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Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 25, 2007
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His lawsuit will attempt to show that CBS tried to suppress the report on Bush's National Guard Service and the Abu Ghraib abuses.
By Sidney Blumenthal
September 27, 2007
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She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
By Cary Tennis
September 27, 2007
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Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What's wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?
By Rebecca Traister
September 26, 2007
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The world doesn't always conform to our impressions of it, and that's just one lesson to be learned from a bump on the head.
By Garrison Keillor
August 29, 2007
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The Art of Eating's Ed Behr talks about the tyranny of top 10 lists and why we need a food magazine willing to run a 13,000-word story on Roquefort cheese.
By J.R. Norton
July 26, 2007
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A posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia.
By Alexander Nazaryan
July 2, 2007
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Not only did Scooter's defense rely on emotion over facts, but it appealed to the jury to dismiss the craft of journalism as false by nature.
By Sidney Blumenthal
February 22, 2007
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Like Mark Twain, Molly Ivins treated us to the sound of America in her prose and style. She was the rare, gifted journalist whose work transcended the news that inspired it.
By Joe Conason
February 2, 2007
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Massive online feedback has rocked writers and changed journalism forever. This brave new world is filled with beautiful minds and nasty Calibans and everything in between. Its benefits are undeniable. But do they outweigh its insidious effects?
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 2007
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Who knew? Page views count. Doom of journalism: Part 37.
By Andrew Leonard
January 16, 2007
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Have I chosen the right field? Or am I too shy?
By Cary Tennis
December 7, 2006
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A Russian journalist renowned for her fearlessness and integrity was gunned down in her apartment building this weekend.
By Page Rockwell
October 9, 2006
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Radical journalist I.F. Stone spent his career challenging government deception and press complicity. This new biography shows why his legacy matters.
By Joe Conason
October 6, 2006
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The Bush team served up Scott McClellan's stolid stonewalling as the perfect device to humiliate and demote the media. And reporters played along.
By Jay Rosen
April 20, 2006
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When sports niches clash: Radio host Colin Cowherd's use of a blog's material highlighted a cultural gap. Plus: Women's Tournament.
March 28, 2006
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Her captors threatened to kill her over a week ago, but a new video suggests that she's still alive.
By Page Rockwell
January 30, 2006
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He was a fine journalist and a decent man but to stay atop journalism's establishment, even he had to make a deal with the devil.
By Fred Branfman
November 23, 2005
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Yasser Salihee was an Iraqi journalist. Joe was an American sniper. On June 24, 2005, fate brought them together on a Baghdad street.
By Phillip Robertson
July 27, 2005
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A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife and three children. The result is the most unlikely "True Story" you'll ever read.
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 15, 2005
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Nation magazine publisher Victor Navasky discusses his misadventures in publishing, squabbling with Christopher Hitchens, and what he learned at Harvard Business School.
By Mattathias Schwartz
June 9, 2005
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Gonzo journalist Matt Taibbi will do anything -- including throwing a pie made of horse sperm into the face of a New York Times bureau chief -- to bring political reporting back to life.
By Jonathan Shainin
May 12, 2005
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It's easy to dislike Mitch Albom and easy to jump on him for his ethical sin. But who among us has never cut a corner?
April 12, 2005
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Must the U.S. government reveal when it has produced "news" broadcasts? In a stunning rebuke of the GAO, the Justice Department says no.
By Eric Boehlert
March 16, 2005
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The Bush administration has been at war with the media from Day One. Is its real goal to undermine the press itself -- and thereby eliminate inconvenient truths?
By Eric Boehlert
March 2, 2005