Blogging, Journalism and Credibility Blogging, Journalism and Credibility
Journalists, bloggers, news executives, media scholars and librarians try to make sense of the new media environment.
Mar 17, 2005 / Feature / Rebecca MacKinnon
Invisible Women Invisible Women
Women don't shout. Women don't like politics. Women shrink from intellectual debate. Women don't try.
Mar 17, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Hip-Hop Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Though promoted as an antiracist event, the rally lamented the state of the corporate music industry generally.
Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Mark Hatch-Miller
Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi? Anti-Semite? Self-Hating Jew? Moi?
That the Boston Globe is a great newspaper can be in no doubt, as its brave (though flawed) reporting on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has recently demonstrated.
Mar 10, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson
He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon. "A great funeral" was what he wanted, he told his son. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head.
Mar 3, 2005 / Warren Hinckle
The Motorcycle Gangs The Motorcycle Gangs
A portrait of an outsider underground.
Mar 2, 2005 / Feature / Hunter S. Thompson
The Pajama Game The Pajama Game
It's hard to know who to root against in the bloggers vs. CNN controversy that led to the resignation of CNN's Eason Jordan, a twenty-three-year veteran of the network.
Feb 24, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman
Free-Speech Fights Free-Speech Fights
Rummaging through Yale University's library shelves in early 2001 to prepare a talk on news media and genocide, I came across a study of nineteenth-century Colorado newspapers by...
Feb 17, 2005 / Bruce Shapiro
Shooting the Messenger Shooting the Messenger
Click here to read Christian Parenti's March 29, 2004 Nation article on the abuse of Arab journalists by the US military in Iraq.
Feb 17, 2005 / Jeremy Scahill
Better Red Than Dead? Better Red Than Dead?
The United States government is currently run by a group of people for whom verifiable truth holds no particular privilege over ideologically inspired nonsense.
Feb 10, 2005 / Column / Eric Alterman