Media criticism.

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• Who's Afraid of a Little Propaganda? Not me. Bring on "C-SPAN Baghdad"!
  Jack Shafer Dec. 20, 2003
  
• The Same River Twice The New York Times gives credit where credit is due.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 17, 2003
  
• Robert L. Bartley (1937-2003) Both sides now.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 12, 2003
  
• Blood Money? The Los Angeles Times' flawed masterpiece about corruption at NIH.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 10, 2003
  
• The Passive Washington Post Why can't daily newspapers defend themselves?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 26, 2003
  
• Doing the Celebrity Rag Evolutionary psychology explains the appeal of the Star, Us Weekly, and People.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 21, 2003
  
• Case Open Why is the press avoiding the Weekly Standard's intelligence scoop?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 19, 2003
  
• The Case of the Pinched Copy Who, exactly, did the New York Times' Bernard Weinraub plagiarize?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 14, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 34 The neocon plays great offense. How's his defense?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 13, 2003
  
• Press Box Eats a Flock of Crow Seymour M. Hersh was right about WMD in Iraq. I was wrong.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 12, 2003
  
• Advice for Stephen Glass Readers weigh in with their redemption suggestions.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 11, 2003
  
• Half a Glass The incomplete contrition of serial liar Stephen Glass.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 8, 2003
  
• Back Channel to Nowhere? Making sense of the alleged Iraqi peace initiative.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 6, 2003
  
• Pampered Anonymice Why does the Washington Post shield useless sources?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 4, 2003
  
• Swimming in Status Anxiety Tina Brown thrashes her way into the pages of the Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Blogosmear Gregg Easterbrook and the perils of writing before you think.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 20, 2003
  
• Exit-Poll Hypocrites The networks speak out of both sides of their mouths.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 8, 2003
  
• Stop the Investigation! Exactly what law did Robert Novak's leakers break?
  Jack Shafer Oct. 3, 2003
  
• Streaming Media Making sense of the leaks and counter-leaks in Plamegate.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 2, 2003
  
• The Access Trap How anonymous sources tie reporters in knots.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 30, 2003
  
• The Plame Game Will the leak of a CIA agent's name be the next big political scandal?
  Jack Shafer Sept. 29, 2003
  
• The Rat of Baghdad Who tattled on New York Times reporter John F. Burns to the Iraqi ministry of information?
  Jack Shafer Sept. 24, 2003
  
• All the News That's Fit To Preach Matt Miller's horrible 2 percent idea.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 20, 2003
  
• Leak of the Week: The Bolton Testimony Judith Miller. Again.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 16, 2003
  
• Crime-Time TV ABC News nukes the law in the name of journalism.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 11, 2003
  
• How Far Can You Trust Anonymice? Reading the week's leakiest stories.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 10, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 24 Sympathy for the foreign-policy macher.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 2, 2003
  
• Judith Miller: Duped? Did the New York Times swallow Saddam's disinformation?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 29, 2003
  
• Bill O'Reilly Wants You To Shut Up Also, Al Franken, Tom Daschle, Jimmy Carter, Rosie O'Donnell, gay people who talk about their sexual orientation, atheist Scouts, peaceniks, both parties …
  Jack Shafer Aug. 28, 2003
  
• Liar, Liar Liberal writers steal a rhetorical trick from the conservatives.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 27, 2003
  
• A Plague of Bogus Trendspotting … … in USA Today, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and the Wall Street Journal.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 14, 2003
  
• Newsweek's Bogus Trendspotting Is there really an increase in teen prostitution?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 12, 2003
  
• Bloggy Monday Bogus trendspotting … did the press snooze while JFK boinked? … and more bogus trendspotting.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 11, 2003
  
• Straight From the Spleen The Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes gives the entertainment-information industrial complex hell.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 8, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 20 Only 32 more weeks before the statute of limitations runs out.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 5, 2003
  
• The Washington PostLite Briefer than USA Today,and it can't get no cheaper.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 4, 2003
  
• The Times Scoops That Melted Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller.
  Jack Shafer July 25, 2003
  
• Free Press The Washington Post's grand plans to give it away.
  Jack Shafer July 16, 2003
  
• Follow That Story: The Nuclear Whodunit, Part 4 Who forged the uranium documents that bamboozled the U.S.? A chronology.
  Jack Shafer July 14, 2003
  
• End Reform Now! It's a crappy, meaningless word that reporters should cut from their copy.
  Jack Shafer July 10, 2003
  
• How To Beat Tim Russert Get inside his head and shake vigorously.
  Jack Shafer July 2, 2003
  
• Defending General Judy Sort of. In the margins. Sotto voce.
  Jack Shafer June 27, 2003
  
• Embargo Nazis Hillary Clinton's and J.K. Rowling's publishers are all wet about copyright.
  Jack Shafer June 26, 2003
  
• Correct Me If I'm Wrong Errors and the culture of correction in American newspapers.
  Jack Shafer June 20, 2003
  
• The Fabulous Fabulists Mencken, Liebling, and Mitchell made stuff up, too. Why do we excuse them?
  Jack Shafer June 12, 2003
  
• Joe Lelyveld Must Go! He's failed to deliver calm, civility, and normalcy to the New York Times.
  Jack Shafer June 9, 2003
  
• Howell's End And then, like quicksilver, the New York Times editor who vowed to stay was gone.
  Jack Shafer June 5, 2003
  
• Dead Man Editing Sooner or later, the beleaguered Howell Raines will take a bullet for his paper.
  Jack Shafer June 3, 2003
  
• Where Did That Copy Go? Archive questions for Time and the New Republic … plus the Washington Post boots a routine grounder.
  Jack Shafer May 30, 2003
  
• Reassessing Miller U.S. intelligence on Iraq's WMD deserves a second look. So does the reporting of the New York Times' Judith Miller.
  Jack Shafer May 29, 2003
  
• Rick Bragg's Lousy Alibi The suspended New York Times reporter insists—wrongly—that everybody does it.
  Jack Shafer May 27, 2003
  
• Rick Bragg's "Dateline Toe-Touch" A New York Times writer gets gets caught cutting corners.
  Jack Shafer May 23, 2003
  
• The Tao of Bear The Paul "Bear" Bryant lessons on leadership Howell Raines failed to absorb.
  Jack Shafer May 16, 2003
  
• Miller's Double-Crossing In which a New York Times reporter gives away the farm to her military handlers for a dubious scoop.
  Jack Shafer May 15, 2003
  
• Defending Howell Raines He didn't catch Jayson Blair. You didn't either.
  Jack Shafer May 13, 2003
  
• The Jayson Blair Project How did he bamboozle the New York Times?
  Jack Shafer May 8, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 9 What happened to Richard Perle's big, bad, libel stick?
  Jack Shafer May 7, 2003
  
• The Leading Indicator That WMD Will Be Found Seymour M. Hersh says they won't.
  Jack Shafer May 6, 2003
  
• Embeds and Unilaterals The press dun good in Iraq. But they could have dun better.
  Jack Shafer May 1, 2003
  
• SportsCenter for News Junkies Keith Olbermann adds wit to the news on MSNBC.
  Jack Shafer April 29, 2003
  
• Follow That Story: Deep Miller Is the New York Times breaking the news—or flacking for the military?
  Jack Shafer April 23, 2003
  
• Deep Miller Did the New York Times just change the rules of journalism? 
  Jack Shafer April 21, 2003
  
• Condensed Apple Sauce Consumed whole or reduced by 75 percent, Johnny Apple's copy positively zings with cliché.
  Jack Shafer April 10, 2003
  
• Johnny Dead Line Laid bare, the true risks of covering war.
  Jack Shafer April 9, 2003
  
• Apple Turnover The New York Times' R.W. Apple Jr. never wrote a piece he couldn't contradict.
  Jack Shafer April 7, 2003
  
• Michael Kelly (1957-2003) Husband. Father. Journalist.
  Jack Shafer April 5, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 4 He's just too busy resigning to sue this week!
  Jack Shafer April 2, 2003
  
• Sacking Arnett for the Wrong Reason Having opinions shouldn't be a firing offense. Credulous behavior, on the other hand …
  Jack Shafer April 1, 2003
  
• The Leading Indicator of Victory When Johnny Apple says we're thwarted, we must be on the verge of winning.
  Jack Shafer March 27, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 3 Now he's playing defense.
  Jack Shafer March 26, 2003
  
• The PR War The general who devised the "embedded" program deserves a fourth star.
  Jack Shafer March 25, 2003
  
• POW TV Why Rumsfeld should be careful about lecturing Saddam about the Geneva Conventions.
  Jack Shafer March 25, 2003
  
• Follow That Story: The Nuclear Whodunit, Part 3 CIA analysts do a CYA, telling the press, Don't blame the phony nuke docs on us!
  Jack Shafer March 23, 2003
  
• Mohammed Sings But the Post and the Times hum to different verses.
  Jack Shafer March 20, 2003
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 2 A suggested itinerary for libel tourist Richard Perle.
  Jack Shafer March 19, 2003
  
• Smart Bombed How much coverage of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping is too much?
  Jack Shafer March 18, 2003
  
• Follow That Story: The Nuclear Whodunit, Part 2 Who forged the documents that bamboozled the U.S.?
  Jack Shafer March 17, 2003
  
• Follow That Story: The Forged Nuke Documents Who bamboozled the United States?
  Jack Shafer March 14, 2003
  
• Put Up or Shut Up, Richard Perle I double-dare him to sue Seymour Hersh.
  Jack Shafer March 13, 2003
  
• Screw You, Mr. President Helen Thomas used to ask questions in press briefings. Now she makes speeches.
  Jack Shafer March 12, 2003
  
• Full Metal Junket The myth of the objective war correspondent.
  Jack Shafer March 6, 2003
  
• Donahue Never Had a Chance Don't blame Phil or MSNBC for his failure. Blame the cable audience.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 26, 2003
  
• Mushy Multilateralism When will the New York Times make up its mind on Iraq?
  Jack Shafer Feb. 24, 2003
  
• Attention! Deficit Disorder Is the press being spun on the states' budget crises, or is no spinning necessary?
  Jack Shafer Feb. 21, 2003
  
• The Varieties of Media Bias, Part 3 Giving the readers their say.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 19, 2003
  
• The Varieties of Media Bias, Part 2 The old litmus tests that sort journalists into left and right don't work anymore.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 12, 2003
  
• The Varieties of Media Bias, Part 1 Who threw the first punch in the press bias brawl?
  Jack Shafer Feb. 5, 2003
  
• Leak of the Week: Colin and Bob "U.S. to Make Iraq Intelligence Public," by Bob Woodward, Jan. 28, Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 29, 2003
  
• The Art of Pork Next stop, the Kennedy Center's New Jersey toll plaza!
  Jack Shafer Jan. 24, 2003
  
• How Indie Was the International Herald Tribune? Its departing publisher's sniveling nothwithstanding, not very.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 21, 2003
  
• Hello, Dalí! Flying dildos and the New York Times.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 10, 2003
  
• Riding With the King The best Washington Post columnist you've never heard of.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 9, 2003
  
• Wrong 'Em Boyo Dueling Joneses at the New York Post and New York Times.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 3, 2003
  
• Howell Raines, Pussyfooter Why can't the New York Times executive editor come clean about his plans for the International Herald Tribune?
  Jack Shafer Jan. 2, 2003