See Serwer, Drum, and Greenwald on the sudden unwillingness of the elite media to call torture torture when Americans led by the Bush administration engaged in the relevant practices. Of course, if you follow wingnut logic to be be against torture even when Americans do...
journamalism
This rather odd recent article about the novelist Irène Némirovsky is a good example of a journalistic technique I can't stand: allowing people to respond to uncited "critics" without linking.
Shorter Mike Allen: "I'm stealing my employers' money. OK, my hypothetical employers who care about informing the public."
LGM has been told that Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito are all planning on resigning tomorrow. This will give Barack Obama three more Supreme Court nominations. The fact that our impeccable source did not even have a story about why...
I think I liked Shattered Glass a lot more than Atrios did, and so perhaps I'm interpreting it more charitably, but I'm not sure that the film portrays Lane as.
It's very, very hard to care about the fate of a newspaper that would publish a screed that is witless and hateful even by Bill Donohue's standards. Especially egregious is.
On some level, taking Ceci Connolly to task for acting as a stenographer for insurance company interests willfully attempting to deceive the public is like criticizing a camel for having humps -- there was never any reason to think Connolly would be anything but in...
This passage from the WaPo ombudsman's defense of Monica Hesse's lengthy puff piece on professional homophobe Brian Brown is revealing in the way that it fails to address the central.
How, exactly, does Alessandra Stanley keep her job?THE TIMES published an especially embarrassing correction on July 22, fixing seven errors in a single article — an appraisal of Walter Cronkite,.
Making Chris Matthews look substantive:
Although the general assumption that today's PEDs are the biggest threat to the Integritude of the Game Ever, much much worse than the ones Mickey Mantle used is to be.
The Times can always find something...