Using the Holocaust as the backdrop for what could befall America if we are "not careful," the 30-second spots question the integrity of the network for using an example that remains fresh in the minds of a culture.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
The media, with months to plan for the five-year commemoration of the war, were ready to take stock of everything but themselves.
Huff TV | Posted 03.31.2008 | Media
On Friday, media innovators converged for a panel titled "How the Internet is Changing American Politics."
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics
Five years ago today, a NYT photograph seemed like a cruel joke, or a Photoshop prank, awakening nearly everyone in America to the bone-chilling reality of a quick war that was threatening to turn into a longer slog.
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 03.29.2008 | Politics
ASPEN - Are we in an endgame struggle for survival or do we face the greatest opportunities in the history of civilization? Both. Granted, the mes...
Eric Deggans | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
I've been struck by network reporters' attempts to insert themselves into this story.
Michael Giltz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The New York Times should not be hiring reporters/talent who look good on camera and are known for funny videos so they can branch out into YouTube.
Art Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Until people regain trust in what they read, the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
With the obligation of inheriting the beacon of democracy nourished and protected by those who came before us, why are we allowing ourselves to be ill-served by so many in the media?
Byron Williams | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
When we the public make the sound bite the end and not the beginning, we risk violating what the code of ethics we also warn journalists to guard against.
Jay Rosen | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home
By demonstrating that you can say false things, refuse to correct them, and pay no real price for it, you dishearten reporters and make their efforts appear futile to themselves.
Toby Barlow | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
Our illustrious mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick agreed to pay 8.4 million dollars out of Detroit city funds to hush it up his affair. That 8.4 million dollars could have paid for a lot of other lovin' in the city.
Janine Jackson | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
We should also have a right to expect that the news we get is produced in a climate where journalistic priorities are paramount.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
God created youth for people to do what they wanted to do. When you get a little bit older, life closes in on you and, caught in a variety of strictures produced by our ambitions, desires and needs, we each take on responsibilities that require us to do a bunch of stuff we donÂ’'t wanna.
New York Times | JACQUES STEINBERG | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
As Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama debated in Cleveland on a snowy evening in late February, 650 journalists descended on the city to...
Steven Weber | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
Humans by nature flock, follow, and fear. Why else would moments of genuine cultural enlightenment be so few and far between?
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business
We, the people, must rewrite the rules of the market, to limit environmental degradation, the unregulated speculation that has brought our financial system to the brink of ruin, and the concentration of wealth.
Robert Naiman | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Surely the fact that just over a quarter of adults could say about how many Americans had been killed in Iraq represents an indictment of our media and the actions of our political leaders.
Jon Soltz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
Today, like yesterday and tomorrow, we will lose some of the finest Americans we have. That is a harsh reminder that disastrous policy decisions have tragic consequences.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.22.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Bush meant to say "asterisk" but did not know how to pronounce it. Or maybe he meant "blip" or "footnote" -- though that wouldn't make the sentiment any less revolting.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
But McCain as "Bob"? Consider that in the past two weeks there was a spike in violence, explosions and casualties in Iraq, yet McCain barely seemed to notice.
Joe Vogel | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media
We are witnessing a giant circus, a spectacle. Our journalists are lackeys, our pundits clowns.
Josh Silver | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
On Wednesday, CNN 's "Best Political Team on Television" took their vapid approach to journalism to a new level when reporter Jeanne Moos satirized demonstrations against the war in Iraq.
Michael Drucker | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
The Hubble Telescope Found Organic Gas on an Extrasolar Planet: I don't know whether or not this distant planet has life or not but, you know what they say, where there's organic gas, there's butt sex.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media
Many of the most critical and important journalistic voices exposing the criminal nature of this war have emerged from an "alternative" universe.
Derek Beres | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment