Monthly Archive
July 2008
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The Kicker
Chandra Levy Redux
July 31, 2008 06:15 PM Comments (4)
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Behind the News
Don’t Be A Menace To South Central… Media floats the term "food apartheid" to describe South Central fast food ban
By Jane Kim
July 31, 2008 03:43 PM
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Campaign Desk
Schmidt Me, Baby, One More Time Obama’s like Britney…(don’t) pass it on!
By Megan Garber
July 31, 2008 03:21 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
We’re Not In The Dog-Shooting Business, We’re In The Mayor-Frightening Business!
July 31, 2008 01:10 PM
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The Observatory
Book Review: Microcosm Carl Zimmer uses E. coli as telescope on life
July 31, 2008 12:36 PM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: John Flowers Whither the money men?
By John Flowers
July 31, 2008 11:42 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Do Wear Tennis Whites, Don’t Talk To Reporters
July 31, 2008 10:13 AM
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Review
My Facts, Your Facts America and the pursuit of willful delusion
July 31, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (14)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: One Miillioon Doollllars Do auction-rate probes rate? Disney's surprise; blaming mom, etc.
July 31, 2008 08:31 AM
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The Kicker
Ohio Papers: McCain’s “Celeb” Ad? “Zero” Truth
July 31, 2008 08:27 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
A Little Bit Louder Now (Shout)
July 31, 2008 08:14 AM
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Campaign Desk
While My Guitar Gently Veeps Please, could we give the Veepstakes just a little more substance?
By Megan Garber
July 30, 2008 04:24 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
When “News” Becomes News
July 30, 2008 02:12 PM
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Campaign Desk
True Lies WaPo gets it right in its coverage of McCain's recent ad
July 30, 2008 01:36 PM
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The Kicker
Dress For The Job You Want?
July 30, 2008 12:46 PM
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The Observatory
Scientists and Journalists: Too Cozy? Maybe it’s time for a few more science critics
By Paul Raeburn
July 30, 2008 12:17 PM Comments (5)
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Rick Vernaci Newspapers are reliable, and that means something
By Rick Vernaci
July 30, 2008 11:35 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
MoDo On Team Obama: Such Good Sports!
July 30, 2008 10:07 AM
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The Kicker
Pity, That
July 30, 2008 08:44 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Gloom, Doom Euro consumers pessimistic; profits to fall further; trade talks collapse. Hmm.
July 30, 2008 08:25 AM
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Behind the News
Earthquake! Blogs and the Los Angeles Times race to cover today's earthquake
By Jane Kim
July 29, 2008 06:31 PM
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The Observatory
“Whiplash” Climate Journalism Revkin investigates the media's tendency to ricochet from one global-warming study to another
July 29, 2008 03:34 PM Comments (9)
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The Kicker
(MS)NBC Reaches For More Gravitas for Earthquake Coverage
July 29, 2008 03:03 PM
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The Kicker
For “Inactive Grannies”… There’s Always 2012?
July 29, 2008 02:03 PM
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Campaign Desk
Comparing Ohio and Ontario by the Numbers The Beacon Journal points to better health stats in Canada
July 29, 2008 12:55 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
No More Scrabulous?!
By Katia Bachko
July 29, 2008 12:13 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Slow Claps for David Brooks
By Megan Garber
July 29, 2008 12:11 PM Comments (2)
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Todd Engdahl Sorry to be blunt, but get over it
By Todd Engdahl
July 29, 2008 12:04 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
The Economy: No One “Pouncing”
July 29, 2008 12:03 PM
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The Kicker
Barefoot and Blogging (In NYT Styles)
July 29, 2008 09:43 AM Comments (2)
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Essay
Politics With Drawl Our double standard for the southern twang
By Jane Hammons
July 29, 2008 09:00 AM
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The Kicker
Chris Matthews’s Heroic Refusal To Discuss Robert Novak
July 29, 2008 08:41 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Marked to Market The WSJ shines on Merrill's stunner; British-Spanish air merger; disconnected from Alcatel, etc.
July 29, 2008 08:05 AM
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The Kicker
Tonight on The NewsHour: The Changing Look of the Book Review
By Megan Garber
July 28, 2008 05:31 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Do You Hear A Reporter Clapping? Minority journalists (and those covering them) over-question the ethics of cheering for Obama
By Jane Kim
July 28, 2008 05:20 PM
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Campaign Desk
Did Obama Snub the Troops? Blogs do reporting; MSM does stenography
By Megan Garber
July 28, 2008 04:55 PM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
Poor Tartuffe
By Julia Ioffe
July 28, 2008 04:21 PM
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The Kicker
“Media Frenzy” Explains Further Frenzied Media
July 28, 2008 02:43 PM
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The Audit
The Editor and the Architect Time featured an editor's husband, but didn't tell readers
July 28, 2008 02:31 PM
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The Kicker
De Gall!
July 28, 2008 02:08 PM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: John Biemer ‘You only live twice’
By John Biemer
July 28, 2008 11:35 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Embracing “Dr. No”
July 28, 2008 11:26 AM
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The Kicker
“Body Language Investigations” Abound
July 28, 2008 09:13 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 7-27-08 In which McCain is not greeted as a liberator
By Todd Gitlin
July 28, 2008 09:02 AM Comments (2)
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Language Corner
Check Your Herring "Mondegreen"? Did I hear you right?
July 28, 2008 08:42 AM
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Behind the News
Ten For 2010? Scrubbing the gloss off of diversity coverage
By Jane Kim
July 28, 2008 08:35 AM
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The Kicker
Easy “Breezy”
July 28, 2008 08:34 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Summer Break A disaster-free Monday; KKR goes public; hope for newspapers
July 28, 2008 08:03 AM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Barack’s Beefcake
July 25, 2008 04:15 PM
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The Kicker
In Which Chris Matthews Goes Too Far (Again)
By Megan Garber
July 25, 2008 03:48 PM
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Campaign Desk
Barack-toberfest Metaphor-o-ama! Oh, how clever the media got in describing Obama’s Berlin speech
By Megan Garber
July 25, 2008 02:43 PM
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The Kicker
Hey Kids, the New Yorker’s With It!
By Katia Bachko
July 25, 2008 02:24 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
“Most people” not pundits
July 25, 2008 02:02 PM
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Campaign Desk
Battle For the Grassroots Campaign for an American Solution vs. Health Care for America Now
July 25, 2008 01:23 PM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Nic Roethlisberger ‘If you don’t love journalism, get out now’
July 25, 2008 12:50 PM
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
Study Abroad What foreign papers are saying about Obama’s world tour
By Katia Bachko
July 25, 2008 11:49 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Drum’s Rim Shot … It’s Good!
July 25, 2008 10:09 AM
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The Kicker
Polling Questions: Sly Like A Fox
By Megan Garber
July 25, 2008 10:07 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
And…the NRO Weighs in on Barack-toberfest
By Megan Garber
July 25, 2008 08:52 AM
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The Kicker
Stewart Weighs in on Barack-toberfest
By Megan Garber
July 25, 2008 08:26 AM
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Behind the News, The Observatory
Outside Agitators An early ProPublica collaboration tests deadlines and gets results
July 25, 2008 07:43 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
CNN = Cosmo
By Julia Ioffe
July 24, 2008 06:11 PM
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Behind the News
Worst. Years. Ever. Five other terrible years in modern newspaper history
July 24, 2008 04:15 PM Comments (9)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Novak, Chapter Two: In Which Our Prince of Darkness Finds Himself Aggrieved
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2008 04:09 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Talking Shop: Johanna Neuman A conversation with an author of the LAT's "Countdown to Crawford" blog
By Jane Kim
July 24, 2008 03:53 PM
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The Kicker
Media “In the Tank?” — Take 821
By Megan Garber
July 24, 2008 03:17 PM Comments (1)
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Bob Carey ‘My compact with the L.A. Times has been buried in an avalanche of debt’
By Bob Carey
July 24, 2008 12:08 PM Comments (15)
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Campaign Desk
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part III How will the sick obtain coverage?
July 24, 2008 11:21 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Cut No Slack
July 24, 2008 11:07 AM
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The Kicker
Say What, Shafer?*
July 24, 2008 10:22 AM
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The Kicker
Russert’s Road (And Runway?)
July 24, 2008 10:04 AM
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The Kicker
Novak in the News
July 24, 2008 09:19 AM
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Essay
Flickring Out What will become of photojournalism in an age of bytes and amateurs?
By Alissa Quart
July 24, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (3)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: States ‘Slammed’ As tax revenue shrivels; consumer spending drops; reading the recent oil-price slide; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 24, 2008 08:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
Anbar Awakening, MSM Sleeping Where are the mainstreamers on McCain’s major mistake?
By Megan Garber
July 23, 2008 05:06 PM Comments (7)
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The Kicker
David Carr’s Spud Missiles
By Megan Garber
July 23, 2008 05:02 PM
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The Kicker
Ohama? Versus…Cheney?
July 23, 2008 02:58 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Water Cooler
Talking Shop: Chris Drew New York Times reporter on covering Obama off the trail
By Katia Bachko
July 23, 2008 02:37 PM
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Campaign Desk
Guilt Trip More complaints about the media's supposed pro-Obama bias
By Lester Feder
July 23, 2008 02:26 PM
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The Audit
Shorting Journalism Too
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2008 12:58 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
A Stumper
July 23, 2008 12:38 PM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Walt Wasilewski ‘Without journalism, there is no hope for progress.’
July 23, 2008 12:15 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
The Tanking Economy (For Dummies)
July 23, 2008 12:12 PM
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The Audit
Portfolio’s Promise Excellent reporting blows open the Countrywide scandal
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2008 11:42 AM
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The Kicker
Matthews: Reporting “All Senses” (And Sensations)
July 23, 2008 10:41 AM
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The Kicker
Anonymous Cable News Interns: Have At It!
July 23, 2008 08:45 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Worth Less, Costs More Mortgage rates and inflation soar; Bizarro bank world; rich make more, pay less taxes; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 23, 2008 08:43 AM
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The Kicker
Beating a Dead, Misunderstood Horse, Part Deux
By Julia Ioffe
July 22, 2008 05:32 PM
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Campaign Desk
John McCain and the Authenticity Trap Why "let McCain be McCain" doesn't wash
By Megan Garber
July 22, 2008 05:32 PM Comments (3)
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Campaign Desk
A Matter of Opinion The tortured reasoning behind the Times' rejection of McCain's op-ed
By Lester Feder
July 22, 2008 05:01 PM
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Behind the News
Not Very Newhouse Stale, familiar personality profiles won't save glossy mags
By Jane Kim
July 22, 2008 03:56 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Doubletake: John Burns’s Doppelganger?
July 22, 2008 03:32 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit, The Kicker
Sign Of The Times
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2008 02:49 PM
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The Kicker
McCain Campaign Pursues Anti-Chris-Matthews Vote
July 22, 2008 12:42 PM Comments (2)
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Jim Spencer ‘I still want journalism. Journalism just doesn’t seem to want me.’
By Jim Spencer
July 22, 2008 12:38 PM Comments (37)
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The Kicker
Press Release: Bestest Republican National Convention Ever!
July 22, 2008 11:48 AM
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The Kicker
Fourth Place For Last Week’s New Yorker Cover
July 22, 2008 11:19 AM
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Campaign Desk
Hanging by the Telephone Der Spiegel would have been happy to put this matter to rest
July 22, 2008 10:40 AM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Obama’s “Hope” During “Presser”
July 22, 2008 10:24 AM
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Essay
The Lives of Others What does it mean to "tell someone's story"?
By Julia Dahl
July 22, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Veepstakes Hometown Dates
July 22, 2008 08:55 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Women Leaving Workforce But not necessarily by choice; Steve Jobs’s health and Apple’s stock price; Yahoo gives Icahn board seats; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 22, 2008 08:34 AM
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The Kicker
Amen, Deborah Howell
By Megan Garber
July 21, 2008 03:53 PM
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The Observatory
Can GM Crops Solve the Food Crisis? UCS says journalists overstate potential for higher yields
July 21, 2008 03:41 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
Beating a Dead, Misunderstood Horse
By Julia Ioffe
July 21, 2008 03:37 PM
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The Audit
The Blind Leading The Blind The Washington Post's new publisher has no new ideas in a Portfolio profile
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2008 03:22 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
I Bought My “Table Of Contents For the World” From Barack Obama
July 21, 2008 02:42 PM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: John Sugg Newspaper publishers knew the end was nigh—and they milked it
By John Sugg
July 21, 2008 02:16 PM
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The Kicker
Goodbye To Most Of That
July 21, 2008 01:56 PM
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The Kicker
If You Ask A Superficial Question…
July 21, 2008 01:12 PM
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Language Corner
Absent Without Leave Is it OK to use "absent" as a preposition?
July 21, 2008 12:39 PM
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The Kicker
Campaign Plane Follies
July 21, 2008 12:06 PM
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The Kicker
LAT Still Hasn’t Found What NYT Looking For
July 21, 2008 11:23 AM
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The Kicker
How (When?) To Overshare on the Cover of NYT Magazine
July 21, 2008 10:05 AM
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Campaign Desk
Who’s a Winner? Why candidates still talk about "winning" wars
By Jane Kim
July 21, 2008 09:09 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
CNBC’s “Ultimate Growth Stock” Wants To Know
July 21, 2008 08:46 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: WTF, FDIC? Regulator turned blind eye to subprime abuses; choosing between food and water; begging for your Starbucks; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 21, 2008 08:45 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 7-20-08 In which Meet the Press meets Al Gore and, through him, the real world
By Todd Gitlin
July 21, 2008 08:27 AM
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The Kicker
Explore the question: Is Iran deterable?
July 18, 2008 04:16 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Obama’s Gym-O-Rama
By Katia Bachko
July 18, 2008 04:06 PM
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Campaign Desk
Courting the Evangelicals A WSJ op-ed asks the convenient questions, but not the important ones
By Lester Feder
July 18, 2008 04:04 PM
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The Kicker
The Onion on the “Definitive Obama Puff Piece”
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 04:04 PM
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The Kicker
Across the Pond
July 18, 2008 03:54 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
FBN: When Word Games Attack!
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 02:41 PM
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The Audit
Cut the Dividends! Newspaper companies fork over hundreds of millions a year—and for what?
By Ryan Chittum
July 18, 2008 02:15 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Comrade Obama? Press fails to question McCain's "Obama is a socialist" implication
By Zachary Roth
July 18, 2008 01:19 PM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Wiki-ocracy in America
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 01:13 PM
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The Kicker
What’s She Compensating For?
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 12:42 PM
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The Kicker
The Troglodytes Are Coming!
By Julia Ioffe
July 18, 2008 12:28 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Barack Obama: No Sweat
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 11:59 AM
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Campaign Desk
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part II Who’s making the medical decisions, anyway?
July 18, 2008 11:19 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
25 or 6 to 4
July 18, 2008 10:38 AM
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The Kicker
CNN on Myanmar, Part II
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 10:07 AM
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The Audit, The Kicker
Drilling for Angles WSJ spins a poll on offshore oil exploration the wrong way
By Ryan Chittum
July 18, 2008 10:00 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
The Daily Show Institutes the Dobbs-O-Meter
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 08:17 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Merrill Listing Bank's troubles are staggering; Freddie has some stock he'd like to sell you; Wachovia office raided; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 18, 2008 08:13 AM
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The Kicker
WaPo: Double Decker Danger!
By Megan Garber
July 18, 2008 07:27 AM
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The Kicker
From the Madd(ow)ing Crowd
By Megan Garber
July 17, 2008 05:17 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Breaking: TIME Magazine Uses “Frenemies” in a Headline
By Megan Garber
July 17, 2008 04:42 PM
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Campaign Desk
Mr. Obama Goes To Baghdad Do candidates have to visit Iraq before they can set a war policy?
By Zachary Roth
July 17, 2008 04:06 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Yglesias: Totally in the (Think) Tank
By Megan Garber
July 17, 2008 03:49 PM
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Behind the News
Don’t Bean Count Me We're mad as hell. Why do we continue to take it?
July 17, 2008 03:42 PM
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Campaign Desk
Where’s Education? Part III It’s hard to find the education in McCain’s ed speech coverage
By Megan Garber
July 17, 2008 03:11 PM
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The Audit, The Kicker
Shopping For Angles The peril of blaming the economy for everything
By Ryan Chittum
July 17, 2008 02:54 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
My Friend(s)
By Julia Ioffe
July 17, 2008 02:52 PM
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The Kicker
iPhones for the Poor
By Katia Bachko
July 17, 2008 02:08 PM
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Campaign Desk
Running On Faith Newsweek's cover story gets beyond Reverend Wright
By Lester Feder
July 17, 2008 01:14 PM
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The Kicker
McCain: Good Sport? Grump?
July 17, 2008 11:47 AM
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The Audit
Shorting the Free Market The invisible hand gets slapped when stocks go down
By Ryan Chittum
July 17, 2008 11:44 AM
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The Kicker
A Shrine to Hackery
July 17, 2008 11:30 AM
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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: An Invitation Give us your thoughts on journalism’s state and its future
By The Editors
July 17, 2008 11:29 AM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
ObamaGuy?
July 17, 2008 11:22 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
I’m Getting A New Seatmate! (Please Be Brian Williams!)
July 17, 2008 09:18 AM
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Review
Pyrrhic Victory Winning and losing at Guantánamo
July 17, 2008 09:00 AM
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Language Corner
And Another Think
July 17, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: The Fed’s Catch-22 Rising inflation makes interest-rate cuts problematic; messing with menthol; Texas dereg nightmare; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 17, 2008 08:39 AM
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The Kicker
Injusticia
By Megan Garber
July 16, 2008 04:47 PM
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Campaign Desk
Meme Me Up The evolution of the ‘terrorist fist jab’
By Megan Garber
July 16, 2008 04:34 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Dowd’s Colorful False Impression
July 16, 2008 04:28 PM
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Campaign Desk
MoDowd’s Obama Fixation First his diet, now his sense of humor. She’s wasting her space and our time
By Zachary Roth
July 16, 2008 04:17 PM Comments (6)
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Behind the News
The Candidate Said What?! Google’s new video-search gadget not yet a boon to reporters, but it will be
By Jane Kim
July 16, 2008 02:30 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
The Digital Elders of Zion and a Lesson for Obama
By Julia Ioffe
July 16, 2008 01:18 PM
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The Audit
The Journal’s Many Anonymice And why Jack Shafer needs a better mousetrap
July 16, 2008 01:04 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Trends Will Be Trends Five new story ideas for NYT Style reporter Guy Trebay
July 16, 2008 12:16 PM
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Behind the News
Keeping Myanmar in the News Kudos to the outlets that do it
By Megan Garber
July 16, 2008 12:03 PM
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The Kicker
In Which Two Rivals May Marry
By Megan Garber
July 16, 2008 11:18 AM
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The Kicker
On MSNBC: “It’s Come To This”
July 16, 2008 10:14 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Short-Sellers Take a Hit SEC moves against “naked shorts”; Bernanke’s bummed; and with good reason; did Goldman Sachs help bury Bear Stearns?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 16, 2008 10:07 AM
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The Kicker
The -Gate That Got Away
July 16, 2008 09:44 AM
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The Kicker
Shafer v. Anonymice (Take 47)
July 16, 2008 09:30 AM
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Campaign Desk
The New Yorker Cover Up Why we’re talking so much about so little
July 16, 2008 08:05 AM
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The Kicker
“There’s No Muslim on This Boat”
By Megan Garber
July 15, 2008 05:16 PM
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The Kicker
WaPo-Induced Flashback
July 15, 2008 04:44 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Why, Looky Here
By Julia Ioffe
July 15, 2008 04:31 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News, Campaign Desk
From the Peanuts Gallery Editorial cartoonists offer their two cents on the instantly infamous New Yorker cover
By Katia Bachko
July 15, 2008 04:26 PM Comments (4)
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The Audit, The Kicker
The WSJ’s Sketches of Pain
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2008 04:14 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Observatory
The Shallow Coverage of Candidates’ Energy Policies Reporters must use events, not ads, to leverage information
July 15, 2008 03:45 PM
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The Kicker
More Testosterone for NBC, Less for MSNBC?
July 15, 2008 02:53 PM
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Campaign Desk
Old News Reporters take the wrong angle on the question of McCain's age
By Lester Feder
July 15, 2008 02:50 PM
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Campaign Desk
Awkward Page AP's "awkward" article on the candidates' Hispanic outreach efforts
By Jane Kim
July 15, 2008 02:07 PM
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The Audit
It’s Not Exactly “A Wonderful Life” But the press should prepare to cover more bank failures
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2008 01:22 PM
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The Kicker
Nine More Minutes of New Yorker “Cover Story” Coverage
July 15, 2008 12:35 PM
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Cover Story
Sulzberger at the Barricades Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is racing to transform the embattled New York Times for the digital age. Is he up to the job?
July 15, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (14)
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The Kicker, The Observatory
Good Catch, Mika! (Was That So Hard?)
July 15, 2008 08:47 AM
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The Kicker
Not Laughing At The New Yorker Cover Cartoon?
July 15, 2008 08:31 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Banks On the Brink A vote of no confidence from the public; Paulson the interventionist; what bailout history teaches us; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 15, 2008 08:30 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Forget Something?
By Katia Bachko
July 14, 2008 05:45 PM
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Campaign Desk
McRubber, McGlue For McCain, another week of Teflon
By Megan Garber
July 14, 2008 05:13 PM
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The Kicker
AP’s Accountability Adviser To Be “Player-Coach”
July 14, 2008 04:27 PM
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The Kicker
Veepstakes: We Have a Winner!
July 14, 2008 03:58 PM
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The Audit
Pushy Bottom Barron's' "us first" call on the housing market is weakly supported and almost certainly wrong
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2008 03:47 PM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Lieberman, not quite told
July 14, 2008 12:16 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope Ending employer-based insurance as we know it?
July 14, 2008 11:00 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 7-13-08 McCain still walking on the Tigris and Euphrates
By Todd Gitlin
July 14, 2008 09:25 AM
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The Kicker
That New Yorker Cover (Fox News’ Take and More)
July 14, 2008 09:23 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Small Government Anyone? On mortgage/school loans, private sector helpless; IndyMac collapse a bad omen; Anheuser-Busch capitulates; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 14, 2008 08:55 AM
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Campaign Desk, The Kicker
Freep Gives McCain Free Pass
By Jane Kim
July 11, 2008 05:08 PM
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Campaign Desk
Flipping Out A modest proposal: enough with the “flip-flop”
By Megan Garber
July 11, 2008 02:33 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Fannie Mae Need Government Help How much will that cost taxpayers?
By Ryan Chittum
July 11, 2008 02:00 PM
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The Kicker
Economy of Coverage
By Megan Garber
July 11, 2008 01:31 PM
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The Observatory
How Much Are You Worth? The AP gets the scoop on the EPA's decision to devalue a "statistical life"
July 11, 2008 01:23 PM
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Behind the News
Real Journalism What a difference the DNA makes
July 11, 2008 12:57 PM Comments (4)
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The Kicker
Mag Revenue Numbers: In Which “Flat Is the New Up”
By Megan Garber
July 11, 2008 12:56 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Ol’ Waffle Brush Lessons to take away from the candidates' recent "policy shifts"
By Lester Feder
July 11, 2008 12:47 PM
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Campaign Desk
Gramm Trackers Despite liberal skepticism, media seizes on Phil Gramm's remarks
By Zachary Roth
July 11, 2008 11:27 AM
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Campaign Desk
One Step Forward, One Step Back The AP gets it right on universal coverage, but new code words loom
July 11, 2008 11:20 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Taxpayers, Get Ready… Fannie & Freddie are coming your way; bad economy is boon for Wal-Mart; more lousy job stats; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 11, 2008 08:32 AM
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The Kicker
On That “Trademark John McCain Wit”
By Megan Garber
July 11, 2008 08:22 AM
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The Kicker
Please, Not All Laughs
By Jane Kim
July 10, 2008 05:48 PM
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The Observatory
Not So Fresh This summer's crop of articles about community-supported agriculture sprouts around the country
By Katia Bachko
July 10, 2008 04:08 PM
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Gramm’s Mentality
By Ryan Chittum
July 10, 2008 03:11 PM
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Campaign Desk
Social Distortion McCain clarifies Social Security remarks, remarks remain confusing
By Zachary Roth
July 10, 2008 02:21 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
The Write Stuff Barack Obama is an excellent writer. Should it matter?
By Jane Kim
July 10, 2008 02:02 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Tell Me, As The Paper’s Editor of “Visual News,” What Do You Do?
July 10, 2008 12:52 PM
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Behind the News
It’s All Over Now, Violet Blue Boing Boing, Violet Blue, and archival ethics in the new media world
By Joe Uchill
July 10, 2008 12:49 PM Comments (3)
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The Cookie Zeitgeist (Hint: It’s Warm and Has a Secret)
July 10, 2008 11:15 AM
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Short Takes
Katrina Washout How will the presidential candidates continue recovery efforts? Let's ask them.
July 10, 2008 09:00 AM
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Media’s Mixed “Nuts” (a.ka. “A Base Phrase”-Gate)
July 10, 2008 08:45 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Bailout Bound Fannie and Freddie sink lower; America for sale; what did you do with YOUR stimulus check?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 10, 2008 08:16 AM Comments (1)
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McCain vs. Accuracy, Round 17 McCain questions Social Security's central premise, media doesn't notice
By Zachary Roth
July 9, 2008 03:38 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
What Else Can I Do With All This Spin?
July 9, 2008 03:20 PM
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The Audit
The Grievance Culture At Fox News NYT's David Carr shines a light on its PR tricks
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2008 03:10 PM
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Pollster On That John McCanine Poll
July 9, 2008 02:43 PM
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Campaign Desk
Mike Murphy’s Media Moment Caught up in McCain's campaign minutiae
By Katia Bachko
July 9, 2008 02:02 PM
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Behind the News
CJR to Launch Chinese-Language Edition Goal is to help advance the cause of press freedom in China
By The Editors
July 9, 2008 12:53 PM Comments (2)
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No More Malia And Sasha (You Blew It, Cable)!
July 9, 2008 12:50 PM
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Underwrite, Sayeth The Fed
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2008 12:22 PM
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AP on McCain on Budget Deficit: Points For Trying?
July 9, 2008 11:45 AM
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Pity the Pumper? The media's quest to convince Americans that gas is "expensive"
July 9, 2008 11:30 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: The Return of Regulation Big Ben wants more authority over the Street; more trouble for Credit Suisse; a run on IndyMac?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 9, 2008 08:55 AM
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That Crying Child With Leg Casts
July 9, 2008 08:45 AM
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“Inspired” New York Post Reporting
July 9, 2008 08:06 AM
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The Audit
The Answer Man? Good luck, Marcus. You'll need it.
July 8, 2008 05:57 PM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Balanced Budget, “Balanced” Coverage Los Angeles Times scrutinizes Obama's economic proposals, gives McCain a pass
July 8, 2008 04:18 PM
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The Kicker
McCain Camp Won’t Call On Corn on Calls?
July 8, 2008 03:45 PM
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The Kicker
Kurtz: “In-Bedded” Reporter (Now With Child)!
July 8, 2008 02:09 PM
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Campaign Desk
The (Chief) Justice League Has Roberts really engineered a Supreme détente?
By Lester Feder
July 8, 2008 01:50 PM
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The Audit
Forbes Lets ‘Er Rip Hard-hitting piece says pension funds help cover up investment returns
By Ryan Chittum
July 8, 2008 01:20 PM
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The Audit
Fact Fight! Insurers make "error" allegations vs. Bloomberg News—nick Deadline Club
July 8, 2008 12:00 PM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
“Special Political Coverage” (By Any Other Name)
July 8, 2008 10:57 AM
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John McCanine
July 8, 2008 09:56 AM
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Feature
Climate Change: Now What? A big beat grows more challenging and complex
July 8, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (21)
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The Observatory
Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change Some key Web sites for journalists
July 8, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Where Have All the Doctors Gone? Finding out would make a good story for the summer lull
July 8, 2008 08:48 AM Comments (2)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Fannie and Freddie’s Grim Outlook Shares nosedive as housing crisis deepens; IndyMac’s disintegration; WaPo’s new boss; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 8, 2008 08:38 AM
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Press Giving McCain “Mad Pass” On Economic Plan?
July 8, 2008 08:32 AM Comments (1)
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The Audit
Good News (For Once) At The Journal Two internal promotions are hopeful signs in the News Corporation era
By Ryan Chittum
July 7, 2008 03:14 PM
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Intern-al Communication
July 7, 2008 01:33 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
NYT’s Incomplete Bhopal Story The paper raises questions it doesn't answer
By Ryan Chittum
July 7, 2008 01:25 PM Comments (3)
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Sasha Obama, This Could Be You!
July 7, 2008 01:20 PM
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Rewrite To The Nth Power
By Ryan Chittum
July 7, 2008 12:42 PM
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Time: Rolling the Dice on McCain?
July 7, 2008 10:46 AM Comments (1)
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Campaign Desk
Memo To Health Care Reporters Explain what the terms “national” and “universal” really mean, and what Obama’s plan really does
July 7, 2008 09:46 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Press Contrition Over Clark Coverage?
July 7, 2008 08:38 AM Comments (4)
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The Audit
Opening Bell: GM In Reverse WSJ says more layoffs for automaker; Bloomberg doubts stock touts; Oil to $200?; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 7, 2008 08:37 AM
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Campaign Desk
Sunday Watch 7-6-08 What’s it all about?
By Todd Gitlin
July 7, 2008 07:28 AM
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The Audit
Missing The Story On IndyMac Ex-WSJ reporter on the mortgage lender's bad deeds
By Ryan Chittum
July 3, 2008 03:59 PM Comments (2)
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Why Buy The Cow…
July 3, 2008 03:11 PM Comments (1)
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A Day at CJR
July 3, 2008 02:59 PM
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Skewering The “Green Issue”
By Ryan Chittum
July 3, 2008 02:35 PM
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The Kicker
Fox and the…Hounds?
By Megan Garber
July 3, 2008 01:03 PM
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The Audit
Burning the Mortgage? Bloomberg says torchings of foreclosures are rising, with little evidence
By Ryan Chittum
July 3, 2008 12:47 PM Comments (2)
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Campaign Desk
At Last: A Good, Issue-Driven Health Care Story The Catholic Courier makes things clear for readers
July 3, 2008 12:27 PM
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The Kicker
Covering Flip-Flops (A How-To)
July 3, 2008 10:38 AM
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More on That WaPo Obama Mortgage Story
July 3, 2008 09:50 AM
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Feature
Endangered Species The big-city sports columnist: devoured by TV, negated by the Net
July 3, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (2)
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The Kicker
The Cult of Kiernan
July 3, 2008 08:55 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Let ‘Em Fail Paulson says bad banks should go; fugitive hedgie surrenders; LAT cuts; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 3, 2008 08:35 AM
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The V-Word and Dick Grasso
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2008 03:58 PM
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The Observatory
Invasive Moths: To Spray or Not To Spray? Hard to tell from the Chronicle's coverage
By Eric Simons
July 2, 2008 03:39 PM
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The Audit
Talkin’ About Credit-Default Swaps Why being bearish on them means you're likely bullish in general
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2008 03:15 PM
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The Kicker
NYT’s MTV Cribs-Like Limbaugh Profile
July 2, 2008 01:18 PM
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Campaign Desk
Behind Barack’s “Suspicious” Mortgage Why did the Post run its Obama mortgage story?
July 2, 2008 01:05 PM
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The Kicker
About That CW on Bush’s HIV/AIDS Legacy
July 2, 2008 12:31 PM
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The Kicker
BBQ is the New “Beer With”
July 2, 2008 11:59 AM
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The Press Drives Out to the Country
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2008 11:50 AM
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The Kicker
“Disturbing Video” (What Would MSNBC Be Without It?)
July 2, 2008 10:08 AM
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The Audit, The Kicker
Costco vs. Wal-Mart
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2008 10:02 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Old Media Intra-Office Communication?
July 2, 2008 09:49 AM
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Behind the News
On Last Week’s Lara Logan “News” Not much of a scandal, not much of a story
July 2, 2008 09:01 AM
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The Kicker
Oops! Gitmo Training “To Elicit False Confessions?”
July 2, 2008 08:49 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Moodier and Moodier Ratings firm pushes out exec; Grasso keeps riches; bust makes Starbucks contract for once; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 2, 2008 08:25 AM
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Campaign Desk
Please, ABC, Tell Us What This Story Is About Another Obama flip-flop? Or just a plan that insurers will support?
July 1, 2008 01:59 PM
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Campaign Desk
The Swiftboat Reflex Wesley Clark fallout, day two
July 1, 2008 01:19 PM
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The Audit
Blackstone vs. the Bean Counters CEO likes fair-value when prices go up but not when they go down
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2008 11:55 AM
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The Kicker
Cringe-Making Parody of Morning News Tools
July 1, 2008 11:40 AM
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The Kicker
CNN Segment: “Swiftboating McCain?”
July 1, 2008 10:18 AM
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The Audit
A Bear Raid? Vanity Fair talks to lots of Bear Stearns execs who think—surprise!—outsiders did them in
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2008 10:02 AM
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The Kicker
Carville, Media Critic, On What Wes Said
July 1, 2008 09:08 AM Comments (1)
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Short Takes
Second Life A storied German-language newspaper remakes itself as a magazine
By Mariah Blake
July 1, 2008 09:00 AM
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Feature
Crossing Lines In a bombed-out Detroit neighborhood, a new blog works to rekindle a community
By Megan Garber
July 1, 2008 09:00 AM Comments (3)
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The Kicker
Breaking: Be Not Afraid, Be Not Very Afraid
July 1, 2008 08:31 AM
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The Audit
Opening Bell: Swiss Mess U.S. seeks UBS client list; casino bubble bursting, too?; IndyMac in peril; etc.
By Ryan Chittum
July 1, 2008 08:29 AM
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