Crisis of the press
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How Politicians Deal With TV News, from Obama to Cheney to LBJ
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Escape from False Equivalence in Today's NYT
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A Young Journalist Setting an Example for the Rest of Us
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Press Can Deal With the Benghazi Committee
When a congressional investigation turns into a partisan operation, the media need to treat it as such.
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Peter Morgan / Reuters How Fox News Is (Still) Hurting the Republicans
“There is something about watching Fox News that leads people to do worse on these [factual] questions than those who don’t watch any news at all.” A political scientist on what Roger Ailes has wrought, including the problems he is creating for his own GOP.
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The Iran Project 'Of No Party or Clique' at The Atlantic
The big-tent principle applied to a former U.S. senator and a current U.S. adversary
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Wikipedia Everything Old Is New Again, and Vice Versa: The Predicament of the Press
Two in-the-moment writers wrestle with two for-the-ages questions.
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Wikimedia commons The China Story You Should Pay Attention to, and the One You Should Ignore
Skip past anything that talks about a coming dawn of the Chinese Century. Go straight to stories on the complications of China in the here-and-now.
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Mediaite I've Got the Next Great Story Lead for CNN
Maybe a former finance minister of an African nation was also on the flight?
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Bloomberg Another Bloomberg Editor Explains Why He Has Resigned, Over Its China Coverage
"For the international press, there are many reasons for crimped ambitions."
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Next in our Special Series: Gas-Price Rise Means Drivers Pay More
Good thing we have experts to explain these things to us!
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Why I Get More Than 1 Paper, Medicare Edition
I am doing my part to keep the print-newspaper business going. And you should too!
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False Equivalence: Where It Came From
Is politics just another form of schoolyard bullying?
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The Phoenix's Role in Climate Coverage
Boston's now-closed independent paper "championed the climate issue and the grassroots climate movement, when virtually no one else gave them a serious thought."
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Why I Get More Than One Newspaper, Cont.
There's the "news," and then there's the "frame."
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Pre-Election Reading: Wen Stephenson on Climate Self-Censorship
The big issue of the campaign, and why it's not being discussed
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RIP TSWI
An excellent radio show goes off the air, but the episodes live on.
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Hitler and the Secret Video: The Creator Speaks
The man who created a parody video explains what he had in mind.
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There Is No Such Thing as 'The Times'
What a column from the New York Times' "public editor" does and does not signify.
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Another Step Forward on the 'Post-Truth Politics' Trail
Learning to cope with "truthiness" and "false equivalence": The saga goes on.
