Massing on Media
Why Fox is essential viewing
It’s a Republican barometer
By Michael Massing Sep 5, 2012 at 03:16 PM
The Republican convention brought more evidence of The New York Times’s soft spot for Fox News. On Friday, the paper... More
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Only in Limbaugh land could Martha Raddatz be a lefty
By Michael Massing Aug 22, 2012 at 03:23 PM
By this point, I thought there was nothing Rush Limbaugh could say that would surprise me, but he did with... More
The media’s Internet infatuation
Much of the coverage makes claims “that are grand, outlandish, and ultimately unverifiable”
By Michael Massing Aug 15, 2012 at 06:51 AM
The New York Times finds the Internet, and the business and culture surrounding it, endlessly fascinating. When Marissa Mayer was... More
Movie violence chic
The journalistic buy-in to Hollywood hype
By Michael Massing Jul 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
In recent weeks, while watching baseball games, The Daily Show, and (I admit) some Seinfeld reruns, I saw what seemed... More
Thomas Friedman’s fantasy America
Not telling it like it is
By Michael Massing Jul 11, 2012 at 02:58 PM
Thomas Friedman was delighted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the healthcare law. And he was positively thrilled... More
The two David Carrs
A Times columnist rises to fame
By Michael Massing Jun 27, 2012 at 05:22 PM
Since joining The New York Times in 2002, David Carr has become America’s most visible and influential writer on the... More
Dumb and dumber
How far can CNN sink?
By Michael Massing Jun 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
In April, CNN recorded its lowest monthly ratings in more than 10 years. In May, it recorded its lowest monthly... More
When watchdog meets lapdog
The Times’s kill list story should be followed up on the ground
By Michael Massing Jun 4, 2012 at 02:50 PM
The New York Times's report last week on the Obama administration's secret "kill list" of Al Qaeda suspects and the... More
Libya and the Arab Street
What do ordinary Arabs think? Let’s ask them
By Michael Massing Mar 25, 2011 at 01:17 PM
On Wednesday, I went to hear Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo correspondent for Al Jazeera English, speak at the office of... More
Is This the Best You Can Do, NBC?
Network news hits a new level
By Michael Massing Nov 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Whenever I’m home at 6:30, I try to watch the evening news. Not out of any genuine desire—I rarely learn... More
Black Hawk Up
David Ignatius’s Helicopter Journalism
By Michael Massing Oct 27, 2009 at 09:21 AM
What a delight it must be to be a columnist for a major American newspaper. When traveling to distant, war-torn... More
Howard Kurtz, Missing in Action
Fox vs. the White House: Where’s Howie?
By Michael Massing Oct 22, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Howard Kurtz scored a coup on his CNN show “Reliable Sources” two Sundays ago when White House communications director Anita... More
Iraq’s Missing Iraqis
A good book’s great flaw
By Michael Massing Oct 14, 2009 at 01:05 PM
David Finkel’s book The Good Soldiers, about the experiences of a US Army battalion during the surge in Iraq, is... More
The Most Misreported Country
And the winner is…
By Michael Massing Oct 7, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? There are clearly many candidates, but for me one stands... More
Eyes Wide Shut on Iran
Familiar sources sing a tired song
By Michael Massing Sep 30, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Listening to the CBS Evening News on Friday, I was roused from the slumber that program so often induces by... 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.
