Big Journalism

Since the NSA and PRISM scandals broke, sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have been soaring. The story of an all-seeing, all-knowing state is suddenly relevant again. Yet long before Orwell focused his literary imagination on official propaganda, he attacked the deceptions

Page Six reports that CBS News anchor Scott Pelley and his executive producer chose not to broadcast a report about the State Department sex scandal on the CBS Evening News. Apparently, both men were angry over the fact that the

Whatever you might think of Glenn Greenwald’s politics (I am not a fan) and his decision to break a number of stories surrounding Obama’s historic surveillance state (I am a fan), give the man points for consistency. This stuff infuriated

Politico rips into Obama’s cratering trust deficit today and makes a crucial admission that much of the media has been dancing around since the revelations hit last week about the NSA’s seizing of phone records and the PRISM program. Politico

In the world of media, you are sometimes going to publish something that is incorrect. People understand that. But to sneak back in and make corrections without noting the corrections, is appalling. You would think that of all the news

You think carrying The State’s water is easy work? Think again, my friends. A study of 900 journalists done by the University of Kansas found that a full 22% of television journalists were facing burnout. Why, one morning show host

MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes tried to rewrite history on Tuesday, describing the late segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama as a Republican. Wallace was a Democrat–as were most Jim Crow-era leaders. Hayes was trying to draw a parallel

While discussing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden this morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough railed against the source of Glen Greenwald’s story exposing vast electronic wiretapping by the US government and called him “a weasel.” “Look at that guy,

News organizations often use the Associated Press style book as an un-official “bible” for punctuation, terms and grammar standards for their newspaper and internet content. In the wake of the NSA snooping story broken by The Guardian, the AP needed

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that journalists who knowingly publish leaked classified information should be held criminally accountable for their actions:Actually, if they-if they knew that this was classified information-I think action should be taken, especially on

TVNewser obtained an internal PBS memo Tuesday and reports that, starting July 1, the beginning of their new fiscal year, “PBS NewsHour” is completely closing down its Denver and San Francisco offices, eliminating “several production positions in its Washington DC

On Tuesday morning, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was minding his own business at a coffee shop on the Princeton University campus when his world stopped turning. The Princeton University campus received a bomb threat to multiple buildings, forcing

Claiming they had “inadvertently” published “before it was ready for publication,” The New York Times published and then yanked a story about Anthony Weiner titled: “For Women in Weiner Scandal, Indignity Lingers.” According to Politico, the Times’ story… Started with

As someone old enough to remember magazine covers from the seventies declaring Global Cooling an existential threat, let’s just say I know a hustle when I hear one. And now that we have enjoyed 15 years wherein the global temperature

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at the helm of arguably the most corrupt city in the nation, has an image challenge. He has created enemies left, right, and center in the name of budget cuts while racking up spending on pet projects

CNN published an article by John Blake entitled “Three questions for Clarence Thomas” that allows them to not only distort the black conservative judge’s opinions, but also to tip-toe on the edge of racism, referring to Justice Thomas as a

During his testimony before the Senate on March 12, our Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, answered with an affirmative “No, sir,” when he was asked directly by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), “Does the NSA collect any type of data

In a brutal Monday column, Liz Sidoti, the national politics editor for The Associated Press, takes a look at the Obama Administration’s mounting scandals, the president’s promises, and the polls. Her conclusion is that Obama’s second term is on the

The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, the man who broke the NSA snooping story and revealed leaker Edward Snowden to the world, appeared on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC Monday morning.   Co-host Mika Brezinski engaged in a mini-debate with Greenwald over the

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who helped bring down the Nixon presidency with the leak of the Pentagon Papers, called NSA leaker Edward Snowden “a hero.”  Blogger Trevor Timm announced on Twitter that he was with Ellsberg when the Snowden story

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) went after Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald for breaking the NSA snooping story. During an appearance on ABC News’ This Week, Rogers focused his ire on Greenwald and the (at the time, unknown) NSA leaker.  Someone did not have

In a story that reads like a gushing profile article on an exciting new business venture, The New York Times reported on the vast growth and technological advancement of the National Security Agency’s data mining capabilities. The June 8 piece

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the 24-year-old Santa Monica shooter had a history of mental illness but leads a June 9 story with the claim of an “unnamed source” who said that the killer had a “fascination with