Sarah Palin: Just Not That Popular

Continetti’s unpersuasive pitch for a Palin comeback

By Greg Marx   Nov 13, 2009 at 02:24 PM

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page takes a break from running Sarah Palin-authored op-eds today and instead runs a piece... More

Government Programs Don’t Always Increase the Deficit

By Greg Marx   Nov 13, 2009 at 11:50 AM

The federal budget deficit, it seems, is back on the White House’s agenda. David Brooks, in his column today, asserted... More

Lou Dobbs and Cesar Chavez, Back in the Day

By Greg Marx   Nov 12, 2009 at 03:59 PM

In the wake of Lou Dobbs’s abrupt resignation from CNN, there’s been plenty of speculation about what he’ll do next:... More

Response, Arab and American, to the NYT’s Blackwater Story

By Greg Marx   Nov 11, 2009 at 04:38 PM

Among the questions prompted by the New York Times’s latest national-security scoop—this one alleging that executives at the private security... More

Organizing Armey

Good Times Mag piece notes importance of institutions

By Greg Marx   Nov 11, 2009 at 03:44 PM

I’m late to the party in discussing Michael Sokolove’s profile of Dick Armey in last week’s New York Times Magazine,... More

When is News Fit to Print?

A Texas paper runs with secondhand info on the Fort Hood shooter

By Greg Marx   Nov 10, 2009 at 04:53 PM

Update, 11/11, 1:09 p.m.: Kamran Pasha has posted a reply in the comments section below. One of the cardinal rules... More

Another Reason Not to Rush to Judgment

By Greg Marx   Nov 6, 2009 at 04:00 PM

Here’s another reason to be wary about jumping to conclusions about the shooting at Fort Hood: Bill Sparkman. Sparkman is... More

Jumping to Confusion

We can’t know what Fort Hood means until we know what happened

By Greg Marx   Nov 6, 2009 at 03:45 PM

It’s been just over twenty-four hours since Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood—more... More

The Election’s Meaning Has Never Been Clearer

By Greg Marx   Nov 5, 2009 at 09:53 AM

Today’s New York Times: “Democrats to Use Election to Push Agenda in Congress” Today’s Politico: “Election result: Red-state Dems worried,... More

Tea Leaves, Tarot Cards, and Ballots

One more round on divining what the off-year elections mean

By Greg Marx   Nov 4, 2009 at 03:20 PM

The coalition of media outlets pushing back against over-interpretation of the national significance of off-year elections lost a key ally... More

Pushback on Polls’ Portents

Some outlets question broader meaning of today’s elections

By Greg Marx   Nov 3, 2009 at 03:23 PM

With the off-year Election Day now upon us, press outlets as diverse as Fox News and The New York Times... More

More Thoughts on Off-Year Elections

By Greg Marx   Nov 2, 2009 at 03:03 PM

A few further thoughts re: my Campaign Desk post on how the media strains for meaning in off-year elections: First,... More

Press to Cliché: We Just Can’t Quit You

Media acknowledges narrative’s limits; advances it anyway

By Greg Marx   Nov 2, 2009 at 02:31 PM

On Tuesday, November 3, voters around the country will go to the polls to elect officials in a variety of... More

New Press Angle: Obama Had It Right, After All

By Greg Marx   Nov 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM

A little less than two weeks ago, I wrote a post noting the press’s love for stories about how the... More

More on the Karzai Connection

Skeptics ask: What’s the big deal?

By Greg Marx   Oct 30, 2009 at 05:01 PM

When I compiled my round-up of responses to the New York Times’s story on the CIA-Ahmed Wali Karzai connections, I... More

CJR Flashback: Jim Brady Q&A

By Greg Marx   Oct 30, 2009 at 02:37 PM

At Slate, Jack Shafer simultaneously boosts his curmudgeonly critic credentials and pays a compliment to the new leader of Allbritton... More

“Dr. No” Gets a Pass

NYT lets Coburn’s bogus diagnosis slide

By Greg Marx   Oct 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM

The front page of today’s New York Times features a profile of Tom Coburn, the proudly obstructionist Republican senator from... More

A Maybe-Not-So-Important Question

By Greg Marx   Oct 28, 2009 at 06:25 PM

A Politico story that was briefly leading the site this evening addresses one of the not-so-pressing political issues of the... More

The Karzai Family’s Defense

By Greg Marx   Oct 28, 2009 at 01:11 PM

Gerald Posner of The Daily Beast has the companion piece to The New York Times’s story about the CIA’s relationship... More

The Karzai Connection

Commentators react to the NYT’s big scoop

By Greg Marx   Oct 28, 2009 at 01:09 PM

Today’s New York Times leads with an extraordinary article reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai—the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai,... More