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WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece
Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM
By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More
A Big Omission at NBC
Whatever happened to Social Security?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM
NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... More
A Curious Omission at the Times
Three Social Security proposals, or two?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM
It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... More
A dart to the AP—and a laurel!
Good work on fact-checking speeches; on Social Security, not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Dart The Associated Press misled its many readers, unfortunately, about what is a Social Security benefit cut and what... More
A dart to Yahoo Finance
For utterly confusing its readers about Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
By now we’re accustomed to weak reporting about Social Security, but a piece on Yahoo Finance, part of its... More
A Good Payroll Tax Piece from the Post
Finally, some balance from WaPo
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2012 at 12:46 PM
At last The Washington Post, which shaped much of the media coverage of the defcit and entitlement discussion last year,... More
A Good Social Security Story—At Last
Reuters shows it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More
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
A Laurel to the AP
For its eye-opening story on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM
The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More
A Medicare Memo to Campaign Reporters
Tailing Mitt on Medicare and Social Security, too
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2012 at 04:29 PM
Dear Colleagues: I have just returned from a reporting trip to Southeast Arkansas, where the folks I visited have very... More
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
Covering Medicare, Part II
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”
Its reporting on Social Security is anything but
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2011 at 04:48 PM
It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position... More
Audit Notes: More Murdoch, Hiltzik on the Social Security Trust Fund
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 07:45 PM
A couple of weeks ago, Allan Sloan wrote about Rupert Murdoch is using $673 million of his shareholders' money to... More
Audit Notes: What’s Social Security worth?, another CNBC ‘poll,’ Greg Smith
An excellent personal-finance story from the Journal
By Ryan Chittum Oct 23, 2012 at 06:50 AM
What would Social Security coverage look like if the press covered it more like personal finance reporters cover IRAs and... More
Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security
What’s he really talking about?
By Trudy Lieberman May 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his... More
CBS Fumbles Again
A lopsided report on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 29, 2010 at 01:15 PM
If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri
Do the pols represent the voters?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2011 at 03:25 PM
As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly
Shoppers on Market Street sound off
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM
Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... More
CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance
Bad math overstates government payouts
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM
(UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There... More
Conflating Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid
By Ryan Chittum Mar 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Meanwhile, while we're pointing out games journalists play and the question of whether Social Security is welfare, WaPo's Robert J.... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
