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CNN Ditches the AP
By Greg Marx Jun 21, 2010 at 03:30 PM
It’s official: CNN will no longer use content from The Associated Press in its news coverage, Michael Calderone reports for... More
Consider Helen Thomas
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 21, 2010 at 10:14 AM
Was advanced age the critical factor in the career-ending Helen Thomas incident? Because the Which-Retirement-Resistant-Journalist-Media-Figure-Will-Helen-Thomas-Next Watch is on. At TVNewser,... More
(Other People’s) Pundits Drowned Out Obama’s Oil Speech
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM
At Newsweek.com, Jeremy McCarter describes "How Cable TV Pundits Stepped on Obama's Oil Speech." Writes McCarter: Critics describe the Beltway... More
2010 Knight News Challenge Winners Announced
By Alexandra Fenwick Jun 16, 2010 at 04:02 PM
The latest Knight News Challenge has been closed and the winners are in, just announced earlier today. First, the bad... More
Quote of the Morning…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM
... not from a News Importance standpoint or anything, just, well... here are a few words on New York City's... More
“We Will Make BP Pay”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 16, 2010 at 09:40 AM
"We will make BP Pay" are among the words from President Obama's Oval Office address last night that seemed to... More
Combatting Oil Spill Fatigue “Jejune Ennui”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 15, 2010 at 02:54 PM
The WaPo's Tom Shales today gives the Style-ish take on the oil spill, as seen on TV. Shales argues that... More
Calling BS on Official Boilerplate
By Greg Marx Jun 15, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Adam Liptak has a story in today’s New York Times about William Macumber, an Arizona man who’s been in prison... More
Afghan Minerals Story “Aroused Considerable Suspicion from Times Readers”…
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 01:58 PM
... notes Bassey Etim at The New York Times's The Lede blog today (of James Risen's A1 Times piece today,... More
Another Null Result: Obama’s Numbers Stable in Wake of Spill
By Greg Marx Jun 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM
John Harwood’s Monday contributions to The New York Times’s “Caucus” blog provide a reliably level-headed take on the political news... More
Prez Should Stop “[C]omplaining on TV about TV”
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 10:51 AM
The Nation's Ari Melber has, according to his headline, "The Solution to Obama's BP Press Problem." Writes Melber: Obama is... More
WaPo, NYT, Anonymous Sources
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 14, 2010 at 09:59 AM
"[B]y casually agreeing to conceal the identities of those who provide non-critical information, The [Washington] Post erodes its credibility and... More
CJR Wins Two Mirror Awards
By The Editors Jun 10, 2010 at 03:59 PM
Congratulations to CJR's Dean Starkman and former staff writer Megan Garber for their victories at today's Mirror Awards ceremony. The... More
Party-Switchers Losing Elections: Not Hard to Explain
By Greg Marx Jun 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM
A piece in Politico today proffers a few explanations for Blanche Lincoln’s moderately surprising win in Arkansas’s Democratic Senate primary.... More
More On Super-Soakering With Sources
By Liz Cox Barrett Jun 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM
In response to questions from Twitter followers, Mark Knoller, White House correspondent for CBS News Radio, has been tweeting about... 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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