A Big Day in Afghanistan News

By Greg Marx   Oct 28, 2009 at 09:55 AM

If you’re at all interested in the war in Afghanistan, today’s New York Times is chock-full of must-reads. In addition... More

Post Profiles First Official to Resign over Afghan War

By Greg Marx   Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM

If you’ve been online today you’ve probably already seen the link, but Karen DeYoung’s Washington Post profile of Matthew Hoh,... More

What Do Voters Crave?

By Greg Marx   Oct 26, 2009 at 05:26 PM

There’s a lot to like in Matt Bai’s well-written New York Times Magazine story about Jon Corzine and the New... More

Invisible Influence

Is Sarah Palin really as powerful as the media says?

By Greg Marx   Oct 26, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Sarah Palin is unavoidable. Not content to take over our dreams, the former governor of Alaska has conquered the best-seller... More

Chamber of Confusion

Journalists disagree on Chamber of Commerce numbers

By Greg Marx   Oct 23, 2009 at 03:39 PM

On Oct. 8, The Wall Street Journal published an article about a feud between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and... More

The Two Talibans

Times piece draws an important distinction between Pakistani and Afghan groups

By Greg Marx   Oct 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM

Today’s New York Times features an intriguing bit of explanatory reporting—an article by Scott Shane about the Taliban. Or, rather,... More

Strange Days We’re Living In

By Greg Marx   Oct 23, 2009 at 09:28 AM

David Brooks has been generally charitable toward Barack Obama, but still, it’s a bit of a surprise to see the... More

Max Boot’s Unusual Argument about Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Oct 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Matthew Yglesias beat me to the point, but Max Boot’s op-ed in today’s New York Times makes a really curious... More

‘Political Reporters are Momentum Junkies’

By Greg Marx   Oct 21, 2009 at 02:40 PM

At Slate, Timothy Noah wonders why The Washington Post gave prominent play to a fairly modest boost in polling support... More

Speak Up! No, Shut Up!

Faulty presidential strategy as an evergreen story

By Greg Marx   Oct 21, 2009 at 02:16 PM

For a political reporter with column inches to fill, the White House’s rhetorical stance toward Congress is a fail-safe subject.... More

‘Sunk to the Level of a New Yorker Article’

By Greg Marx   Oct 21, 2009 at 01:46 PM

The New Yorker: love its high-mindedness or loathe its pretensions, the very name carries, in journalistic circles, a sense of... More

Unlikely Sources of Public Policy Decisions

By Greg Marx   Oct 21, 2009 at 09:43 AM

After South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham co-authored an NYT op-ed with John Kerry expressing support for climate change legislation, there... More

No Access? No Problem!

What’s so bad about not having access to the White House?

By Greg Marx   Oct 20, 2009 at 03:39 PM

The Obama administration’s high-profile shunning of Fox News seems, at least in the short run, to have been a publicity... More

An On-the-Record Supporter of Obama’s Decision-Making

By Greg Marx   Oct 20, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Elisabeth Bumiller has an article in today’s New York Times relaying frustration from “active duty and retired senior officers” that... More

NYT to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

By Greg Marx   Oct 19, 2009 at 03:49 PM

How’s this for a grim coincidence: on the day that Michael Schudson and Len Downie Jr. lay out their vision... More

NYT Reporter: ‘Nobody Complained to Me’ About Post Story

By Greg Marx   Oct 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM

In a letter to former Washington Post marketing executive Charles Pelton whose disclosure kicked off a new round of “Salongate”... More

‘Salon’ Saga Continues at the Post

By Greg Marx   Oct 19, 2009 at 08:51 AM

If you’ve been enjoying a weekend-induced news hiatus, you’ve missed some strange developments in the Washington Post “salon” story. Here’s... More

The Real Trouble with Cable

By Greg Marx   Oct 16, 2009 at 05:00 PM

Cable news, everybody’s favorite purveyor of mindlessly mediocre journalism, has been roundly beaten about the head for yesterday’s balloon-a-palooza festivities.... More

Checking In on The Daily Beast

By Greg Marx   Oct 16, 2009 at 03:46 PM

The Daily Beast launched just about a year ago, at a historical moment when news opportunities were extraordinarily rich and... More

Q & A: Los Angeles Times Reporter Borzou Daragahi

The paper’s Beirut bureau chief talks about the situation in Iran

By Greg Marx   Oct 16, 2009 at 01:50 PM

When political unrest erupted in Iran earlier this year in the wake of a disputed presidential election, Borzou Daragahi had... More