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Memo to Robert Samuelson
A few more facts on Medicare, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Dear Robert: I read a Washington Post column of yours just after Christmas—the one about the fairness dilemma and how... More
The Lowdown on High-Risk Pools
A harbinger of things to come?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM
It was good to see Amy Goldstein’s fine piece on high-risk insurance pools in The Washington Post. It’s an example... More
Best of 2010: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2010
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Social Security in the Heartland series: All year the media ignored how “fixes” to Social Security pushed by political elites... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Nick Quealy-Gainer
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 22, 2010 at 01:25 PM
This is the ninth and final installment in a series of posts that discusses how possible changes in Social Security... More
Social Security in Perspective, Part III
A conversation with William Greider
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2010 at 09:11 AM
Proposals to change the Social Security system have taken shape, and could foreshadow long-lasting effects on the program. Many of... More
Social Security Under Attack
What the press had to say
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM
When the president signed the tax bill Friday, a year’s worth of efforts aimed at modifying Social Security came to... More
What We Should Have Known All Along about Health Reform
Much handwringing about health care what-ifs
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 16, 2010 at 01:53 PM
This week’s coverage of the Virginia court decision declaring health reform’s individual mandate unconstitutional was surprisingly thorough and contextual. What... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Dobbs
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2010 at 02:39 PM
This is the eighth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
Other Views of Social Security
The MSM gives some equal time
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security... More
Frank Luntz Rides Again
The wordsmith and the public option
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 10, 2010 at 07:42 AM
Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jude Love
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM
This is the seventh in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message
What exactly did the deficit commission do?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2010 at 01:09 PM
On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9... More
NPR Plays Ebenezer Scrooge
Another lopsided Social Security story
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM
It was really hard to tell whether NPR’s Morning Edition segment yesterday—part of the program’s “Ghosts of Debts Past, Present... More
CBS Fumbles Again
A lopsided report on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 29, 2010 at 01:15 PM
If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on... More
A Curious Omission at the Times
Three Social Security proposals, or two?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM
It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... More
Enterprise Reporting at the AP
The retirement age debate finally reaches the public
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 23, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM
This is the sixth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris
What does he know about health insurance?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM
Politico published a rather astonishing story yesterday that should make the constituents of Maryland’s first congressional district scratch their heads... More
Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock?
The media discover Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2010 at 03:15 PM
Ouch! That was the media’s general reaction yesterday to the ideas in the report issued by the co-chairs of the... More
The Education of Sen. Bennet
NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM
The squeaker victory of Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet landed him a spot on NPR’s Morning Edition the other day, and... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
