August 2012 Archive
Friedman’s Sermon
By Stephen M. Walt: One of the nice things about being a superpower is you get to run around telling the rest of the world what ...
Correspondence and Collusion Between the New York Times and the CIA
By Glenn Greenwald: Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power...
The Food Here is Poison and the Portions Are So Small (Paul Krugman Edition)
By Dean Baker: The economics profession tends to be bipolar. It swings from periods of wild optimism to wild pessimism while rarely stopping anywhere in the ...
What Mark Mazzetti’s Maureen Dowd CIA tipoff means for the New York Times
By Dan Gillmor: After earlier blithe assurances, the Times has called its reporter's action 'a mistake'. But is it symptomatic of a culture of coziness?
Color War and Obama’s “Wink” Strategy
By Eli Zaretsky: When I was a child at camp, one of the summer highlights was “color war.” The entire camp, including counselors and staff, would ...
New York Times’ Brisbane Weighs in on Draft-Sharing Dustup
By Andrew Beaujon: Outgoing Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane interrupts his lame-duck week to lower the boom on Mark Mazzetti and Maureen Dowd.
The Boston Globe Won’t Say Who Wrote Op-Ed Similar to WBUR.org Column
By John Zaremba: The Boston Globe is refusing to reveal the identity of an editorial writer whose opinion piece earlier this month closely mirrored an online ...
Sally Singer Leaves T: The New York Times’s Style Magazine
By Isabel Wilkinson: The editor of The New York Times’s style magazine is out—effective immediately.
New York Times Reporter Leaked Colleague’s Column to the CIA
By RT: When The New York Times took on Barack Obama in an op-ed last year, the paper called out the president for relying on Hollywood ...