Full-Court Press
Above the Fold: Barack’s Bold Budget
“The most radical document of its kind since Reagan’s first year in office”
By Charles Kaiser Feb 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Barack Obama's budget proves he was serious when he promised fundamental change if he became president. Everyone in the MSM... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Delonas, Hertzberg, Rich, Moyers, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 01:51 PM
Sinner: Sean Delonas. The New York Post contributor drew a cartoon yesterday depicting two policemen shooting a chimpanzee, with this... More
Above the Fold: Cruel Intentions?
Savage’s stellar Times piece on Obama’s torture policy
By Charles Kaiser Feb 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Charlie Savage’s piece in yesterday’s New York Times about the Obama administration’s preliminary attitudes toward torture, rendition, and government secrecy... More
Above the Fold: “The Thrill Is Gone”
Across the Atlantic, Washington’s myopia seems more exaggerated than usual
By Charles Kaiser Feb 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM
LONDON-- From the other side of the Atlantic, Washington's myopia seems even more exaggerated than usual. Two days ago in... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Daschle, Newsweek, Philip Bennett, and more
By Charles Kaiser Feb 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Winners: Barack Obama, and the American people, for not getting Tom Daschle as their new Secretary of Health and Human... More
Above the Fold: This Land Is Our Land
Obama’s inauguration was a celebration forty years in the making
By Charles Kaiser Jan 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM
“You sing it with us: we’ll give you the words.” –Pete Seeger, Washington, D.C., January 18, 2009 "The answer is... More
Above the Fold: More Tortured Logic
Dick Cheney, Susan Crawford, Jim Lehrer, and “moving forward”
By Charles Kaiser Jan 19, 2009 at 09:48 AM
All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts....Actions are held to be good or... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 02:31 PM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Above the Fold: What Would Dick Do?
Kaiser on Newsweek’s “What Would Cheney Do?” cover
By Charles Kaiser Jan 12, 2009 at 09:50 AM
With just seven days left in our eight-year-long national nightmare, nearly everyone is holding their breath while praying to their... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Barney Frank, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Benjamin Button, and others
By Charles Kaiser Jan 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Winners: Benoit Denizet-Lewis and Jeffrey Toobin. The second best political news for America after Barack Obama’s election as president is... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Lesley Stahl, Barney Frank, Ruth Marcus, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 23, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Sinner: When Lesley Stahl profiled House Financial Services chairman Barney Frank for 60 Minutes earlier this month, she seemed shocked... More
Above the Fold: Bailout Buyer’s Remorse
The endless ironies of the Republican opposition to saving Detroit
By Charles Kaiser Dec 15, 2008 at 05:32 PM
"On the executive compensation thing, it went to the core of their being. It was like asking the chief rabbi... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on BlagoGate, the NYT, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 11, 2008 at 06:30 AM
Here is everything U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said at his news conference Tuesday about any possible involvement Barack Obama might... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Maslin, Stewart, NBC, and others
By Charles Kaiser Dec 5, 2008 at 05:44 PM
Winner: Janet Maslin for her spot-on review of The Man Who Owns The News, in which she dissects Michael Wolff's... More
Winners & Sinners
Kaiser on Michelle Cottle, Hendrik Hertzberg, Jim Sleeper, and others
By Charles Kaiser Nov 25, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Sinner: Michelle Cottle, for wasting the first 2,515 words of a 3,253-word piece about Barney Frank in The New Republic... 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
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The NYT shows us why
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CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
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Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
