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Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard
Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
By Charles Kaiser Mar 3, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love... More
Above the Fold: The Best and Worst of Television
Kaiser on Kroft, Markopolos, Santelli, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM
It took me five minutes to know that it was a fraud. It took me another almost four hours of... More
Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget
“The most radical document of its kind since Reagan’s first year in office”
By Charles Kaiser Feb 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Barack Obama's budget proves he was serious when he promised fundamental change if he became president. Everyone in the MSM... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Delonas, Hertzberg, Rich, Moyers, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 01:51 PM
Sinner: Sean Delonas. The New York Post contributor drew a cartoon yesterday depicting two policemen shooting a chimpanzee, with this... More
Above the Fold: Cruel Intentions?
Savage’s stellar Times piece on Obama’s torture policy
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Charlie Savage’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times about the Obama administration’s preliminary attitudes toward torture, rendition, and government secrecy... More
Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone”
Across the Atlantic, Washington’s myopia seems more exaggerated than usual
By Charles Kaiser Feb 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
LONDON-- From the other side of the Atlantic, Washington's myopia seems even more exaggerated than usual. Two days ago in... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Daschle, Newsweek, Philip Bennett, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Winners: Barack Obama, and the American people, for not getting Tom Daschle as their new Secretary of Health and Human... More
Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land
Obama’s inauguration was a celebration forty years in the making
By Charles Kaiser Jan 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
“You sing it with us: we’ll give you the words.” –Pete Seeger, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009 "The answer is... More
Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic
Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”
By Charles Kaiser Jan 19, 2009 at 09:48 AM
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 02:31 PM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 09:50 AM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Barney Frank, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Benjamin Button, and others
By Charles Kaiser Jan 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Winners: Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Jeffrey Toobin. The second best political news for America after Barack Obama’s election as president is... More
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: 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
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
