Department Index
Press Box 2007:
Media criticism.
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- Moneyball Comparing sportswriters' and jocks' salaries.
Dec. 25, 2007 - ESPN's Print Fetish The Wall Street Journal misreads the sports network's hiring philosophy.
Dec. 21, 2007 - Too Young To Write for Page One? A journalism school professor's lame complaint.
Dec. 11, 2007 - Taking Stock Every picture tells a story, sometimes the wrong one.
Dec. 7, 2007 - The Times Hears a WHO An accidentally broken embargo causes the World Health Organization to engage in sanction overkill.
Dec. 6, 2007 - The Lessons of TNR's Baghdad Diarist The good news about the bad news the magazine is finally accepting.
Dec. 4, 2007 - Smartest Drug Story of the Year Rolling Stone on the war on drugs.
Nov. 30, 2007 - Stupidest Drug Story of the Week The New York Times frets about a potential European methedemic.
Nov. 27, 2007 - Breaking News, Not Transcribing It The Washington Post gives the embargo system a kick in the pants.
Nov. 21, 2007 - Big Media Octopuses, Cutting Off Tentacles Is the age of media deconsolidation upon us?
Nov. 16, 2007 - Why Newspapers Love the Striking Screenwriters For the same reason journalists love themselves.
Nov. 13, 2007 - Roger Cohen Is Entitled to His Opinion But there's no excuse for his lazy writing.
Nov. 9, 2007 - Prime Time for Subprime Who is doing the best reporting on this scary story?
Nov. 6, 2007 - In Defense of Rupert Murdoch A brief word in support of the genocidal tyrant.
Oct. 26, 2007 - More on the Clinton Propaganda Machine As reported in Howard Kurtz's new book.
Oct. 24, 2007 - The New Clinton Propaganda Machine Watch it rev up.
Oct. 23, 2007 - The Subpoena Weenie An overreaching Arizona prosecutor jails a pair of newsmen.
Oct. 19, 2007 - The Churchillian Side of Chris Matthews To be revealed on Oct. 25 at an awards ceremony.
Oct. 18, 2007 - What Do Herbert and Marion Sandler Want? Investigating the funders of ProPublica, the new investigative journalism outfit.
Oct. 16, 2007 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week The Los Angeles Times on Southern California street racing.
Oct. 12, 2007 - Lady Jeanne Campbell (1928-2007) Like, where is her New York Times obituary already?
Oct. 10, 2007 - Rupert Murdoch, Closet Liberal Fox News President Roger Ailes outs his boss as a Republican-hater.
Oct. 8, 2007 - Fark Founder Flattens Fourth Estate Beats the press with his new book; they take scant notice.
Oct. 4, 2007 - Bush's Free-Speech Radical Comparatively speaking, it's Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates.
Oct. 1, 2007 - Dick and J. Edgar Diss Kay Graham Eavesdropping on a Nixon-Hoover telephone call.
Sept. 26, 2007 - The Rupert Murdoch Film Festival (Transcript) Hollywood's view of the global media baron.
Sept. 26, 2007 - The Sex-Slavery Epidemic That Wasn't Revisiting the numbers behind the New York Times Magazine's sex-slave story.
Sept. 24, 2007 - Lie Detectors FactCheck.org, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Washington Post smoke out the political BS.
Sept. 20, 2007 - Dueling Trend Stories The Wall Street Journal vs. the New York Times on the value of an MBA.
Sept. 17, 2007 - Why the WSJ Exodus Is Good for Murdoch Three additional Wall Street Journal journalists quit.
Sept. 14, 2007 - Condoleezza Rice's Image Makeover Glenn Kessler's new book captures madam secretary putting stagecraft into her statecraft.
Sept. 12, 2007 - Blaming the Times for Your Bad Reputation, Part 2 In which Jon Garfunkel alters Allen Kraus' Google footprint.
Sept. 6, 2007 - Michagain The New York Times "Escapes" section demonstrates its lack of imagination.
Sept. 5, 2007 - Bogus Trend Story of the Week The Boston Globe's story about girl-on-girl attacks.
Sept. 4, 2007 - Hail to the Return of Motherland-Protecting Propaganda! The Russians and their unintentionally hilarious Washington Post ad supplement.
Aug. 30, 2007 - Blaming the Times for Your Bad Reputation The newspaper's public editor gets all verklempt over a nonissue.
Aug. 27, 2007 - Already Chewed News What my beloved newspaper has been reduced to serving.
Aug. 22, 2007 - Next Head of State in Topless Bar ... Drinking with New York Post Editor Col Allan, but the Post doesn't think it's a story.
Aug. 20, 2007 - Murdoch Journal Watch—New York Post Edition Never mind the Journal's editorial independence. Pray for the New York Post's.
Aug. 17, 2007 - Reign of Error The average newspaper corrects very few of its factual errors, says professor.
Aug. 15, 2007 - Poor, Poor, Pitiful Rupert Murdoch Plus: Bob Novak's spelling problem.
Aug. 13, 2007 - The Gas Over Linda Greenhouse Does a reporter have a duty to appear on C-SPAN?
Aug. 10, 2007 - Boob Job The Nixon gang's obsession with Katharine Graham's breasts, continued.
Aug. 7, 2007 - The Murdoch Journal Watch Having bagged his trophy, how long will it take Rupert to bugger it?
Aug. 1, 2007 - The Return of Michael Finkel The work of the disgraced Times Magazine writer appears on the cover of National Geographic.
July 27, 2007 - Shafer Shanked It Revisiting my flawed piece about Times and Post headcounts and the future of newspapers.
July 25, 2007 - Shut Your Loophole Add loophole to the list of words that should be banned from journalism.
July 24, 2007 - Presence of Malice Billy Wilder tours journalism's pus-filled heart in the long-lost Ace in the Hole.
July 19, 2007 - The Honest Graft of Lady Bird Johnson How she and Lyndon came by their millions.
July 16, 2007 - Homer Simpson Has What the Bancrofts Want Editorial independence.
July 13, 2007 - Composing Murdoch's Disclosure It's almost as long as the Manhattan telephone book.
July 11, 2007 - Green Is the New Yellow On the excesses of "green" journalism.
July 6, 2007 - The Newspaper of the Future If we're lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past.
July 3, 2007 - iPhone Suck-Up Watch The press turns coquettish about the "Jesus phone."
June 29, 2007 - The Shorter New York Times All the news that fits in a smaller space.
June 26, 2007 - The Murdoch Journal Jack Shafer keeps tabs on the media mogul.
June 22, 2007 - Murdoch: The Filth and the Fury How low he'll stoop.
June 22, 2007 - Apple Suck-Up Watch It's not just a new kind of cell phone, it's a cultural watershed!
June 20, 2007 - Bogus Trend Story of the Day The Sunday New York Times discovers online sales losing "steam."
June 18, 2007 - Tony Blair, Press Critic Look who is calling the media cynical.
June 13, 2007 - Dow Jones Expands Its Golden Parachute Company to compensate up to 135 managers if they get the sack after a change in ownership.
June 8, 2007 - If the Peach Stole the Journal Cream What if the Financial Times raided Murdoch's Wall Street Journal newsroom?
June 5, 2007 - More Murdoch Malefaction The Bancrofts can't possibly trust this guy with the Wall Street Journal.
June 1, 2007 - Fred Thompson Plays the Big Media … which play along.
May 31, 2007 - Can Murdoch Pass the Stink Test? Assessing the mogul against the standards of the Dow Jones code of conduct.
May 29, 2007 - Murdoch Lies to the Financial Times Do we really want this guy owning the Wall Street Journal?
May 24, 2007 - Blame Britney First Al Gore and Tom Friedman think we're paying attention to the wrong things.
May 23, 2007 - Newsweek's Cheesy Drug Story It's not terrible—it's just lame.
May 16, 2007 - The Monday Crap Story As nonperishable as a MoonPie.
May 14, 2007 - Meet Mrs. Murdoch Who had a critical profile of Rupert's wife, Wendi Deng, spiked?
May 10, 2007 - Eight More Reasons To Distrust Murdoch The man has a terrible track record, you know.
May 8, 2007 - The Murdoch Street Journal Not for me, thanks.
May 7, 2007 - Stupidest Drug Story of the Week Is Reuters drinking bong water?
April 27, 2007 - The FCC Wants To Kill Your TV In the name of saving your children.
April 26, 2007 - David Halberstam (1934-2007) Portrait of the prize-winning reporter as an engorged ego.
April 24, 2007 - The Cho Show The networks cancel his videos after one hot ratings period.
April 19, 2007 - In Praise of Insensitive Reporters We'd hate them even more if they didn't overcover the VT story.
April 17, 2007 - Does the Press Pick Presidents? What coverage says about a candidate's prospects.
April 16, 2007 - David Sedaris and His Defenders I guess it all comes down to what your definition of "exaggeration" is.
April 11, 2007 - The Media Deal From Zell Behind the real estate mogul's crappy offer for Tribune.
April 9, 2007 - Ted Koppel Predicts! Only a reporter this intimate with the story could get it so wrong.
April 5, 2007 - In Defense of the Anna Nicole Feeding Frenzy And other pulp journalism run amok.
April 4, 2007 - The Stockman "Woodshed" Myth How a calculated lie became a man's most personal truth.
April 2, 2007 - The April Fools' Day Defense Kit This year, don't be taken for a sucker by the media.
March 29, 2007 - The Next Times Public Editor Help the New York Times pick Barney Calame's replacement.
March 28, 2007 - Lies and Memories When stories read a little too good.
March 27, 2007 - Editors Writing Badly—the Sandy Rowe Edition The Oregonian inspires the first in a new series.
March 20, 2007 - Stupid Drug Story of the Week The New York Times mixes its intoxicants and gets stupid.
March 15, 2007 - The Case for Patrick Fitzgerald The Libby prosecutor didn't savage the First Amendment.
March 13, 2007 - How the Rich Sleep New York Times dispatches from the bed wars.
March 12, 2007 - Eichenwald's Weird Checkbook Journalism The Editors' Note, the reporter, and the reporter's testimony.
March 9, 2007 - Delmar Pickett Jr. Stands by His Spit Story The Vietnam vet maintains he was gobbed at 35 years ago.
March 7, 2007 - Pickett's Charge In a 1971 CBS News clip, Vietnam vet Delmar Pickett Jr. describes an airport spit incident.
March 6, 2007 - Our Ann Coulter Problem Why the press can't ignore her.
March 5, 2007 - Slate's Fact-Checking Department There's this reader who lives in Palo Alto …
March 1, 2007 - Earning Every Inch at the Washington Post A new memo from the top editors explains how.
Feb. 28, 2007 - False Profits When bad financial news for newspapers is good news for journalism.
Feb. 23, 2007 - The BALCO Mess Or travels in the gray areas of the confidential source arrangement.
Feb. 21, 2007 - Steven Rattner's Newspaper Ballet The investment tycoon dances around the future of the newspaper biz.
Feb. 15, 2007 - A War on the Press? I don't think so.
Feb. 13, 2007 - More Spit Takes Searching the news archives for evidence of spat-upon returning Viet vets.
Feb. 12, 2007 - Jay Forman Redux Slate's author of "Monkeyfishing" now says none of his story was true.
Feb. 6, 2007 - Spitfire Vietnam veterans were gobbed on, insist angry readers and critical bloggers.
Feb. 5, 2007 - About That Methedemic A new government survey finds meth use down. So, where's the coverage?
Jan. 31, 2007 - Newsweek Throws the Spitter The magazine repeats the myth of the gobbed-upon Vietnam vet.
Jan. 30, 2007 - Bartiromo Innuendo What exactly is the Wall Street Journal trying to say?
Jan. 29, 2007 - The Lies of Ryszard Kapuściński Or, if you prefer, the "magical realism" of the now-departed master.
Jan. 25, 2007 - Unspeak From the Readers They find it everywhere.
Jan. 23, 2007 - The Devil's Lexicon Unspeak exposes the language twisters.
Jan. 22, 2007 - More Nicotine Madness Harvard School of Public Health weighs in.
Jan. 20, 2007 - New Wave The case for killing the FCC and selling off spectrum.
Jan. 17, 2007 - What the "Media Reformers" Get Right Well, 50 percent right.
Jan. 16, 2007 - What Really Happened in Minot, N.D.? The whole story about that toxic spill and the Clear Channel "monopoly."
Jan. 10, 2007 - The L.A. Times Raiders Who will the journalistic competition poach while the Tribune Co. fiddles?
Jan. 5, 2007 - The Stupidest Drug Stories of the Week International reefer madness!!!!
Jan. 4, 2007 - Decent Exposure The press buries Gerald R. Ford in meaningless platitudes.
Jan. 2, 2007
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