“In the tank for Obama?”
White House press experts say to expect something more like “trying to get acquainted with Obama” when the new president takes power.
Saturday night at the Nieman Foundation convocation I’ve been covering at Harvard, “On Point” host Tom Ashbrook led a panel discussion about the press and the new Barack Obama administration. Heaven [...]
Retired Washington Post Editor Len Downie, speaking at the Nieman Foundation’s 70th Anniversary convocation led his keynote talk by telling the story of Daily Kos posting a false item about Sarah Palin during the GOP convention. Kos, he said, expessed no moral obligation to the truth. He posts what’s out there and lets people have at [...]
Newspapers do a lousy job of labelling and explaining those odd stories that we call “Analysis.” I’ll stipulate that they do us a great deal of harm because readers know opinion when they see it and we’ve told them there’s only one section for Opinion. (see ethics code section on analysis)
But critics should confront the value [...]
If you think the Editor of the Post Register is a self-important windbag, you’ll be glad to know I’m going to spend the weekend feeling like the insignificant rube that I am.
This weekend in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, MA, I get to attend a conference hosted by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. “True Grit: Advancing Journalism’s [...]
“How they see us” is my favorite segment of my favorite magazine, The Week. The editors collect excerpts of interesting Opinion pieces from publications around the world, which can be fascinating when U.S. actions command world attention, as they do this week.
I’m going to try to sustain a similar thread in this blog, relying on [...]
