Media criticism.

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• Who's Afraid of Hezbollah TV? Not me.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 30, 2004
  
• Body Count Doing the math on the Washington Post's momicide series.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 24, 2004
  
• The Muddled Maternal Murder Series A Washington Post investigation loses its way.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 21, 2004
  
• First Amendment Chicken Little E.J. Dionne gets hysterical.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 18, 2004
  
• Heir to Safire (Continued) Readers add names to the shortlist for his replacement.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 14, 2004
  
• After Safire More names for the shortlist to replace William Safire.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 11, 2004
  
• The Times ODs at the FDA The root of all pharmaceutical evil, the paper finds, is an industry user fee.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 8, 2004
  
• Money Talks How closely should The New Yorker police its writers' speaking engagements?
  Jack Shafer Dec. 3, 2004
  
• Finding Safire's Keepers What a Krock his accusation turns out to be.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 30, 2004
  
• Dexter Filkins' Fallujah A New York Times reporter walks the killing ground with Marine Company B.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 24, 2004
  
• Anonymice Infestation! Sanger and Weisman set some sort of record atthe New York Times.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 17, 2004
  
• Spy vs. Spy The spooks play the press.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 17, 2004
  
• The See-Through Times An internal memo promises to rub out anonymice and other credibility killers.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 11, 2004
  
• Vain Raines Seth Mnookin chronicles the Timesman's tragicomic undoing.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 11, 2004
  
• Exit Zone The official excuses for the bad exit poll numbers don't cut it.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 6, 2004
  
• Demystifying the Exit Polls At long last, those Delphic numbers get the scrutiny they deserve.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 4, 2004
  
• Updated Late Afternoon Numbers Mucho flattering to Kerry; plus Nader makes an appearance.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 2, 2004
  
• Keepers—No Finders William Safire's dubious discovery.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 2, 2004
  
• Al-Qaqaa Reconsidered The competition throws stones at the New York Times scoop.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 30, 2004
  
• Al-Qaqaa Hits the Fan The New York Times scoop raises as many questions as it answers.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 28, 2004
  
• "Journalism by Remote Control" Baghdad correspondents talk about covering the war from afar with Iraqi staffers and stringers.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 21, 2004
  
• Reston Carries the Spike Once more into the Kissinger transcripts.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 12, 2004
  
• God Bless Judith Miller Two cheers for our courageous First Amendment martyr.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 8, 2004
  
• Raging Bull Smoking out candidates' smears and distortions.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 7, 2004
  
• Quick Draw CNN's pundits make a mad dash to call Cheney vs. Edwards a tie.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 6, 2004
  
• Kissing up to Kissinger The reporters who loved Henry and what they said.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 5, 2004
  
• Kissinger's Travels He ducks the New York Times yet again.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 1, 2004
  
• Broder's Blindness The Dean is big. It's journalism that got small.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 27, 2004
  
• Pricking Thornburgh A part of the Thornburgh-CBS News feud the New York Times missed.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 24, 2004
  
• How To Beat Bill O'Reilly Kill him with kindness.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 23, 2004
  
• Outing the Anonymice! Let's put an end to Washington background briefings.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 22, 2004
  
• Follow the Money Why can't the Post and Times find the good in recent economic news?
  Jack Shafer Sept. 21, 2004
  
• What Took You So Long? Dan Rather and CBS News make their belated mea culpa.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 21, 2004
  
• Nixon Lives! Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald beats the press.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 18, 2004
  
• Lewis Lapham Phones It In Figuring out what's wrong with Harper's magazine.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 15, 2004
  
• Dennis Hastert, Liar or Fool? The speaker's unseemly habit of slandering George Soros.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 2, 2004
  
• Dennis Hastert on Dope Two heartbeats from the presidency, an absolute nut job.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 1, 2004
  
• Calling Henry Kissinger ducks the New York Times, again.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 30, 2004
  
• The Church of Liebling The uncritical worshippers of America's best press critic.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 26, 2004
  
• Ghost Readers Is everybody in the newspaper business inflating circulation?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 18, 2004
  
• Who Is Anonymous? He's Michael Scheuer. But why won't the Times and the Post say so?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 13, 2004
  
• Free Matt Cooper! And Walter Pincus! And maybe even Bob Novak!
  Jack Shafer Aug. 10, 2004
  
• If This Is Unity, Give Me Division The Washington Post's fawning coverage of a minority journalists' convention.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 5, 2004
  
• The Media Monotony Who's afraid of Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, Bertelsmann, and News Corp.? Not me.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 4, 2004
  
• Simon of Troy A U.S. News & World Report writer gets too familiar with his academic source.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 3, 2004
  
• Smiley's Letters Novelist Jane Smiley's epistolary relationship with the New York Times.
  Jack Shafer July 27, 2004
  
• All the Rumors Fit To Print The New York Times indulges itself with Cheney gossip.
  Jack Shafer July 23, 2004
  
• Shooing Away an Anonymice In Omaha, local reporters just say "no" to Wolfowitz's background request.
  Jack Shafer July 16, 2004
  
• Bill O'Reilly Libel Watch O'Reilly v. Franken: Coming to a court in London soon? Nah.
  Jack Shafer July 15, 2004
  
• Profiles in Smugness The Lexington Herald-Leader strokes itself.
  Jack Shafer July 14, 2004
  
• Something Borrowed A plagiarism incident that may have escaped your attention.
  Jack Shafer July 2, 2004
  
• The Clinton Book Blitz Can you really review a 957-page book in 24 hours?
  Jack Shafer June 30, 2004
  
• Perle's Before Sy Perle finally releases his sue-Hersh dossier. Ho-hum.
  Jack Shafer June 25, 2004
  
• Too Many Secrets, Says Secrecy Czar J. William Leonard frets about the breakdown of the classification system.
  Jack Shafer June 23, 2004
  
• Libel Suit 9/11 Michael Moore's hysterical, empty threats.
  Jack Shafer June 21, 2004
  
• The Perle-Hersh Transcript Watch Richard Perle promised us a 90-page Sy Hersh dossier. So, where is it?
  Jack Shafer June 17, 2004
  
• Kissinger's Con "Henry can't come to the phone right now because he's trekking the Gobi Desert."
  Jack Shafer June 16, 2004
  
• Ratting Out the Anonymice Offended by anonymous sources? Turn them in. To me.
  Jack Shafer June 15, 2004
  
• I Believe the National Enquirer Why don't you?
  Jack Shafer June 11, 2004
  
• Previously Thought To Be True A modest proposal for the New York Times and other media.
  Jack Shafer June 4, 2004
  
• E-mail Confidential Who's afraid of Time Inc.'s legal disclaimer?
  Jack Shafer June 1, 2004
  
• The Accidental Editor The Los Angeles Times lifts from the Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer May 27, 2004
  
• Mini Culpa The New York Times finally concedes its WMD errors.
  Jack Shafer May 26, 2004
  
• Judy's Turn To Cry The New York Times prepares an "Editors' Note" about its prewar WMD reporting.
  Jack Shafer May 25, 2004
  
• Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper, Part 2 In praise of the Florida Today and Guardian electronic editions.
  Jack Shafer May 21, 2004
  
• Surrender, Judith Miller! Knight Ridder has the goods on you.
  Jack Shafer May 18, 2004
  
• Note to Bill Keller Colin Powell admits he was misled about WMD. Why can't the Times?
  Jack Shafer May 17, 2004
  
• Defending Graydon Carter How grievous are his ethical transgressions?
  Jack Shafer May 14, 2004
  
• Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper Reading the electronic versions of the New York Times and Washington Post.
  Jack Shafer May 5, 2004
  
• The Right To Be Wrong And the elephant in the New York Times newsroom.
  Jack Shafer April 28, 2004
  
• Leak of the Week—Richard Armitage? Who's wearing a bag on his head in today's New York Times?
  Jack Shafer April 19, 2004
  
• Dealing With Defective Defectors 60 Minutes shows Vanity Fair and the New York Times how it's done.
  Jack Shafer April 9, 2004
  
• So You Won a Pulitzer Who cares?
  Jack Shafer April 6, 2004
  
• Flattery Operated Watch as a New York Times reporter butters up Karen Hughes.
  Jack Shafer April 5, 2004
  
• To Gelb, To Raines, To Lelyveld And other Timesian verbs.
  Jack Shafer March 29, 2004
  
• The Autobiography of Howell Raines Guess who's the hero.
  Jack Shafer March 25, 2004
  
• Howell Raines Replays Augusta He shanks his way around the course that he shanked in 2002.
  Jack Shafer March 24, 2004
  
• Blair Bliar In which the confessed liar and plagiarist protests my review of his book.
  Jack Shafer March 18, 2004
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch—The Finale He wimps out and doesn't sue Sy Hersh.
  Jack Shafer March 16, 2004
  
• Campaign Spit Takes Culled from the New York Times and Tour of Duty.
  Jack Shafer March 15, 2004
  
• Gentleman Bill O'Reilly He's taken the cure and stopped telling people to shut up.
  Jack Shafer March 15, 2004
  
• The Heaving Pukes Who Write Gawker and Wonkette Nothing like an abusive headline to grab your interest, eh?
  Jack Shafer March 12, 2004
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch: The Final Hours In Week 52, will Perle file suit against Hersh tomorrow or wuss out?
  Jack Shafer March 9, 2004
  
• Washington Confidential The Washington Post declares war on anonymice.
  Jack Shafer March 9, 2004
  
• Kerry's Super Tuesday The early numbers. (Plus a redundant California numbers addendum.)
  Jack Shafer March 2, 2004
  
• The New Vanity Press Moguls Welcome, Philip Anschutz! Bruce Wasserstein! Roger Hertog!
  Jack Shafer Feb. 27, 2004
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, 14 Days to Expiration In Week 50 of the watch, Perle sows the legal battlefield for more lawsuits!
  Jack Shafer Feb. 26, 2004
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, 20 Days to Expiration In Week 49 of the libel watch, the Hollinger investigation shines its light on Perle.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 19, 2004
  
• Who You Calling "Arab"? Considering today's New York Times story about Arabs. I mean, Muslims. No, brownish people from the Middle East. Or possibly South Asia.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 17, 2004
  
• Kerry vs. Non-Kerry The putative favorite can't muster more than an exit-poll plurality in Wisconsin.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 17, 2004
  
• Perle Libel Watch, Week 48 Only 27 venue-shopping days until Richard Perle's libel threat turns into a pumpkin.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Miller Time (Again) The New York Times owes readers an explanation for Judith Miller's faulty WMD reporting.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 12, 2004
  
• Exit Vols The first wave of numbers from Tennessee and Virginia.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 10, 2004
  
• No Exits? Who's afraid of too much information?
  Jack Shafer Feb. 5, 2004
  
• Enslaved by His Sources Reading Peter Landesman's sex-slave story one more time.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 4, 2004
  
• Playing the Numbers The early exit polls are everywhere you look.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 4, 2004
  
• Assessing Landesman How well does Peter Landesman's sex-slavery investigation in New York Times Magazine stand up?
  Jan. 30, 2004
  
• How Not To Handle Press Critics New York TimesMagazine contributor Peter Landesman shows the way.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 30, 2004
  
• The Times Magazine Strikes Back Editor Gerald Marzorati defends his sex-slave cover story, "The Girls Next Door."
  Jack Shafer Jan. 29, 2004
  
• Doubting Landesman I'm not the only one questioning the TimesMagazine's sex-slave story.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 28, 2004
  
• All the News That's Fit To Squelch A digest of what the New Hampshire exit polls are saying.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 27, 2004
  
• Sex Slaves of West 43rd Street The New York Times Magazine gets carried away in its investigation.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 27, 2004
  
• Globe, Too Hot; Times, Too Cold Roll Call gets the stolen Democrat files scandal just right.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 24, 2004
  
• Gas Attack The AtlanticMonthly serves something more noxious than Bush's State of the Union.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 21, 2004
  
• "Hello, Howie Kurtz? This Is Rewrite." What the Washington Post's media reporter should have written.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 20, 2004
  
• Richard Perle Libel Watch, Week 45 Just 54 days left before the statute of limitations runs out on suing Seymour Hersh.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 15, 2004