Doctors can alleviate any concerns about McCain's health. But Americans can rightly wonder whether he truly understands the faltering economy that he will have to steer back to health if he becomes president.
Michael Lawlor | Posted 07.09.2008 | Home
As the concept of the press and what constitutes news are continually being challenged and redefined, freedom of the press becomes an even more crucial concept.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media
Today, the four major American oil companies, thrown out by Saddam Hussein 36 years ago, came back into Iraq by getting... you guessed it... no-bid contracts!
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Editorials across the U.S. on the morning after largely hailed Barack Obama's win over Hillary Clinton. Here is a sampling of what they had to say.
Dennis Perrin | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media
Under the American corporate system, the chief task of the propaganda wing, amusingly called "journalism," is to sell whatever the elites are pushing and marginalize anyone who openly dissents.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics
Would it have been better if he dramatically stepped to the podium one day and said, "We have been doing an organized propaganda campaign to deceive the American people and I resign!"?
ZP Heller | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
Republicans desperately hope that the mainstream media won't end its love affair with McCain any time soon.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics
What most forget is that Colbert pointed daggers at the press as well as the president -- and many in the media responded by panning his performance in the days that followed.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.19.2008 | Politics
While Beltway pundits and others in the national press have alleged that Barack Obama is clearly and obviously out of touch with most not-so-bitter Pennsylvanians, leading newspapers in the state, who ought to know better, seem to disagree.
Peter Smith | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media
A lot of inside the beltway talking heads have claimed a special understanding of working class voters lately. I would submit that if, as a journalist, you have to explain your working class bona fides, then you probably don't have them.
Colorado Confidential | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home
In response to news that Denver police have been stocking up on security equipment, local attorneys are training protesters in anticipation of clashes at the Democratic National Convention to be held there in August.
Jay Rosen | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home
As an Obama supporter, I was proud to publish Mayhill Fowler's truthful report, though I recognize that it touched off an ordeal for the campaign, a media storm that isn't over and could hurt Obama's chances.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics
The interview would conclude with Bill Moyers asking, "Do you have a sense that when the battle is over, this story's only begun?" I answered, "We're only at the beginning." Unfortunately, I was proven correct.
Michael Shaw | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
I can't recall such a revealing shot of a teleprompter. It draws attention to how impersonal and highly-scripted McCain's self-described biographical tour has turned out to be.
Jay Rosen | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home
If the left blogosphere is declaring some all-out war on the mainstream media, there's a few things I want to understand about it.
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.
Lisa Gans | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
Clinton has refused requests by the press for interviews about her membership in The Fellowship. But clearly, she is not as scrupulous about her association with religious figures in her life as she claimed.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Bush meant to say "asterisk" but did not know how to pronounce it. Or maybe he meant "blip" or "footnote" -- though that wouldn't make the sentiment any less revolting.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
But McCain as "Bob"? Consider that in the past two weeks there was a spike in violence, explosions and casualties in Iraq, yet McCain barely seemed to notice.
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.
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.
Jay Rosen | Posted 03.04.2008 | Home
Thursday I posted a little exercise in pattern recognition at the New York Times. Here are the answers I received, plus some commentary on the Washington Post's "women are dumb" article.
Jay Rosen | Posted 02.28.2008 | Home
Each of the New York Times "vetting" stories is part of the ritual in which the press imagines itself asking the hard questions of candidates who would be president.
Sean Carman | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Kristol's argument on why Obama doesn't wear a flag pin ("Flag-gate!") is just so unbelievably, insidiously stupid: The man is a 50-year-old fifth grader.
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Lester Feder | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home