Reporters

Retiring Wash Post Editor's Record Stained By Failure on Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Downie's paper stands out as a "complicit enabler." The Post had a tragically poor performance in the run-up to the Iraq war, and Downie has failed (as far as I've seen) to fully admit that.

New Study Calls Pentagon's 'Embedded' Media Program an Iraq 'Victory' for Bush

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.14.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

The study reveals how the context of the embedding program may have limited reporter access and hindered the spread of war-related information to the wider public.

Two Years Ago: When Stephen Colbert Mocked Bush -- To His Face

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

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.

Experienced Reporters Unwanted

Leslie Griffith | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media


Leslie Griffith

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?

What I Told Bill Moyers About Iraq 5 Years Ago -- As 'Victory' Neared

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

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.

Pentagon Censoring Reporters As Guantanamo Trials Near

McClatchy | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics


A defense lawyer lets slip at the war court convening here that a battlefield commander changed an Afghanistan firefight report in a way that seemed t...

No Shame, No Blame -- Media Refuse to Face Up to Role in Iraq Disaster

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

The media, with months to plan for the five-year commemoration of the war, were ready to take stock of everything but themselves.

The New York Times on Obama and Deval -- Assume Nothing, Question Everything

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

If you subtract the elements of fractious legislative relations, change agent, new voice, articulate, what's the only thing left to compare between Obama and Deval?

As Iraq Toll Hits 4000 -- Bush Sees a "Comma"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

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.

The 'Unsung Heroes' in 5 Years of War -- Even Stephen Colbert

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

Many of the most critical and important journalistic voices exposing the criminal nature of this war have emerged from an "alternative" universe.

Exclusive: Famed War Reporter Rips the Media on Iraq

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

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.

5 Years Ago: When Media 'Zombies' Helped Bush Go To War

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media


Greg Mitchell

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.

Bush at Gridiron Dinner -- No Jokes About Missing WMD This Time!

Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

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.

Should Reporters Vote?

Washington Post | Chris Cillizza | Posted 02.16.2008 | Media


This week's Potomac Primary brought to the fore one of the most contentious questions in the world of political journalism: Should reporters vote? Al...

Journalists Are People, Too -- Let My People Vote!

Ruth Hochberger | Posted 02.01.2008 | Media


Ruth Hochberger

Barring journalists from voting -- even in a primary -- because their preferences may become public is asking too much.

Finding The Right Questions to Ask for President or First Date -- With a Nod to Barbara Walters and James Lipton

Tom Alderman | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media


Tom Alderman

The Reality-TV mini-series we call the Presidential Debates is running out of juice. Same questions, same answers endlessly re-looped as the media-candidate interview process grinds on.

Stop the Play-By-Play and Get in the Game

Leslie Griffith | Posted 01.01.2008 | Media


Leslie Griffith

Please, reporters, help Americans focus on the issues. They are complicated and not conducive to a 30-second soundbite.

Simply Simian

Bob Franken | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics


Bob Franken

If enough political reporters, pundits and other so-called experts make their calls on the presidential campaign, by chance someone will be correct.

The Openess Hustle

Bob Franken | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics


Bob Franken

Reporters are supposed to be professional skeptics, challenging any advocate's self-serving, one sided promotion. As a result, what we do can be mighty inconvenient for some.

Prosecutors Know Who Killed Russian Journalist

New York Times | CJ Chivers | Posted 10.07.2007 | Media


The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper and Russian prosecutors know the identity of the man who killed Anna Politkovskaya, the newspaper's correspond...


 

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