Media criticism.

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• Driving a Stake Into Bogus Trends In which my readers do my evil work for me.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 30, 2005
  
• More Sympathy for Bill Keller Defending the New York Times executive editor one more time.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 29, 2005
  
• Sympathy for Bill Keller Giving the New York Times executive editor the benefit of the doubt.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 28, 2005
  
• You, Too, Can Be a TV Pundit! Follow these simple steps.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 23, 2005
  
• Don't Blame the Washington Times For the Osama Bin Laden satellite phone "leak."
  Jack Shafer Dec. 22, 2005
  
• The New York Times Legal Aid Society The newspaper helps a very young pornographer find a lawyer.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 20, 2005
  
• Judith Miller, Interrogator Her brief career as a questioner of a Hamas suspect in an Israeli jail.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 14, 2005
  
• Sell Knight Ridder to the CIA Or, how spooks are like (and unlike) reporters.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 10, 2005
  
• Lip-Service Journalism If protecting sources is paramount, why don't more reporters go to jail?
  Jack Shafer Dec. 8, 2005
  
• Minutemen and Ombudsmen Eyeballing a Time news photo; also, Al Neuharth papers the LoC.
  Jack Shafer Dec. 3, 2005
  
• Wright and Wrong and Cunningham The WSJ's editorial page's long-term memory loss.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Time Warner's Stupid Gag Order Which Lloyd Grove spits out.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 29, 2005
  
• Anonymous Unanimous Take two Dramamine before reading the AP on "Woodward's source."
  Jack Shafer Nov. 23, 2005
  
• The Great Google Wipeout Chronicle of a corporate death foretold.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 22, 2005
  
• Post-Boomers Take Over Oh, the headlines they'll write! Plus, more meth-mouth misinformation.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 18, 2005
  
• Bob Ain't Judy But the similarities don't flatter Woodward.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 18, 2005
  
• Bob Woodward's Timetable It's not a cover-up, but what the hell is it?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 16, 2005
  
• The New Power Generation How you'll know when the boomers have lost control of the media.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 15, 2005
  
• Press Secretary Sulzberger The Times publisher does his skeeziest Scott McClellan on The Charlie Rose Show.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 11, 2005
  
• Taking a Leak. But Being Picky. Frist and Hastert are awfully choosy about which leaks they want investigated.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 9, 2005
  
• Stupidity on Parade USA Today. The Times editorial page. Your local newspaper.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 8, 2005
  
• Putting the Duh Into Divorce The Times and Post mistake the platitudinous for the profound.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 7, 2005
  
• The Should-and-Must Rap Sheet, Vol. 1 Which editorial pages broke Rosenthal's Law this week?
  Jack Shafer Nov. 4, 2005
  
• The Royal Scam The Washington Post bows and curtsies to Charles and Camilla.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 3, 2005
  
• Waiting for the Kristof Korrection In which we revisit his famous May 6, 2003, column.
  Jack Shafer Nov. 2, 2005
  
• The Novak Report When the Plame indictments come down, the columnist will have a lot to explain.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 27, 2005
  
• The Exorcism of the New York Times In the name of journalism, the paper must cast out the unclean spirits.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 20, 2005
  
• Paper-Thin Excuses If a publisher moans about rising newsprint costs, slap him.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 14, 2005
  
• The Apple Polishers Explaining the press corps' crush on Steve Jobs and company.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 13, 2005
  
• An Unofficial Secrets Act? The ugly fur ball the Plame investigation may cough up.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 10, 2005
  
• Edward R. Movie Good Night, and Good Luck and bad history.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 5, 2005
  
• Edward R. Movie Good Night, and Good Luck and bad history.
  Jack Shafer Oct. 5, 2005
  
• The Biggest Loser It's not Judith Miller. It's the Times editorial board.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 30, 2005
  
• "Doomed by Diversity" New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg gets the pillory for something he didn't say.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 27, 2005
  
• A Trend So New It's Old More on the New York Times' career vs. motherhood story.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 23, 2005
  
• Weasel-Words Rip My Flesh! Spotting a bogus trend story on Page One of today's New York Times.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 20, 2005
  
• The Lost World of Joseph Pulitzer A century ago, newspapers were bigger, bolder, and more beautiful. What happened?
  Jack Shafer Sept. 16, 2005
  
• How the Court Imitates the World Series John Roberts' winning baseball analogy.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Rehnquist's Drug Habit The man in full.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 9, 2005
  
• Don't Refloat The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New Orleans.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 7, 2005
  
• News You Can Lose, Part 2 The readers give their gripes about cable news.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 5, 2005
  
• News You Can Lose What I hate about cable TV journalism.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 4, 2005
  
• The Rebellion of the Talking Heads Newscasters, sick of official lies and stonewalling, finally start snarling.
  Jack Shafer Sept. 2, 2005
  
• Lost in the Flood Why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 31, 2005
  
• Crack Then. Meth Now. What the press didn't learn from the last drug panic.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 23, 2005
  
• Dopes on Dope A bad batch of reporting on NYC's heroin-related deaths.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 17, 2005
  
• Fair Is Square The case for hiring biased book reviewers.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 12, 2005
  
• Why Does Drug Reporting Suck? Still.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 10, 2005
  
• The Meth-Mouth Myth Our latest moral panic.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 9, 2005
  
• Why I Don't Trust Readers I'm sad to report that their credibility has fallen to an all-time low.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 5, 2005
  
• The Meth Capital of the World Where is it?
  Jack Shafer Aug. 4, 2005
  
• Meth Madness at Newsweek This is your magazine on drugs.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 3, 2005
  
• Judge Posner's Incorrect Verdict He hacks on and on about the "crisis" in old media in the Times Book Review.
  Jack Shafer Aug. 1, 2005
  
• Class Acts at the Times and Journal The tale of two series.
  Jack Shafer June 30, 2005
  
• Lord of the Pigs? The New York Times violates its code to cheap-shot director Peter Jackson.
  Jack Shafer June 27, 2005
  
• Cruising Toward a Tabloid Crackup How Tom and Katie are undermining the celebrity magazines.
  Jack Shafer June 21, 2005
  
• Landesman vs. Shafer The sex slave author and his critic.
  Jack Shafer June 9, 2005
  
• Tom Friedman Is Flat He can't stop plugging his best seller.
  Jack Shafer June 8, 2005
  
• Sex Slaves, Revisited Looking back at the New York Times Magazine piece 16 months later.
  Jack Shafer June 6, 2005
  
• Why Did Deep Throat Leak? Hint: It wasn't out of a sense of patriotism.
  Jack Shafer June 2, 2005
  
• Newsweek's Source Code Don't accuse Michael Isikoff of inventing sources.
  Jack Shafer May 24, 2005
  
• Down the Toilet at Newsweek Dungeon legend and the peril of anonymous sources.
  Jack Shafer May 17, 2005
  
• What Matt Cooper Shares With Yaser Hamdi A new petition before the Supreme Court explains all.
  Jack Shafer May 11, 2005
  
• Arianna's Echo Park First impressions of the "Huffington Post" Web site.
  Jack Shafer May 9, 2005
  
• Wolff in Cheap Clothing Vanity Fair's sloppy, lazy media columnist.
  Jack Shafer May 5, 2005
  
• PBS Unplugged President Bush gives us a new reason to wean public broadcasting from the government teat.
  Jack Shafer May 4, 2005
  
• The Romenesko Effect How a one-man Web site is improving journalism.
  Jack Shafer April 19, 2005
  
• Blame It on the New York Times The Holocaust. The A-Bomb. U.S. imperialism.
  Jack Shafer April 14, 2005
  
• Bloggers Freer Than Reporters? And vice versa.
  Jack Shafer April 9, 2005
  
• Talk Television Fox News Channel and the talk-radio formula.
  Jack Shafer April 5, 2005
  
• Chico and the Man What Los Angeles Times press pundit David Shaw could learn from reading his own paper.
  Jack Shafer April 1, 2005
  
• Don't Fear the Blogger Will somebody please help the Los Angeles Times' David Shaw get a grip?
  Jack Shafer March 29, 2005
  
• The Billionaire Newsboy Making sense of Philip Anschutz's Examiners.
  Jack Shafer March 25, 2005
  
• Paper Cuts The myth of the broadsheet, and anonymice on the dangers of anonymity.
  Jack Shafer March 21, 2005
  
• Media Deconcentration Roll over Viacom and tell Bagdikian the news.
  Jack Shafer March 19, 2005
  
• Wolfowitz Loves Chicken Farmers The New York Times breaks the story.
  Jack Shafer March 17, 2005
  
• USA Today's Better Mousetrap A newspaper that actually observes its own anonymice guidelines!
  Jack Shafer March 17, 2005
  
• CBS, What Is the Frequency? What the network should do in the post-Rather era.
  Jack Shafer March 7, 2005
  
• Anonymice I Like Well, anonymice worth tolerating.
  Jack Shafer March 5, 2005
  
• Source Code Dissecting the anonymice that infested President Bush's European tour.
  Jack Shafer March 1, 2005
  
• Hell 'n' Keller Bloggers and critics put the New York Times executive editor through it. He gives it back.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 24, 2005
  
• If I Had a Blog I'd write more columns like this one.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 18, 2005
  
• The Ken Aulatte The media reporter's words now come to you on a Starbucks cup.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 16, 2005
  
• Memo to Cooper and Miller Fire Floyd Abrams. Hire Bruce Sanford.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 15, 2005
  
• I Would Have Fired Eason Jordan On the difference between a mistake and brain rot.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 14, 2005
  
• Unbundle. Rebundle. What the new Washington Examiner tells us about the media gestalt.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 10, 2005
  
• The Propaganda President George W. Bush does his best Kim Jong-il.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 4, 2005
  
• Together, Again Judith Miller and Ahmad Chalabi.
  Jack Shafer Feb. 1, 2005
  
• Blog Overkill The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 27, 2005
  
• The Accidental Employee Now that I work for Donald Graham and the Washington Post Company …
  Jack Shafer Jan. 20, 2005
  
• Marjorie Williams (1958-2005) Washington's most dangerous profiler.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 18, 2005
  
• CJR Pricks The venerable journalism review tosses an undeserved Dart at NPR.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 13, 2005
  
• Investigating the Investigators What the authors of the report on CBS News don't understand about journalism.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 12, 2005
  
• The Spook Bank More on the Riggs-CIA connection.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 11, 2005
  
• One More From Bill Keller ... ... and his reporter criticizing "Press Box" about the FDA story.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 10, 2005
  
• One More From Bill Keller ... ... and his reporter criticizing Press Box about the FDA story.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 10, 2005
  
• The CIA and Riggs Bank A Wall Street Journal story that the press gang should chase.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 7, 2005
  
• Bill Keller Replies The editor of the New York Times gives "Press Box" a piece of his mind.
  Jack Shafer Jan. 6, 2005