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The One Thing to Read Before Hillary Clinton's Benghazi Testimony ...
… is this big takedown by Kurt Eichenwald, in Newsweek, about the phony nature of the whole inquiry. (For my…
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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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Today's Hero of the False-Equivalence Struggles: On the Media
False equivalence, for those joining us late, is the almost irresistible instinct in mainstream journalism to present differing views as…
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When Is It Fair to Call a Policy Position Idiotic?
Last night I wrote an impolite item arguing something I actually believe: that the Tea Party-led effort to defund the…
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The West Coast Magazine World Takes A(nother) Bow
I’ve spent most of my working-and-studying life either on the East Coast or outside the United States. But, as I’ve…
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Listening Tip: This Week's On The Media
Week in and week out, I’m a fan of NPR’s On the Media. But this week’s episode, which I listened…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Headline Worth Study in The New York Times
The man bites dog / dog bites man conundrum applied to story-framing
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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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 'The American Prospect' Turns 25 and Has a Very Strong New Issue
The strange and striking resonance between the politics of the post-Reagan era and what the first post-Obama president will confront
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Library of Congress Today's Aviation News: The Good and the Weird
How a demonstration of calm competence becomes a "terrifying" episode
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Who Would Jesus Bomb, and Other Imponderable Questions
A chickenhawk moment so pure it deserves extra attention
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Reuters The Brian Williams Story as Emblem of the Chickenhawk Era
What it means that a public figure "misremembered" events in this particular way
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British Museum/The Grub Street Project The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, Collaboration Edition
"You may contribute to the ideas for this article if you wish." Now you've got my attention!
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Wikipedia The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, No. 1,832
"I’d love to take you out for a drink..." An insight into getting a reporter's attention.
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Reuters Two Ways of Looking at the Hillary Clinton Interview
Whichever way you see it, the presumptive Democratic nominee has shown us something significant.
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Amir Cohen/Reuters On David Frum, The New York Times, and the Non-Faked 'Fake' Gaza Photos
What they reveal about the three words that are journalists' only source of self-respect
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Iron Dome—Savior, or Sales Job?
When the fighting is over in Gaza, one of these stories is going to look strange.
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Reuters Sunday Readings on Media, Sports, and War
Talk shows aren't bringing on Captain Hazelwood to discuss safe shipping. But they still can't get enough of the Hazelwoods of foreign policy. Also, whether the "New York Times paradox" applies to public radio.
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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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Reuters Telling the Difference Between Danger and Fear
Bathtubs should be 365 times more frightening than sharks. So why aren't they?
