The Kicker
Embeds: The Good, The Bad, and The Accurate
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 24, 2009 at 11:22 AM
From Charlie Reed of Stars and Stripes, reporters embedding with U.S. forces in Afghanistan are subject to a background profile... More
More Details on Blackwater’s Role
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 07:47 PM
Should’ve flagged this much earlier: James Risen and Mark Mazzetti’s front-page story in today’s New York Times, chock-full of juicy... More
Richard Florida’s “Stimulus Map”
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 04:46 PM
Atlantic correspondent Richard Florida put up a post yesterday, drawing on data collected and initially mapped by ProPublica, that purports... More
Matthews on Colbert: An Explosion of Truthiness
By Megan Garber Aug 21, 2009 at 01:27 PM
Without further comment, because "Matthews on Colbert" pretty much says it all. Happy Friday, everyone. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs... More
Duck Feeding: The Key to Better Health Care
By Greg Marx Aug 21, 2009 at 12:44 PM
The New York Times’s Kevin Sack has a front-page story today on skittishness over health care reform among senior citizens... More
Good for him.
By Clint Hendler Aug 21, 2009 at 09:31 AM
I'll admit that my initial reaction to the news that one-time New York Times fiction writer Jayson Blair had launched... More
Jayson Blair, Life Coach
By Megan Garber Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM
What happens to journalists after they resign in disgrace from their journalism jobs? Where do they go, and what do... More
Filkins: “Afghan Girls Live Their Lives in Reverse”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 20, 2009 at 10:29 AM
From the New York Times Magazine "special issue" I mentioned below, a compelling piece by Dexter Filkins, "A School Bus... More
You Know It’s Late August When…
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 04:37 PM
This Sunday's New York Times Magazine, a "special issue:" Saving The World's Women Actually, I've been looking forward to reading... More
Can We Hear From David Brooks on Michelle’s Shorts?
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 01:57 PM
Knowing that today is a Maureen Dowd Day in the New York Times, I was hoping to learn What David... More
In Afghanistan: “We Are Going To Continue With Our Normal Reporting”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM
The AP on the Afghan Foreign Ministry's recent "demand" ("request?") that Afghan journalists "avoid 'broadcasting any incidence of violence' between... More
Please Be Kidding This Time, Daily Show
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 19, 2009 at 09:50 AM
I have seen MSNBC's cringe-making segment called No Way! during which Donny Deutsch and Tamron Hall discuss wacky, way-out news... More
Novak’s “Empty Chair Approach”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 04:45 PM
When I hear "Robert Novak" and "empty chair," I think of that moment in 2005 when Novak cursed on-air on... More
Colleagues Remember Robert Novak
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 02:09 PM
Lynn Sweet on her Chicago Sun Times colleague (headline: "Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist, 'Prince of Darkness' died Tuesday"): Chicago... More
Just In: “What Will Happen With Michael Jackson’s Body”
By Liz Cox Barrett Aug 18, 2009 at 12:55 PM
CNN had the news first, at 11:17 AM: This just in to us here in the newsroom. Michael Jackson hasn't... 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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