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If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too

Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one.
By Joe Conason Aug 25, 2008

  • Scott McClellan comes clean

    Of course the White House couldn't see the revealing "What Happened" coming. It was McClellan's job as press secretary to conceal himself.
    By Louis Bayard May 30, 2008

  • How bashing Hillary backfired

    The overwhelmingly negative press corps may have rallied voters to Clinton's side and turned her narrow victory into a resurrection.
    By Joe Conason January 10, 2008

  • Journalism and its discontents

    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

  • Will the real Hillary please stand up?

    Two new bios purport to unmask Hillary Clinton. Yet they offer few new insights and repeat tired clichés about the senator and her husband.
    By Joe Conason June 4, 2007

  • Why do journalists suddenly love Al Gore?

    After they tempt him into the presidential race, they'll probably try to destroy him again. And he knows it.
    By Joe Conason March 2, 2007

  • Libby's last disinformation campaign

    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

  • Tony Snow contrition

    Toes were crossed!
    By David Puner December 15, 2006

  • Whatever's best for Holy Joe

    Lieberman's racially inflammatory strategy may backfire when people remember his history of pandering to Louis Farrakhan.
    By Joe Conason August 18, 2006

  • Lapdogs

    Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time.
    By Eric Boehlert May 4, 2006

  • Nullifying the press

    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

  • In the Twilight Zone

    In Part 2 of his report on the press in Baghdad, Orville Schell attends a pathetic "party" at Fox News and endures surreal Bush spin in the Green Zone.
    By Orville Schell March 17, 2006

  • Baghdad: The besieged press

    Holed up in fortified compounds, at constant risk of death when they venture out, reporters in Iraq are increasingly cut off from the hideous reality outside.
    By Orville Schell March 16, 2006

  • A tip for the cowardly press corps

    Scott "Stonewall" McClellan arrogantly insists on "specific" questions about Abramoff's ties to the White House. OK, here's one: Did Bush meet with the lobbyist on May 9, 2001?
    By Joe Conason January 20, 2006

  • The Woodward coverup

    What a shock it was to learn that the man who exposed the Watergate scandal had been keeping his own big secret.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 1, 2005

  • Katrina jolts the press

    Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters?
    By Eric Boehlert September 7, 2005

  • "The president always knows"

    Why won't anyone ask Bush when he first learned of Valerie Plame's identity? That's one question he doesn't need to wait for the special prosecutor to answer.
    By Judd Legum and Faiz Shakir August 17, 2005

  • Judy Miller and the press, Part 2

    Andrew O'Hehir responds to his critics.
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 13, 2005

  • Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!

    Why did it take more than a month for the U.S. press to report on the serious revelations in the Downing Street memo?
    By Eric Boehlert June 9, 2005

  • Tearing down the press

    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

  • Gannongate: It's worse than you think

    Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA.
    By Eric Boehlert February 23, 2005

  • Mr. President, will you answer the question?

    Bush has a special talent for avoiding tough questions and reporters who ask them. Here's what the White House press corps should do to smoke him out.
    By Dan Froomkin December 3, 2004

  • The media gives Bush a mandate

    Falling to its knees in record time, the press predicts the president will be a uniter this time -- really.
    By Eric Boehlert November 10, 2004

  • The curse of Bush II

    Yes, the devastation will be extreme. The good news? He'll sow his own destruction.
    By Dennis Jett November 8, 2004

  • Reality-based reporting

    Ron Suskind, who exposed the ruthless internal operations of Team Bush, tells Salon that many Republicans, too, are frightened by the White House's "kill-or-be-killed desire to undermine public debate based on fact."
    By Eric Boehlert October 20, 2004
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