Monthly Archive
May 2007
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Behind the News
Quitting Time In Venezuela, one newspaper exemplifies a bad trend
By Rachel Jones
May 31, 2007 01:59 PM
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Behind the News
Al Gore’s press problem It's baaaack....
By Paul McLeary
May 31, 2007 01:43 PM Comments (6)
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The Audit
A word about leadership And one reason Dow Jones lost the war
May 31, 2007 01:19 PM
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The Kicker
And now for something completly different
By Paul McLeary
May 31, 2007 12:17 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Blogs Heat Up over Global Warming Here we go...
By Eric Hirsch
May 31, 2007 12:16 PM
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The Kicker
Kill your television
May 31, 2007 11:09 AM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Water Under the Dam? Hardly. The fight for water
May 31, 2007 10:56 AM
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Behind the News
NYT’s “Basics” column needs an editor Back to basics
May 30, 2007 01:01 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The “Law & Order” candidate Fred Thompson in?
By Eric Hirsch
May 30, 2007 12:48 PM
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The Kicker
More bad news from Mexico
By Paul McLeary
May 30, 2007 11:53 AM
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The Audit
Of Lepers and Lou Dobbs Dobbs has a leprosy problem
May 30, 2007 10:30 AM
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The Kicker
Three year-old scandal made new!
By Paul McLeary
May 29, 2007 02:18 PM Comments (5)
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The Kicker
Mexican newsrooms
By Paul McLeary
May 29, 2007 01:58 PM
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The Kicker
Cleeland lets loose
May 29, 2007 12:20 PM
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Behind the News
Bloggers dissect Sheehan Things get ugly
By Eric Hirsch
May 29, 2007 11:46 AM
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Behind the News
Salon’s Greenwald is wrong about Klein Though Klein was misleading
By Paul McLeary
May 25, 2007 02:36 PM Comments (12)
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The Kicker
Memorial day evergreen
May 25, 2007 02:17 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Blogging on war spending Blog report
By Eric Hirsch
May 25, 2007 01:25 PM
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The Kicker
And they’re off!
By Paul McLeary
May 25, 2007 11:20 AM Comments (6)
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The Kicker
Piling on
By Paul McLeary
May 24, 2007 03:25 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
Olbermann stirs the pot Blogs v. Dems
By Eric Hirsch
May 24, 2007 12:32 PM
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The Kicker
Stein on stocks
May 24, 2007 11:53 AM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Blog fight!
By Paul McLeary
May 24, 2007 11:29 AM
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The Kicker
Live and Direct
May 23, 2007 02:35 PM
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The Kicker
Drunk Germans, tattooed fish
By Paul McLeary
May 23, 2007 01:05 PM
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Behind the News
In Maysan province, the press misses an opportunity to go deep Yon picks up the slack
By Paul McLeary
May 23, 2007 12:31 PM
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Behind the News
A Subversive Press? Covert Operations in Iran Bloggers react to ABC's "covert operations" scoop
By Eric Hirsch
May 23, 2007 12:21 PM
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The Kicker
FT on DJ
May 23, 2007 11:45 AM
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The Kicker
A Good One on Drug Trials
May 23, 2007 11:20 AM
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The Kicker
Not Your Grandma’s Science Fair
May 23, 2007 10:57 AM
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The Kicker
Sports pages vs. military reporting
By Paul McLeary
May 22, 2007 04:14 PM
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The Kicker
Girl goes missing, news peg found
By Paul McLeary
May 22, 2007 03:12 PM
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Politics
Smart people gather to talk about politics and the Web, nothing interesting is said Blogging confabs bring out the smart guys, but few new ideas are ever aired.
By Paul McLeary
May 22, 2007 01:37 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Iraq beats Iraq
By Paul McLeary
May 22, 2007 12:29 PM
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The Kicker
We have been promised monsters!
May 21, 2007 04:44 PM Comments (1)
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The Kicker
Gore on the horse race
May 21, 2007 01:45 PM
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The Kicker
More Iraqi journos killed
By Paul McLeary
May 21, 2007 12:44 PM
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The Kicker
Bloggers vs. book reviewers
May 21, 2007 12:11 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
The best source of environmental stories that you’ve never heard of What you should know about "green" ads.
May 21, 2007 08:39 AM
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The Audit
How often does the press beat the SEC to accounting fraud stories? Not very often
May 21, 2007 07:36 AM Comments (4)
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The Audit
The Tragedy of Peter Kann A devoted son of Dow Jones brings down the company.
May 21, 2007 07:04 AM
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The Kicker
Yeah, Wolfie is out, stop cheering
May 18, 2007 05:44 PM
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The Kicker
Don’t believe the hype
By Paul McLeary
May 18, 2007 05:02 PM
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Politics
Banning the bad news in Iraq The Iraqi government is chasing journalists away from covering stories.
By Paul McLeary
May 16, 2007 02:05 PM Comments (2)
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Behind the News
If the networks and the Pentagon hate it, ‘Hometown Baghdad’ is surely must-see TV Pentagon stomps on YouTube, cutting off an unvarnished look at the war.
May 15, 2007 03:39 PM Comments (9)
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Politics
Opposition research, tall tales, and the dregs of campaign reporting Turnabout might be fair play, but it doesn't make for good journalism.
By Paul McLeary
May 14, 2007 03:43 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
A Moment in the Demise of Nightline A "debate" over the existence of God reveals the sad state of the nightly news, as guided by the steady hand of Martin Bashir.
By Paul McLeary
May 11, 2007 01:49 PM Comments (1)
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Behind the News
Newspapers Are Killing Cartoonists—Another Brilliant Business Move Have editorial cartoons been silenced by "fearful editors" who want, among other things, to "appease conservatives"?
May 11, 2007 10:47 AM Comments (2)
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Politics
Ooooooh, Web Ads! Web ads are great, but the political battles will still be fought, for better or worse, in the old media.
By Paul McLeary
May 10, 2007 03:17 PM Comments (1)
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The Audit
What’s Good For the Bancrofts Is Bad for the Journal The Wall Street Journal's parent has been paying outsized cash dividends, to the primary benefit of the controlling Bancroft family, instead of reinvesting to keep the company independent of Murdoch and other predators.
May 10, 2007 02:44 PM Comments (1)
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Profile
The Shield Bearer How a conservative congressman from Indiana became journalisms best ally in the fight to protect anonymous sources.
May 10, 2007 01:02 PM
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Behind the News
Will Fort Dix plotters turn out to be the next ‘Seas of David’? Not all terror plots are created equal, as we've found out over the last several years.
By Paul McLeary
May 09, 2007 02:18 PM Comments (5)
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The Audit
Steiger Sat On What?! Rupert Murdoch's "reassuring" e-mail about a live offer for the Wall Street Journal's parent creates a journalistic fiasco. Thanks, Rupert. We feel better already.
May 08, 2007 04:49 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Look Who’s Dining with the Queen More mixing of reporters with politicians over a polite dinner shouldn't sit well with the public.
May 08, 2007 04:12 PM Comments (3)
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On the Job
Unspoken Foreign correspondents and sexual abuse
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM
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The News Business
Superiority Complex Why the Brits think theyre better
By Susan Hansen
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM
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Feature
Soldiers Stories What fires up the journalists at Military Times is the vulnerability of the community they cover
By Alia Malek
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM
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Feature
The Curious Case of Victor Pey Why the Chilean government wants to keep a friendly newspaper shuttered.
By John Dinges
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM
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Cover Story
Rules of Engagement A year with the 101st Airborne in Iraq.
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM
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Essay
New Grub Street How did ethics become a staple of contemporary food writing?
May 08, 2007 08:30 AM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Hansen v. Cockburn in the The Nation, With Nothing at Stake The global warming debate goes nowhere in this slow-motion battle of wits.
May 07, 2007 03:32 PM
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Behind the News
A New Shield Law in Washington State The author of the nation's thirty-second state law protecting journalists' confidential sources says it should boost prospects for a federal version.
May 04, 2007 12:46 PM Comments (1)
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Politics
Is This What the Army Thinks of Us? A new Army manual paints American reporters as a national security threat.
By Paul McLeary
May 03, 2007 02:17 PM Comments (16)
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The Audit
The Trouble With Insurance Reporting The business press accepts insurance industry assumptions that are utterly bogus—and, yes, it matters a lot.
May 03, 2007 10:10 AM
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The Audit
The End of Dow Jones Covering Your Own Downfall
May 02, 2007 02:39 PM Comments (3)
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Behind the News
Congested Coverage Forget "congestion pricing," PlaNYC needs the press’s deep and sustained attention.
May 02, 2007 12:30 PM
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Behind the News
The Organic Link Between Books and Newspapers Do newspapers really want to sacrifice the cultural authority that book reviews provide?
May 01, 2007 01:45 PM
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