Adventures in Exurbia

LAT exurbs story sounds a familiar note

By Justin Peters   Aug 12, 2008 at 01:39 PM

Today’s Los Angeles Times gives front page play to Peter Wallsten’s story about how the slumping economy may drive residents... More

Mystery Foot Mystery Gets Some Press

MSBNC stops dragging its feet

By Justin Peters   Aug 12, 2008 at 10:42 AM

So these disembodied feet have been sporadically washing ashore in British Columbia and Washington state for a few years... More

“A Lack Of Corroboration”

Enquirer 1, MSM 0

By Justin Peters   Aug 8, 2008 at 04:52 PM

So, yeah, looks like the National Enquirer was onto something after all with those John Edwards-Rielle Hunter allegations. Wondering why... More

Cool Your Jets

NY sportswriters celebrate the Brett Favre trade

By Justin Peters   Aug 7, 2008 at 12:28 PM

How do New York sportswriters feel about the recent trade that brought former Packers quarterback Brett Favre to the New... More

Secrets and Lies

More thoughts on ABC News’s anthrax-sourcing scandal

By Justin Peters   Aug 6, 2008 at 03:57 PM

As of yet, ABC News and Brian Ross have kept mum on the identities of their sources in 2001's now-discredited... More

Single Greatest Media Scandal Of The Decade

A true outrage

By Justin Peters   Aug 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM

So there's a tide of severed human feet washing up on Pacific Northwestern shores, and it only merits a 300-word... More

Three More Questions for ABC News

Getting to the bottom of the bentonite sourcing story

By Justin Peters   Aug 5, 2008 at 12:26 PM

On Sunday and Monday, journalism professors Jay Rosen and Dan Gillmor issued “three vital questions for ABC News” regarding its... More

We’re Not In The Dog-Shooting Business, We’re In The Mayor-Frightening Business!

By Justin Peters   Jul 31, 2008 at 01:10 PM

Bizarre WaPo story today about an ill-fated police raid in Prince George's County that started with a mysterious thirty-two pound... More

True Lies

WaPo gets it right in its coverage of McCain’s recent ad

By Justin Peters   Jul 30, 2008 at 01:36 PM

On Monday, Megan Garber criticized the MSM for its failure to dissect a recent John McCain ad that hurled factually... More

Worst. Years. Ever.

Five other terrible years in modern newspaper history

By Justin Peters   Jul 24, 2008 at 04:15 PM

Revenues shrinking to MicroMachine proportions, newsroom jobs disappearing like sand under a rising tide, "They'll Do It Every Time" discontinued:... More

Campaign Plane Follies

By Justin Peters   Jul 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM

So The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza writes a long, unsentimental story about Barack Obama last week, and then, wouldn't you... More

Trends Will Be Trends

Five new story ideas for NYT Style reporter Guy Trebay

By Justin Peters   Jul 16, 2008 at 12:16 PM

I really hope that New York Times reporter Guy Trebay is working on a follow-up to his Sunday Styles piece... More

Balanced Budget, “Balanced” Coverage

Los Angeles Times scrutinizes Obama’s economic proposals, gives McCain a pass

By Justin Peters   Jul 8, 2008 at 04:18 PM

The political press's nasty habit of reporting the debate instead of the issues being debated cropped up again today in... More

Why Buy The Cow…

By Justin Peters   Jul 3, 2008 at 03:11 PM

Thoughtful post today about the newspaper industry on the New York Times's Outposts blog. In the wake of "perhaps the... More

Behind Barack’s “Suspicious” Mortgage

Why did the Post run its Obama mortgage story?

By Justin Peters   Jul 2, 2008 at 01:05 PM

What should an editor do when an enterprise piece comes up empty? Do you kill the story? Send it back... More

The Swiftboat Reflex

Wesley Clark fallout, day two

By Justin Peters   Jul 1, 2008 at 01:19 PM

Two days into the Wesley Clark fallout, the press, the GOP, and the Obama campaign all seem to have agreed... More

Pavlov and the Press Corps

Unity Day, the press, and Obama’s unstoppable campaign narrative

By Justin Peters   Jun 27, 2008 at 01:52 PM

What's one thing that most journalists love? Besides a battered fedora with a cardboard press pass stuck in the brim.... More

McClatchy on McClatchy

McClatchy newspapers cover their own demise

By Justin Peters   Jun 18, 2008 at 01:48 PM

After Monday’s news that the McClatchy Company would be cutting 1400 jobs at its newspapers across the country, the affected... More

History Made Easy

Should journalists be the ones to call Obama’s campaign “historic”?

By Justin Peters   Jun 17, 2008 at 04:40 PM

By now, you probably know that Barack Obama’s Presidential candidacy is an historic one. (Check out Megan Garber’s column from... More