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In today’s media climate, it’s much easier to smear critics of the push for war on Iran as “anti-Semites” than to deal honestly with the facts.

Hollywood didn’t do itself proud with the anti-piracy bills. But in their fervor to defeat them, the self-proclaimed defenders of Internet freedom got a lot of things wrong.

Attack ad

These new political monsters have let loose an avalanche of scorched-earth, negative campaign ads—and enriched TV stations in the process.

The Wicked Art of Caricature

Five centuries of political pans by a lot of old masters and a few new ones, on exhibit at the Met.

Once again, the MSM falls for the story of Saul Bellow's "former liberal" son, who specializes in publishing right-wing dreck.

Reporting on protests is no easy job—just ask the thirty-six reporters arrested while covering the Occupy movement. Do reporters have a right to gather the news?

Bans on recording devices and Internet access and other arbitrary rules are preventing the public from witnessing this historic trial.

That Friedman’s self-serving feints at the truth still earn him a place of high journalistic regard is a sad commentary on the profession.

Christopher Hitchens

“Christopher had a twenty-five-year adventure with The Nation that I hope was as rewarding for him as it was for us, despite the political collisions.”

Blogs

The Obama administration should have argued the case against Anwar al-Awlaki in a court of law, not on the pages of The New York Times.

March 11, 2013

No joke: Much of Oz’s matriarchal leanings come straight from a radical American feminist.

March 8, 2013

Journalists need to hold themselves to higher standards, as do their ombudsmen.

March 7, 2013

 The investigative journalist followed the dummy on the WMD assertions leading up to the war.

March 7, 2013

 A smoking-gun demonstration of how the formerly great reporter trims his sails according to the power politics of the moment.

March 6, 2013

Even the Times public editor agrees that the move hurts its environmental coverage.

March 6, 2013

Why mainstream media pundits keep punting.

March 5, 2013

The show’s finale on Sunday really gave us just the beginning of the activist’s story.

March 5, 2013

Will the media ever take themselves to task for their gross negligence leading up to the war?

March 5, 2013
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