December 7, 2007 – 10:38 am
From the Chronicle’s The Second Life of Peter J. Ludlow: “It’s hard to imagine a shy professor dodging bullets, outing swindlers, and taking on the government as an intrepid journalist. But Peter J. Ludlow has pulled it off — sort of. He leads an audacious life, but only online. As the digital character Urizenus, he muckrakes [...]
December 1, 2006 – 11:44 am
From Major Media Begins to Think for Itself: “Something important in the overall scheme of the American experiment happened this week….For the first time since the debate about Iraq began, some–though certainly not all–major media outlets in the United States are making their own judgments based on developments in the Middle East. Up until now…it [...]
In Is Iraq Slowly Moving Off Front Pages?, Tim McNulty, the public editor of the Chicago Tribune, says, “I thought we should examine some actual data about how many Iraq stories appear on the front page of this and other major American newspapers. What is immediately clear: a definite drop in the number of front-page [...]
April 11, 2006 – 12:13 pm
In their article, This Boring Headline Is Written for Google, the NY Times takes a look at the effect of search-engine optimization techniques on the task of creating news headlines. It’s a kind of “what has technology taken from us now?” story, but it is also pretty balanced. One professor they interviewed said, “Newspaper headlines [...]
March 15, 2006 – 01:41 pm
Helen Thomas, who is everyone’s favorite White House correspondent, has an article in the Nation today, entitled, “Lap Dogs of the Press,” where she writes, “Nothing is more troubling to me than the obsequious press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. They lapped up everything the Pentagon and White House could dish out–no [...]
March 15, 2006 – 11:27 am
TomDispatch has republished (from the NY Review of Books) “a vivid, rolling, roiling description of journalistic life, such as it is, in Baghdad today. Its length — and it is long –is meant to make up for everything that is so seldom published on the subject. Guarantee: You won’t think about those daily reports from [...]
February 28, 2006 – 12:35 pm
The Christian Science Monitor, in a column entitled, “Following the spirit of the law isn’t enough,” asks why the nation must always “move on” when a scandal happens, because it seems all this “moving on” has allowed the Bush administration to produce even more scandals.
February 28, 2006 – 12:31 pm
Here’s an interesting interview with Mark Danner, the NY Review of Books journalist who has written at length about the U.S. torture scandal and, via the title of his new book, the secret way to war. The interview includes this gem from Danner, “One is perilously close to arriving at the conclusion that reality doesn’t [...]
April 26, 2005 – 02:34 pm
Why is it that all the important questions come up in areas where the necessary answer is difficult to defend? It could be because Progress likes to have its fun with us, as if it was saying, “You want to continue down the path of a mature society? Well, you’re going to have to walk [...]
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