May 18, 2008
Debate over the "embedded jouurnalist" program run by the Pentagon since the weeks before the Iraq invasion in 2003 has long raged, with some claiming that it gave reporters valuable close access to action while others saying that the journalists were severely compromised within it. Now sociologist Andrew M. Lindner,...
Carol Maric | Posted May 12, 2008 | Politics
If Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton can be relegated to the ranks of "Autism" these days, then The New World does seem perilously close to being upside down--as I have always suspected.
Does it not anger anyone else that many of...
Carol Maric | Posted May 6, 2008 | Politics
The Uptake | Posted May 1, 2008 | Off The Bus
From The UpTake
Minnesota's Republican Party seems... camera-shy. Over the past several months, Republicans have prevented journalists from recording their candidates at events. The latest incident saw reporter Gavin Sullivan...
Michael Shaw | Posted April 28, 2008 | Media
Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch this past Thursday is a painful, if must read.
Clearly and simply, the article describes how a war out-of-sight can quickly become a...
Shahid Buttar | Posted April 22, 2008 | Politics
Government handouts to corporations might seem untenable at a time when more and more Americans suffer every day from the impacts of a mounting economic crisis. Yet efforts to bolster the economy have largely taken the form of corporate welfare -- much like an appalling effort, in the closing...
Omid Memarian | Posted April 10, 2008 | Media
How can journalists responsibly report on countries to which they have very little access? How can they break beyond barriers to produce good reporting? And more importantly, to what extent can we, as readers, trust stories about such sensitive nations in the news media?
Last week, the International Center...
McClatchy | April 3, 2008 09:32 AM
Byron Williams | Posted March 27, 2008 | Media
According to the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists, journalists should "make certain that headlines, news teases, photos, video, audio graphics, sound bites and quotations do not misrepresent. They should not oversimplify or highlight incidents out of context."
I doubt the above statement would create much dissent...
Jay Rosen | Posted March 27, 2008 | Off The Bus
First came John McCain's strange assertion that Al Qaeda in Iraq was being trained and supported by the Iranians.
Next he backed off the claim after Joe Lieberman whispered something in his ear. "I'm sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not Al Qaeda," he said.
Then on Meet...
AP | Hope Yen | March 15, 2008 01:49 PM
Mark Weisbrot | Posted March 12, 2008 | Politics
"A free press is supposed to function as our democracy's immune system against . . . gross errors of fact and understanding," wrote Al Gore in his book, The Assault on Reason. But it doesn't - as Gore explains -- and that is what makes the mass media one of...
Greg Mitchell | Posted March 11, 2008 | Media
Next week, we will mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Amazingly, at this late date, we still have 150,000 troops there, and nine U.S. troops were killed just yesterday. So it is vital to refresh our memories on how the American media helped grease the path...
Reuters | February 29, 2008 11:42 PM
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted February 17, 2008 | Media
Are media parochial? Does their coverage take cultural context into account? Do languages, dialects and nuances matter?
Yes and no, depending on the country, market and circumstance.
But perhaps it's more a case of no, given time constraints, budgets, priorities, cultural biases, massive ignorance and ill intent --...
Washington Post | Chris Cillizza | February 16, 2008 02:30 PM
NY Daily News | STEVE KETTMANN | January 6, 2008 01:49 PM
Slate | Jack Shafer | January 3, 2008 08:55 AM
Joel Simon | Posted December 18, 2007 | Media
Do you know the names Salih Said Aldin, Khalid W. Hassan, or Namir Noor-Eldeen?
All three were reporters for international media outlets who were killed in Iraq in the last year.
Aldin, a reporter for The Washington Post, and Hassan, who worked for The New York...
AP | RICHARD PYLE | December 17, 2007 10:58 PM
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
Utterly insane goings-on tonight on...
It's a pretty well known fact that most women - attractive women -...
Just off the House floor today, the Crypt overheard House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers tell two...
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of...
The Tennessee GOP hasn't yet had their fill of Obama dirty tricks. A few months ago,...
***UPDATE*** Roughly five hours after making comments about...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
Sixteen tips for getting good sleep. There's a lot of advice out there about getting good...
Greg Mitchell | Posted May 14, 2008 | Media