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Press Box 2011:
Media criticism.
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- Print vs. Online The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.
Aug. 19, 2011 - An Assignment for the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page About that phone-hacking scandal …
Aug. 18, 2011 - Wolf Blitzer, Null Set The CNN anchor remains the standard reference unit of dullness.
Aug. 17, 2011 - Murdoch's Metastasizing Migraine New phone-hacking-scandal evidence surfaces.
Aug. 16, 2011 - Bloggers, Not Parasites An academic finds local public-affairs bloggers who pull their weight, thank you very much.
Aug. 10, 2011 - Tina Brown, Cover Girl Michele Bachmann is the target, but it's Newsweek's editor who gets wounded.
Aug. 9, 2011 - Murdoch's Enemies The wrong and the right reasons for hating the media mogul.
July 20, 2011 - Who Framed the Murdochs? Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch pretend they're the victims of unscrupulous employees.
July 19, 2011 - Release the Lachlan! And the Elisabeth! How Murdoch will get out of this jam.
July 15, 2011 - The Huffington Post Challenge The legacy media continue to ignore the lesson the aggregation giant is teaching.
July 13, 2011 - Murdoch To Buy the Daily Prophet The dark lord of media has his eyes on a magical property.
July 11, 2011 - Rupert Murdoch, Paper Tiger The phone-hacking scandal undoes the media mogul.
July 8, 2011 - Murdoch Pulls the Ultimate "Reverse Ferret" The real meaning of the News of the World closure.
July 7, 2011 - Rupert Murdoch, Film Noir Villain And Nick Davies as the hard-boiled hero in The Big Phone Hacker.
July 6, 2011 - Rupert Murdoch Meets His Ahab Nick Davies and the Guardian spear the media mogul.
July 5, 2011 - Beck Off Rupert Murdoch and Fox News mark the depths to which even they will no longer descend.
July 1, 2011 - Hyperloco, Part 2 More about Patch and the other hyperlocal news sites.
June 29, 2011 - Hyperloco Why I find AOL's Patch sites so off-putting.
June 28, 2011 - Al Gore, Press Critic A washed-up politician finds a new venue for his ideas.
June 27, 2011 - Why Newspapers Have Gone to Hell No, the answer cannot be found in the reductionist explanation by experienced newsman James O'Shea.
June 27, 2011 - How Anonymous Sources Are Like Whitey Bulger You can never be sure they're telling you the truth.
June 24, 2011 - Who Is Jose Antonio Vargas? A prominent journalist comes out as an illegal immigrant, raising additional questions about his real identity.
June 23, 2011 - The Dope on Synthetic Pot Bloomberg BusinessWeek files a dandy drug-capitalism story.
June 17, 2011 - Who I Follow on Twitter and Why And who I don't follow on Twitter and why.
June 16, 2011 - Outrageous! Unethical! Sometimes Criminal! Can anyone—or anything—stop the British tabloids from misbehaving?
June 15, 2011 - How To Be a Lesbian Blogger Tom MacMaster and Bill Graber show the way.
June 14, 2011 - The $15,000 Interview So what if NBC News and other outlets pay their sources? There are journalistic problems with unpaid sources, too.
June 13, 2011 - "I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes," Part 2 More F.U. gestures directed at bosses by journalists who were fired or resigned.
June 7, 2011 - Anthony Weiner's Semantic Satiation The sexting doesn't bother me. The copious apologies on top of the pile of lies do.
June 6, 2011 - "I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes" What Mark Schlueb and other fired or resigned journalists wrote to their bosses on the way out.
June 6, 2011 - Too Much Weiner in Your Media Diet? Or not enough?
June 3, 2011 - Jill Abramson: Built Truck Tough An excellent, if unsurprising, choice for executive editor of the New York Times.
June 2, 2011 - Who's Afraid of Roger Ailes? Rolling Stone and New York magazine publish dueling takes on Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes.
May 26, 2011 - Bloomberg, Phew! The Bloomberg enterprise makes a weak-kneed entrance into the editorial-page and op-ed derby.
May 25, 2011 - Bogus Trend of the Week: Worst Allergy Season Ever! Almost every spring, the press returns with the same wheezing, sneezing, hackneyed story.
May 17, 2011 - Facebook Smeared Google? C'mon! Making too big a deal out of a public-relations firm's stupidity.
May 13, 2011 - Twitter in a Wringer What is it about Twitter that gets people into trouble?
May 10, 2011 - The Osama Putz Videos The White House is happy to spike the football on its own terms.
May 9, 2011 - Release the Dead Laden Photos Suppressing them infantilizes the nation and gives the White House unwarranted news control.
May 4, 2011 - How To Read the Bin Laden Coverage Skeptically.
May 2, 2011 - Michael Kinsley's First Bloomberg View Column What it should say.
April 27, 2011 - Speak No Evil Times Public Editor Arthur S. Brisbane's stupid ideas on how to cover the press.
April 25, 2011 - So You Won a Pulitzer Who cares?
April 18, 2011 - A Nation of Winklevosses The unpaid writers' lawsuit against the Huffington Post is bunk.
April 12, 2011 - Tech Brigands The swashbuckling bastards are everywhere, destroying the old order!
April 5, 2011 - Katie Couric and the Post-Anchor Era Why the evening news and the anchors no longer matter.
April 4, 2011 - Bill Moyers, the Brett Favre of PBS Having already quit the weekly show racket twice because it was "time," he's coming back!
April 1, 2011 - The April Fools' Day Defense Kit This year, don't be taken for a sucker by the media.
April 1, 2011 - FOIA Furor Unfurls! The political uses of FOIA in Wisconsin and Michigan are not as outré as some argue.
March 30, 2011 - There's No Such Thing as a Bad FOIA Request The Wisconsin GOP's quest to obtain a professor's emails isn't "McCarthyesque."
March 25, 2011 - Numbers Are Hard To Come By, Part 2 More about what journalists write when they encounter known unknowns.
March 24, 2011 - The Times' Free-Rider Problem Is Not a Problem Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. to the contrary, it's good for the NYTimes.com that readers will game its pay wall.
March 23, 2011 - Who's Afraid of the T-Mobile and AT&T Deal? Not me.
March 21, 2011 - Don't Piss on the New York Times Paywall At least not yet.
March 17, 2011 - Why the Washington Post Plagiarism Matters Because it injures readers.
March 17, 2011 - The New Sporting News Don't fear the media grabs by team owners like the Redskins' Dan Snyder or leagues like the Big Ten.
March 16, 2011 - In Defense of Gilbert "Aflac Duck" Gottfried Purveyors of dark, bleak humor deserve our thanks, not our condemnation, in times like these.
March 15, 2011 - Productivity Madness The press swallows $3.8 billion worth of junk economics.
March 15, 2011 - The NPR Body Count Will the last body dragged out the radio network's front door please turn off the lights?
March 10, 2011 - In Defense of Ron Schiller Let's not get too wigged out about the NPR executive's stupidity.
March 9, 2011 - The Day Rupert Murdoch Turned 80 Chronicle of a birthday foretold.
March 8, 2011 - What's Not Hot? Newsweek. Editor Tina Brown lays an egg in her redesign.
March 7, 2011 - Beat Sweetener: West Wing Edition The New York Times slathers sweet sauce all over the White House's new stuffed animals.
March 4, 2011 - Credit Score What's with the New York Times Magazine adding editor credits to the end of features?
March 3, 2011 - Back Scratching, Washington Style The saga of Rep. Darrell Issa's now-fired spokesman illustrates how the Washington reporter-source relationship works.
March 2, 2011 - The Frank Rich Switch Unless they're paying beaucoup bucks, his transfer to New York makes no sense to me.
March 1, 2011 - Politico's Editor Overreacts John F. Harris, go soak your head.
March 1, 2011 - SEO Speedwagon The rapid rise and sale of Arianna Huffington's Post.
Feb. 7, 2011 - Murdoch's Daily Show Rupert Murdoch has the money to make his tablet publication, The Daily, succeed. Does he have the patience?
Feb. 2, 2011 - Jack Shafer Gives Unsolicited Advice Tips for Tina Brown, Diane Sawyer, Marcus Brauchli, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and others.
Jan. 18, 2011 - Jared Loughner's World of Illusion … and Ours The accused Tucson killer isn't the only one who has a love affair with alternative realities.
Jan. 14, 2011 - What the Press Reports When It Has Little To Report Assessing the Day 4 newspaper coverage of the Giffords shootings.
Jan. 12, 2011 - Jared Loughner, Ready for His Photo Op The bald head. The calculated zombie grin. The living avatar of evil.
Jan. 11, 2011 - In Defense of Inflamed Rhetoric The awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
Jan. 9, 2011 - The Giffords Shooting Rolling thoughts about the press, the Web, and political assassination.
Jan. 8, 2011 - The Unsweetened William M. Daley The press neither flatters nor captures Obama's new chief of staff.
Jan. 7, 2011 - Shafer on WikiLeaks Jack Shafer keeps tabs on Julian Assange's big idea.
Jan. 6, 2011 - Deadly Images A Q&A with Barbie Zelizer, author of About To Die: How News Images Move the Public.
Jan. 6, 2011 - The 1,000 Faces of Julian Assange Vanity Fair portrays the WikiLeaks founder as a shrewd negotiator and master shape-shifter.
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