Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? Michael Massing asks in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
One could argue that most countries are miscovered through undercoverage. At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, for example, our emphasis…
Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Belleville, gets Foreign Policy magazine’s “award” for planning the “cushiest” summer junket abroad.
An article titled “FP’s exclusive guide to Congress’s summer junkets” says:
Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL) is scheduled to lead a CODEL (short for congressional delegation) to Germany,…
The recent spate of deadly shootings that appear to have political or ethnic underpinnings has raised questions of how the Post-Dispatch and other media have reported on it.
Some readers have inquired why the May 31 shooting of Dr. George Tiller…
Most families of slain U.S. soldiers have allowed the press to witness the return of flag-draped coffins since the Pentagon gave them that option earlier this year, the Associated Press reports.
The ban on media coverage was imposed in 1991 by…
The election season culminating in Barack Obama’s victory was the top news story of 2008, according to U.S. editors and news directors voting in the Associated Press’ annual poll.
The massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech University by a mentally…
Writing on HumanEvents.com, Oliver North takes exception with “the mainstream media’s” news judgment. North writes:
“This week the so-called mainstream media fixated on a Baghdad shoe-throwing contest, more government bailout bucks and the delightful prospect of having Caroline Kennedy appointed to Hillary Clinton’s…
The most overlooked news story of the year has been the military success in Iraq and Afghanistan, Chuck Norris writes in his blog on HumanEvents.com.
“Have you noticed lately that mainstream media are giving less attention to the war in Iraq, especially concerning our…
Starting this morning, we’ve added deaths in the Afghanistan war to the graphic that appears every Wednesday in the main news section of the Post-Dispatch. The graphic previously listed only deaths in the Iraq war.
Copy editor Jeff Herman suggested the…
A reader called today to protest our lack of coverage of the war in Iraq. Not a word, she said. She contrasted that to the lengthy story and large photo on Page A2 reporting the death of comedian George Carlin
Actually,…
A retired Globe-Democrat staffer called to criticize our day-in and day-out reporting on the war in Iraq. Not enough, not prominent enough, she said.
Five years into the war, is an 8-inch story in the middle of Page A5 enough? (”Iraqis push…
