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My Apologies, Jackass
Dems bear brunt of “misspeaking” by TV news outlets
By Zachary Roth Jun 13, 2008 at 03:30 PM
Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for being among the first to identify an interesting new development in the TV... More
McCain and Iraq
Press misses chance to engage a real policy debate on U.S. presence
By Zachary Roth Jun 11, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Today’s big news is that, during an appearance on NBC’s “The Today Show”, John McCain said that the question of... More
Clinton’s Iraq Vote, Take II
NYT and its ‘experts’ confirm the important political lessons
By Zachary Roth Jun 9, 2008 at 02:35 PM
Last week, I wrote about how the press, in its various post-mortems on the Clinton campaign, all but ignored Hillary’s... More
Turning Point: The Supreme Court
The court is political, and more than Roe v. Wade is at stake
By Zachary Roth Jun 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM
This is part three of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More
What About Clinton’s Iraq Vote?
Press consumed with her poor strategy, not her poor choice in public office
By Zachary Roth Jun 5, 2008 at 07:55 PM
Now that the Democratic primary fight is (finally!) over, we’re seeing a spate of postmortems from the press, analyzing how... More
Distorting Iran’s Nuke Program
Press should remind Obama, McCain about NIE report
By Zachary Roth Jun 3, 2008 at 04:06 PM
Yesterday, McClatchy’s excellent Washington bureau published a piece by Jonathan Landay noting that both John McCain and Barack Obama, in... More
McCain’s Flawed Iraq Policy
Makes Al Qaeda the central villain, but reality suggests otherwise
By Zachary Roth Jun 2, 2008 at 05:58 PM
What if one presidential candidate’s position on the most important issue at stake in the election was based on an... More
The Post on McCain’s Evangelicals
Lots of bark…but where’s the bite?
By Zachary Roth May 29, 2008 at 03:31 PM
Ever since John McCain formally rejected the support of the controversial pastors John Hagee and Rod Parsley last week, I’d... More
Is Obama Experienced?
The press shouldn’t just repeat the criticism as fact
By Zachary Roth May 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM
It has become clear that one of John McCain’s major lines of attack against Barack Obama will be that the... More
Parsing Parsley
ABC’s Brian Ross delivers on McCain’s “spiritual guide”
By Zachary Roth May 22, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Good for ABC News and Brian Ross, who are finally giving Pastor Rod Parsley, an important Christian conservative ally of... More
Edwards As Working-Class Hero?
The polls don’t support the press’s narrative
By Zachary Roth May 15, 2008 at 04:28 PM
The press is playing John Edwards’s endorsement of Barack Obama as giving the presumptive Democratic nominee a boost in attracting... More
Tapper Gets It Right
Eschews neutrality for truth on Boehner-Obama-Israel flap
By Zachary Roth May 13, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Good for Jake Tapper of ABC News, for handling the fake controversy over Obama’s recent comments on Israel in exactly... More
Hillary’s Technical Truth
A small example of a much larger press problem
By Zachary Roth May 12, 2008 at 03:56 PM
The Washington Post reports today that Hillary Clinton, still doggedly making her case, told West Virginia voters today: It’s a... More
The Obama Uncertainty Factor
David Broder points a finger at the wrong candidate
By Zachary Roth May 9, 2008 at 08:10 AM
David Broder wrote yesterday: I’d like to know what kind of people Obama would bring into his White House and... More
Toobin Got It Right
But rest of TV news perpetuated a fiction in the service of suspense
By Zachary Roth May 7, 2008 at 09:21 AM
As we all waited for those final results to come in from northwest Indiana last night, everyone on TV seemed... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
