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MoJo on Waste in Military Contracts
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 04:02 PM
In a story today for Mother Jones, Adam Weinstein spotlights what sounds like a deficit reduction opportunity: It was just... More
The Clergy Abuse Story Comes Back to the U.S.
By Greg Marx Mar 25, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Talk about uncanny timing. Yesterday, ProPublica’s new reporter-blogger, Marian Wang, interviewed Walter Robinson, the former Boston Globe investigative journalist who... More
More on Polarization, and on Knowing Where to Look
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 05:37 PM
My Campaign Desk item earlier today took issue with Tom Friedman’s argument that gerrymandered legislative districts are driving polarization in... More
The Health Reform Vote on Cable News
By Greg Marx Mar 24, 2010 at 02:14 PM
At The Monkey Cage, Patrick Egan has put together a nice chart showing viewership of the cable news networks on... More
Cornell and Kentucky: A Study in Contrasts
By Justin Peters Mar 24, 2010 at 11:39 AM
This Thursday night, the Cornell Big Red will play the Kentucky Wildcats in a men's NCAA basketball tournament matchup that... More
Things to Keep in the Back of Your Mind…
By Greg Marx Mar 23, 2010 at 04:34 PM
… while reading the many stories out now, and the many more sure to come, that try to gauge the... More
What an adjective!
By Clint Hendler Mar 23, 2010 at 02:15 PM
If you've been on the internet this afternoon--and not under a rock or something--I'm sure you've by now seen the... More
Fox and the GOP: Who’s Working for Whom?
By Greg Marx Mar 23, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Via Media Matters, former-Bush-speechwriter-turned-iconoclast-conservative David Frum appeared on ABC’s Nightline last night to discuss the politics of health care. Frum,... More
Calderone: Weigel to Post
By Greg Marx Mar 22, 2010 at 02:43 PM
Ten days ago, in the course of chiding The Washington Post for being slow to the Tea Party story, I... More
Presidents and Polarization
By Greg Marx Mar 22, 2010 at 02:03 PM
Our roundup of health care headlines this morning noted that one of the major themes of the coverage has been... More
The End of The Ether
By Clint Hendler Mar 18, 2010 at 02:10 PM
This week C-SPAN launched a full searchable online video library, dating to twenty-three years ago. But let’s go a bit... More
Wise Words
By Greg Marx Mar 17, 2010 at 12:28 PM
From Jack Shafer: In a perfect world, a publication is edited for readers. In the imperfect world that we inhabit,... More
“We felt a lot better once we got back to camp and had a cup of tea.”
By Clint Hendler Mar 16, 2010 at 02:30 PM
Here's some captivating video of what it's like to come under fire when embedded on patrol in Afghanistan from Stuart... More
If Democrats do not contribute to the Greg Marx Retirement Fund, midterms will be costly
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM
I’m not going to attempt to dissect each of the arguments made by Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen in their... More
A Late Arrival to the Party
By Greg Marx Mar 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Over at Politico, Mike Calderone reports that The Washington Post will be stepping up its Tea Party coverage. Local writers... 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
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
