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“There is no ‘The Tea Party’”
East and West Coast Times’s different approaches to the movement
By Joel Meares Jan 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Mark Meckler was the lead quote-giver in major New York Times and Los... More
Audit Notes: Derailed; Tax Know-Nothings, Press Bubble, Etc.
By Ryan Chittum Nov 4, 2010 at 04:40 PM
John Collins Rudolf writes at The New York Times's Green blog about the effect Tuesday's GOP landslide will have on... More
Audit Notes: Don’t Buy Our Bonds!, Rail FAIL, Orszag to Citigroup
By Ryan Chittum Dec 9, 2010 at 08:19 PM
New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch went off the reservation in a speech today, Bloomberg reports. First, he criticizes state... More
Audit Notes: Noonan and Morris on the IRS, free Internet, Guardian gains
The Woodward and Bernstein of the bogus Tea Party tax scandal
By Ryan Chittum Jul 22, 2013 at 06:50 AM
At this point, the right's Woodward and Bernstein are Peggy Noonan and Dick Morris, and that says about all you... More
Audit Notes: The IRS story in context, Silicon Valley oligarchs
Necessary context from ProPublica and the NYT on the overblown scandal
By Ryan Chittum May 23, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The bulk of the IRS scandal press coverage has been seriously devoid of the kind of context that tells readers... More
Audit Notes: WSJ on the IRS, countering Kinsley, Cramer gets an ‘F’
The paper mishandles news on the Tea Party targeting story
By Ryan Chittum May 20, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Rupert Murdoch must have loved his Wall Street Journal front page on Saturday. Editors splashed this headline across the top... More
How super PACs succeeded in 2012
There’s one area where outside spenders won big: Republican primaries
By Sasha Chavkin Jan 30, 2013 at 02:50 PM
This post has been corrected. See note at bottom. After the Republican Party and its biggest super PAC and dark... More
Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story
The Journal columnist draws an evidence-free connection to the White House
By Ryan Chittum May 17, 2013 at 06:50 AM
We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street... More
Reactions to the Aurora shooting: the wrong, the sad, the irrelevant
How one tragedy led to many premature conclusions
By Hazel Sheffield Jul 20, 2012 at 03:48 PM
It doesn’t take long for news to travel about a tragedy like Friday’s midnight shooting at a screening of “The... More
Republican Study Committee Gets Specific
Reporters grapple with complexities
By Joel Meares Jan 21, 2011 at 12:44 PM
The Republican Study Committee—a conservative committee which includes about three quarters of the Republican House conference—released a plan yesterday that,... More
Taking Tea with Ayn Rand
Gary Weiss explores Objectivism’s influence on contemporary politics
By Daniel Luzer Mar 29, 2012 at 11:52 AM
Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul | By Gary Weiss | St Martin’s Press | 304 pages,... More
The other IRS scandal
Required context for a controversy
By David Cay Johnston May 15, 2013 at 06:52 AM
The burgeoning "scandal" over how the IRS chose for review 75 applicants for tax-exempt status puts on full display an... More
The other IRS target: the press
The nonprofit news experience undermines the Tea Party targeting outrage
By Ryan Chittum May 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Conservatives are howling about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups applying for nonprofit tax exemptions. Well, welcome to our world.... More
The Tea Party Faction and the Business Agenda
It’s worth watching how the new members toe the corporate line
By Ryan Chittum Nov 3, 2010 at 03:03 PM
What will the historic Republican landslide mean for business? Lots of things, says Bloomberg, in a long look at what... More
Tracking Tea Party Sentiment Among Pundits
By CJR Staff Nov 4, 2010 at 03:36 PM
The Sam Adams Institute, benefactors of Houston based investigative startup "Texas Watchdog", has produced a handy chart tracking the evolving... More
True the Coverage
Some of the organizations targeted for scrutiny by the IRS actually deserve scrutiny—a nuance that is getting lost
By Mariah Blake May 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Just about everyone in Washington agrees that the IRS's blanket targeting of Tea Party groups by keying on words in... 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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Questions and exercises for journalism students.
