Outside the Beltway

Newsweek is joining US News in getting out of the printed magazine business, leaving Time as the last old American newsweekly standing.

Don’t blame the Defense Department for following a bad law.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

Not exactly journalism.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

Public distrust of the media is at an all-time high. It’s easy to see why.

Seth Mnookin laments a series of embarrassing failures in science writing in recent months but rejoices in the rich dialog that followed.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

A culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking.

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

Publishing unsubstantiated rumor is not journalism.

The campaign silly season took a trip across the pond.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

Add journalism to the list of professions Americans don’t seem to have much confidence in.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

The major you choose in college will have an impact on your future.

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

The media circus around the shooting of Trayvon Martin is getting worse.

The old have most of the money and power in our society, a trend that is accelerating.

Good Journalism?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

This morning’s unexpected death of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative muckraker, has sadly if unsurprisingly brought out a wave of nasty commentary.

Lucy Kellaway figures the best thing we middle agers can do for the young is to get the hell out of their way.

Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?

Getting to the heart of last night’s moment of kabuki theater.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

How did Republicans get in this mess?

Treating entertainment as entertainment is one thing. Treating it as news and education is another.

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.