By Staff 2/12/07 9:41am

Journalists Whine–But Judy Miller Has (Finally) Served the Calling

Yesterday on “Meet the Press,” a bunch of journalists rued the new landscape created by Patrick Fitzgerald and his star witness Judith Miller. Tim Russert, Gwen Ifill, Howard Kurtz—they all feared damage to professionalism, that the public might see the press as in bed with powerful officials. (Aren’t they?) Even as they complained, the journalists Read More

By Joe Conason 11/13/06 12:00am

G.O.P. Campaign Tactics Reveal True Character

What exactly is wrong with the Republicans?

Today, that question applies not to their rigidly right-wing ideology, nor to their routine betrayal of their rigidly right-wing ideology, nor even to their weird sexual hang-ups and hypocrisy, fascinating as all of those topics may be. Instead, on the day after Election Day, what is at Read More

By Staff 8/28/06 1:01pm

The Israel Lobby Stifles Another Israel-Questioner

One big price exacted by the Israel lobby is that it tries to shut down free debate when Israel’s motives are questioned. This is the lesson of the furore over comments on CNN by Tom Ricks, the Washington Post’s Pentagon correspondent.

Three weeks back on Howard Kurtz’s show Reliable Sources, Ricks, who has Read More

By Carl Swanson 1/17/00 12:00am

Vibe and Spin Face Down a Murky Future

Employees at Time Inc., the magazine division of Time Warner Inc., found that they’ll soon be working for AOL Time Warner in an e-mail sent companywide before their arrival at work on Jan. 10. Far from panicking about handing over their professional fates to a Virginia-based cyberspace outfit, the benefits-swaddled scribes rejoiced: Almost all of Read More

By Nina Burleigh 7/20/98 12:00am

My Spin Through the Cycle

It’s summer down in Washington. The sun glints off the white sidewalk on L Street in front of the Washington Post building. The real world slips past slow as syrup. A sex scandal that sizzled in darkest January is sputtering out.

That’s where I come in. At the corner CVS drugstore, inside a fresh Read More