Culture Clash

By Clint Hendler   Nov 11, 2009 at 03:35 PM

Here's a illustrative moment, retold by "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" author Ken Auletta to... More

Philadelphia Will Do

By Clint Hendler   Nov 5, 2009 at 01:43 PM

As insignificant magazine charticles go, New York magazine’s Approval Matrix is fine by me. Each week the editors cobble together... More

Waiting on the Shield Law

By Clint Hendler   Nov 4, 2009 at 04:01 PM

The Society of Professional Journalists has just put out a press release announcing their backing (with some reservations) of the... More

A Lost Taste of Tito

By Clint Hendler   Nov 4, 2009 at 11:44 AM

Yesterday the Daily Beast posted drafts of victory/concession night speeches Sarah Palin had intended to deliver one year ago—had she... More

Compromise Reached on Senate Shield Law

Q&A with Newspaper Association of America’s Paul Boyle

By Clint Hendler   Oct 30, 2009 at 06:38 PM

Today the prime Senate sponsors of the Free Flow of Information Act—or, as it’s commonly known, the shield bill—announced that... More

Shield Bill Deal Reached?

By Clint Hendler   Oct 30, 2009 at 01:00 PM

The Associated Press is reporting that Senator Chuck Schumer, a prime sponsor of the Free Flow of Information Act (commonly... More

Guess Who?

Wash Times highlights limits of Obama visitor disclosure policy

By Clint Hendler   Oct 29, 2009 at 05:17 PM

Yesterday, The Washington Times reported some none-too-flattering revelations suggesting a pay-to-play scheme inside the Obama White House. According to documents... More

The Washington Monthly: 40 Years Old and on Solid Ground

By Clint Hendler   Oct 28, 2009 at 01:23 PM

This week the Washington Monthly, the venerable journal of politics and ideas, turns forty. To celebrate, they’ve put out a... More

What is this?

By Clint Hendler   Oct 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM

Take a look at this paragraph. It comes in the middle of today's otherwise very by-the-books Washington Post report from... More

Who is Marty Eisenstadt?

By Clint Hendler   Oct 26, 2009 at 04:26 PM

As the junkies may remember, in the days just after the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket a man named Martin... More

The BNP on the BBC

By Clint Hendler   Oct 23, 2009 at 02:39 PM

Last night the BBC hosted Question Time, the broadcaster’s flagship political debate program, with representatives from Great Britain’s largest political... More

What Rohde Didn’t Say

By Clint Hendler   Oct 22, 2009 at 05:54 PM

With, as Megan noted, the publication of the final pieces of David Rohde’s first person retelling of his seven-month captivity... More

Scozzafava Justly Called Out

By Clint Hendler   Oct 22, 2009 at 01:29 PM

Earlier this week, Dede Scozzafava, a Republican state representative facing off with a Democrat and a third party Conservative candidate... More

Podcast: Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson

By Clint Hendler   Oct 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Last week, before the release of their new report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism, Leonard Downie and Michael Schudson joined... More

Sanjay Gupta on Cheating Death

By Clint Hendler   Oct 16, 2009 at 01:45 PM

We’ve poked a bit of fun at CNN’s Sanjay Gupta in the past. See this Blair Witch like visit to... More