The World is Talking. Global Politics

I’ve said many times that print is not going away. But I do think we’ll see fantastic changes in the near…

The White House employs experts to get the administration’s message to the people–directly and through the news media. How good a…

Our cable “news” organizations did not do it. But The Daily Show did. Is it journalism? It is useful information. From…

Zachary Roth’s latest at CJR Daily demonstrates the difference between print (in which I include the internet) and television as news…

You may have detected a bit a grumpiness in yesterday’s post on the Edward’s column in the NYT. The news about…

Elizabeth Edwards wants journalists to do their jobs. As she writes in the Week in Review section of The New York…

I’ve been writing this blog for six years. I opened The Rhetorica Network on 5 March 2002. I posted the first…

The LA Times demonstrates that the Barstow article about ________ (government propaganda or journalistic corruption–take your pick) suffered from bad kairos….

Romenesko has a round-up of reaction to David Barstow’s article about the government’s propaganda stooges and their journalistic enablers. My assessment…

Today’s lead story in The New York Times covers massive craft failure in American journalism. David Barstow shows us just how…