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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 Jan 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 Oct 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 Jun 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 Mar 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 Feb 22, 2007
Tony Snow contrition
Toes were crossed!
By David Puner Dec 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 Aug 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 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Jan 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 Dec 1, 2005
Katrina jolts the press
Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters?
By Eric Boehlert Sep 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 Aug 17, 2005
Judy Miller and the press, Part 2
Andrew O'Hehir responds to his critics.
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 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 Jun 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 Mar 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 Feb 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 Dec 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Oct 20, 2004
Risky business
The legal maneuvering to determine which Bush administration officials leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to Bob Novak, Matthew Cooper and other reporters has just begun.
By Eric Boehlert Aug 13, 2004
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