by Will Bunch Early in the morning on April 4, Eric Boehlert — a veteran and unrelenting critic of the American news media — hit the button […]
Tag: journalism
CBS News giving Mulvaney a paid gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
by Kurt Bardella From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Donald Trump’s acting chief […]
Journalism and truth telling in wartime
by Rob Okun Brent Renaud. Marina Ovsyannikova. One a US filmmaker killed by Russian troops on March 13 while working on a documentary about refugees. The other, […]
Mayor Eric Adams is half right
It is usually Republicans who blast the media for what they consider biased or unfair coverage of their policies, but increasingly we are hearing Democrats engaging in […]
How to save democracy: Elect fewer jerks
by Peter Jensen Having recently completed my 40th year as a card-carrying journalist, I feel compelled to share the one small nugget of wisdom I have gleaned […]
Guest essay: Working for a legend
by Brian Kuhl I first met George Esper 25 years ago in front of the Boston Harbor Hotel, before we walked over to the Associated Press office […]
The crisis of democracy is a media crisis
by Lorraine Ali This time last year, there was a cruel joke in circulation: The most spiteful year in recent memory would reset itself at midnight Dec. […]
Corporate misconduct increases after local newspapers shut down, says study
by Michael Smolens The closure of local newspapers across the country over the years has been coupled with concern about how public officials would behave without the community […]
Why ‘both-siderism’ fails the public
by Jackie Calmes American politics has changed dramatically since my post-Watergate generation of journalists began covering the story. Political journalism hasn’t kept up. For years it was […]
Good news got green-lighted at last
by Martin Schram We are reporting once again from the intersection of the news media, policy and politics. From here, we can see how and why government […]