A Second Look at NY-26

New polls suggest a role for Medicare, but reasons for caution remain

By Greg Marx   May 23, 2011 at 03:02 PM

A week ago, I called for more restraint in press coverage of tomorrow’s special election in NY-26, which the press... More

Q&A: Poli-Sci Blogger John Sides

The GWU professor on what we can—and can’t—learn from early polling

By Greg Marx   May 19, 2011 at 04:03 PM

The 2012 election is almost eighteen months away, but politics junkies are already being treated to polls asking if people... More

Obama’s Big Speech: Is Anyone in the Middle East Listening?

By Greg Marx   May 19, 2011 at 01:20 PM

As the president prepared to deliver his remarks on American policy in the wake of the “Arab Spring,” the lead... More

A Medicare Referendum? Not So Fast

Polls in N.Y. special election tell a more complicated story

By Greg Marx   May 16, 2011 at 03:52 PM

The future of Medicare is one of the biggest, most fiercely contested questions in American politics these days. And with... More

Best of 2010: Greg Marx

Marx picks his top stories from 2010

By Greg Marx   Dec 30, 2010 at 12:03 PM

Polar Opposites: Regular readers might remember that during my time at CJR, I was something of a nag about what... More

Hope Deferred

Will Obama save American liberalism—or bury it?

By Greg Marx   Oct 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM

The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism | By Roger Hodge | Harper | 272... More

NYT Reports on Gitmo Press Access Dispute

By Greg Marx   Jul 21, 2010 at 12:39 PM

Jeremy Peters of The New York Times reports today on an ongoing struggle between press outlets and the Pentagon: After... More

The Economy and Politics, One More Time

Do we need to worry about journalists overstating the economy’s role?

By Greg Marx   Jul 21, 2010 at 08:30 AM

For awhile now I’ve been trying to get more journalists to acknowledge that the economy is a powerful driver of... More

Keeping It Simple

Journos take note: The economy drives politics

By Greg Marx   Jul 19, 2010 at 03:28 PM

At Media Matters, Eric Boehlert has a good catch this morning: Sunday’s New York Times op-ed roundtable on how... More

Press Pushes for Greater Access at Gitmo

In wake of reporter bans, news outlets team up, take case to Pentagon

By Greg Marx   Jul 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM

The latest dispute over press access to the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay has been mostly settled, for the moment.... More

That Word Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

By Greg Marx   Jul 16, 2010 at 10:38 AM

Sheryl Gay Stolberg has a “news analysis” in today’s New York Times that takes up the same subject as that... More

Winning the Morning, Missing the Point

Politico buries the lede in its big Obama story

By Greg Marx   Jul 15, 2010 at 02:39 PM

Politico bigwigs John Harris and Jim VandeHei have a big thinkpiece out this morning headlined, “Why Obama Loses by Winning.”... More

The Secret to Rolling Stone’s Success

NYT explores how magazine prospers off the news cycle

By Greg Marx   Jun 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM

That David Carr column flagged by Ryan Chittum this morning wasn’t the only item about Rolling Stone in today’s New... More

Look at Us!

Lessons from the response to the David Weigel flap

By Greg Marx   Jun 28, 2010 at 11:11 AM

It’s been three days since David Weigel, the reporter and blogger best known for his coverage of the conservative movement,... More

The Narrative That Wouldn’t Die

Oil spill dragging down Obama, NBC insists—despite evidence to the contrary

By Greg Marx   Jun 25, 2010 at 11:29 AM

Last week, Campaign Desk flagged a New York Times item that reported a surprising finding: for all the criticism about... More

Dana Milbank, Ideologue

The WaPo columnist’s latest reflects the press bias for action

By Greg Marx   Jun 24, 2010 at 03:10 PM

In his recent blog post on “the actual ideology of the American press,” NYU professor Jay Rosen identified Dana Milbank—the... More

Spencer Ackerman to Join Wired’s Danger Room

By Greg Marx   Jun 23, 2010 at 04:04 PM

Interesting news in the journo world today—Spencer Ackerman, the prolific national security reporter and blogger for The Washington Independent, is... More

The Day’s Big Story, Hours before It Was Published

Why Rolling Stone’s bombshell couldn’t be found, even as it was making news

By Greg Marx   Jun 22, 2010 at 04:50 PM

Eric Bates had an unusual start to his day Tuesday. Bates is the executive editor of Rolling Stone, and his... More

CNN Ditches the AP

By Greg Marx   Jun 21, 2010 at 03:30 PM

It’s official: CNN will no longer use content from The Associated Press in its news coverage, Michael Calderone reports for... More

Polar Opposites

The press vs. poli-sci on the rise of partisanship in Congress

By Greg Marx   Jun 21, 2010 at 06:00 AM

My article in our latest print issue on political science and the political press noted that the two camps offer... More