Minorities smeared over housing bubble
A Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover with black and Hispanic cartoon caricatures “grabbing greedily for cash” to illustrate the “return of bubble behavior to the housing market” is “reminiscent of early...
View ArticleThe message behind the news
Our opinion: The Obama and Cuomo administrations need to remember that controlling the message is one thing; controlling public information is another. In Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration...
View ArticleFewer jobs in journalism, but more news than ever
“Just as a tiny number of farmers now produce an agricultural bounty that would have amazed our ancestors, today’s readers have access to far more high-quality coverage than they have time to read,”...
View ArticleDeath etiquette should not apply to political figures
The “speak-no-ill rule” about the dead shouldn’t apply to political figures such as Margaret Thatcher, says Glenn Greenwald in the Guardian UK. It prevents valid criticism, allows for “a propagandistic...
View ArticleNo coverup in Gosnell case
Public indifference to the travails of low-income women partly explains why people are only just now hearing about the Kermit Gosnell case, says Irin Carmon in Salon. The story was covered by...
View ArticleTwitter is good at breaking , not reporting
Twitter functions like an upside-down funnel, with unfiltered information poured indiscriminately into the narrow part of the nozzle and splashed across a large area, says Simon Ricketts in the...
View ArticlePage views more important than reporting the facts
It would be crass to dwell on “adhering to the basic standards of reporting” to provide “people with the correct information they desperately need in a time of crisis,” says “Col Allan” in the Onion....
View ArticleFilibuster isn’t normal politics
The GOP minority’s abuse of the filibuster underlies much of the U.S. Senate’s legislative paralysis, says Andrew Cohen at the Brennan Center for Justice. But sharing the blame, he says, is a press...
View ArticlePhone scandal reveals abuse of power
By sending its subpoenas for the telephone records of Associated Press staff directly to the phone companies rather than to the AP, the Justice Department prevented the news organization from seeking a...
View ArticleNews gathering is not always protected
The First Amendment protects the right to publish information but doesn’t “grant blanket immunity for how that information is gathered,” says Walter Pincus in The Washington Post. If a news story...
View ArticleColumnist not a threat
Syndicated advice columnist John Rosemond has been under fire recently by the state of Kentucky for being an “illegal psychologist” — for dispensing advice without a license. A recent editorial in The...
View ArticleSome advice for Bezos
With Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post, former journalist Celia Wexler offers him some advice on her Out of the News blog. She says the Post needs stronger beat reporters, copy...
View ArticleAn early Al Jazeera America review
Rem Rieder at USA today takes a look at the new Al Jazeera America, and for the most part came away impressed. While it lacks the bells and whistles of other cable news shows, he says, it’s got serious...
View ArticleJames M. McGrath, 1957-2013
We say farewell to one of our own. This page will look mostly the way it always does next week, and the weeks after that. But in one way, it will never be the same. We lost one of our own Wednesday....
View ArticleN.Y. Times piece on Beck called ‘remarkably fair’
While Glenn Beck laments being the target of what he calls “hit pieces” by the mainstream media, his conservative website, The Blaze, calls a New York Times Q&A with him “a remarkably...
View ArticleNot all mass shootings get equal coverage from media
The desire for normalcy in a tragedy’s aftermath is understandable, but the news media’s “quickly fading interest” in the Washington Navy Yard shooting “suggests there was something ordinary and...
View ArticleSingle moms killing papers
Print journalism is dying because newspapers hold no appeal for the growing demographic of single moms on welfare who are functionally illiterate and “move every few months to cheat their landlords,”...
View ArticleCBS avoids questions on Benghazi report
The “tepid and limited” 90-second apology issued by ‘60 Minutes’ on its flawed Benghazi report failed to address how “an entire report was built around a charlatan ‘eyewitness,’” and “offered no...
View ArticleFor a national shield law
Our opinion: A New York reporter’s battle with Colorado over confidential sources underscores the need for at least a national baseline set of protections. When Jana Winter, a New York City-based...
View ArticleColumnist’s commentary continues offensive history
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen’s view that “conventional people” react to interracial marriage by repressing “a gag reflex” is yet another example of the columnist’s offensive commentary on...
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