In praise of candidate endorsements
Why do newspapers endorse political candidates? At best, it’s an archaic practice, a little quaint, a little bizarre. Other media don’t do it. TV and
November 6, 2012
Why do newspapers endorse political candidates? At best, it’s an archaic practice, a little quaint, a little bizarre. Other media don’t do it. TV and
I like the campaign debates. I watched most of the Republican primary matchups, even after they got repetitive, and I find the current flight of
News media that rely on ads have always had a problem covering their own advertisers. It’s rare to find a reporter who doesn’t have a
It’s rare that a story so fully exemplifies the worst tendencies of the news media as the coverage of the protest in Muslim countries over
It’s rare that a story so fully exemplifies the worst tendencies of the news media as the coverage of the protest in Muslim countries over
One of the first things I learned in my first newsroom job was how to use a thick, black pencil to transform an official press
I’m badly out of step with my media brethren, since I find the fate of Wikileaks and its besieged founder, Julian Assange, a truly compelling
The media seem to move on from mass killings more quickly nowadays than they used to, and within three days of the Aurora, Colo., cinema
As a reporter, I was taught that people you interview give up control of their words the moment they’re spoken. This was the trapdoor model:
However droopy the rest of the news business might be, dishonesty has become a growth sector, with a steady churn of mini-scandals involving theft, pillage,
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