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06.22.10

It's another severe embarrassment for the Obama administration, as the general the President hand-picked to run the war in Afghanistan gave remarkable access to a reporter from Rolling Stone (!) who recorded any number of ill-considered comments General McChrystal's aides made about members of the administration, including Joe Biden ("Bite me!"), General Jim Jones, and Obama himself.

02.09.10

How Media Chooses Words Adds to Bias

The Politico had a story about Big Labor penned by Jeanne Cummings, the reporter famed for going after Sarah Palin’s Party purchased wardrobe during the 2008 presidential campaign, that was an object lesson in Old Media bias. Her piece headlined “Labor helps kill its own top priority” is a great example of using language to [...]

02.09.10

Novak gets the scoop on Novak.(Robert D. Novak)(Biography)

[The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington, Robert D. Novak, Crown Forum, 672 pages] SOME 36 YEARS AGO, when I was a student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, I received a visit from a college chum who had become a congressional reporter for the Associated Publication: The American Conservative

04.14.09

How Bernanke staged a revolution

Last week the Washington Post published Neil Irwin's long profile of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke under the headline "How Bernanke staged a revolution." I found the profile interesting in several respects,

03.31.09

Did the New York Times spike a "game-changing" story about The One?

Yesterday, conservative talk radio hosts and bloggers vigorously discussed a story published by Philadelphia's Bulletin newspaper entitled "'New York Times' Spiked Ob

03.31.09

Media Deathwatch: NY Times Buried Obama/ACORN Story

We've known that the New York Times acts as an opinion outlet for the Democrat Party for decades now, but as a student of journalism's history, I would not have believed it would go this far.