Full-Court Press
ESPN’s unreality-based coverage
Karl Rove’s got nothing on the boys from Bristol
By Robert Weintraub Nov 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM
One of the main takeaways from last week’s election was that conservatives were living in a bubble of delusion, convinced... More
Cancer made Lance Armstrong hard to hate
It also made it easy for sports writers to ignore those pesky doping allegations
By Robert Weintraub Oct 26, 2012 at 11:45 AM
The final ace was pulled from Lance Armstrong’s house of cards Monday when the International Cycling Union (UCI) stripped Armstrong... More
Hey coach, lighten up!
Steve Spurrier and his coaching cohorts get pissy with the press
By Robert Weintraub Oct 12, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Steve Spurrier, the wisecrackin’ ol’ ballcoach at the University of South Carolina, has the Gamecocks in rarefied air. After... More
The future of NFL Films looks bleak
With Steve Sabol’s untimely death, there’s no one to protect what he built from the cheapskates at NFL Network
By Robert Weintraub Sep 21, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Steve Sabol died on Tuesday from brain cancer at age 69. The president of, and artistic sensibility behind, NFL Films... More
Take one for the team
Football season is upon us, and so are its tried and true clichés
By Robert Weintraub Sep 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM
There is so much to love about football’s 24/7 ubiquity on television, but there is one (and only one) downside:... More
Local television and the Dodgers-Red Sox trade
Are the Dodgers loading up on stars in advance of a new local TV deal?
By Robert Weintraub Sep 4, 2012 at 12:26 AM
The words “local television” conjure images of infomercials, Seinfeld reruns, and lame repartee on cheesy newscasts, infomercials. But local television... More
Drugs and the Olympics
What if reporters imbedded with athletes during training?
By Robert Weintraub Aug 13, 2012 at 02:56 PM
The first week of the Olympics is traditionally given over to complaints about NBC’s coverage, as we discussed last week.... More
ESPN’s Tim Tebow lovefest
Shut out of the Olympics, the ‘Worldwide Leader In Sports’ puts NFL front and center
By Robert Weintraub Aug 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
US sports coverage last week was split neatly into two distinct, Jungian halves, represented by those sportscasting sweethearts, married couple... More
Sacred cows
The Penn State story offers a glimpse of the problems with league- and team-owned broadcast operations
By Robert Weintraub Jul 25, 2012 at 02:35 PM
Full-Court Press is a periodic column about the coverage of sports. On July 12, a report prepared by former FBI... More
Kaiser Heads to Hillman Foundation
Here’s a complete archive of his CJR columns
By The Editors May 26, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Charles Kaiser's Full Court Press column has moved to the Web site of the Sidney Hillman Foundation. This is a... More
Tortured Logic, “Dueling Speeches” Edition
Media overplay, under-analyze yesterday’s torture arguments
By Charles Kaiser May 22, 2009 at 05:44 PM
“Democrats and Republicans, politicians, journalists, and citizens fell silent. In other words we went off course.”–President Barack Obama “I want... More
“Good Deeds, and Good Works”
In memoriam: Eden Ross Lipson
By Charles Kaiser May 13, 2009 at 03:11 PM
Eden Ross Lipson, an author-editor-activist-journalist who had a huge, mostly-unseen impact on American literature and American life, died early yesterday... More
Winners and Sinners
Kaiser on Ifill, Bumiller, Sulzberger, and more
By Charles Kaiser May 8, 2009 at 05:23 PM
Winners: New York Times economics columnist David Leonhardt and President Barack Obama for a splendidly substantive interview in The New... More
Above the Fold: The Pentagon Capers
The mainstream media are silent on the Pentagon’s repudiation of its own report
By Charles Kaiser May 7, 2009 at 06:05 PM
This week the Pentagon took the highly unusual step of withdrawing a report issued by its inspector general one week... More
Above the Fold: Ross Report Revisited
Kaiser on Stelter, Ross, and the 2007 CIA waterboarding interview
By Charles Kaiser Apr 28, 2009 at 01:22 PM
Brian Stelter reports on page one of The New York Times today that newly disclosed torture memoranda show how an... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
