Media criticism.

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• The Russert to Judgment So now the TV pundits tell us an Obama nomination is certain.
  Jack Shafer May 8, 2008
  
• Salvia Divinorum Hysteria The press helps fuel the next "drug menace."
  Jack Shafer May 6, 2008
  
• Let Murdoch Be Murdoch Abolish the powerless Wall Street Journal Special Committee.
  Jack Shafer April 30, 2008
  
• The Times Travel Section Plays Hide the Salami As Austin Powers would say, "Very shagadelic!"
  Jack Shafer April 29, 2008
  
• Rupert Murdoch's Favorite Lie As long as he insists on telling it, I'll keep calling it out.
  Jack Shafer April 24, 2008
  
• Don Corleone Murdoch? In which Newsweek alleges that Norm Pearlstine and John Huey kissed the godfather's ring.
  Jack Shafer April 23, 2008
  
• Source Hygiene If reporters practiced better "source hygiene," maybe they'd face fewer subpoenas.
  Jack Shafer April 17, 2008
  
• We Don't Need No Stinkin' Shield Law, Part 2 The First Amendment belongs to citizens, not the corporate press.
  Jack Shafer April 16, 2008
  
• We Don't Need No Stinkin' Shield Law, Part 1 The Free Flow of Information Act would be a nightmare for journalists.
  Jack Shafer April 15, 2008
  
• What? You've Not Been Honored by the Webbys? If there is a less exclusive award on the planet, I've yet to hear of it.
  Jack Shafer April 9, 2008
  
• Two Cheers for Newsroom Buyouts The good news about the bad news coming out of newsrooms.
  Jack Shafer April 7, 2008
  
• Links That Stink Grumbling about the misuse of hyperlinks on news sites.
  Jack Shafer April 3, 2008
  
• Rupert Murdoch Is Not the Antichrist Proof revealed at Georgetown University.
  Jack Shafer April 2, 2008
  
• The Times' New Welcome Mat The paper's design director defends its expanded summary pages.
  Jack Shafer April 1, 2008
  
• The States Are Falling, the States Are Falling! The press corps plays Chicken Little.
  Jack Shafer March 31, 2008
  
• Biggie Mistake How Chuck Philips and the L.A. Times could have dodged the Tupac hoaxer.
  Jack Shafer March 27, 2008
  
• The '60s Version of a Pharm Party "Fruit salad parties." You think I'm kidding. I'm not.
  Jack Shafer March 26, 2008
  
• Down on the Pharm, Again Debunking "pharm parties" for the third time.
  Jack Shafer March 25, 2008
  
• Bloggy Monday Murdoch gets beat; a Portfolio blog item mysteriously vanishes; and do TV minutes matter?
  Jack Shafer March 24, 2008
  
• The Fibbing Point Separating bunk from fact in Malcolm Gladwell's performance at a New York storytelling forum.
  Jack Shafer March 19, 2008
  
• From Assembly Line to Network at the Post The Washington Post's plan to drag the editing process into the 21st century.
  Jack Shafer March 14, 2008
  
• Did the Press Service Spitzer? That's what Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly A. Strassel would have you believe.
  Jack Shafer March 13, 2008
  
• Plagiarism and Apology The New York Times lifts from City Hall.
  Jack Shafer March 11, 2008
  
• Eight Reasons Plagiarism Sucks It harms readers, in its heart beats a lie, it corrupts, and five more.
  Jack Shafer March 7, 2008
  
• More Plagiarism, Same Times Reporter Alexei Barrionuevo helps himself to Bloomberg News copy without attribution.
  Jack Shafer March 5, 2008
  
• Watching McClatchy (First in a Series) As a leading indicator of the newspaper biz's health, what does the chain's bad news portend for the rest of the industry?
  Jack Shafer March 3, 2008
  
• Murdoch Minion Spikes Review of Murdoch Book "Anticipatory compliance" at the Far Eastern Economic Review.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 28, 2008
  
• The Times Plagiarizes the Miami Herald A Page One story lifts two lines about an illicit drug.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 27, 2008
  
• McCain's Smoking Blonde In defense of the New York Times' takedown.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 21, 2008
  
• Don't Call It Plagiarism Obama's sound bite, considered.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 19, 2008
  
• How Obama Does That Thing He Does A professor of rhetoric cracks the candidate's code.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 14, 2008
  
• The Political Re-Education of Rupert Murdoch A new book by the mogul's former right-hand man in China tells nearly all.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 12, 2008
  
• Down With the Newseum! We don't need a gilded home for 6,214 journalism artifacts.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 7, 2008
  
• Wall to Wall to Wal-Mart Political Coverage In this press-saturated campaign, no voter is underserved.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 5, 2008
  
• The Corrections Craig Silverman catalogs the media's errors—and his own.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 1, 2008
  
• A Test for the Murdoch Street Journal How will it cover a new book alleging Rupert Murdoch's kowtowing to the Chinese?
  Jack Shafer Jan. 31, 2008
  
• "Fishermen Beat Rare Dolphin to Death" And other tabloid headlines from CNN.com, MSNBC.com, and Foxnews.com.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 30, 2008
  
• The Times' Fishy Story Nevermind that scaremongering story about mercury-tainted sushi.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 25, 2008
  
• In Praise of Horse-Race Coverage If campaigns are contests, then why not obsess on who's winning?
  Jack Shafer Jan. 24, 2008
  
• Simple Simon What the auteur of The Wire doesn't (and does) understand about the newspaper business.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 22, 2008
  
• Stupidest Drug Story of the Week The New York Times raves about meth-laced ecstasy.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 10, 2008
  
• "The Best Political Team on Television"? On election night, CNN runs its preposterous slogan into the ground.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 9, 2008
  
• Tipsy on Bipartisanship Obama, Bloomberg, and the press get drunk on compromise, cooperation, and civility.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 9, 2008
  
• Reading the Murdoch Street Journal Where is the rotten old bastard taking his latest acquisition?
  Jack Shafer Jan. 4, 2008
  
• Who's Afraid of Bill Kristol? Nora Ephron, Josh Marshall, Jane Smiley, David Corn, Erica Jong, Katha Pollitt, and nearly every liberal with a blogging account.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 3, 2008
  
• The Whiskey Rebellion In praise of booze in the newsroom.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 2, 2008