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Aftergood goes after WikiLeaks
By Clint Hendler Jun 28, 2010 at 02:55 PM
Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, one of the nation’s foremost experts on classified documents and secrecy policy,... More
Lara Logan’s Misplaced Question
By Clint Hendler Jun 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM
CBS reporter Lara Logan took to CNN’s Reliable Sources this weekend to criticize Michael Hastings and the article he wrote... More
Excrutiating (Also, Haunting)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 28, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Damon Winter's photograph on the front page of yesterday's New York Times. The scene captured-- soldier tearfully embraces family before... More
The Coffee Lobby
By Clint Hendler Jun 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM
Eric Lichtblau has a story in today’s New York Times noting that hundreds of meetings between White House officials and... More
No Call is a Bad Call
By Clint Hendler Jun 25, 2010 at 09:53 AM
Yes, it's the National Enquirer. But still, the tabloid's justification for deciding not to call Al Gore before running a... More
Palin camp claims records suit “sexist … demeaning”
By Clint Hendler Jun 24, 2010 at 04:49 PM
Thomas Van Flein, Sarah Palin’s personal lawyer, has taken to the former governor’s Facebook page to announce a victory in... More
In Haiti, “When Is This All Going to End?”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 24, 2010 at 09:11 AM
The New York Times has a wrenching piece today about sexual violence against women in Haiti, a piece in which... More
Spencer Ackerman to Join Wired’s Danger Room
By Greg Marx Jun 23, 2010 at 04:04 PM
Interesting news in the journo world today—Spencer Ackerman, the prolific national security reporter and blogger for The Washington Independent, is... More
A Politico Graf Goes Missing
By Clint Hendler Jun 23, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Yesterday in one of Politico’s write-ups of the furor that ensued as it became known that damaging quotes from General... More
BREAKING: Hastings Enjoys Pornography, is Good Writer
By Clint Hendler Jun 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM
This morning’s Politico Playbook brings this unusually prudish paragraph: FAILURE TO GOOGLE: A quick search would have showed McChrystal that... More
At 8pm, CNN Goes “Tangy” and “Spicy”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM
CNN has just announced the team that will take over Campbell Brown's 8pm slot: Eliot Spitzer, the former Democratic governor... More
“We Can Almost Pre-write the Headlines” (Almost?)
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 23, 2010 at 09:50 AM
For those who can't predict what the Washington press corps will write and say on cable if Gen. McChrystal still... More
McChrystal’s Real Error
By Clint Hendler Jun 22, 2010 at 01:14 PM
Politico’s Gordon Lubold has a quote from an administration official saying that Stanley McChrystal, the subject of a famous-before-published Rolling... More
Would A Beat Reporter Have Written This McChrystal Piece?
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Andrew Sullivan flags the following, found at the end of a McChrystal-related Politico piece today: McChrystal, an expert on counterterrorism... More
McChrystal’s “Outside Set of Eyes” Resigns
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM
The Washington Post has a brief report on the resignation of Duncan Boothby, Gen. Stanley McChrystal's civilian press aide who... 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”
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