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