Department Index
Press Box 2009:
Media criticism.
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- The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting A Q&A With John Maxwell Hamilton, author of Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.
Dec. 29, 2009 - Pious Lies and Obits The Washington Post soft-soaps the life of broadcaster George Michael.
Dec. 25, 2009 - The Tablet Hype They can't possibly save magazines and newspapers.
Dec. 22, 2009 - Stupid Drug Story of the Week The Washington Post on heroin and pills.
Dec. 16, 2009 - Jewspotting In which the New York Times expresses astonishment at members of the tribe living in out-of-the-way places.
Dec. 7, 2009 - Par for the Course Why we can't get enough of the stories about Tiger Woods and the Salahis.
Dec. 2, 2009 - The Most Powerful Veeps Ever The Times Magazine delivers a journalistic cliché in its Joe Biden feature.
Nov. 25, 2009 - Stupid Drug Story of the Week NBC's Today show discovers huffing.
Nov. 20, 2009 - Read Between the Lies What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?
Nov. 10, 2009 - Unsolicited Advice for Jim Brady Upon starting a local news site in D.C. for the owner of Politico.
Oct. 29, 2009 - This Obama-Fox War Ain't Nothin' For a genuine presidential war on the press, see the one FDR waged in the 1930s.
Oct. 26, 2009 - Snookered by Victims Cynical reporters and their soft spot.
Oct. 22, 2009 - Maurice Sendak's Thin Skin Why is he still so bent about a few negative words psychologist Bruno Bettelheim wrote in 1969?
Oct. 15, 2009 - New York Echoes George Lois Famed Esquire cover designer continues to inspire modern magazines.
Oct. 14, 2009 - The Newseum's Tim Russert Shrine Come, all ye faithful, and worship the fallen newsman.
Oct. 8, 2009 - The FTC's Mad Power Grab The commission's preposterous new endorsement guidelines.
Oct. 7, 2009 - How Condé Nast Is Like General Motors The magazine empire as car wreck.
Oct. 5, 2009 - Nonprofit Journalism Comes at a Cost The downside of nonprofit news organizations like MinnPost, Voice of San Diego, and the Washington Independent.
Sept. 30, 2009 - William Safire (1929-2009) Flack, political operative, speechwriter, novelist, columnist, and hack.
Sept. 28, 2009 - The David Bradley Prom He teams with the Aspen Institute and the Newseum for the year's most tedious event.
Sept. 24, 2009 - Two Cheers for Andrew Breitbart Sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way.
Sept. 23, 2009 - Saving Newspapers From Their Saviors President Obama! Stiff-arm that "save the newspapers" legislation!
Sept. 21, 2009 - Murder Draped in Ivy Why the press can't get enough of Harvard or Yale murders.
Sept. 17, 2009 - Katharine Weymouth Steps in It Again A Washington Post piece gets spiked after its publisher expresses a preference for happier stories.
Sept. 15, 2009 - Burying the Swine Flu Lede The top dailies are too upbeat about the coming pandemic.
Sept. 12, 2009 - The 9/11 Anniversary Racket Blind your eyes and plug your ears!
Sept. 9, 2009 - Unsolicited Advice for Diane Sawyer Why she should reject the ABC World News anchor slot.
Sept. 3, 2009 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week—Recession Causes Home Barbering The Wall Street Journal's tonsorial blarney.
Aug. 31, 2009 - Ink Hole Alex S. Jones thinks failing journalism makes failing democracy. So why won't he prove it?
Aug. 27, 2009 - For the Love of Teddy James Reston's inexplicable Kennedy crush.
Aug. 26, 2009 - Robert D. Novak (1931-2009) Darkness claims the prince of darkness.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Bogus Trend Stories, Summer Edition Chubby is hip; laptoppers evicted from coffee shops; DIY burial.
Aug. 14, 2009 - Will Marcus Brauchli Please Grow a Spine? The Washington Post executive editor grovels before the paper's critics in the Mad Bitch controversy.
Aug. 6, 2009 - Another Round of Mad Bitch, Please In defense of the offensive episode of "Mouthpiece Theater."
Aug. 4, 2009 - The Newspaper-Web War Ever get the feeling this battle was fought before?
Aug. 4, 2009 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week: "Girls' Sports Pack Economic Punch" The New York Times whiffs.
July 29, 2009 - McGovern-Cronkite in 1972? Poking holes in Frank Mankiewicz's account.
July 26, 2009 - Why I Didn't Trust Walter Cronkite Reason No. 1: He was not worthy.
July 21, 2009 - Does the Book Industry Want To Get Napstered? If the publishers force Amazon to raise prices on e-books, that's what will happen.
July 15, 2009 - Murdoch's News of the World Steps in It The press mogul's U.K. tabloid goes on a crime spree.
July 9, 2009 - Investigative Infotainment More about NBC News' screwy to-catch-a-war-criminal series.
July 8, 2009 - The David Bradley Effect The corrupting effect of his off-the-record salons.
July 7, 2009 - A Tiny Taste of Mediaite The fledgling media Web site leaves an acrid aftertaste.
July 6, 2009 - Monetizing the Washington Dinner Party The Washington Post's boneheaded—and aborted—plan to lobby for lobbyists.
July 2, 2009 - "Let Me Tell You About the Time I Interviewed Michael Jackson" Why reporters won't shut up about their encounters with the dead pop star.
July 1, 2009 - Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz Thanks to technology, we may be entering a golden age.
June 30, 2009 - Doubting Twitter Let's not get carried away about its role in Iran's demonstrations.
June 17, 2009 - As the Globe Turns What the Sulzbergers should do in Boston—but won't, obviously.
June 10, 2009 - Manufacturing the News, Nixon Style The 37th president's plan to stall impeachment with a flurry of press releases.
June 8, 2009 - The Unbearable Closeness of Kalb and Kissinger Why did Marvin Kalb ask Henry Kissinger's help in finding a new publisher for his Kissinger book?
June 4, 2009 - The Beginning of the End for Newspapers It was game over for metro dailies by 1965, writes David R. Davies.
May 29, 2009 - Larry King's Imperfect Memory How can you tell when the CNN host is telling the truth?
May 21, 2009 - Maureen Dowd's Next Step Having confessed to lifting copy, the New York Times' columnist almost sets things right.
May 18, 2009 - Bogus Trend of the Week: Raising Backyard Chickens The press lays dozens and dozens of eggs.
May 14, 2009 - Life After Newspapers Learning from the 1962-63 New York newspaper strike.
May 11, 2009 - Bilderberg Preview It's that time of year.
May 5, 2009 - Perfectly Obvious Cokie Behold how little substance NPR's Cokie Roberts can pack into four minutes of airtime.
May 1, 2009 - Newspaper Death Foretold by Warren Buffett!!! In 1992, the oracle of Omaha predicted the decline of newspapers, magazines, and TV.
April 27, 2009 - Mach-3 Hype From the Wall Street Journal What's that cyber-breach story doing at the top of Page One?
April 23, 2009 - Infrastructure Madness Don't believe everything you read about the failing bridges and antiquated waterworks.
April 21, 2009 - Hello, Steve Brill, Get Me Rewrite Thinking about his doomed plan to build a pay wall around newspapers.
April 17, 2009 - Don't Get All Huffy About the Huffington Post The sort of borrowing it does is in the American journalistic tradition.
April 15, 2009 - The Great Newspaper Crackup of 1918 And what to learn from it.
April 13, 2009 - The Water-War Myth Spike those stories about water disputes leading to armed combat.
April 2, 2009 - Rascal Flatts The kings of Midwestern prom rock.
April 1, 2009 - Are Times Publishers Born Stupid? Let's check the historical record.
March 31, 2009 - Prince's New Album A new protégé and a lot of love for Salma Hayek.
March 31, 2009 - Bring Back Yellow Journalism At its best, it was terrific. At its worst, it wasn't that bad.
March 30, 2009 - Democracy's Cheat Sheet? It's time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential for democracy.
March 27, 2009 - The Pharm-Party Meme It refuses to die.
March 23, 2009 - Debunking PCP's "Comeback" The Washington Post fails to make the case.
March 18, 2009 - Hello and Goodbye to the P-I Thoughts upon the venerable Seattle daily becoming a Web-only operation.
March 16, 2009 - Bill Moyers' Memory Why you can't trust it.
March 12, 2009 - Jeffrey Gettleman's World of War In praise of the New York Times' man in East Africa.
March 4, 2009 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week Washington Post: "Climate Fears Are Driving 'Ecomigration' Across Globe."
Feb. 25, 2009 - Moyers Responds to Slate Jack Shafer reported very old news as new and distorted the record beyond recognition.
Feb. 24, 2009 - More on Moyers Plus, J. Edgar Hoover on how to spot a homosexual.
Feb. 23, 2009 - The Intolerable Smugness of Bill Moyers He just can't help himself.
Feb. 20, 2009 - Not All Information Wants To Be Free Inventing and refining the rich content that wants to be sold.
Feb. 19, 2009 - Carlos Slim Watch Scrutinizing the Mexican mogul who now owns a big chunk of the New York Times Co.
Feb. 13, 2009 - How To Speak Obama Zadie Smith's two cents on how 44 mesmerizes.
Feb. 12, 2009 - To Catch a War Criminal? Why is NBC being so cagey about its new series?
Feb. 10, 2009 - What Would Ann Landers Advise? Ann's daughter, advice columnist Margo Howard, gets ugly with advice columnist Amy Dickinson.
Feb. 5, 2009 - Who Should Replace William Kristol at the Times? Nobody.
Feb. 4, 2009 - Alms for the Press? The case against foundation ownership of the New York Times.
Feb. 3, 2009 - Background Briefing Watch The "unmasking" of White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig.
Jan. 26, 2009 - Selling Virtue Pandering ad campaigns from Chevron, Starbucks, Liberty Mutual, and Barack Obama.
Jan. 24, 2009 - Chris Matthews' Inaugural Jib-Jabbery The MSNBC motormouth talks a lot, says nothing.
Jan. 22, 2009 - David vs. Goliath in Tulsa Why Tulsa's daily paper will regret suing the city's alternative weekly for libel.
Jan. 16, 2009 - Obama's New Press Strategy Soon to be the "one president at a time," he starts schmoozing the press.
Jan. 16, 2009 - Building an iTunes for Newspapers Answering David Carr's excellent challenge.
Jan. 13, 2009 - Soother in Chief How Barack Obama calms a panicked nation.
Jan. 9, 2009 - How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web But failed.
Jan. 6, 2009
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