Department Index
Press Box 2009:
Media criticism.
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- 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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