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Can We Call Hugo Chavez A Dictator Now?

July 30, 2009 – 8:18 am

This debate should be over:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Authoritarianism, Dictatorship, Foreign Affairs, Hugo Chavez, Tyranny, Venezuela | Comments

The Department Of Huffington Post

July 30, 2009 – 1:38 am

I suppose that since Arianna Huffington’s little hobbyhorse has become an arm of the Obama Administration, stories like the one carried by the Washington Post ought to come as no surprise whatsoever:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Ethan Axelrod, Huffington Post, Lack Of Objectivity, Obama Administration, White House Manipulation | Comments

Washington Post Salons: Worse Than We Thought

July 12, 2009 – 9:32 pm

As noted by Ed Morrissey, the Washington Post’s pay-for-play scheme took place despite the fact that a number of Posties warned against the scheme, citing ethical concerns. This certainly makes the Post look bad; the pay-for-play scheme got hatched not because people like Katharine Weymouth were isolated from ethical concerns, but rather, because Weymouth and executive editor Marcus Brauchli ignored those concerns altogether.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Charles Pelton, Katharine Weymouth, Marcus Brauchli, Selling Access, The Death Of Old Media, Washington Post | Comments

It’s Not A Coup

July 12, 2009 – 9:08 pm

Miguel Estrada on events in Honduras, and the dramatic overreaction to them on the part of the Obama Administration, and many in the media (not to mention many in the blogosphere!).

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Coup, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Obama Administration | Comments

From The “If It Were Dick Cheney Doing This” Files

July 10, 2009 – 3:01 pm

Joe Biden is having private meetings, closed to the press!

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bias, Hypocrisy, Joe Biden, Obama Administration, Politics | Comments

Pay-For-Play: Washington Post Style

July 5, 2009 – 1:03 pm

Katharine Weymouth apologizes for the Washington Post’s planned pay-for-play scheme involving Obama Administration officials. The apology is nice to have, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Six sets of them, by my count.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Katharine Weymouth, Obama Administration, Selling Access, The Death Of Old Media, Washington Post | Comments

The Washington Post And Access For Cash

July 3, 2009 – 12:58 am

It appears that the Post is now backing away from its pay-to-play-with-Obama-Administration-officials promises.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Selling Access, The Death Of Old Media, Washington Post | Comments

If We Still Need Evidence That Old Media Is Dying . . .

July 2, 2009 – 9:14 am

All we have to do is look to the Politico’s startling report about the ethics–or lack thereof–of the Washington Post:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Selling Access, The Death Of Old Media, Washington Post | Comments

From The “Imagine If A Republican President Did This” Department

June 24, 2009 – 12:48 am

Imagine if a Republican President held a news conference, called upon a news organization to ask him a question, and then told that news organization what question it should ask.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Manipulating The Press, Obama Administration, Press, Stacking The Deck | Comments

It Dawns On The Media That They Have To Be Tougher On The Administration

June 9, 2009 – 10:54 am

Kudos to Phil Bronstein for writing as much, though I suspect that he is (a) still relatively alone in thinking as he does, and (b) not going to be invited to any White House dinners anytime soon.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Media Bias, Obama Administration | Comments

Maureen Dowd Plagiarized . . . Someone.

May 18, 2009 – 11:15 pm

Whether it was Josh Marshall directly, or someone who transmitted Marshall’s words, plagiarism did indeed take place. So, why is it that the New York Times is, as Michael Calderone writes, “defend[ing]” Dowd?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Josh Marshall, Journalism, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Plagiarism | Comments

The Illusion of Being Well-Informed: Media’s Broken Business Model

May 18, 2009 – 10:03 am

There’s a lot going on in the world of media, and the pace has been picking up in just the last few months. You know that the ongoing financial crisis has put a lot of very famous newspapers right up to the edge of going out of business. You also probably know why: because their business model is totally broken, and they’ve been denying it for years. This year, they all found that they couldn’t stop denying it.

By Francis Cianfrocca | Posted in Features, Market | Also tagged Boston Globe, Clay Christensen, Francis Cianfrocca, Google, Journalism, media crisis, New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post | Comments

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