Media criticism.

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• Bogus Trend Story of the Week: Playwrights Working for TV The Wall Street Journal discovers a zillion playwrights writing for television!
  Jack Shafer March 2, 2010
  
• Sympathy for Tony Kornheiser He may be a rotten bastard, but his ESPN bosses are idiots for suspending him.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 23, 2010
  
• The Plagiarist's Dirty Dozen Excuses Take off your shoes and socks and count them all.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 17, 2010
  
• The Posner Plagiarism Perplex What to make of Gerald Posner's blog statement.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 11, 2010
  
• Old Media District Eclipsed by New Bypass Transportation reporter Howard Kurtz muffs the story.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 9, 2010
  
• More Posner Plagiarism Veteran reporter Gerald Posner is a repeat offender.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 8, 2010
  
• Plagiarism at the Daily Beast Veteran journalist Gerald Posner concedes that he lifted from the Miami Herald.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 5, 2010
  
• The Retarded Controversy Lay off Rahm Emanuel already!
  Jack Shafer Feb. 4, 2010
  
• Bogus Trend Stories of the Month The New York Times corners the market.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 3, 2010
  
• Harper's to Shafer: You're All Wet on the Gitmo Story And Shafer responds.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 2, 2010
  
• Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo? The shortcomings of a Harper's magazine "exposé."
  Jack Shafer Jan. 28, 2010
  
• Still More Pharm-Party Phoolishness The meme lives!
  Jack Shafer Jan. 21, 2010
  
• The Wall The New York Times Co.'s plan to build a content wall answers the wrong question.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 20, 2010
  
• Game Change Changes Nothing Go ahead and ignore all the indignation about Heilemann and Halperin's journalistic methods.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 19, 2010
  
• Beat Sweetener: The Rajiv Shah Edition The Washington Post drools all over the new USAID chief.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 15, 2010
  
• Google Pulls a Conan on China Treat us right, the search engine shouts to its audience, or we'll yank the plug on Google.cn.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 13, 2010
  
• Looking for Corruption in All the Wrong Places The failings of the New York Times ethics cops.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 8, 2010