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.
What’s the difference between "birdshot" and "buckshot"? A live victim of a hunting accident, instead of a dead one. Yet a number of journalists don’t seem to have figured that out.
A new report from MediaMatters about the ideological leanings of guests on Sunday morning talk shows suffers from one flaw: It doesn’t take into account what they actually said.
The Olympics are here, and with that tradition comes another, more tedious, one: journalists squeezing "controversial" storylines out of humdrum events.