Full-Court Press
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Shane, Maddow, Kaplan, and more
By Charles Kaiser Apr 23, 2009 at 06:25 PM
Winner: The New York Times's Scott Shane. Just four months after remarks of F.B.I. director Robert Mueller were published on... More
Above the Fold: Know-Nothings at the NYT
Times waterboarding story reports, demonstrates ignorance of history
By Charles Kaiser Apr 22, 2009 at 05:34 PM
“There is no history of ethnic conflict in Iraq.” – former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, explaining to Congress... More
Above the Fold: Waiting in the Lobby
The Obama administration needs to rethink its blanket “no lobbyists” policy
By Charles Kaiser Apr 21, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Although FCP doesn’t agree with everything the Obama administration has done, especially in its defense of state secrets, never has... More
Above the Fold: Memos of (Mis)understanding
For the torture memos, too, sunlight is the best disinfectant
By Charles Kaiser Apr 17, 2009 at 06:58 PM
Barack Obama acted intelligently and courageously yesterday by making the Bush administration’s torture memos public, despite the strong objections of... More
Above the Fold: Beltway Journalism, “Swallowed by an Hourglass”
It’s long past time to expand the spectrum of Sunday-show punditry
By Charles Kaiser Apr 15, 2009 at 03:42 PM
The more things change, the more Beltway punditry stays the same. If only the voters could change the composition of... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Danner, Poniewozik, Rove, Vanity Fair, and more
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Winner: Mark Danner, for another brilliant piece about torture in the New York Review of Books: “Torture is at the... More
Above the Fold: Our Financial Follies
Black and Born prove it yet again: we need to regulate the regulators
By Charles Kaiser Apr 10, 2009 at 04:33 PM
Last week, William Black, a former investigator of the Savings and Loan scandal, went on Bill Moyers Journal and repeated... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Vanity Fair, Ed Henry, and Colbert
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:30 PM
Sinner: Vanity Fair, for running an article by Mark Bowden about Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. that was so filled with elementary... More
Above the Fold: Colin Powell, American Coward
The general continues to debunk the myth of his own greatness
By Charles Kaiser Apr 3, 2009 at 05:21 PM
At just about every crucial juncture in his career, Colin Powell has failed his country, and himself. This sorry record... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Goldberger, Cohen, Greenwald, Wolff, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 24, 2009 at 09:23 AM
Winner: Paul Goldberger, for a beautiful meditation in The New Yorker on the baseball stadiums just completed for the New... More
Above the Fold: The Torture Report
Mark Danner rakes Guantánamo’s muck
By Charles Kaiser Mar 23, 2009 at 06:32 PM
When the history of this era is written more honor will be attached to Mark Danner than to most other... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Jon Stewart, Nathaniel Frank, David Gates and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 13, 2009 at 03:06 PM
The Biggest Winner: Let’s be clear: Jon Stewart is the best interviewer on television, because he is the toughest, the... More
Above the Fold: The Whole Truth About Torture
Is it “unfair” to single out Bush’s torture advisors for prosecution?
By Charles Kaiser Mar 10, 2009 at 06:35 PM
The story by Charlie Savage and Scott Shane on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times, about the “fallout... More
Above the Fold: Remembering John Leonard
Literary lions celebrate the legendary critic
By Charles Kaiser Mar 3, 2009 at 06:37 PM
Family members, former colleagues, important writers, and intimate friends gathered yesterday to praise the critic John Leonard for his “love... More
Above the Fold: The Best and Worst of Television
Kaiser on Kroft, Markopolos, Santelli, and more
By Charles Kaiser Mar 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM
It took me five minutes to know that it was a fraud. It took me another almost four hours of... 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”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
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.
