John McCynic

A depressing gaming of the press

By Clint Hendler   Mar 26, 2008 at 02:10 PM

Today Neal Gabler chimed in on a favorite topic of late—press love for McCain—in a New York Times op-ed. His... More

Gasbaggery on MSNBC

By Clint Hendler   Mar 25, 2008 at 01:38 PM

This morning, MSNBC has done at least two segments on the cost of gas in a small California town, using... More

Immigration’s Rise

New proposals, rhetoric, and enforcement revive a thorny issue

By Clint Hendler   Mar 25, 2008 at 09:00 AM

Last may, a CBS/New York Times poll found that 69 percent of Americans want to see the country’s illegal immigrants... More

Blind Spot

What the Times is and isn’t asking about the Spitzer case

By Clint Hendler   Mar 21, 2008 at 04:29 PM

I’ve previously raised a glass to The New York Times’s impressive reporting on Eliot Spitzer and his entanglement in a... More

The Other Anniversary

CPJ draws spotlight to Cuban journalists

By Clint Hendler   Mar 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM

As it turns out, this week marks not only the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-invasion of Iraq, but also a... More

Five Years On

A round-up of Iraq press links

By Clint Hendler   Mar 19, 2008 at 12:32 PM

Here are a selection of press-focused retrospectives, plucked from the flurry of today's Iraq war look-backs. Editor and Publisher makes... More

Reuters Looks Back

Bearing Witness: Five Years of The Iraq War

By Clint Hendler   Mar 19, 2008 at 10:26 AM

As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it’s worth taking a look at this... More

Seize the Moment

Obama opened the door for a genuine conversation on race

By Clint Hendler   Mar 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM

After Obama’s Philadelphia speech on race, there will be an enormous temptation by the campaign press to jam the moment... More

A Corn-state Caucus Continues Complicatedly

And even The Des Moines Register goofs

By Clint Hendler   Mar 14, 2008 at 03:10 PM

While I’m on the subject of caucuses, it’s worth taking a quick look at a story in today’s Des Moines... More

Clinton’s Caucus Rhetoric

Her argument may get attention, but it demands scrutiny

By Clint Hendler   Mar 14, 2008 at 01:07 PM

Yesterday, NPR broadcast an interview with Hillary Clinton. It was a resounding volley in the Rhetorical Primary, the convention-focused war... More

The Full Steamroller

A look back at how to not say what Spitzer said.

By Clint Hendler   Mar 12, 2008 at 03:19 PM

In an homage to The New York Times’s news-breaking, flood-the-zone, Spitzer coverage these last few days, CJR offers this compilation... More

Let’s Get Rezko Right

The Chicago Tribune shows the way; others falter

By Clint Hendler   Mar 12, 2008 at 02:08 PM

Just five years ago, Barack Obama worked in Springfield, Illinois, chairing the State Senate’s Health and Human services committee. Now,... More

Tomorrow’s Headlines Today

CJR’s Spitzer Suggestions

By Clint Hendler   Mar 10, 2008 at 04:25 PM

The afternoon’s big news is, of course, that New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer has been “linked” with The Emperor’s... More

C’mon Texas!

We need those numbers!

By Clint Hendler   Mar 7, 2008 at 11:04 AM

Slate has a pretty good Explainer today on why the national press, the campaigns, and the voters, are still waiting... More

New Delegate Math

The New York Times can’t get its numbers straight.

By Clint Hendler   Mar 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM

I never said it was easy, but wow, today's New York Times provides an extraordinary example of media bungling the... More