Police? There’s a Man Who Looks Like Anderson Cooper on my Lawn

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 19, 2010 at 09:18 AM

Today, the New York Times has an interesting piece describing the complex task the jurors on the Blagojevich case faced.... More

Blago in Bold, The Morning After

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 18, 2010 at 09:43 AM

A selection of front pages from Chicago-area newspapers today, the morning after a jury found former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich... More

“Hello, yarn hipster hat,” “I’m that obnoxious meat hipster”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 17, 2010 at 04:18 PM

As Joel noted, the New York Times’s Philip B. Corbett has added “hipster” to the newspaper's Official Words To Now... More

“You Love Journalism… But You Love Your Life More”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 17, 2010 at 09:58 AM

Another chilling report from the LA Times's "Mexico Under Siege" series, this one, by Tracy Wilkinson, focusing on what Wilkinson... More

AP Calls It: “Name-Calling is Winner This Campaign Season”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 16, 2010 at 03:02 PM

With no precincts reporting, the AP is projecting that name-calling has won the 2010 election. From a piece headlined "Insults... More

Gallup: Americans Lack Confidence in Banks, Newspapers, TV News

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM

From Gallup's annual "Confidence in Institutions" survey: Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news -- with... More

Touring Gitmo (“Rules Inconvenience Reporters”)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 12, 2010 at 09:54 AM

From the New York Times's Jeremy W. Peters, who recently took a "media tour" of Guantánamo Bay: Several times a... More

News Broker/Newsbreaker Larry Garrison’s Next Get?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM

Among the 177 (and counting) mentions on cable news over the past two days of The World's Most Famous Ex-Flight... More

Investigation: Town Cars Idle Outside Condé Nast Building

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 11, 2010 at 09:40 AM

For an investigation of MTA buses and livery cabs idling in violation of New York City law (there is a... More

Untangling the “Influence Web” (With a Click)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM

For your reading and reporting tool box, an addition: an influence detector, as Poligraft is described by its creator, the... More

Boston Globe Damning CNN With Faint Praise?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 10, 2010 at 09:35 AM

The Boston Globe has an editorial today (via Romo) headlined, "Back off, critics-- TV news benefits from fresher voices," addressing... More

Reporting on the “Almost Irrelevant”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 9, 2010 at 08:18 PM

Here's Politico's John Harris, during a roundtable on yesterday's This Week (with "globe-trotter Fancy-Pants" Christiane Amanpour), chiming in on the... More

Will Haiti Be “At the Mercy of a Mediagenic Person?”

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM

The New York Times reports today on "Haitian-American hip-hop artist" Wyclef Jean's plans to run for president of Haiti: Revealingly,... More

Covering the $531,378 a Day Campaign

KQED’s John Myers talks Meg Whitman v. Jerry Brown

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 5, 2010 at 10:33 AM

On Monday, statewide candidates in California, including gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman (R) and Jerry Brown (D), filed campaign finance disclosure... More

“Anchor Babies” is Not…

By Liz Cox Barrett   Aug 4, 2010 at 09:50 AM

... a new show on Nickelodeon starring baby BriWi and pals (per last night's Daily Show): If only. Who are... More