The Law of Conservation of Mavericks

By Greg Marx   Apr 27, 2010 at 01:19 PM

John McCain’s recent disavowal of the “maverick” brand has been a little embarrassing for the Arizona senator, because—well, because he’s... More

A Teaser So Nice They Used It Twice

By Greg Marx   Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM

Score one for the awards-are-meaningless crowd: the good folks at the American Society of Magazine Editors, having already decided that... More

An Oversteeped Tea Party?

The movement may be overhyped, but it’s still a legitimate story

By Greg Marx   Apr 22, 2010 at 04:06 PM

Of the various criticisms that get levied against Politico, one of the most common is that it inflates stories that... More

Understanding the Unaffiliateds

What does the uptick in independent voters really mean?

By Greg Marx   Apr 20, 2010 at 04:47 PM

With the midterm elections looming on the horizon, stories about voter frustration are all the rage. Today, USA Today takes... More

An Error, an Oversight, and an Overreaction

A closer look at the Domenech/CBS/White House imbroglio

By Greg Marx   Apr 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM

Is there anything left to say about the Domenech-Kagan affair? Howard Kurtz’s story in last Friday’s Washington Post describing the... More

License to Kill, Part II

Waiting for coverage of the al-Awlaki standard

By Greg Marx   Apr 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM

On April 6, government officials let it be known that the CIA, like the military’s Joint Special Operations Command, has... More

The Never-Ending Story

Inside Huffington Post’s 11,000-word piece on progressive Democrats

By Greg Marx   Apr 13, 2010 at 01:52 PM

Media critics like to wonder whether there’s a place on the Web for long-form narrative journalism. But evidence that such... More

Meet the Supreme Court Front-Runners

The media speculate on the identity of John Paul Stevens’s successor

By Greg Marx   Apr 9, 2010 at 04:49 PM

Now that Justice John Paul Stevens has gone and announced his upcoming retirement from the Supreme Court, we know what... More

License to Kill

Some background—and some questions—on the Anwar al-Awlaki authorization

By Greg Marx   Apr 8, 2010 at 03:37 PM

The recent news that the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki raised... More

Miscast Model

Sure, Jon Stewart’s brilliant. That doesn’t mean CNN should imitate him.

By Greg Marx   Apr 7, 2010 at 09:20 AM

As the steady stream of proposals for how to “fix” CNN continues apace in the wake of last week’s dismal... More

Local Paper Leads Way on Mine Disaster Coverage

By Greg Marx   Apr 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM

With much of the national media’s focus turned to West Virginia today in the wake of yet another mine disaster,... More

Coming Out as a Journalist in Iraq

By Greg Marx   Apr 4, 2010 at 06:00 PM

Rod Nordland has an interesting Week in Review piece in Sunday's NYT exploring the surprising results in the Iraq elections... More

Party Power

Hillary wouldn’t have pushed for health care? Don’t believe it

By Greg Marx   Apr 2, 2010 at 04:19 PM

Via Kevin Drum, Bruce Bartlett has an essay at Forbes.com today that comes to a peculiar conclusion (emphasis added): I... More

‘The Tragedy Is That Elmer Only Wanted Dramatic Roles’

By Greg Marx   Apr 2, 2010 at 08:00 AM

After David Mills, the former journalist and Emmy-winning screenwriter, died earlier this week, HBO distributed a lengthy obituary penned by... More

The Man and the Machine, On a Cover Near You

By Greg Marx   Apr 1, 2010 at 03:47 PM

With today being Official iPad Review Day, might as well take a moment to see how the newsweeklies are positioning... More

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

ProPublica launches a new reporting tool

By Greg Marx   Apr 1, 2010 at 02:49 PM

The folks at ProPublica have been covering the troubles with the federal government’s home loan modification program for awhile, and... More

Congress Not Popular in ‘08, Either

By Greg Marx   Apr 1, 2010 at 09:42 AM

In his column today in The Washington Post, David Broder laments the sunken state of Capitol Hill. Despite the passage... More

LAT: Journalists Targeted in Honduras

By Greg Marx   Mar 31, 2010 at 11:30 AM

The Los Angeles Times reports on some distressing news from Central America: Nine months after a military-led coup plunged Honduras... More

A Nascent Press in North Korea?

By Greg Marx   Mar 29, 2010 at 11:36 AM

The front page of today’s New York Times features a fascinating story about new efforts to get information out of... More

Out on a Limb

The problems with that ‘wingnuts’ poll

By Greg Marx   Mar 29, 2010 at 06:00 AM

In the course of surfing the Web last week, you may have come across some polling data showing that large... More