Outside the Beltway

The legendary AP politics reporter is gone at 87.

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

The bar for defaming public officials is too high.

The veteran journalist and Fox News original is gone at 75.

People, details do in fact matter!

Apparently, New York and Oregon are not the same place.

Misc. stories for your enjoyment.

The continuing calls to abandon objectivity in reporting in favor of a particular agenda.

A media critic argues we pay outsized attention to the goings-on at Fox, MSNBC, and CNN.

Two NeverTrump Republicans have had enough.

The average American is neither progressive nor all that interested in politics.

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

America’s weatherman is gone. Sadly, he did not make it to 100.

Not everyone is losing money.

A new story archetype is all too common.

The legendary country music singer-songwriter known as “The Storyteller” is gone at 85.

When “the news” isn’t just “the news.”

A legendary journalist is gone.

Legislatures and school boards politicize what our kids are taught.

We’re hurting the feelings of those trying to destroy the country.

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

UNC’s loss is the nation’s most prestigious HBCU’s gain.

A truly bizarre controversy at Chapel Hill.

The fact-checkers blew this one and blew it big.

The budding journalist interviewed President Obama as an 11-year-old.

The US has more shots available than willing arms while those in the developing world are dying.

The economy looks to be in full recovery. But it’s not clear how much credit the President deserves.

Stenography is not journalism.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

There’s more than enough opinion journalism.

America’s Newspaper of Record needs to figure out what it wants to be.

Most Americans have never even heard of it.

It’s easy to mismanage what we don’t have to see.

A trend continues.

The press’ abandonment of Bothsiderism is decades overdue.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

The President admits that he intentionally downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Free speech is not for everyone.

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

Some incredibly thin reporting about a story that is almost certainly made up.

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

The state of American debate is not strong.

The venerable magazine is following industry trends. Is the billionaire owner a monster?

The newspaper of record radically altered a column and then misrepresented it.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.