At the fifth anniversary of the attack on Iraq -- marked, among other things, by last weekend's "Winter Soldier" hearings and the approach of 4000 U.S...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
Addiction is a massively complex social problem -- but the sad thing is that rather than suggest solutions, the press is busy looking for stories to plug into its prize-seeking formula.
Jon Soltz | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Maybe this five-year date will jog the media out of its Iraq-fatigue, and force them to confront what is happening, and report on it.
Jay Rosen | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home
Reporters with depth of knowledge are capable of challenging government and getting beyond he said, she said, a tepid style of truthtelling. Neutrality valorizes a loss of footing and self-respect.
David Simon | Posted 03.17.2008 | Media
Let's happily concede that all criticism stands and get to the real fun: something happened in season five of The Wire when almost no one -- among the working press, at least -- was looking.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics
Why isn't the press reporting that Clinton can't possibly make a comeback in the remaining elections? Because they don't want to say it's over and have the wrath come down on their heads.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
We Democrats are dangerously close to helping the Republicans score a renewal of the White House lease because the two Democratic front runners are so close in their political philosophies.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
The Boss and I go way back. Way, way back. But now we have ended up in the same place: on Iraq and on the page. Bruce wrote the brief preface for my new book on Iraq and the media.
Joseph Romm | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Note to L.A. Times: I assume you know greenhouse gases cause global warming. So were you afraid to say, "carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes global warming"?
Marie Wilson | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
When it comes to this question of integrity, women candidates have a particular tightrope to walk.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Olbermann has become what he has railed against. He is now the Bill O'Reilly of MSNBC. A big giant head railing against the first viable female candidate in U.S. history.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
A herd mentality often prevails: journalists know that they will almost never get in trouble for reporting something that is wrong when everyone else is also saying it.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
A Bronze Star winner in Vietnam, Joseph L. Galloway was also one of the first leading reporters/pundits to call for a U.S. pullout from Iraq several years ago.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Chris Matthews issued a strong, and incensed, reaction to a YouTube clip of George W. Bush's lame attempt at musical theatre from this weekend's Gridi...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
On the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, it is vital to refresh our memories on how the American media helped grease the path to war.
Michael Russnow | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
With Pennsylvania six weeks away, the media had to spike our interest by equalizing Hillary's big state victories by conning us into thinking that Wyoming and Mississippi are akin to Ohio and Texas.
Pachacutec | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
We have no progressive candidate, no ideologically based movement person. Which of our candidates is more likely to reveal an inner Lieberman of some form once in power?
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
It's true that Americans are consistently exploited by uncaring government and corporate elites, but the amazing thing is that they have not surrendered under the pressure.
Michael Shaw | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media
As Obama moves to respond to the "kitchen sink," Mark Halperin at Time launched a stunningly pejorative visual preemptive strike.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Last night was the 123rd Annual Gridiron Club spring dinner, one of those inside-the-beltway events where the political media gets all cozy with the f...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
The tone of the annual dinners in Washington, where the president exchanges some good-natured ribbing with the press, began to change four years ago, when Bush joked about missing WMDs.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
Just because the frame has been held by Obama does not mean that the Clinton 'experience' frame did not have an impact on the race. It had a very big impact -- on the Republican side.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
As I have documented over the years -- few others in the media were interested until recently -- suicides in Iraq now total in the hundreds with many more than that among the returnees.
Art Brodsky | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
Imagine Obama and Clinton (and their unruly surrogates) not spending valuable energy slamming each other, but instead competing to keep the McCain and Bush records in the news.
Eric Deggans | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media
We're at a point in the campaign where the world's media is on full-fledged "gaffe mode." If anyone should know how to conduct herself around a reporter she doesn't know in a situation like this, it should be Power.
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Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics