No Twittering In The Soloist

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM

Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel's movie reviewer, was "touched by the grim state-of-the-newspaper subtext" in the film The Soloist (based... More

“I Know That’s English Online, But…”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2009 at 10:11 AM

... it's not the same," Carol Banas, 56, a retired city planner and longtime reader of the Detroit Free Press,... More

“A Liberal’s Conservative” for the NYT

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 31, 2009 at 09:27 AM

Selected bits from Michael Calderone's profile of Ross Douthat, soon to join the New York Times op-ed page: Micheal Barbaro,... More

Krugman’s Warning

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 04:00 PM

"The magazine cover effect" (in short, short the stock of any CEO you see on a magazine cover) "presumably.. applies... More

Interview “Tinkering”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 02:48 PM

On Sunday the New York Times Magazine ran a profile of playwright Neil LaBute in which readers learn of LaBute's... More

What Would “A Mix Between The Huffington Post and Drudge” Look Like?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 01:05 PM

(Besides, um, aesthetically challenged?) This. A HuffPo/Drudge blend is how Fox News regards its new site, The Fox Nation, Fox... More

Chyron, Misunderstood

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 12:46 PM

Chyron (on-screen headline) on MSNBC just now: "Fmr Wall Street Professionals Trade Laptops For Lap Dances." No, the news is... More

“Cud Chewers” And “Cordwood” on Cable

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM

Some colorfully apt descriptions of the current state of cable news from David Carr in the New York Times: Gorged... More

“Some Wonder…”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 09:58 AM

..."if [Michelle Obama is] spreading herself too thin to emerge in the public mind as a leading voice on" her... More

NYT Profiles Fox News’s “Rodeo Clown”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 30, 2009 at 09:23 AM

The New York Times today profiles Glenn Beck ("Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful, and a Rising Star on Fox News"). In the... More

Teleprompter Talks Back

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 25, 2009 at 04:01 PM

"What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?" asked the AP's Ron Fournier last night in his... More

A Presidency “Defined” (So Soon?)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 25, 2009 at 02:34 PM

At The Daily Beast, Eric Alterman critiques last night's performance by the White House press corps, giving a thumbs-down to... More

President Leaves Reporters & Commentators “Restless,” “Bor[ed]”

Roundup of presidential press conference reports

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 25, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Was it really a surprise to reporters at both the LA Times and the New York Times that President Obama... More

“Progress,” “Patience”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 25, 2009 at 08:46 AM

A quick scan of the front pages of today's papers (thanks, Newseum) shows that President Obama's second prime time press... More

LeBron James Has His Pre-Game Powder Toss…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Mar 24, 2009 at 03:03 PM

... Ed Henry has his pre-prime-time-presidential-press-conference white notebook paper ritual. Henry, CNN's White House correspondent, "writes his [questions for the... More