PressEthic

A critical look at coverage of the Sean Bell shooting.

The NYT City Section apparently has a curious way of preventing its writers from stealing stories.

The New York Times, continuing its habit of only covering higher education when there's a scandal at an Ivy League School, has the story.

The immigration debate has its share of lunatic pundits on the far right and the far left. Ruben Navarrette, who occupies neither fringe, annoys me because he so often squanders the prime opinion real estate he's given on columns so poorly reasoned that they often move me to line-by-line refutations.

Apparently a mob of Frenchmen saluting like Nazis and trying to kill a Jew isn't front page news.

The argument I link in this post is neither.

Our watchdog press should train itself to seek a couple new scents.

A strange media moment gets stranger still.

If you were OJ Simpson interviewer Judith Reagan, and you wanted to release a statement about your motives would you give an exclusive statement to The Drudge Report?

And what a statement!

And Can a Video Game Where the Player is OJ Trying to Commit the Murder and Get Away Be Far Behind?

As a reader I always prefer accuracy to inaccuracy, and fair portrayals to unfair portrayals.

But stylistically, I'd rather suffer through a few creative leads that don't quite work than slog through as many boring leads that are functional but uninspired.

The Internet beats newspapers hands down the day of elections.

What will happen when Megan McArdle, successful independent blogger, starts penning a staff blog for the Economist?

What should the news media do?

The news organization's strange habit of reporting awful events as inconsequential fodder for amusement.

Is Paris pushing Japanese tourists toward mental collapse?