Is it a journalist’s job to make a given Presidency work? Is it a journalist’s job to “help the country”? I had thought the job was to relate the facts and inform people so they can make up their own minds, but apparently Chris Matthews disagrees.

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Let’s say, hypothetically, that McCain had fundraising and personal friendship links to a guy who had once been the leader of a group that bombed abortion clinics. No one was killed in those bombings, because warnings were called in, and due to procedural misconduct, the guy never did any time even though he admits […]

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In a Nov. 13 story, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that Paris Hilton was praised by conservationists for highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India. Lori Berk, a publicist for Hilton, said she never made any comments about helping drunken elephants in India.
That one first sentence says so, so many hilarious and yet […]

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Move along. Nothing to see here.
The debate is over. A consensus has been reached. On global warming? No, on how Democrats are favored on television, radio and in the newspapers.
Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, […]

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It’s all in the spin. Good news from Iraq? Not so fast..

At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at […]

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From Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’ speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention:
Given the near instantaneous ability to report actions on the ground, the responsibility to accurately and truthfully report takes on an unprecedented importance. The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media appears to be rapidly becoming the […]

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