 2009-11-19T19:18:36Z 2009-11-20T17:08:05Z

Ryan Chittum tag:www.cjr.org,2009://4.22586 2009-11-19T18:06:36Z 2009-11-20T18:16:30Z

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...