Monthly Archive

April 2007

• Behind the News

  No Dinner For You! Frank Rich breaks some news, and bloggers get all huffy about it.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 30, 2007 03:19 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  The Mathematics of Balance When are two polling numbers created equal? When the Washington press corps get of hold of them.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 30, 2007 02:25 PM

• Behind the News

  Why NBC Was Right to Air Cho Package Kevin Sites, who has first-hand experience with controversial video footage, comments on the Cho video.

  By Kevin Sites

  April 30, 2007 12:57 PM

• Politics

  Tenet’s Mouth is Moving, But We Can’t Understand the Words George Tenet's story is confusing, and reporters aren't making it any clearer.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 27, 2007 01:56 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  Counting the Dead in Iraq If the Iraqi government won't provide civilian casualty figures, it's up to reporters to find them.

  By Gal Beckerman

  April 27, 2007 12:00 PM Comments (5)

• Politics

  Good News for People Who Love Bad News A new, anti-press theme is beginning to emerge in John McCain's presidential campaign.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 26, 2007 02:29 PM

• The Audit

  Mergers: They’re What’s for Dinner For the business press, the more mergers and acquisitions, the better. Too bad most of them don't work out.

  By Dean Starkman

  April 26, 2007 02:13 PM

• Behind the News

  The War Over the Wall The decision by the U.S. military to build a wall separating two Baghdad neighborhoods is kicking up some dust.

  By Satta Sarmah

  April 26, 2007 01:50 PM

• Politics

  Naomi Wolf Defines Fascism Downward Wolfe takes to a British newspaper to tell Americans they're screwed.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 25, 2007 03:57 PM

• Behind the News

  The Katies’ Sad Fall A Texas journalism award isn't all it has been cracked up to be.

  By Dan Goldberg

  April 25, 2007 02:27 PM

• Behind the News

  Surprise, MTV’s Environmental News Rocks MTV rediscovers some of the social consciousness that it once proudly displayed.

  By Curtis Brainard

  April 24, 2007 10:30 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Katie Couric: Anything a Media Critic Wants Her to be More contradictory reports from the land of Couric obsessives.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 23, 2007 05:10 PM

• Politics

  Good News! The News is Good! American bloggers turn a story about the curtailment Russian free speech into a domestic joke.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 23, 2007 02:10 PM

• Politics

  The Sun’s Wafer-thin Attack on Elliott’s Pulitzer Piece For a right-wing paper, there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim.

  By Gal Beckerman

  April 20, 2007 04:23 PM Comments (8)

• Behind the News

  NBC’s Damned If It Does, And Damned If It Doesn’t Attacking the press for telling too much of the story.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 20, 2007 03:56 PM Comments (17)

• The Audit

  Dang, That’s Good With many moving parts, the WSJ's options series took serious stones to publish

  By Dean Starkman

  April 19, 2007 01:43 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Blogs and NBC and the MSM and Mass Murder Bloggers react to NBC airing the rantings of the Virginia Tech killer.

  By Satta Sarmah

  April 19, 2007 01:25 PM Comments (7)

• Behind the News

  Young Journalists’ Concerns About the V Tech Story Aspiring journalists take to their blogs to give voice to how they think the story is being covered.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 18, 2007 03:24 PM Comments (14)

• Behind the News

  What Happens When an i-Reporter Gets Hurt? Raw news footage is great, but how safe are the raw recruits filming it?

  By Paul McLeary

  April 18, 2007 02:51 PM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  Fox News Takes Vonnegut’s Bait, One Last Time Fox News didn't like Kurt Vonnegut. So it Goes...

  By Gal Beckerman

  April 17, 2007 01:13 PM Comments (4)

• Behind the News

  A Guide Through the Jungle of Green Issues Green news has grown into a print jungle that -- sometimes unique and probing, sometimes more fad than fact -- can be difficult to navigate.

  By Curtis Brainard

  April 16, 2007 02:50 PM Comments (1)

• Politics

  Duke v. Iraq, an Exercise in News Judgment The cable channels refuse to surprise in choosing which stories to play up.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 16, 2007 12:52 PM Comments (3)

• Behind the News

  Bloggers Give New ESPN Ombudsman Glowing Reviews On April 7, a radio host went on the air and said something really stupid -- and it had nothing to do with Rutgers. Enter Le Anne Schreiber.

  By Dan Goldberg

  April 16, 2007 10:44 AM Comments (1)

• Behind the News

  NBC and CBS Rolled Over Once the Advertisers Fled Imus Media critics and Les Moonves suddenly take the moral high ground.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 13, 2007 02:33 PM Comments (2)

• The Audit

  W.W.T.A.D. What Would The Audit Do, if given $125 million to reinvent business reporting from scratch? Quelque chose comme Conde Nast Portfolio? Peut-être.

  By Dean Starkman

  April 12, 2007 01:40 PM

• Politics

  With Troop Tours Extended, Bloggers Debate Service Today in the 'sphere, bloggers and soldiers debate which sacrifices should be required of an all-volunteer Army.

  By Satta Sarmah

  April 12, 2007 12:58 PM

• Politics

  Facts, Shmacts. It’s A Good Story! The Reno Gazette-Journal turns an outlandish rumor into "news," before the story collapses upon itself.

  By Edward B. Colby

  April 12, 2007 10:50 AM

• Behind the News

  Emissions Markets: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly The press, the markets and politicians get all mixed up.

  By Curtis Brainard

  April 11, 2007 04:24 PM

• Behind the News

  Meet Al Roker, Fired-Up Blogger Less noticed amid the fallout from the slur heard 'round the world has been some internecine conflict taking place under the NBC News umbrella.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 11, 2007 04:11 PM

• Behind the News

  Get the Facts Straight on Iran and EFPs When is an Iranian bomb not an Iranian bomb? When it's made in Iraq.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 10, 2007 12:17 PM

• Behind the News

  Demands Unmet, the Taliban Take an Afghan Journalist’s Life After a little more than a month in captivity, Ajmal Naqshbandi was killed Sunday.

  By Dan Goldberg

  April 09, 2007 02:32 PM

• Politics

  The Weekend’s Good and Bad Rudy don't know Iran, Gawker don't know Iraq.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 09, 2007 12:48 PM

• Behind the News

  The Coming News Blackout? Some news organizations are turning down embeds not because of combat -- but because they might get their gear stolen.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 06, 2007 03:13 PM

• Behind the News

  The Flint Journal and SonRise: A Twisted Tale Pretend, for a moment, that you are a loyal reader of the Flint Journal, a small daily northwest of Detroit. Now consider the following series of items.

  By Edward B. Colby

  April 05, 2007 02:00 PM

• Politics

  Bush Names Ambassador to Belgium, Bloggers on Top of It The president makes a recess appointment to a very important post, leading to conflict.

  By Satta Sarmah

  April 05, 2007 01:23 PM

• The Audit

  Capitalism At Risk; Needs More From Journal’s Third Front Money & Investing is Getting Some Help. It needs it.

  By Dean Starkman

  April 05, 2007 12:10 PM

• Behind the News

  EPA Ruling Sets an Ambitious Menu For the Press As "triumphant" as Monday's decision may be for environmentalists, for the press the story is just beginning.

  By Curtis Brainard

  April 04, 2007 05:28 PM

• Behind the News

  Wolf Goes Free, But Debate He Inspired Continues He has been called a blogger, freelance journalist, photographer, political activist and anarchist, but one title Josh Wolf no longer goes by is prisoner.

  By Christina Hernandez

  April 04, 2007 11:29 AM

• Politics

  Stop the Winnowing Already! It is way too early for simplistic framing, or for narrowing the presidential field.

  By Edward B. Colby

  April 03, 2007 11:58 AM

• Behind the News

  We’re At War; That’s Front-Page News Every Day If ever there were a case for journalism to give the people what they need, even if sometimes they say they don't want it, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are it.

  By Paul McLeary

  April 02, 2007 12:23 PM

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