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The Times Misses the Mark
A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
What could The New York Times have been thinking when it fronted a piece the other day serving up some... More
Guess Who?
Wash Times highlights limits of Obama visitor disclosure policy
By Clint Hendler Oct 29, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Yesterday, The Washington Times reported some none-too-flattering revelations suggesting a pay-to-play scheme inside the Obama White House. According to documents... More
Correction Fluid
Lessons from the Scalia misquote heard ‘round the Web
By Megan Garber Oct 28, 2009 at 03:48 PM
It seemed too strange to be true—and, in the end, it was. A story posted to The Huffington Post yesterday... More
The Karzai Connection
Commentators react to the NYT’s big scoop
By Greg Marx Oct 28, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Today’s New York Times leads with an extraordinary article reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai—the brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai,... More
Dr. Coca-Cola on Call
The king of Coke teams up with the family docs
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2009 at 02:08 PM
One thing you have to say about the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is that it is... More
Invisible Influence
Is Sarah Palin really as powerful as the media says?
By Greg Marx Oct 26, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Sarah Palin is unavoidable. Not content to take over our dreams, the former governor of Alaska has conquered the best-seller... More
Truth Emerges about the Public Option
Who really will be allowed to join?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George and his guests suddenly realized that the public option, whatever shape it... More
The Latest News from Massachusetts
Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM
It is surprising, as The Washington Post noted Friday, that President Obama paid a political visit to help Massachusetts Gov.... More
Chamber of Confusion
Journalists disagree on Chamber of Commerce numbers
By Greg Marx Oct 23, 2009 at 03:39 PM
On Oct. 8, The Wall Street Journal published an article about a feud between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and... More
The Two Talibans
Times piece draws an important distinction between Pakistani and Afghan groups
By Greg Marx Oct 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Today’s New York Times features an intriguing bit of explanatory reporting—an article by Scott Shane about the Taliban. Or, rather,... More
Who Will Be at the Table, Part XVII
The docs are back for their piece of the pie
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Speak Up! No, Shut Up!
Faulty presidential strategy as an evergreen story
By Greg Marx Oct 21, 2009 at 02:16 PM
For a political reporter with column inches to fill, the White House’s rhetorical stance toward Congress is a fail-safe subject.... More
No Access? No Problem!
What’s so bad about not having access to the White House?
By Greg Marx Oct 20, 2009 at 03:39 PM
The Obama administration’s high-profile shunning of Fox News seems, at least in the short run, to have been a publicity... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VIII
Unintended consequences for patients
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2009 at 08:31 AM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Q & A: Los Angeles Times Reporter Borzou Daragahi
The paper’s Beirut bureau chief talks about the situation in Iran
By Greg Marx Oct 16, 2009 at 01:50 PM
When political unrest erupted in Iran earlier this year in the wake of a disputed presidential election, Borzou Daragahi had... More
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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?
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