Remember When No Meant No

The Bloomberg-denies-running story industry

By Joel Meares   Dec 13, 2010 at 04:57 PM

We get it media: you want New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to run for president. We can’t blame you.... More

A “Public Option” By Any Other Name…

Fox e-mails reveal top-down slant

By Joel Meares   Dec 9, 2010 at 12:05 PM

‘Tis the season to be leaking. Media Matters is reporting today that it has acquired e-mails sent by Fox News... More

Bogus Trend Nomination: Bai’s Murmurs

New York Times’s empty primary challenge story

By Joel Meares   Dec 8, 2010 at 12:21 PM

Slate media critic Jack Shafer, among others, has made a game of spotting bogus trend stories in the press. Generally... More

Assange in Australia

What his homeland press is saying

By Joel Meares   Dec 8, 2010 at 10:07 AM

As WikiLeaks founder and frontman Julian Assange waits in custody, the press in his home country is going into WikiLeaks... More

Halperin’s Shaky Premises

Obama may need luck, but these claims need some backing

By Joel Meares   Dec 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM

Anyone who’s read Game Change knows that Time’s Mark Halperin isn’t exactly averse to big assertions backed by little evidence... More

“Publication isn’t necessarily a short hop to the full truth.”

Times Public Editor on Iran-North Korea missile story

By Joel Meares   Dec 6, 2010 at 01:24 PM

Last week we noted FAIR and The Washington Post’s reporting on a New York Times WikiCables story suggesting Iran had... More

A Crayola Peach-Colored Speaker

The New Yorker’s Boehner profile

By Joel Meares   Dec 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM

The New Yorker lands today with an 8,739-word look at Speaker-elect John Boehner and the challenges he faces in setting... More

Times Does a Wiki Rewrite

Take two on the maligned missile story

By Joel Meares   Dec 3, 2010 at 01:55 PM

Yesterday we pointed to reporting by FAIR and The Washington Post that brought into question a New York Times report... More

In Julian’s Words

Highlights from Assange’s post-leak Q&As

By Joel Meares   Dec 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM

Nobody knows where Julian Assange is, but several people have managed to find him. Since the embassy cables began... More

What Was That?

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 04:35 PM

Minutes ago the Times posted what seemed like a Julian Assange video on its T style blog—one that was protected... More

Times Missile Story Missing a Half

Raises questions about using the WikiLeaks cables

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 03:36 PM

The New York Times has come under some fire for overplaying the role of Iran in the Iraq war in... More

DADT Hearings Live Video

Watch feed as senators question Mullen, Gates

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM

The Senate Armed Services Committee is currently holding a hearing into the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, questioning Defense Secretary... More

WikiLeaks A Blunt Weapon, But We Should Use It

A defense of the organization under new attack

By Joel Meares   Dec 2, 2010 at 10:20 AM

Many of the charges behind the “hang Julian Assange” meme doing the rounds since WikiLeaks’s third “megaleak” on Sunday hinge... More

Governor Spotted With Four Women

None-too-pleased reporter forced to watch The View

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Governor Paterson paid a visit to “the ladies of The View” this January and at least one member of the... More

A Lecture for the New Media Set

Kauffmann on John Koblin’s Tweet and “journalistic integrity”

By Joel Meares   Dec 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM

I’m going to guess that Paterson communications director Peter Kauffmann is more your leisurely Sunday Times reader than your short-is-best... More