Opinion Journalism Mirrors the Public Mood What if we are leaving the Age of Reason far behind? What if the basic cultural settings that have under-girded the best of American journalism—a scientific mindset and respect for… December 15, 2004 Tom Ashbrook Infotainment Shrinks the News People often ask me what it is like backstage at “The McLaughlin Group” or Chris Matthew’s “Hardball” or Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor.” “Do you and your fellow panelists go out… December 15, 2004 Clarence Page Punditry Flowers in the Absence of Reporting While we were getting down to the wire on the John Kerry Silver Star medal story at ABC News’s “Night-line,” the recent painful “60 Minutes’” debacle over the President’s war… December 15, 2004 Mary Claude Foster Journalism Reflects Our Culture Journalism is no more in a survival mode today than it was 52 years ago when Louis Lyons and my Nieman classmates worried about how a compliant and objective press… December 15, 2004 Melvin Mencher The Inadequacy of Objectivity as a Touchstone Certainly journalism will survive. Indeed, it could even thrive as a result of today’s very real challenges. Journalists need neither fear nor denounce the proliferation of punditry and attitude. Rather,… December 15, 2004 Geneva Overholser Pressures Force the Emergence of a New Journalism Journalism often appears to thrill to the sense of being in crisis, but pressures on it now truly seem to fit the bill. On one side, it’s screwed down tighter… December 15, 2004 Edward Wasserman Tips About FOIA Filings FOIA for the FOIA logs. Not only do they contain clues to stories, but also reporters will discover fascinating/ entertaining requests. One CIA log, for example, showed a requester had… September 15, 2004 Rob Walters Journalists Act to Combat Government Secrecy Today journalists are observing a growing culture of secrecy in Washington and the use of “national security” to justify restricted access and sometimes complete closure throughout all areas of government.… September 15, 2004 Pete Weitzel The Steady March of Government Secrecy Journalists strategize to gain access to information the public has a right to know. September 15, 2004 Pete Weitzel Using Public Records Laws to Expose Government Misdeeds For one journalist, it took 20 years, lots of research, and several court decisions to uncover the FBI’s abuses of power and secrecy on a campus during the cold war. September 15, 2004 Seth Rosenfeld Previous 1 … 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 … 74 Next
