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A Grand Bargain on entitlements?
The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2012 at 02:35 PM
To the average person, Nancy Pelosi’s May 20 interview with George Stephanopoulos probably seemed like standard procedure for a Sunday... More
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate
The press plays a dubious role
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 18, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, Washington Post budget correspondent Lori Montgomery reported that, while a debate raged around... More
Pinning down Obama on Social Security
Where exactly does he stand?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Liberals took comfort in the president’s speech to the AARP Friday when he promised to defend Social Security. But his... More
Talking back to Alan Simpson
The press picks up on his latest salvo. More, please?
By Trudy Lieberman May 31, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, as followers of the entitlements debate know, is, shall we say, tart-tongued and gutsy. Or,... More
The making of a meme
Journos get on board the Let’s-Whack-Entitlements train
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 11, 2012 at 03:04 PM
Shortly after the election, the MSM quickly turned from the presidential horse race to the “fiscal cliff.” And soon, news... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
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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Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
Yet another serious escalation of the Obama administration’s attacks on press freedoms emerges
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe
Court documents in the Kim case reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010
Reporter deemed ‘co-conspirator’ in leak case
The Reyes affidavit all but eliminates the traditional distinction in classified leak investigations between sources, who are bound by a non-disclosure agreement, and reporters, who are protected by the First Amendment as long as they do not commit a crime
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