Campaign Desk

On Tax-Cut Politics, WSJ Adds to the Confusion

By Holly Yeager   Jul 26, 2010 at 05:50 PM

The Wall Street Journal takes its turn at the tax-cuts-as-election-issue story. But in trying to explain the politics that are... More

WaPo, Time, and Others Play Catch-up on WikiLeaks

What to do when you don’t get the exclusive

By Joel Meares   Jul 26, 2010 at 05:49 PM

Whereas The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel had a four week heads-up on the 91,000-document WikiLeaks... More

The Assange Leaks

What’s new about the WikiLeaks data?

By Joshua Foust   Jul 26, 2010 at 03:18 PM

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has compared his organization’s latest leak of almost 92,000 U.S. military documents relating to... More

Gaining Readers’ Confidence In the WikiLeaks Dump

Part II: Verification

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 03:03 PM

My previous post addressed the challenges that The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel must have faced in... More

Blog Reax to WikiLeaks’s Leak (Afghan War’s Pentagon Papers?)

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 26, 2010 at 01:48 PM

Once you’ve finished reading the 90,000-plus mostly classified Afghanistan-related U.S. military documents brought to you by WikiLeaks, you can read... More

How Three News Outlets Handled the WikiLeaks Dump

Part I: online presentation

By Lauren Kirchner   Jul 26, 2010 at 01:43 PM

It’s hard to overstate the colossal challenge of digesting, verifying, and then presenting 92,000 classified documents. When WikiLeaks handed over... More

Same Docs, Different Stories

The three outlets gifted by WikiLeaks take three different approaches

By Joel Meares   Jul 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM

On Sunday, three news outlets published the results of their investigations into 91,731 classified U.S. military documents that they had... More

The Un-federated Tea Party Caucus

WaPo’s roundup of new caucus is funny, but misses a key point

By Joel Meares   Jul 23, 2010 at 04:43 PM

When news broke last week that The National Tea Party Federation had expelled the Tea Party Express for not scolding... More

Climate Bill Blowout

It’s a big deal. Where’s the print coverage?

By Curtis Brainard   Jul 23, 2010 at 03:00 PM

Following Senator Harry Reid’s decision to pull the plug on climate legislation Thursday, news sites lit up with lit up... More

NYT’s Rangel Work Gets Results on the Hill

But rest of the press tries not to notice

By Holly Yeager   Jul 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM

A House ethics panel’s ruling that Charlie Rangel violated congressional rules is big news all around today, as it should... More

Paying Attention to Social Security

Two takes from the MSM

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM

Slowly, ever so slowly, the mainstream media is discovering the Social Security story. So it’s worth noting two pieces in... More

WaPo’s Chamber Piece Misses a Few Notes

The paper reports the lobby group is “losing,” but doesn’t hear the ringing of cash registers

By Holly Yeager   Jul 22, 2010 at 03:58 PM

The Washington Post looks at the recent record of the Chamber of Commerce and puts a lot in the loss... More

What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret America?’

The Washington Post didn’t really tell us anything new

By Joshua Foust   Jul 22, 2010 at 10:34 AM

Editor's note: At the time this article was published, Joshua Foust was employed by Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor. Here’s... More

Calling a Spade a Spade or a Fox a Fox

The Times minces no words on the Sherrod story

By Joel Meares   Jul 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM

We wrote yesterday that we were mostly disappointed with the print coverage of the Shirley Sherrod story from the Times,... More

After the Storm

How the Sherrod story came up in print

By Joel Meares   Jul 21, 2010 at 05:09 PM

If you were anything like us yesterday, your computer screens were tabbed up with reports and opinions on Georgia USDA... More