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Because It’s Friday…
By Greg Marx Mar 26, 2010 at 01:00 PM
At Time's "Swampland" blog, Karen Tumulty shares a classic Monty Python skit which, as she says, "is a perfect encapsulation... More
MoJo on Waste in Military Contracts
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 04:02 PM
In a story today for Mother Jones, Adam Weinstein spotlights what sounds like a deficit reduction opportunity: It was just... More
The Clergy Abuse Story Comes Back to the U.S.
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Talk about uncanny timing. Yesterday, ProPublica’s new reporter-blogger, Marian Wang, interviewed Walter Robinson, the former Boston Globe investigative journalist who... More
More on Polarization, and on Knowing Where to Look
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 05:37 PM
My Campaign Desk item earlier today took issue with Tom Friedman’s argument that gerrymandered legislative districts are driving polarization in... More
The Health Reform Vote on Cable News
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 02:14 PM
At The Monkey Cage, Patrick Egan has put together a nice chart showing viewership of the cable news networks on... More
Strange Medicine
Tom Friedman’s peculiar cures for our ailing politics
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Like a lot of people, Tom Friedman is upset that American politics is “broken.” Unlike a lot of people, he... More
Things to Keep in the Back of Your Mind…
By Greg Marx Mar 23, 2010 at 04:34 PM
… while reading the many stories out now, and the many more sure to come, that try to gauge the... More
Washington Post Plays “What If”
Cillizza: Would Obama be better off if the GOP controlled Congress?
By Greg Marx Mar 23, 2010 at 04:23 PM
On the day that Barack Obama signed into law a major overhaul of the health care system, thus fulfilling a... More
Fox and the GOP: Who’s Working for Whom?
By Greg Marx Mar 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Via Media Matters, former-Bush-speechwriter-turned-iconoclast-conservative David Frum appeared on ABC’s Nightline last night to discuss the politics of health care. Frum,... More
Calderone: Weigel to Post
By Greg Marx Mar 22, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Ten days ago, in the course of chiding The Washington Post for being slow to the Tea Party story, I... More
Presidents and Polarization
By Greg Marx Mar 22, 2010 at 02:03 PM
Our roundup of health care headlines this morning noted that one of the major themes of the coverage has been... More
Historic Change, Divided Politics
Rounding up major outlets’ first reactions to the House health reform outcome
By Greg Marx Mar 22, 2010 at 09:19 AM
In the wake of last night’s vote in the House to approve a major overhaul of the nation's health-care system,... More
Wise Words
By Greg Marx Mar 17, 2010 at 12:28 PM
From Jack Shafer: In a perfect world, a publication is edited for readers. In the imperfect world that we inhabit,... More
He-Said, She-Said on Medicare
The Times gets stuck on the surface of the Medicare debate
By Greg Marx Mar 16, 2010 at 02:47 PM
The dispatch from Strongsville, Ohio in today’s New York Times, about Barack Obama’s efforts to rally public support for his... More
Why So Serious?
Parsing the Post’s piece on Obama’s “happiness deficit”
By Greg Marx Mar 16, 2010 at 11:28 AM
The editorial page of The Washington Post has a well-established reputation for its hawkish stance on fiscal matters, so it... More
How to Cover a Non-Story
The Globe knew about that Scott Brown lawsuit—and passed
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 02:55 PM
On Thursday afternoon, Gawker reported that Scott Brown—the Republican whose victory in a special election in Massachusetts has cost Democrats... More
If Democrats do not contribute to the Greg Marx Retirement Fund, midterms will be costly
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM
I’m not going to attempt to dissect each of the arguments made by Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen in their... More
A Late Arrival to the Party
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Over at Politico, Mike Calderone reports that The Washington Post will be stepping up its Tea Party coverage. Local writers... More
When a Story Comes Along, Must You Whip It?
Competing approaches to covering the legislative endgame
By Greg Marx Mar 10, 2010 at 04:14 PM
Since it became clear sometime during the past few weeks that the fate of health care reform rests in the... More
Remembering Where People Get Their News
By Greg Marx Mar 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM
Riffing off of Kevin Drum’s post about Terry McDermott’s cover story about Fox News in the latest CJR (which you... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
