More on Coverage of the Great Recession

By Greg Marx   Oct 5, 2009 at 05:36 PM

CJR’s Ali Fenwick this afternoon flagged the new Pew study on coverage of the economic crisis, which noted that newspapers... More

Leaving Afghanistan Is Not on the Table

By Greg Marx   Oct 5, 2009 at 05:12 PM

Spencer Ackerman makes a good catch on the “Good Morning America” interview with Peter Galbraith I linked to earlier: I... More

The Times’s Ten-Step Program

Looking for the least-bad outcome in Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Oct 5, 2009 at 04:36 PM

The New York Times’s roundtable op-ed on Afghanistan yesterday doesn’t break any new ground, and it won’t carry the same... More

More Media Time for Afghanistan

By Greg Marx   Oct 5, 2009 at 01:57 PM

The public debate over the situation in Afghanistan, which had already been fairly robust, may get a little wilder after... More

Measuring the Effect of Obama’s Health Care Speech

By Greg Marx   Oct 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM

At his blog, Brendan Nyhan takes a look at whether Obama’s big health care speech of a month ago shifted... More

Picking Apart the Polls

Is opinion really shifting on abortion?

By Greg Marx   Oct 2, 2009 at 03:27 PM

If you’re an avid news reader, there’s a good chance that sometime in the last day or so you’ve come... More

‘Regional Experts’ Not Just Missing from Media

By Greg Marx   Oct 1, 2009 at 03:46 PM

Elsewhere on the CJR site today, Michael Massing concludes his take-down of the latest Iran-related coverage with a call for... More

The Whole World in His Hands

Overstating the president’s power, again

By Greg Marx   Oct 1, 2009 at 01:16 PM

As any middle-school social studies student knows, the American system of government consists of three branches: the executive branch, which... More

India and Pakistan, Best of Buddies

By Greg Marx   Sep 30, 2009 at 04:14 PM

The New York Times’s long, deeply-reported front-page story on the continuing strength of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group responsible for... More

David Brooks’s Afghanistan Straw Man

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

In a Campaign Desk piece today, I talk about the reflexive hawkishness of various big-deal think tanks and op-ed columnists... More

An Open Debate on the Afghan War?

A measure of dissent on the full counterinsurgency doctrine

By Greg Marx   Sep 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM

Expert opinion in the foreign policy think-tank world—your American Enterprise Institutes, your Councils on Foreign Relations, etc.—runs, on balance, hawkish.... More

Going for the Gold

Is Obama’s Olympic trip really a big political risk?

By Greg Marx   Sep 29, 2009 at 02:43 PM

One of the persistent memes of American political journalism is that our president must always be testing his political power... More

On the NYT’s opinion media monitor

By Greg Marx   Sep 28, 2009 at 02:31 PM

As noted by Michael Calderone and others, NYT ombudsman Clark Hoyt reported in his Sunday column that, in the wake... More

Q & A: Jim Brady

Guardian America’s Web consultant on building audiences, brands, and a culture of innovation

By Greg Marx   Sep 25, 2009 at 04:27 PM

Named executive editor of washingtonpost.com in late 2004, Jim Brady presided over a near-doubling in Web traffic and saw the... More

You Mean Not Everybody Watches Cable News?

By Greg Marx   Sep 24, 2009 at 12:05 PM

As Ali notes below, for all the dust he’s kicked up lately, Glenn Beck still isn’t really a household name.... More

Q & A: Rick Perlstein

The liberal historian on ACORN, the Post, and wagging the dog

By Greg Marx   Sep 22, 2009 at 05:52 PM

As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van Jones and the community organizing group ACORN have shown, even under... More

Driving the Conversation

NYT series examines texting, talking behind the wheel

By Greg Marx   Sep 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM

The New York Times has published a number of ambitious series this year, on topics ranging from the financial crisis... More

Seeds of Discontent

What does the ACORN story mean for the mainstream media?

By Greg Marx   Sep 18, 2009 at 03:31 PM

James O’Keefe, the pimp-playing provocateur who set out to target ACORN with a video camera, a cheesy costume, and a... More

Darts and Laurels

News outlets in Connecticut grapple with a hostage crisis

By Greg Marx   Sep 17, 2009 at 09:42 AM

It was the kind of ethical dilemma that classroom case studies are made of, but the potential con- sequences of... More

Washington=Cool… Really?

By Greg Marx   Sep 16, 2009 at 01:11 PM

I share Megan's amazement at Arianna Huffington's entrepreneurial abilities. But, despite our current president's rock-star appeal, I remain skeptical of... More