Victor Navasky

No Counting Chickens Yet

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 12.04.2008 | Home


Odile Weissenborn

I met up recently with Ed Fancher, who published the Village Voice for 20. The Voice was very progressive during his tenure, so I assumed Fancher was another typical New Yorker for Obama. Think again.

When Bad PR Happens to Good People, or, Jeffrey Birnbaum's Revenge

William Klein | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media


William Klein

Washington Post columnist Jeffrey Birnbaum has his panties in a twist again about the practice of public policy advocates employing professional writers to help them draft newspaper op-eds.

John McCain Receives A Love Letter From Adam Nagourney and Michael Cooper

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media


Joseph A. Palermo

About 2/3 of the New York Times' McCain piece is literally stenography. Just because a candidate compares himself to Theodore Roosevelt doesn't mean that prominent reporters should help him do it.

"Mission Accomplished: Or How We Won The Iraq War" Is A Best Seller

Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics


"Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won The War In Iraq," Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf's shrewd, lucid and tragically funny compilation of 'expert...