PressEthic

President Bush reveals a brand new premise for the war in Iraq.

If you can tell me the point of the story, I’m all ears.

ABC's trying to scare Michelle, and CNN's freaking me out too. Meanwhile, Bloomberg says I can still ride the subway. What?

A 5.30pm a press conference was held by Mayor Bloomberg revealing the existence of a threat on the New York City subway was hyped by CNN. Visual images accompanying the press conference made it seem as if a terrorist attack was imminent.

Does my favorite columnist hate TimesSelect as much as I do? It looks that way.

But can Roberts barbecue? Can Miers do her job as a Justice? And why the gender difference in coverage?

When one state, one organisation, one individual, accuses another of a crime in public, the press have the right to cover it. Shouldn't they also report counter-accusations though, in the name of balance?

PBS has just hired the first ombudsman to work for a national television network. Will this be a changing in the tide?

A separation of journalists and state?

Everything The New York Times wants you to know about this Texas lady......but do we really care that she was good at sports in the 10th grade?

The magazine’s sold out town-hall meeting on the future of Iraq was surprisingly “lopsided.”

According to blog trackers Technocrati, a new blog is created every second. Okay, but who's creating them?

With the increasing availability and popularity of online news sources, has the day of reckoning for the attention-grabbing tabloid headline finally arrived?

“All of those people who died that day, those folks who we’ve heard toasted as angels and heroes and martyrs, well, they weren’t all good people. I used to live in New York. I know it.”

Advertising has successfully infiltrated every medium in the U.S., blurring the line between paid content and editorial. But, as yet another recent clumsy attempt shows, their errors in trying to co-opt the blogosphere have been more glaring than any success. Are blogs advertising-proof?