PressEthic

New Los Angeles Times Magazine article highlights the difficulties of war reporting, and begs the question: when does a war have a definite narrative?

When does a press release create a fashion trend, or a fashion trend create a press release?

Newsweek's latest glowing article of a "sneak peak" at an upcoming movie makes you wonder if the magazine has ever had exclusive access to something it didn't like.

With Dan Barry's "About New York" column, the New York Times TimesSelect does the undoable: it uses the web to make print journalism better

Parse through a LA Times reporter love of rhyme, and you'll have a good time (and read a good reporting trick, too)

The Village Voice often faults the mainstream press for its slanted coverage. Its own coverage of the NYU strike doesn't offer anything better.

San Francisco Chronicle ponders the state of Mayor Newsom's marriage.

New York Times article gives two coffeeshops a bit of free national advertising

San Francisco Chronicle lifts from the New Yorker in an article on the Golden Gate Bridge

New York Times coverage of the New Jersey gubernatorial race focuses on unsubstantiated rumors circulated by unnamed "reporters."

San Francisco Chronicle waits until fifth pargraph to explain how a Molotov cocktail hit its building

LA Times Magazine reopens decade-old child molestation case with an "as told to" article

Several outlets jump on the "Patrick Fitzgerald as Eliot Ness" angle

Is it biased to run a collection of photographs of soldiers killed in action?

Village Voice now part of new oxymoron, the "national alternative newspaper chain"