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December 20, 2015

Torture debate: A familiar clash with media outrage on both sides

There is little question how the Senate report on the CIA played in the major newspapers.

December 20, 2015

Another Rape Ruckus: Publisher retreats on Lena Dunham’s disturbing claim

Lena Dunham raised these questions about herself, in her own book, and put her publisher in the position of having to pony up money to head off legal action.

December 20, 2015

CIA burnished image by leaking classified data to key journalists, Senate report says

Top CIA officials worked hard to promote the agency's interrogation program in the media, leaking classified--and sometimes inaccurate--information, a new Senate report says.

December 20, 2015

Media Massacre: New Republic implodes as Rolling Stone reels

The two debacles, and other recent events, are a bad omen for a struggling news business.

December 20, 2015

Rolling Stone's Rape Story: A bigger journalistic train wreck than we thought

The editorial brain trust royally screwed up.

December 20, 2015

Rolling Stone backtracks: Magazine badly tarnished by UVA gang rape article

The Rolling Stone story on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia is falling apart.

December 20, 2015

Why the media, unlike in Ferguson, are united over Staten Island man’s death

From conservatives to liberals, from whites to blacks, from Fox to MSNBC, there is a rough consensus that this case is far different — and the lack of charges extremely difficult to fathom.

December 20, 2015

Rolling Stone Revisited: Gang rape story at University of Virginia questioned

The way this story was reported raises some fundamental journalistic questions that need to be answered.

December 20, 2015

Hill aide savaged for criticizing Obama teenagers: Has it gone too far?

It’s way too easy to self-destruct on social media, as journalists, politicians and celebrities have learned. 

December 20, 2015

The media’s racial divide: Is it possible to move beyond Ferguson?

It’s been a white-hot cauldron of emotion as Americans — and of course the media — have chosen up sides and argued about the Michael Brown tragedy.