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Politico Belatedly Provides a Welcome Explanation
June 24, 2010 03:45 PM
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen took to his PressThink blog to spin forward from my post yesterday noting that Politico had excised a portion of its McChrystal coverage. The... Continue reading
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A Politico Graf Goes Missing
June 23, 2010 12:37 PM
Yesterday in one of Politico’s write-ups of the furor that ensued as it became known that damaging quotes from General Stanley McChrystal and his staff would appear in an article by Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone, the following paragraphs appeared:... Continue reading
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BREAKING: Hastings Enjoys Pornography, is Good Writer
June 23, 2010 11:07 AM
This morning’s Politico Playbook brings this unusually prudish paragraph: FAILURE TO GOOGLE: A quick search would have showed McChrystal that caution was warranted around the irreverent reporter, Michael Hastings, a former Iraq correspondent for Newsweek. Starting when he... Continue reading
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McChrystal’s Real Error
June 22, 2010 01:14 PM
Politico’s Gordon Lubold has a quote from an administration official saying that Stanley McChrystal, the subject of a famous-before-published Rolling Stone profile, has been called back to Washington to “explain to the Pentagon and the commander... Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Alleges Collusion
June 18, 2010 10:51 AM
On June 6, Wired.com published a piece reporting that a U.S. soldier named Bradley Manning, who purportedly claimed to be passing confidential information—including a video showing U.S. helicopter pilots firing on two Reuters reporters—to WikiLeaks, online secret-sharing site, had been... Continue reading
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Going underwater with the AP
June 9, 2010 10:44 AM
Via Joe Strupp (once of Editor & Publisher, now with Media Matters) here's a clip of AP reporter Rich Matthews accompanying some experienced divers and surveying the undersea impact of the BP oil leak. In passing on the clip, <a... Continue reading
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Unfriendly Fire
June 8, 2010 04:17 PM
When, late Sunday night, Wired reported that Bradley Manning, a young Army intelligence staffer, had been arrested and charged with giving a variety of classified or closely held information to WikiLeaks, the online secret-sharing site didn’t stay... Continue reading
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WaPo denies allegation it sat on WikiLeaks video
June 7, 2010 05:05 PM
Whoever had been posting to the WikiLeaks Twitter account over the last 12 hours has had some very unkind words for Wired's reporting on Bradley Manning, the young Army soldier who reportedly has been arrested for his role... Continue reading
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Arrest in WikiLeaks killing video probe
June 7, 2010 10:03 AM
Wired posted quite a scoop last night: Specialist Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old Army soldier deployed to Iraq, has been arrested in a probe of the leaking of a video that showed the graphic deaths of journalists and civilians... Continue reading
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Ending “Lame” Data
June 4, 2010 02:01 PM
This morning, Aneesh Chopra, who as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer was charged with the development of the Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive, stopped by the Personal Democracy Forum, the annual confab of political... Continue reading
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Ellsberg and Assange
June 3, 2010 02:23 PM
It was a meeting across generations and technology. Daniel Ellsberg, who made his name nearly forty years ago by providing copies of the highly classified Pentagon Papers to Congress and the press, was sharing a bill with Julian Assange,... Continue reading
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Taking out the Sestak Trash
May 28, 2010 12:05 PM
With Obama’s promise at yesterday’s press conference that the White House would imminently (“When I say ‘shortly,’ I mean shortly. I don’t mean weeks or months”) offer an accounting of its communications with Congressman Joe Sestak before he announced his... Continue reading
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Massa in the movies?
May 27, 2010 10:51 AM
Just when you thought the only thing left to come of the Congressman Massa resignation (the one that brought us reports of snorkeling, groping, tickling, a cancer scare, and the image of Rahm Emanuel lobbying while naked) was the resolution... Continue reading
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Secretary of Best Guesses
May 26, 2010 09:00 AM
Last Wednesday, after Pennsylvania Democrats picked Representative Joe Sestak over long serving (and recently Republican) incumbent Arlen Specter as their nominee for this Fall’s Senate race, the victor made the television rounds. Sestak faced a bit of unfinished business, left... Continue reading
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The Novak Files
May 21, 2010 09:40 AM
Yesterday, The Washington Post ran an article on the late Robert Novak's FBI files. It turns out that in the 1980's, Novak or Roland Evans, his writing partner, reported classified information that led the government to launch leak... Continue reading
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Blumenthal Blunders
May 19, 2010 01:27 PM
Despite a congressional sex scandal and three closely watched Senate primaries, yesterday’s news was dominated by The New York Times’s harsh look at Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnam record—and, more saliently, the way he describes it. Blumenthal, Connecticut’s long-serving attorney... Continue reading
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Opening the Presidential Records Act
May 13, 2010 02:52 PM
We’ve just published a piece discussing how the Presidential Records Act contours access to documents that Supreme Court Elena Kagan produced while serving in the Clinton White House. And while it didn’t fit into that piece, I thought... Continue reading
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Following Kagan’s Paper Trail
May 13, 2010 12:39 PM
When John Roberts was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2005, journalists touched down at the Ronald Regan Presidential Library in Simi Valley to get a look at legal opinions that Roberts produced as an associate White House counsel from... Continue reading
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Kentucky Senate Race: Three Things You Oughta Know
May 10, 2010 04:43 PM
Joe Gerth is a political reporter and columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky’s largest paper. The Louisville native and resident started at the paper as a clerk while still in college. Twenty-two years later, he’s covering Kentucky’s Democratic... Continue reading
Behind the News

Stop Blaming The Huffington Post
May 10, 2010 12:09 PM
When I think about The Huffington Post, I’m troubled. But when I think harder, I reconsider what, exactly, makes me queasy. I don’t love the prime element behind Huffington Post’s business model: the army of unpaid writers whose work generates... Continue reading

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