All Obama, All the Time

By Greg Marx   Oct 15, 2009 at 05:41 PM

The chatter about the potential political consequences of our president’s “overexposure” is mostly pointless, but still—the media’s appetite for Obama-related... More

WaPo’s Facebook Fixation

By Greg Marx   Oct 15, 2009 at 04:19 PM

When I saw this story about twenty-somethings who (gasp!) don’t use Facebook featured on The Washington Post Web site this... More

Just the Facts—But From Whom?

NYT outsources fact-checking responsibility

By Greg Marx   Oct 15, 2009 at 12:24 PM

Today’s New York Times includes a profile of Michele Bachmann, the conservative congresswoman from Minnesota whom Sean Hannity has called,... More

McClatchy v. WaPo

Two stories on Afghan intel disputes, two diametrically opposed conclusions

By Greg Marx   Oct 15, 2009 at 09:58 AM

Earlier this week, McClatchy’s D.C. bureau published a story relaying the concerns of “more than 15 senior and mid-level U.S.... More

Joe Lieberman, What Have You Wrought?

By Greg Marx   Oct 15, 2009 at 09:33 AM

The groan-worthy headline on a story by Patrick O'Connor and Chris Frates in Politico today: "No Snowementum: Centrist Democrats still... More

Not the ‘Obama’s Overexposed’ Story Again…

By Greg Marx   Oct 14, 2009 at 01:35 PM

My memory of the media world isn’t long enough to know whether respected print organizations were publishing “analyses” like this... More

Which Is It, NYT?

Times piece on pay cuts contradicts earlier story

By Greg Marx   Oct 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM

The other day, Kevin Drum noted how confusing it can be for readers when two different papers report substantially different... More

Two Takes on a ‘Tent City’ in Tampa

By Greg Marx   Oct 14, 2009 at 09:32 AM

During my year in journalism school, I took an elective class in land use law—zoning, planning, variances, that sort of... More

Hire That Commenter as a Copy-Editor!

By Greg Marx   Oct 12, 2009 at 07:36 PM

While The Washington Post’s Saturday editorial is far from the most tendentious thing written on the already-tired topic of Barack... More

Strong Reporting on DNA Waivers from the Post

By Greg Marx   Oct 12, 2009 at 05:28 PM

Like Jonathan Adler, I was unaware of a policy that requires some federal defendants to waive their rights to DNA... More

There’s the Special-Interest Lobbying We Were Waiting For

By Greg Marx   Oct 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM

A David Herszenhorn “Prescriptions” piece in today’s New York Times (which, oddly, I can’t find online) has some interesting things... More

Journalism, Liberalism, Elitism

By Greg Marx   Oct 9, 2009 at 05:09 PM

I’m not going to jump directly into the fray of responses to my former professor Tom Edsall’s CJR piece about... More

Europe Reacts to Obama’s Nobel

Conservative disbelief, liberal dismay

By Greg Marx   Oct 9, 2009 at 01:36 PM

The Nobel Committee’s decision to award a rather, er, premature Peace Prize to Barack Obama has been greeted with skepticism... More

A Nation Turns Its Eyes to… Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page

By Greg Marx   Oct 9, 2009 at 10:44 AM

It seemed peculiar the other day when Politico’s Ben Smith devoted a post on his widely-read blog to Sarah Palin’s... More

Czar Talk

Is there any substance to the criticism of Obama’s “czars”?

By Greg Marx   Oct 7, 2009 at 03:40 PM

Criticism of some political journalism as “stenography” is sometimes misplaced—part of reporting really is writing down the things that people... More

More Thoughts on McCaughey

By Greg Marx   Oct 7, 2009 at 03:20 PM

For those interested in the Betsy McCaughey saga, Andrew Sullivan has a blog post up today, titled “McCaughey and Me,”... More

Target Practice

The pros and cons of blasting Betsy McCaughey

By Greg Marx   Oct 7, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Former New York lieutenant governor Betsy McCaughey has been much in the news the last few days, and she’s been... More

Fact-checking Saturday Night Live

By Greg Marx   Oct 6, 2009 at 03:48 PM

At Politico, Michael Calderone has some fun at the expense of CNN, which took the time to fact-check this week’s... More

A Vote for ‘Muddling Through’

By Greg Marx   Oct 6, 2009 at 01:11 PM

It’s a few days old at this point, but readers interested in the Afghanistan policy debate will want to check... More

President, Know Thyself

WaPo’s Cohen on the Afghan war as a presidential self-actualization tool

By Greg Marx   Oct 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM

There are lots of ways of thinking about foreign policy: not just political labels of recent vintage like “neoconservatism” and... More