Media criticism.

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• Driving Mr. Whitebread The screwy data behind the Wall Street Journal's "Me & My Car" feature.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 11, 2002
  
• Pity the Poor New York Times A pitiful, helpless giant has fallen and can't get up.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 6, 2002
  
• Leak of the Week: Madame Smallpox "C.I.A. Hunts Iraq Tie to Soviet Smallpox," by Judith Miller, Dec. 3, New York Times.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 6, 2002
  
• Give the New York Times a Mulligan Call off the dogs: Its editors only goofed in spiking the Augusta columns.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 4, 2002
  
• New York Times Yard Sale ... "Cardinals" and congressional seniority ... the Times on steroids ... the "Seemy" Times.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 2, 2002
  
• The New York Times' Augusta Blog Stop me if you've read this story before.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 26, 2002
  
• The Post Discovers the Dot.Bomb What's next? A six-part series titled, "Quagmire: How the U.S. Got Mired in Vietnam"?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Soft News and Hard Candy The Wall Street Journal's "Personal Journal" is too much of a good thing.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 14, 2002
  
• Johnny Headline Attorney General John Ashcroft dictates the news to the stenographers at the New York Times and Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 7, 2002
  
• The Boston Globe's Good "Ideas" Finally, a Sunday newspaper section for people who like to read.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 5, 2002
  
• Red Scare In Chicago, the Tribune Co.'s RedEye races Hollinger's Red Streak to the bottom.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 31, 2002
  
• Fib Newton The lesson behind the AP's sacking of reporter Christopher Newton (it's not what you think).
  Jack Shafer Oct. 29, 2002
  
• Art Dumps Don The Times moves the Post out of their Paris flat.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 23, 2002
  
• I Love Gridlock! Why doesn't the rest of the Washington press corps?
  Jack Shafer Oct. 21, 2002
  
• Pollyanna Pincus The Washington Post's national security reporter—and his nameless sources—smell easy victory over Iraq.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 7, 2002
  
• Can J-School Be Saved? Professional advice for Columbia University.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 7, 2002
  
• Citizen Annenberg So long, you rotten bastard.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 2, 2002
  
• Automated News The new Google News site, news untouched by human hands.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 24, 2002
  
• Right-Wing Envy Do you have it?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 29, 2002
  
• The Continuing Saga of Laurent (of Arabia) Murawiec The Rand analyst whose PowerPoint rocked the Pentagon returns to the news.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 27, 2002
  
• The Fog of Newspapering In which the New York Times pretends ignorance over who is leaking the Iraq war plans.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 13, 2002
  
• The PowerPoint That Rocked the Pentagon The LaRouchie defector who's advising the defense establishment on Saudi Arabia.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 7, 2002
  
• Don't Believe the Monthly Hype It's time for the Washington Monthly to update its in-house ad.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 2, 2002
  
• Newspaper War Why do our Iraq battle plans keep showing up in the New York Times?
  Jack Shafer July 30, 2002
  
• Coming From Clinton, That's Rich! The Times lets Bill lecture the GOP on business ethics.
  Jack Shafer July 25, 2002
  
• How Is Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Like George W. Bush? When it comes to real estate, he likes to play crony capitalism, too.
  Jack Shafer July 16, 2002
  
• Pity the Poor, Penniless Governors Or let the New York Times' Adam Nagourney do it for you.
  Jack Shafer July 15, 2002
  
• Rat Poison Bombs Revisited The Middle East story that refuses to die.
  Jack Shafer July 11, 2002
  
• The d-Con Bomb Are the Palestinians really lacing their suicide bombs with rat poison?
  Jack Shafer July 8, 2002
  
• Patriot Games The Fourth of July fantasies of the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger.
  Jack Shafer July 6, 2002
  
• Toxic Smear Job The Times "Slashes" Bush with its bogus Superfund budget-cuts story.
  Jack Shafer July 3, 2002
  
• Washington Post Slams Own Story Sacrifice play necessary to protect sources.
  Jack Shafer June 27, 2002
  
• Vow of Silence The Vatican's death grip on the news.
  Melinda Henneberger June 3, 2002
  
• Raines-ing in Andrew Sullivan Is the Andrew Sullivan heave-ho the marker of more changes to come at the New York Times?
  Jack Shafer May 15, 2002
  
• The Journal's Shrinking Violets What's with the editorial page's annoying new tic?
  Jack Shafer May 9, 2002
  
• Landslide Al The latest Election 2000 recount from the Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer April 26, 2002
  
• Roger Straus, International Man of Mystery Farrar, Straus' creepy partnership with American intelligence.
  Jack Shafer April 9, 2002
  
• Hawks in Doves' Clothing Why can't the American press tell a pro-Palestinian demonstrator from a peacenik?
  Benjamin Soskis April 8, 2002
  
• The Mineta Myth How Bob Woodward made the secretary of transportation a false hero.
  Joshua Green April 2, 2002
  
• All the News That's Fit To Reprint That impending flood of Afghan heroin never, ever subsides.
  Jack Shafer April 1, 2002
  
• Who Is "Robert Klingler"? On the trail of the man who duped Slate.
  Jack Shafer March 13, 2002
  
• Slate Gets Duped This week's Diary by an "automotive CEO" proves to be a hoax.
  Jack Shafer March 6, 2002
  
• The Federal Department of Love How to keep passion alive? A government subsidy, please.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 11, 2002
  
• Who You Calling Mediasaurus? The New York Times dodges Michael Crichton's death sentence.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 5, 2002
  
• Greta Van Susteren, TV Diva She wants her close-up on another network because her feelings are very, very hurt.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 29, 2002
  
• The Sullivan Principles Andrew Sullivan's three-faced attack on Paul Krugman.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 23, 2002
  
• Barnes' Door Open Who needs Ari Fleischer when we can read Fred Barnes each week?
  Jonathan Chait Jan. 18, 2002