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Stale Voices on ‘Mission Accomplished’
Why no war opponents in the NYT’s op-ed feature?
By Zachary Roth May 5, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Yesterday, to mark the five-year anniversary of President Bush declaring “Mission Accomplished,” the New York Times op-ed page asked nine... More
MoDowd’s Dubious Sourcing Standards
Who is her “Hillary Democrat” and why does he/she get to bash Obama with impunity?
By Zachary Roth Apr 30, 2008 at 03:32 PM
A few years ago, The New York Times made an admirable move to cut down on its use of anonymous... More
AP Buys GOP Spin on McCain
Wire blows it on Dem’s “100-year” war ad
By Zachary Roth Apr 29, 2008 at 04:40 PM
Oh man, talk about getting spun! It doesn’t get much worse than this, from The Associated Press. Earlier this month,... More
LAT Shows ABC News How It’s Done
Urges candidates to call reporters on trivial nonsense
By Zachary Roth Apr 28, 2008 at 03:40 PM
During the recent Debate Over The Debate, one of the arguments marshaled by ABC News’s defenders was that, by this... More
Why David Broder Annoys
Damn it, man, make your case!
By Zachary Roth Apr 24, 2008 at 04:50 PM
Here’s what annoys me about David Broder. Midway through a pretty anodyne column about how the ongoing Obama-Clinton contest is... More
Pennsylvania Changed…
Nothing. But cable news’s need to hype overrides reality
By Zachary Roth Apr 23, 2008 at 10:07 AM
So, where are we after the epic seven-week-long, make-or-break campaign for Pennsylvania? About the same place we were before it.... More
Kurtz Stays Above The Fray
WaPo media critic’s silence on ABC’s Debate Debacle
By Zachary Roth Apr 18, 2008 at 04:05 PM
ABC News’s handling of Wednesday night’s debate has, of course, been greeted with near universal outrage. In a story headlined... More
Little Orphan MoDowd
Bittergate brings the press’s paupers out of their townhouses
By Zachary Roth Apr 16, 2008 at 02:46 PM
Since BitterGate got going last week, we’ve had a spate of unintentionally hilarious attempts by Washington- and New York-based pundits... More
McCain and Global Warming
NYT says it’s “central” to his campaign. Since when?
By Zachary Roth Apr 15, 2008 at 05:03 PM
Reporting on John McCain’s proposal for a “gas-tax” holiday this summer as a way to boost the struggling economy, laid... More
Samantha Power Goofed Again
Canadian reporter was right to publish her words
By Zachary Roth Apr 11, 2008 at 04:21 PM
So it looks like erstwhile Obama adviser Samantha Power, for the second time in just over a month, has said... More
McCain Not So Torn on Foreign Policy
NYT’s piece balances a decidedly imbalanced reality
By Zachary Roth Apr 10, 2008 at 03:50 PM
According to today’s New York Times, two competing factions within the Republican party’s foreign policy community—the neoconservatives and the pragmatists—are... More
What’s Missing in Petraeus/Crocker Coverage
Public sentiment on Iraq and the way forward
By Zachary Roth Apr 8, 2008 at 03:34 PM
Looking through the major print coverage of General Petraeus's appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning, something jumped... More
Katie, Al, and the Internet
CBS News’s astonishingly obtuse report
By Zachary Roth Apr 3, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Okay, we thought the only people left who still believe that Al Gore actually lied about creating the Internet could... More
MoDowd’s One Move
Her characterization of Obama as “effete” shows she hasn’t been paying attention
By Zachary Roth Apr 2, 2008 at 05:15 PM
Back in November 1997, in a column about the Clinton administration’s foreign policy, Maureen Dowd wrote the following: Even with... More
The U.S., Iraq, and 100 Years
Press needs to call Obama on distortion of McCain’s statement
By Zachary Roth Apr 1, 2008 at 05:07 PM
Ever since John McCain said at a town hall meeting in January that he could see U.S. troops staying in... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
