Scott Johnson notes Walter Pincus' whitewashing of the Chas Freeman withdrawal brouhaha: One would never know from the article that Freeman ascribed his withdrawal to "unscrupulous people with a passionate attachment to the views of a political faction in a foreign country," to "a special interest g...

We bloggers like to bash the mainstream media, and often our ire is justified by the media's persistent and deliberate refusal to hold themselves accountable to their own stated standards of professional conduct. Such behavior becomes particularly egregious when professional journalists tout the sup...

The Editorial Staff does not read the funny papers on a regular basis, but with comedic fodder like this, who needs to? It is actually kind of brilliant, in a nefarious sort of way. This way the breakdown of society can happen on Obama's watch and the Bush Junta's hands get to stay clean: Hmmm... le...

Tim Graham points out yet another example of media hypocrisy: One way to discern journalistic ethics is to ask journalists if they would apply the same standard of scrutiny to themselves as they apply to national politicians. Would that be fair? For example, the media was flagrantly attracted by ano...