http://dir.salon.com/topics/press/?source=rss&aim=press en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT By Joe Conason Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/25/biden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/08/25/biden/index.html?source=rss Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one. By Louis Bayard Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/30/scott_mcclellan_press_secretary/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/30/scott_mcclellan_press_secretary/index.html?source=rss 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 Joe Conason Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/10/new_hampshire/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/10/new_hampshire/index.html?source=rss The overwhelmingly negative press corps may have rallied voters to Clinton's side and turned her narrow victory into a resurrection. By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/25/walter_lippmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/25/walter_lippmann/index.html?source=rss Ninety years after Walter Lippmann first railed against the complicity of the media in wartime propaganda, we're back at ground zero. By Joe Conason Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/06/04/hillary_bios/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/06/04/hillary_bios/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/03/02/al_gore/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/03/02/al_gore/index.html?source=rss After they tempt him into the presidential race, they'll probably try to destroy him again. And he knows it. By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/02/22/libby_trial/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/02/22/libby_trial/index.html?source=rss 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 David Puner Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/media/2006/12/15/snow_s_apology/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/media/2006/12/15/snow_s_apology/index.html?source=rss Toes were crossed! By Joe Conason Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/08/18/lieberman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/08/18/lieberman/index.html?source=rss Lieberman's racially inflammatory strategy may backfire when people remember his history of pandering to Louis Farrakhan. By Eric Boehlert Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/04/lapdogs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/04/lapdogs/index.html?source=rss 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 Jay Rosen Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/04/20/mclellan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/04/20/mclellan/index.html?source=rss 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 Orville Schell Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/17/press/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/17/press/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/16/press/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/03/16/press/index.html?source=rss 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 Joe Conason Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/01/20/press_cowardice/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/01/20/press_cowardice/index.html?source=rss 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 Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/12/01/woodward_clueless/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/12/01/woodward_clueless/index.html?source=rss What a shock it was to learn that the man who exposed the Watergate scandal had been keeping his own big secret. By Eric Boehlert Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/07/press_katrina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/09/07/press_katrina/index.html?source=rss Why has it taken thousands of hurricane fatalities to finally wake up reporters? By Judd Legum and Faiz Shakir Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/08/17/bush_plame/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/08/17/bush_plame/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew O'Hehir Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/13/press/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/07/13/press/index.html?source=rss Andrew O'Hehir responds to his critics. By Eric Boehlert Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/09/press_and_downing_street_memo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/09/press_and_downing_street_memo/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/02/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/02/media/index.html?source=rss 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 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/23/more_gannon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/23/more_gannon/index.html?source=rss Bush's press office gave Jim Guckert access, even knowing his only credentials were from the blatantly partisan group GOPUSA. By Dan Froomkin Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/03/bush_press/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/12/03/bush_press/index.html?source=rss 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 Eric Boehlert Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/10/press_mandate/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/10/press_mandate/index.html?source=rss Falling to its knees in record time, the press predicts the president will be a uniter this time -- really. By Dennis Jett Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/11/08/scandal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/11/08/scandal/index.html?source=rss Yes, the devastation will be extreme. The good news? He'll sow his own destruction. By Eric Boehlert Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/20/ron_suskind/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/20/ron_suskind/index.html?source=rss 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."