Mitt Romney Swift Boats Himself
The criticism of Mitt Romney's time at Bain Capital doesn't appear to be leaving the headlines. And thus some political reporters are, as Jamison Foser notes, drawing an unusual comparison: Romney is...
View ArticleCorporate Media Lose Their Favorite 'Warrior Scholar'
There's no doubt that the sex scandal that prompted CIA director David Petraeus's sudden resignation late last week is a big story. New details–verified or not–seem to arrive almost by the hour. But...
View ArticlePrecise Weapons Kill Civilians Too
As a general rule, it'd be better if media accounts of war did not stress the surgical precision of the weapons being used. It's a fixture of U.S. reporting on U.S. wars, but the same rhetoric is used...
View ArticleWhere Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong
Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case for going to war against Iraq, and much of what he said was false. Most of the journalists who promoted his justifications for the...
View ArticleWhat's the Message of Clinton's Noncampaign for the Office She Might Run for...
Hillary Clinton hasn't announced that she's running for president in 2016, and launched a campaign yet. But the Washington Post is already complaining that her nonexistent campaign for an office she...
View ArticleDoes Being a Pundit Ever Mean Having to Say You're Sorry?
"The early denunciations of Snowden now seem both over the top and beside the point," the Washington Post's Richard Cohen writes. He should know--he wrote one of them. And now he says his initial...
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Columnist Often Called ‘Racist’ Doesn’t Think Police Activists Should Use...
Don’t laugh at William Bratton, warns Richard Cohen–that’s a sign of an “anti-cop mood.” (photo: James Keivom/Daily News) “Liberal New York is in a distinctly anti-cop mood,” says New York Daily News...
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