Outside the Beltway

Why do pundits who are consistently wrong keep getting invited to be on television?

Is quoting President Obama without fixing his grammar “racist”? Some say it is.

Ezra Klein argues that there aren’t many jobs for which Hill experience is an asset.

The rapid spread of information on Twitter is challenging POLITICO’s business model.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

WSJ has a blistering editorial seeking to put the NewsCorp hacking scandal in perspective.

Real news reporting has never paid for itself. But the days of it being subsidized by the local car dealer are rapidly ending.

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

In a decision released yesterday. the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified the journalist/blogger distinction somewhat.

Another sad chapter in the slow death of a once proud magazine.

Some French politicians and intellectuals seem offended that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being treated like a common criminal.

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

President Obama chided the media for paying too much attention to the birther issue, but his criticism was unwarranted.

A handful of young male bloggers have launched themselves to the head of the line, leapfrogging those who’ve spent years playing the game by the old rules.juice

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.

Fewer Americans are watching cable news networks, and that’s not surprising.

Glenn Beck’s own website discovers some interesting, and ethically disturbing, editing in the latest round of video’s from “ACORN Pimp”James O’Keefe.

While there are doubtless flaws with the journalistic values and culture of the New Media, we too often contrast today with a Golden Age of Media that never existed.

PP’s intensive effort to recast itself as a preventer of abortions doesn’t bear scrutiny.

While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.

A new site will identify news articles based on press releases rather than journalism.

Politico (Jay Carney got $270K from Time magazine after leaving) has uncovered a major payola scandal. Or is hyping a complete non-story.

The White House Press Office produces a blog, YouTube channel, Flickr photo stream, Facebook and Twitter profiles, and daily video programming.

Shirley Sherrod’s lawsuit against Andrew Brietbart promises to be an interesting test of the boundaries of defamation law in the political blogosphere.

Sports Illustrated is trying to force subscribers to pay for a bundle of web and print services. Bad idea.

The same people who were complaining a week ago that the media was obsessed with Sarah Paln are now complaining that a media figure has suggested she doesn’t deserve the coverage she gets.

Sarah Palin was “interviewed” by Sean Hannity last night. I doubt she helped herself.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

Is Jon Stewart the next Edward R. Murrow? No.

Unless you paid close attention, you probably missed most of the coverage of the war in Afghanistan in 2010.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

The Washington Independent goes dark in December, failing to find profitability in three years.

Is the current media environment a problem for proper political discourse?