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Above the Fold: The Pentagon Capers
The mainstream media are silent on the Pentagon’s repudiation of its own report
By Charles Kaiser May 7, 2009 at 06:05 PM
This week the Pentagon took the highly unusual step of withdrawing a report issued by its inspector general one week... More
Above the Fold: Ross Report Revisited
Kaiser on Stelter, Ross, and the 2007 CIA waterboarding interview
By Charles Kaiser Apr 28, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Brian Stelter reports on page one of The New York Times today that newly disclosed torture memoranda show how an... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Shane, Maddow, Kaplan, and more
By Charles Kaiser Apr 23, 2009 at 06:25 PM
Winner: The New York Times's Scott Shane. Just four months after remarks of F.B.I. director Robert Mueller were published on... More
Above the Fold: Know-Nothings at the NYT
Times waterboarding story reports, demonstrates ignorance of history
By Charles Kaiser Apr 22, 2009 at 05:34 PM
“There is no history of ethnic conflict in Iraq.” – former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, explaining to Congress... More
Above the Fold: Waiting in the Lobby
The Obama administration needs to rethink its blanket “no lobbyists” policy
By Charles Kaiser Apr 21, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Although FCP doesn’t agree with everything the Obama administration has done, especially in its defense of state secrets, never has... More
Above the Fold: Memos of (Mis)understanding
For the torture memos, too, sunlight is the best disinfectant
By Charles Kaiser Apr 17, 2009 at 06:58 PM
Barack Obama acted intelligently and courageously yesterday by making the Bush administration’s torture memos public, despite the strong objections of... More
Above the Fold: Beltway Journalism, “Swallowed by an Hourglass”
It’s long past time to expand the spectrum of Sunday-show punditry
By Charles Kaiser Apr 15, 2009 at 03:42 PM
The more things change, the more Beltway punditry stays the same. If only the voters could change the composition of... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Danner, Poniewozik, Rove, Vanity Fair, and more
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Winner: Mark Danner, for another brilliant piece about torture in the New York Review of Books: “Torture is at the... More
Above the Fold: Our Financial Follies
Black and Born prove it yet again: we need to regulate the regulators
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Last week, William Black, a former investigator of the Savings and Loan scandal, went on Bill Moyers Journal and repeated... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Vanity Fair, Ed Henry, and Colbert
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Sinner: Vanity Fair, for running an article by Mark Bowden about Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. that was so filled with elementary... More
Above the Fold: Colin Powell, American Coward
The general continues to debunk the myth of his own greatness
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:21 PM
At just about every crucial juncture in his career, Colin Powell has failed his country, and himself. This sorry record... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Goldberger, Cohen, Greenwald, Wolff, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Winner: Paul Goldberger, for a beautiful meditation in The New Yorker on the baseball stadiums just completed for the New... More
Above the Fold: The Torture Report
Mark Danner rakes Guantánamo’s muck
By Charles Kaiser Mar 23, 2009 at 06:32 PM
When the history of this era is written more honor will be attached to Mark Danner than to most other... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Jon Stewart, Nathaniel Frank, David Gates and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 13, 2009 at 03:06 PM
The Biggest Winner: Let’s be clear: Jon Stewart is the best interviewer on television, because he is the toughest, the... More
Above the Fold: The Whole Truth About Torture
Is it “unfair” to single out Bush’s torture advisors for prosecution?
By Charles Kaiser Mar 10, 2009 at 06:35 PM
The story by Charlie Savage and Scott Shane on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times, about the “fallout... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
