Do Respectable Journalists Want to Be Associated With Bill Keller?
A Daily Beast piece wonders whether journalists don’t want to work with Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald because they’re very critical of corporate journalism.
NYT Takes Mandela’s Death as a Chance to Mock His Fight to Free His Country
In his obituary for Nelson Mandela, the Times’ Bill Keller went into detail about Mandela’s armed efforts to overthrow the apartheid state–seemingly in an effort to belittle them.
Did NYT Tarnish ‘Journalistic Reputation’ of WikiLeaks?
The New York Times reports that Wikileaks’ “journalistic reputation was…undercut by two prominent articles published by the New York Times.” But if anyone’s journalistic reputation was hurt by those articles, it was the Times’.
Heritage Immigration Scandal Proof That…Both Sides Do It?
The controversy over Heritage’s dubious immigration report led Bill Keller of the New York Times to write a column about the big lessons of this scandal. And the first lesson? Think tanks on “both sides” are up to no good.
Iran Coverage Offers Confusion Over Clarity
On NBC‘s Meet the Press (9/9/12), Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and host David Gregory had a discussion about the failures of the Obama administration’s foreign policy that included this: ROMNEY: The president has not drawn us further away from a nuclear Iran. And in fact Iran is closer to having a weapon, closer […]
He Didn’t Say It: The RNC’s Bogus Theme
One of the main themes of the Republican convention is “We Did Build It,” a dishonest twist on something Barack Obama said about public spending on infrastructure. We’ve already gone through this, in part to point out that many outlets chose to repeat the dishonest manipulation of Obama’s words instead of explaining what he had […]
Pondering Bill Keller’s ‘Middle’
Nobody loves centrism, writes Bill Keller in the New York Times (4/16/12), but they should. “Centrism is easily mocked and not much fun to defend,” writes, noting that critiques of centrism from the left and right have a certain appeal: The politics of the center–including the professional centrists and trans-partisans of groups like Third Way […]
Bill Keller Remembers the Downing Street Memos (Sort Of)
Bill Keller’s New York Times column (3/19/12) begins with what might be a bit of self-deprecation: “When you’ve been wrong about something as important as war, as I have….” You might take that as a cue to stop reading right there. But Keller’s point is that people should think long and hard about signing on […]
Chelsea Clinton, TV Reporter
The New York Times reports that Chelsea Clinton will be a full time special correspondent for NBC News, starting more or less immediately. Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald connected this news to the media careers of Meghan McCain (MSNBC), Luke Russert (NBC) and Jenna Bush Hager (NBC), and reached this conclusion about the state of our meritocracy: […]
