Paul McLeary is a former CJR staff writer. Since 2008, he has covered the Pentagon for Foreign Policy, Defense News, Breaking Defense, and other outlets. He is currently a defense reporter for Politico.
A conference on blogging and politics reveals that blogs are increasingly serving as important political tools, but nobody seems to understand how, or why.
This week at the "Politics Online" conference at Georgetown University, the usual suspects churned out the usual arguments about blogs, politics, and the media.
Congressional mid-terms are but eight months away – and the Washington press corps is already trying to concoct a smooth, clear narrative that magically ties the whole election campaign together.
During President George Bush’s visit to India last week, media stories focused on an important bilateral nuclear agreement and ignored an important bilateral trade agreement.
Business reporters have long feared and bowed before the awesome economic potential of the Chinese market, producing coverage both breathless and simplistic.
Journalists from just about every major news organization are confusing one of the key facts surrounding the story of a foreign company taking over American ports.
The deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists discusses the organization’s report on members of the media killed and jailed in 2005, and other attacks on press freedoms.
If it looks like a civil war and smells like a civil war, odds are – it’s a civil war. With yesterday’s bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq, many pundits and bloggers are finally waking up and smelling the insurrection.
While bloggers are worked up over a decision to give handling of some American ports to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, there are a few issues we think everyone is missing.
