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Exposed! The Tabloid Black Magic That Nabbed John Edwards.

On the morning of February 21, David Perel, the editor-in-chief of the National Enquirer, was sitting in his Boca Raton office when he pulled up The New York Times website. Scanning the screen, he was surprised by one particularly opaque headline-FOR ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  22 Aug 2008

The End Of The Press's Love Affair With Obama

Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The campaign was irked by the Times' latest poll and Nagourney and Megan Thee's accompanying front-page ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  26 Jul 2008

End of the Affair

Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The campaign was irked by the Times' latest poll and Nagourney and Megan Thee's accompanying front-page ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  24 Jul 2008

The Latest Arugula-Fueled Controversy From Obama's Chicago Neighborhood

Supermarket politics have always posed perilous risks for presidential candidates. Sure, voters want a candidate with a firm hand on foreign policy and a keen grasp of economics. But, in electoral contests, "you are what you eat" trumps all. In the ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  16 Jul 2008

Does Rupert Murdoch Know What He's Doing To The 'Wall Street Journal'?

Shortly after nine in the morning on April 28, about two dozen reporters and editors in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau assembled for the weekly staff meeting led by the D.C. bureau chief, John Bussey. Seated on couches in the bureau's wood- ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  9 May 2008

"He Presumes To Speak For Progressives, And We're Left Behind To Clean Up The S**t"

Last year, Ken Cook, co-founder and president of the Environmental Working Group, received a letter from Ralph Nader asking his nonprofit organization to join with him in lobbying Congress on the pending Farm Bill. (Nader was advocating for an increase ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  8 May 2008

Saving the Earth? Good for You — Just Be Sure to Watch the Bottom Line.

Few companies represent the emerging ethos of green business better than Toyota, the acknowledged innovator in fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. But sales of its flagship Prius model were slow to catch up to the car's enormous development cost. For ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, Wired,  27 Mar 2008

The feud over Ishmael Beah's child-soldier memoir, A Long Way Gone.

On Jan. 19, the Australian, Rupert Murdoch's Aussie broadsheet, published a 4,600-word investigation challenging the credibility of the child-soldier memoir A Long Way Gone. Author Ishmael Beah's heart-wrenching account of Sierra Leone's civil war and ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, Slate,  6 Mar 2008

The Story Behind The 'Times' McCain Story

Last night, around dinnertime, The New York Times posted on its website a 3,000-word investigation detailing Senator John McCain's connections to a telecommunications lobbyist named Vicki Iseman. The controversial piece, written by Washington bureau ...

From GABRIEL SHERMAN, The New Republic,  21 Feb 2008

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