Monthly Archive

February 2007

• Politics

  Dan Gerstein, Greg Sargent and a Word on Transparency The editors of the Politico shouldn't get off so easily in a little Internet spat.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 28, 2007 04:00 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Welcome Back Woodruff With Tears and Tantrums The vast majority of bloggers were moved by To Iraq and Back.

  By Christina Hernandez

  February 28, 2007 03:34 PM

• Behind the News

  Egypt Shuts Down Insurgent TV, But Other U.S. Allies Keep It Live Egypt this week pulled the plug on Al-Zawraa -- but viewers who still want their fix of anti-American mayhem can continue to watch the channel's offerings.

  By Lawrence Pintak

  February 28, 2007 01:44 PM

• Behind the News

  Forget the Peripheral Stuff at Gitmo. The Story Is Who’s There and Why? On the whole, stories from the last six months have not treated the essential question about Guantanamo: Who is there and why?

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 28, 2007 12:24 PM

• The Audit

  How Tone-Deaf Is CNBC? Each time Maria Bartiromo reports on Citigroup, rightly or wrongly, the knot of questions she has not answered become newly relevant.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 27, 2007 06:06 PM

• Politics

  John Solomon Gives Us Less Than Meets the Eye — Again Another non-starter on the front page of the Post, by their resident non-starter reporter.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 27, 2007 03:05 PM

• The Audit

  On DaimlerChrysler Story, Reuters Dashes Off A Cliff The frenzied speculation surrounding Chrysler's future has not let up.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 26, 2007 04:52 PM

• Politics

  Skepticism Is But Step One in the Iran Story One thing is certain about the claims that Iran is supplying Iraqi terrorists: we haven't even begun to grasp the full story.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 26, 2007 03:07 PM

• Behind the News

  Jason Whitlock Had a Great Time in Vegas … Right? Was the NBA All-Star Vegas weekend a "Perfect Party" or was "Mayhem the Main Event?"

  By Dan Goldberg

  February 26, 2007 01:48 PM

• Behind the News

  Some Creative Efforts to Take Back Foreign News International news -- who needs it? The American public, that's who.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 22, 2007 03:26 PM

• Politics

  Post Spurs Walter Reed Changes, Blogging Debate Some bloggers are assailing the lack of support for the troops, while others see the Post's series as evidence of the media's anti-military and anti-war stance.

  By Satta Sarmah

  February 22, 2007 02:13 PM

• Behind the News

  ABC’s Subheds Bludgeon With Redundancy Here's a suggestion for the network's Web team: Scrap 'em.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 21, 2007 05:14 PM

• Politics

  BBC Breaks Iran Attack Plan, Bloggers Worried A BBC article today outlined a U.S. contingency plan for attacking Iran, leaving bloggers sarcastic or spooked, but not surprised.

  By Christina Hernandez

  February 21, 2007 03:42 PM

• Behind the News

  Beware the Bloggers What's the one thing that Tony Snow and David Gregory can agree on? That bloggers don't get it.

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 21, 2007 02:25 PM

• Politics

  The Cheney Hokey-Pokey Is Cheney up? Is Cheney down? The press corps can't seem to get the story straight.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 21, 2007 02:21 PM

• Behind the News

  Castro’s Commitment to Press Freedom is Honored … Seriously One would be hard-pressed to come up with a leader less deserving of such an award than Castro.

  By Bree Nordenson

  February 21, 2007 11:39 AM

• Politics

  Press’s Awkward Treatment of Diverse Prez Field Begins With the 2008 campaign under way, the press's attempts to shoehorn the candidates into simplistic narrative frameworks have begun, too.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 20, 2007 12:20 PM

• Behind the News

  Lucky Sparks New Censorship Debate Anything that borders on censorship will rile up bloggers, and the controversy over a children's book that uses a touchy word has done just that.

  By Dan Goldberg

  February 19, 2007 01:44 PM

• Behind the News

  Truth and Consequences The press, like government officials, has had no immunity from the newly coined "Iraq Syndrome" -- and that is a positive development.

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 16, 2007 04:21 PM

• Politics

  Kurtz Starts Weekend Early With Lighthearted Fare It takes a talented writer to paint Michelle Malkin as the voice of reason, while portraying some liberal bloggers as violent, racist, knuckle-dragging misogynists out to destroy her.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 16, 2007 03:45 PM

• Politics

  Cable Nets Blow Their Own Houses Down To smoke or not to smoke -- it was never a question.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 16, 2007 03:12 PM

• The Audit

  DaimlerChrysler Sets Off ‘Frenzy of Speculation’ The Detroit News makes a prophecy, and enthused journalists do their part.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 15, 2007 04:40 PM

• Politics

  Is Obama Black Enough? Steve Kroft isn't the first journalist to ask that question, implicitly or not. But does it even matter?

  By Satta Sarmah

  February 15, 2007 02:56 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  For ABC, Weather Equals Climate Change ABCNews.com featured a poll Wednesday that was so egregiously nitwitted that it deserves comment.

  By Curtis Brainard

  February 15, 2007 11:00 AM

• Politics

  When Does the Watchdog Bark? The Answer May Surprise You However weak-kneed we think our media have been, their questions have grown more assertive, more adversarial, and more demanding over time.

  By Tony Dokoupil

  February 14, 2007 11:10 AM

• Behind the News

  CJR Daily’s Aching Prose Awards Our roundup of the "best" and "worst" Valentine's Day print journalism out there.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 14, 2007 10:35 AM

• Politics

  An Iraqi Journalist Spoils the Pentagon-Press Synergy The rules of anonymous sourcing don't always translate well in other countries.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 13, 2007 02:18 PM

• Politics

  Fool Me Once … Reading through the Iran weapons coverage today, we found a decent dose of journalistic skepticism, even if it was often not as prominent as we would have liked.

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 12, 2007 05:47 PM

• Behind the News

  Post Ombud Says “It Wasn’t Us! We Swear!” In which we criticize Deborah Howell's criticism of the Washington Post's Web site.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 12, 2007 04:21 PM

• Behind the News

  Harvard Names New President, Bloggers Skeptical Many bloggers are wondering if the hiring of Drew Gilpin Faust is more than just a coincidence.

  By Dan Goldberg

  February 12, 2007 01:33 PM

• Behind the News

  Geoffrey York On Earth’s Most Polluted City A Globe and Mail reporter talks about his queasy trip to Linfen, China.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 12, 2007 12:33 PM

• The Audit

  CNBC’s Big Story Yesterday the cable network provided a promising case study of the perils of reporting business news live.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 09, 2007 02:15 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Debate GM Robot’s Suicide The automaker's Super Bowl ad depicting an assembly line robot rolling itself off a bridge was apparently a little too close to reality.

  By Dan Goldberg

  February 09, 2007 12:09 PM

• Politics

  Edwards Camp Comes Under Blog Fire The 2008 election is still far off, but the Edwards duo have proven that bloggers themselves can be campaign liabilities.

  By Satta Sarmah

  February 08, 2007 02:12 PM

• Politics

  Another Take on the Troop “Surge” Numbers An email from a Pentagon correspondent makes us reconsider ...

  By Paul McLeary

  February 08, 2007 01:20 PM

• Politics

  The Latest On Reporters and Subpoenas Despite some good news, it has hardly been a banner week for journalism.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 07, 2007 03:46 PM

• Behind the News

  Astronaut Soars Across Headlines The news media and bloggers have jumped on the story of Lisa Nowak's strange fall from grace: the tainted hero, intrigue and headline puns were too much to resist.

  By Christina Hernandez

  February 07, 2007 03:33 PM

• Behind the News

  New York Woulda Been Nice A look at the flip side of speculative journalism: analyzing what could have once come to pass, years after the fact.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 07, 2007 10:35 AM

• Behind the News

  British Stories We Shouldn’t Ignore Taking a spin through the British press, we saw some stories that have been receiving scant attention stateside.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 06, 2007 02:53 PM

• Politics

  20,000 Additional Troops — Give or Take 15,000 For all the column inches expended on the Bush administration's plan to send more troops to Iraq, one significant aspect of the proposal has yet to be sorted out.

  By Paul McLeary

  February 05, 2007 03:06 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Herald User-Generated Super Bowl Ads If there is one constant regarding the Super Bowl it is this: Monday morning's water cooler conversation will invariably involve commercials.

  By Dan Goldberg

  February 05, 2007 02:15 PM

• The Audit

  At USA Today, One Makes a Trend It's hard to say what journalism loves more -- a comeback story or a hot trend.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 05, 2007 01:30 PM

• Behind the News

  The Importance Of “Seeing” The War In our estimation it was the closest we have gotten, via journalism, to the troops in battle in recent memory. You could feel their helplessness.

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 03, 2007 01:19 AM

• Politics

  Will The Politico Foster More Horse Race Coverage? Welcome to the land of inside baseball, otherwise known as the week-old highly touted new Web site, The Politico.

  By Gal Beckerman

  February 01, 2007 03:30 PM

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Enraged By Times Images of Soldier’s Death The paper's coverage of a dying American soldier is sparking outrage from his family, the Army, and Web scribes.

  By Satta Sarmah

  February 01, 2007 02:15 PM

• Behind the News

  A Newspaper Industry Casualty You May Have Missed Out in the desolate southwestern corner of New Mexico, a small newspaper in a small desert town died today.

  By Edward B. Colby

  February 01, 2007 12:30 PM

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