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Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Lesley Stahl, Barney Frank, Ruth Marcus, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 23, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Sinner: When Lesley Stahl profiled House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank for 60 Minutes earlier this month, she seemed shocked... More
Above the Fold: Times Tongue Tied on Torture
Cheney’s waterboarding admission gets no play from NYT
By Charles Kaiser Dec 19, 2008 at 04:53 PM
There are times when news judgment is so bad that it seems to come close to criminal negligence. That is... More
Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse
The endless ironies of the Republican opposition to saving Detroit
By Charles Kaiser Dec 15, 2008 at 05:32 PM
"On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their being. It was like asking the chief rabbi... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on BlagoGate, the NYT, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 11, 2008 at 06:30 AM
Here is everything U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at his news conference Tuesday about any possible involvement Barack Obama might... More
Above the Fold: Stand by Me
A musical journey ten years in the making
By Charles Kaiser Dec 8, 2008 at 08:57 AM
If you're feeling overwhelmed by never ending suicide bombings in Iraq, escalating conflict in Afghanistan, hand-to-hand (if unarmed) conflict over... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Maslin, Stewart, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 5, 2008 at 05:44 PM
Winner: Janet Maslin for her spot-on review of The Man Who Owns The News, in which she dissects Michael Wolff's... More
Above the Fold: Sins of Omission
NYT strategically chops Sen. Feinstein’s statement on torture
By Charles Kaiser Dec 4, 2008 at 03:55 PM
Yesterday, FCP focused on a New York Times story about Barack Obama's search for a new CIA director. Top candidate... More
Above the Fold: Slanting the Torture Story
Everything you won’t learn about torture in The New York Times
By Charles Kaiser Dec 3, 2008 at 05:47 PM
There is a fierce battle going on over what kind of a CIA director Barack Obama should appoint, when he... More
Above the Fold: Complex Analysis
Kaiser on NBC News and the military-industrial complex
By Charles Kaiser Dec 1, 2008 at 09:39 AM
Is there any limit to the shamelessness of NBC News? That is one of several questions sparked by David Barstow's... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Michelle Cottle, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jim Sleeper, and others
By Charles Kaiser Nov 25, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Sinner: Michelle Cottle, for wasting the first 2,515 words of a 3,253-word piece about Barney Frank in The New Republic... More
Above the Fold: Down the Rabbit Hole
John Cassidy, Joe Nocera, and others trace our economic ruination
By Charles Kaiser Nov 24, 2008 at 08:45 AM
With this morning's papers bringing news of the government's newest commitment of tens of billions of dollars to prop up... More
Political Intelligence
A review of Newsweek’s campaign mini-book
By Charles Kaiser Nov 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Newsweek's seventh behind-the-scenes look at a presidential campaign has lots of small scoops and several rather odd judgments. This 47,000-word... More
Above the Fold: Ross, Kiriakou, and Waterboarding
Charles Kaiser takes on ABC’s torture coverage
By Charles Kaiser Dec 17, 2007 at 10:41 AM
This article originally appeared on December 17, 2007, at radaronline.com. It is reposted here with the permission of the rightsholder,... More
Tortured Logic, “Dueling Speeches” Edition
Media overplay, under-analyze yesterday’s torture arguments
By Charles Kaiser May 22, 2009 at 05:44 PM
“Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens fell silent. In other words we went off course.”–President Barack Obama “I want... More
“Good Deeds, and Good Works”
In memoriam: Eden Ross Lipson
By Charles Kaiser May 13, 2009 at 03:11 PM
Eden Ross Lipson, an author-editor-activist-journalist who had a huge, mostly-unseen impact on American literature and American life, died early yesterday... More
Winners and Sinners
Kaiser on Ifill, Bumiller, Sulzberger, and more
By Charles Kaiser May 8, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Winners: New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt and President Barack Obama for a splendidly substantive interview in The New... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
