All the World's a Photo Op
When anyone with a cell phone is a potential member of the paparazzi, and anyone with a laptop a potential blogger, the contest for the control of images has never been more intense.
When anyone with a cell phone is a potential member of the paparazzi, and anyone with a laptop a potential blogger, the contest for the control of images has never been more intense.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media
Aren't you sick yet of "Some people say" as a lead in to a spin denied? Aren't you tired of "An academic told us" kinds of evidence for bias? Some people where? How many? Which academic?
Sherman Yellen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media
No man should die at the height of his powers at 58. Truly a sad event. Russert was at the top of his game when he died. And yet... and yet... something didn't smell right to me.
Leslie Griffith | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Rooting for the war is much easier for journalists than asking hard questions to reveal a conflict based on lies and a country led by liars.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
The root of the problem of journalistic complicity extends beyond the performance of individual reporters and to a news system that allows itself to be manipulated by a dishonest leadership.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media
What makes Jessica Yellin's "clarification" about her coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war so much fun is that you can almost see the gun being pointed at her head by CNN management as you read her words.
Bill Moyers | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media
What is important for the journalist is not how close you are to power, but how close you are to reality.
Leslie Griffith | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media
Your local news has the money to buy a helicopter and install expensive high definition, but not the money to hire experienced investigative reporters to help protect your community?
John Eskow | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
It's beginning to seem that fish-wrapper newspapers are eerie predictors of the narratives we can expect to see in the so-called mainstream media.
Jay Rosen | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home
By demonstrating that you can say false things, refuse to correct them, and pay no real price for it, you dishearten reporters and make their efforts appear futile to themselves.
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.
Frank Mankiewicz | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Why the reliance in political reporting on the language of boxing, a largely neglected -- if not despised -- sport?
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.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
I'm sick of hearing from journalists. Where are the historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, communication experts and objective political analysts?
Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.01.2008 | Media
Please, reporters, help Americans focus on the issues. They are complicated and not conducive to a 30-second soundbite.
James Boyce | Posted 01.01.2008 | Politics
The constant access to information, video, and more will leave us with more real leaders and less Romneys.
Working Life | Jonathan Tasini | Posted 12.19.2007 | Home
John Edwards is making his closing argument with the voters of Iowa--and the media elites are having a hard time trying to understand why he is now dr...
Seema Kalia | Posted 12.04.2007 | Living
"My Favorite Mistake" is a new biweekly series in which writer Seema Kalia interviews various luminaries about the one mistake that taught them the mo...
Zephyr Teachout | Posted 12.02.2007 | Home
If a citizen chose to use the New York Times as its source for learning about whether or not to support Governor Romney, she would be disappointed.
Deanie Mills | Posted 11.25.2007 | Home
There's a certain cool in being part of the press corps at a candidate event. But, as I recently saw in Austin, a lot gets missed when reporting from that vantage point.
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Kiku Adatto | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics