Department Index
Press Box 2010:
Media criticism.
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- Flat-Chested Pride? The New York Times' "Thursday Styles" section discovers A-cup vanity.
Sept. 2, 2010 - Taking the News Hostage The editorial lessons taught by the now-dead gunman who stormed the Discovery Channel today.
Sept. 1, 2010 - The L.A. Times Flunks L.A. Schoolteachers The newspaper takes on the two L.A. sacred cows—teachers and unions—and lives to print again!
Aug. 31, 2010 - Who Said It First? Journalism is the "first rough draft of history."
Aug. 31, 2010 - The Proto-Internet of 1704 The small ways in which Colonial newspapers anticipated the Web.
Aug. 26, 2010 - The Times Gets Lost in the National Parks The bogusity of the New York Times' story about how technology leads more park visitors into trouble.
Aug. 23, 2010 - Greetings, 18 Percenters! Let's meet the knucklehead Americans who think Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Aug. 19, 2010 - Sympathy for Rupert Murdoch In defense of his company's $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association.
Aug. 18, 2010 - Bogus Trend Stories of the Week Child pornography, sextortion, and Chinese hymenoplasties.
Aug. 17, 2010 - Paved and Confused What Krugman, Maddow, and the press corps don't understand about gravel roads.
Aug. 16, 2010 - The Tabloidy Goodness of TBD.com Praising the fledgling flight of the much-discussed new Web site.
Aug. 12, 2010 - Unsolicited Advice for Sidney Harman Upon purchasing Newsweek from the Washington Post Co.
Aug. 5, 2010 - Bogus Trend Stories of the Week Pieces about cuckolding, cemetery real estate, plagiarism, and infanticide.
Aug. 4, 2010 - The Art of Printing Secrets What the New York Times could teach Julian Assange about national security.
Aug. 3, 2010 - The Twitter Verdict on Newsweek All the mean and funny stuff people are tweeting about the magazine's sale.
Aug. 3, 2010 - Bogus Trend Stories—Dog Days of Summer Edition Meds-impaired drivers, doggie snubs, and the return of the bomb shelter.
July 29, 2010 - How To Give (and Take) a Leak Unsolicited advice for Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.
July 28, 2010 - Blow Up the White House Briefing Room It's the best way to resolve who should get Helen Thomas' front-row-center seat.
July 21, 2010 - Pour Me a Fresca I need your help finding a long-form story to report for Slate.
July 20, 2010 - A Midsummer's Stew of Bogus Trends Robo tripping, digital drugs, temporary dropouts, and subway hogs.
July 19, 2010 - By the Numbers A terrific new book of essays encourages us all to be skeptical about statistics.
July 14, 2010 - The Man Who Wasn't There The New York Times publishes a weightless profile of Denis McDonough.
July 12, 2010 - Speak Your Mind. Lose Your Job. Why Octavia Nasr and Dave Weigel shouldn't have lost their jobs.
July 8, 2010 - The New York Times' Bogus Trend Factory Now the newspaper is prattling on about the "circle lenses" rage.
July 7, 2010 - Unsolicited Advice for Future Subjects of Magazine Profiles What Gen. McChrystal should have known about Rolling Stone's reporter going in.
June 23, 2010 - The Time and Life Acid Trip How Henry R. Luce and Clare Boothe Luce helped turn America on to LSD.
June 21, 2010 - When the Hed Doesn't Fit the Story A Wall Street Journal hedline makes a big promise its story about Obama's speech doesn't deliver on.
June 17, 2010 - Bogus Trend Stories of the Week The Washington Post on tradesmen who've gone to college; the New York Times on teenage jackassery.
June 15, 2010 - Focus Groupies Peter Beinart and Frank Luntz blame old Jews for the fading Zionism among young Jews.
June 8, 2010 - Bogus Trend Smorgasbord Sack tapping, vodka eyeballing, and "little girl" parties.
June 3, 2010 - Murdoch's Disastrous Triumph How Rupert Murdoch won the Wall Street Journal and lost billions in the process.
June 1, 2010 - Two Cheers for the Sulzberger Dynasty Why the nepotistic promotion of Times reporter A.G. Sulzberger is a good thing.
May 28, 2010 - Joe McGinniss Gets Old-School With Sarah Palin In defense of a journalist's stalking of a politician.
May 26, 2010 - Stupid Drug Story of the Week The Associated Press on the arrival of "deadly, ultra-pure heroin."
May 25, 2010 - The Master of Debunk W. Joseph Campbell corrects the record on 10 important misreported stories.
May 21, 2010 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week The New York Times discovers pot use in restaurant kitchens, links it to cuisine creativity.
May 19, 2010 - Blumenthal's Draft-Ducking Dance He wasn't the only one to cheat the draft. But he might have been among the best.
May 18, 2010 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week Reuters claims that Pakistani-Americans are masquerading as Indians.
May 11, 2010 - I Wish Elena Kagan Were an Uncloseted Lesbian Not that I have the wildest clue about her sexual orientation. Honest!
May 10, 2010 - Newsweek Has Fallen Down and Can't Get Up The institutional forces behind the demise of a magazine.
May 5, 2010 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week The New York Times on Americans renouncing their citizenship.
April 30, 2010 - Why Not Pay Sources? My objections are practical, not ethical.
April 29, 2010 - Attention Must Be Paid to Rupert Murdoch! Why he's launching a "Greater New York" section of the Wall Street Journal.
April 26, 2010 - Linsky and Lammer Love Long-Form Two writers curate a Web site devoted to feature-length journalism.
April 23, 2010 - The Apple Secrecy Machine Does it really make people want to buy stuff?
April 20, 2010 - Apple Wants To Own You Welcome to our velvet prison, say the boys and girls from Cupertino.
April 15, 2010 - Kitty Kelley, Sore Winner Ignore her claim that the media are blackballing her Oprah book.
April 12, 2010 - Waxman Vs. Wolff, Round 2 The Wrap sends Newser a very silly letter.
April 8, 2010 - Is Michael Wolff a Parasite? Sharon "the Wrap" Waxman vs. Michael "Newser" Wolff.
April 6, 2010 - When Journalists Repackage Themselves as Politicians Explaining the reporter's urge to run for office.
April 2, 2010 - The Scooplet That Melted Politico, the Atlantic, and the iffy memo they rushed to publish.
March 24, 2010 - Schooling Ross Douthat in Conspiracy Theory What the New York Times columnist misses about fringe thinkers.
March 22, 2010 - The Worst "Pharm Party" Story Ever The San Francisco Chronicle takes the honor.
March 17, 2010 - What's Wrong With the Post Op-Ed Page? No, it's not the number of conservative columnists.
March 16, 2010 - Make My RSS Feed Full, Goddamnit! Or please, Mr. Denton, will you undo the damage you've done to Gawker Media?
March 11, 2010 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week: Playwrights Working for TV The Wall Street Journal discovers a zillion playwrights writing for television!
March 2, 2010 - Sympathy for Tony Kornheiser He may be a rotten bastard, but his ESPN bosses are idiots for suspending him.
Feb. 23, 2010 - The Plagiarist's Dirty Dozen Excuses Take off your shoes and socks and count them all.
Feb. 17, 2010 - The Posner Plagiarism Perplex What to make of Gerald Posner's blog statement.
Feb. 11, 2010 - Old Media District Eclipsed by New Bypass Transportation reporter Howard Kurtz muffs the story.
Feb. 9, 2010 - More Posner Plagiarism Veteran reporter Gerald Posner is a repeat offender.
Feb. 8, 2010 - Plagiarism at the Daily Beast Veteran journalist Gerald Posner concedes that he lifted from the Miami Herald.
Feb. 5, 2010 - The Retarded Controversy Lay off Rahm Emanuel already!
Feb. 4, 2010 - Bogus Trend Stories of the Month The New York Times corners the market.
Feb. 3, 2010 - Harper's to Shafer: You're All Wet on the Gitmo Story And Shafer responds.
Feb. 2, 2010 - Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo? The shortcomings of a Harper's magazine "exposé."
Jan. 28, 2010 - Still More Pharm-Party Phoolishness The meme lives!
Jan. 21, 2010 - The Wall The New York Times Co.'s plan to build a content wall answers the wrong question.
Jan. 20, 2010 - Game Change Changes Nothing Go ahead and ignore all the indignation about Heilemann and Halperin's journalistic methods.
Jan. 19, 2010 - Beat Sweetener: The Rajiv Shah Edition The Washington Post drools all over the new USAID chief.
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.
Jan. 13, 2010 - Looking for Corruption in All the Wrong Places The failings of the New York Times ethics cops.
Jan. 8, 2010
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