Writing last month in The New York Times Magazine, for instance, Mark Leibovich pointed to the Obama team's tight control of information during the campaign and drew a rough parallel between the "Obama model" of press relations and the "Bush model." ...
Oy. So last night I read this story in the Times about how CBS's Early Show is retooling itself -- new anchor, new set, new theme music. I didn't expect much, because once you cut through the puffery from the show's new EP, Shelley Ross, it didn't ...
It's not exactly groundbreaking, but Michael Lewis' piece in Portfolio magazine is fairly impressive when you consider that he and the magazine are basically arguing that a decent chunk of their readership is full of crap. The odds of you or your ...
That's exactly right. In many ways, Giuliani is selling himself as the Compstat President. Even if he weren't, though, the pattern would be troubling; this mangling of facts is the sort of thing that only a few pundits, like Paul Krugman, were worrying ...
I should've taken Charles Kaiser's advice and skipped Andrew Sullivan's cover story for The Atlantic, about how Barack Obama is the second coming of Christ. It is a stunningly bad piece of work -- reductive, overwrought, bloated, and, perhaps above ...
Vivian Aplin-Brownlee, part of the first small wave of African-American women to work their way up through major newspapers, died a week ago. The Washington Post obituary is a nice tribute to her work (and includes a really lovely picture of her, as ...
We've seen this movie before. It's not like there aren't legitimate and serious criticisms to be made of Hillary Clinton, but I think Frank Rich actually does Clinton's people a service by wrapping his (barely identifiable) substantive criticism of the ...
Joe Nocera's weekly, reported columns for the Times Business section are usually quite good. But every once in while, things go weirdly awry, and the normally sensible Nocera reveals an odd penchant for contrarianism. A few months ago, it was his ...
I often take it for granted that physical newspapers will one day be a distant memory. Newspapers will continue to survive -- fewer perhaps, and with a different sense of purpose in an age of constantly updated, on-demand news -- but the age of ...
After Wayne Barrett's (latest) takedown of Rudy Giuliani came out a few weeks ago, there was some talk about how the piece might have had a greater impact if it had run somewhere besides The Village Voice. This week Time runs its version of the ...
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