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“Supreme Court Nomination Hearings Are Funny Things”

Enough already about Elena Kagan’s sense of humor

By Joel Meares   Jul 8, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Almost a year ago to the day, my colleague Greg Marx wrote on the peculiar relationship reporters have with Supreme... More

Who Will Tell the People?

Social Security is the third rail for the MSM

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM

Ohio congressman John Boehner’s recent interview in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review touched on all the red hot stones—health care, BP, Afghanistan,... More

The Passing of Dr. Robert Butler

And what he meant for journalists and journalism

By Trudy Lieberman   Jul 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM

I always thought Bob Butler would live forever. After all, he was Mr. Live A Long Life, and preached the... More

“Being Media Savvy Requires More Than Just Attention-Grabbing”?

By Liz Cox Barrett   Jul 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM

Does it? From Mark Leibovich's profile of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), "Darrell Issa Emerges as Obama's Annoyer-in-Chief" in today's New... More

It’s About Idiosyncrasy, Not Ideology

Learning to live with opinions at the Post

By Holly Yeager   Jul 7, 2010 at 09:05 AM

Plenty has been written about Dave Weigel’s departure from The Washington Post. But Andrew Alexander, the Post ombudsman, made a... More

Circling Back on the Orszag Story

By Holly Yeager   Jul 6, 2010 at 12:49 PM

When Peter Orszag said he was leaving his job as OMB chief a couple of weeks ago, the reporting about... More

Influence Game

NYT’s Podesta profile lets lobbyist define the terms

By Holly Yeager   Jul 2, 2010 at 02:37 PM

The New York Times has the very good idea to profile Tony Podesta, whose Washington lobbying group has made a... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Journal Overreach, Overjoyed in Auckland, the New Blue Collar

By Holly Yeager   Jul 1, 2010 at 04:43 PM

Elena Kagan's confirmation hearings might not have produced the drama that some had hoped for. But that hardly justifies the... More

Get Out of Her Hair

Sadly, NPR profile focuses on Fiorina’s coiffure rather than climate gaffe

By Sam Kornell   Jul 1, 2010 at 03:42 PM

Earlier this week, NPR profiled California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina. The former Hewlett Packard CEO unexpectedly won the state’s Republican... More

A McChrystal Chill? Don’t Bet On It

The military needs the press, and smart soldiers (still) understand that

By Paul McLeary   Jul 1, 2010 at 10:53 AM

As we walked in to the tactical operations center (TOC) of the small combat outpost in Tarmiyah, Iraq, U.S. Army... More

How to Cover the Recession

A new Pew study provides good clues

By Holly Yeager   Jun 30, 2010 at 01:41 PM

The unemployment crisis has dragged on and on, but reporting about its real-life effects just hasn’t kept up. Hopefully the... More

A Tip of the Hat to The Oregonian

For finding health reform’s forgotten people

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 30, 2010 at 12:16 PM

We often thought nobody was paying attention when, during the health reform debate, we urged the press to investigate the... More

Depressing Days

Time to look at the effects of Washington’s false unemployment/deficit choice

By Holly Yeager   Jun 29, 2010 at 01:29 PM

With Washington still unable to get its act together on a new round of stimulus spending, warnings about the consequences... More

Audit D.C. Notes: Austerian Origins, G-20 Loses Its Grip, Gaping Income Gap

By Holly Yeager   Jun 28, 2010 at 03:43 PM

“Austerians” has started popping up all over, and Barry Ritholtz does a nice job of tracking the origin of the... More

Welfare, Entitlements, and Sharron Angle

What sayeth she now?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jun 28, 2010 at 01:53 PM

It’s fair to say that Sharron Angle is controversial. She’s the former Nevada state legislator who is running against Harry... More