July 2: Why was Clark a story at all? Sadly, we’re forced to explain
July 1: False beliefs are everywhere, a Times op-ed said. So too bollixed logic
June 30: Gabler called Dowd a “left-wing star.” What makes us say such things?

June 27: Two days in December help us see the truth about Russert’s legend
June 26: Your brain doesn’t want you believing the truth. And yet, the truth is there
June 25: Three days after Clark Hoyt’s piece, Dowd kisses Democrat keister
June 24: All last year, the Post’s noble eds were troubled by Clinton’s vile stand
June 23: Clark Hoyt spoke frankly in the Times. On the web, we should follow suit

June 20: This was quite a week for press-watchers. We finish up several threads
June 19: Put the novels aside! Matthews and Klein raised actual points about Russert’s actual work
June 18: Tim always knew who the phonies were, Brokaw oddly explained
June 17: Three pundits staged a rare discussion. They won’t likely do it again
June 16: The instinctive refusal to tell you the truth lies at the heart of their culture

June 13: Mark Penn states a range of views–and Cottle calls him names
June 12: Quinn and Yglesias and Crowley and Giles spoke from a planet of chimps
June 11: Dowd reverses herself on one witch—and continues assaulting another
June 10: Kafka imagined Gregor Samsa’s decline. But could he have pictured Todd Purdum?
June 9: The “Outlook Two” named actual names–as the “Kinsley Three” showed you real squalor

June 6: Seeking the counsel of other rough men, a working-stiff star went to Bozeman
June 5: Lisa Caputo fleshed out a key point about that latest construct
June 4: We bungled Richard Cohen a bit—in part, by omitting John Judis
June 3: Too funny! Matthews couldn’t quite find the flaw with Father Eminem’s rant
June 2: David Broder can’t describe the latest non-excellent project

May 30: Your culture turns on certain rules. But will your culture survive?
May 29: Chris and Keith taught valuable lessons in keeping fake outrage alive
May 28: Obama’s campaign—channeling Murdoch—told the dogs to bark
May 27: Joe Klein (and others) invented a tale, as they’ve been doing for years now

May 24: Joe Klein hacked on your side this week. Josh Marshall praised him for it
May 23: While we wait for the juice to come on, we flesh out Judis’ piece
May 22: Journalists threw their support to Obama, Judis says, in a vast gaffe
May 21: This is the way the world starts to look when the press corps starts taking your side
May 20: Sometimes you read the work of these folk and you think you hear dead people chuckling
May 19: Tears splashed down Tim Russert’s face—and a Major Dem kissed, smooched and fawned

May 16: Howard Kurtz asked a good question. Sadly, though, Simon won’t tell
May 15: Three Post pundits attack McCain’s character. But a question still hasn’t been asked
May 14: After calling Obama a girl, a stone crackpot channels Al Smith
May 13: Darryl Fears and Katherine Seelye flesh out key advice from Obama
May 12: Kurtz and Page sharpen a point about the discussion of race

May 9: Krugman has some decent ideas. Robinson has a sense of entitlement
May 8: When Eric Boehlert quotes us, we listen. And then, we add a key point
May 7: Dowd wanted to lie about Obama. So she quoted the man-in-the-street
May 6: The basic facts on the flag bill were clear. Somehow, Poor Richard missed them
May 5: Clinton supported the flag bill, sings Collins. But guess what? Obama did too

May 2: The Times learned what the rubes must think by asking the swells of Broad Ripple
May 1: What does liberal elitism look like? Let Gail Collins show you
April 30: Klein said Hill threw the kitchen sink. But where did that story-line come from?
April 29: We’ll stand with Obama—and Lincoln. And with the Clinton campaign
April 28: Edwards tells the truth. Few liberal leaders do

April 25: At some point, the mainstream press corps passed its torch to Countdown
April 24: Like Itchy and Scratchy, Gail Collins can tell which items are tacky and cheesy
April 23: We wrote a post about the Times. But then we decided to dump it
April 22: Future scientists will demand the right to dig up Richard Cohen
April 21: Flag-pin pundits all said the same things. But so had big journos before them

April 18: Charlie and George behaved like country squires. But then, that’s what they now are
April 17: When ABC News selected that question, they showed us the shape of their culture
April 16: Maureen Dowd reaches back fifty years to sample her crackpot forebears
April 15: Aarrgh! Some liberal pundits don’t seem to know what makes a person “elitist:”
April 14: Leibovich lets us laugh at Matthews. But a great deal has been disappeared

April 11: Leibovich entertains well in his piece. But this isn’t the profile we asked for
April 10: So sang a love-sick young man. So sings Anne Kornblut today
April 9: John McCain made another mistake. But then, he always has
April 8: Trudy Lieberman gets it right about that hospital story
April 7: As we often say around here, thank goodness for Frank Rich

April 4: McCain could still win it. Here’s why
April 3: Reporters asked the darnedest questions on a great saint’s famous bus
April 2: Journalists run out of questions for Saint McCain! It helped make Lizza's profile a rerun
April 1: Lizza profiled life on the bus. Amazingly little has changed
March 31: The tsunami survivor has “fact-checked” Dems hard–and has given McCain a free pass

March 28: Having watched cable, our spirits soared when Tyson dragged in the chimps
March 27: Lizza fudged about McCain. Finally, Chris told the truth
March 26: When it comes to McCain’s fawning coverage, career liberals refuse to complain
March 25: Is John Hagee a Catholic-basher? Solomon didn’t find out
March 24: Ten years later, a major Dem leader comes up with a brilliant idea

March 21: Why in the world is Michelle Bernard praising Obama on Hardball
March 20: It was “most unusual,” Kristof says. Potentially, that’s the problem
March 19: The New York Times made the claim six times. We invite you to look at the tape
March 18: Nancy Giles invented more sh*t on another inexcusable Hardball
March 17: Watching Matthews, the truth became clear—we may have our first Teflon Democrat

March 14: Al Franken untangled that Medicare mess. Could Nozick have done so? John Rawls?
March 13: And this is how Rove wins elections
March 12: Hillary Clinton called it a smear. Why won’t Matthews repeat that?
March 11: The saddest part of Patterson’s piece is the part which explains who he is
March 10: The career liberal world has done it again. But then, what else is new?

March 7: A famous philosopher thought about Wilt–and raised our incomparable question
March 6: Oddly, Russert and his trophy wife forgot to “gang up on the front-runner”
March 5: Ruth Marcus bows to Hard Pundit Law in her latest column
March 4: Joe Klein committed a classic gaffe about one part of the press corps
March 3: Elisabeth Bumiller gets it right—but it’s time for a whole gang to go

February 29: As their own love affair sadly dies, they picture their love with another
February 28: It’s time for pundits to say what they know about the spawn of Lee Atwater
February 27: Rutenberg recast eight-year-old tales—in a way which took down a hero
February 26: The Times got tough on the Keating affair. We’d call it a major reversal
February 25: The New York Times sexed up McCain—and played it slick and slippery

February 21: Frankly, Rich was up to his ears in the latest narrative
February 20: The New York Times knows what to do when the pig dares to make a complaint
February 19: Is there any chance Bendixen was simply answering Lizza’s question?
February 18: A man named Ford plays our ugliest card in America’s dumbest newspaper

February 15: Big journos rarely examine press bias. Robinson helps us see why
February 14: Howard Kurtz shows the world how The Village profiles its own
February 13: You can read the truth about Matthews—but only in readers’ comments
February 12: A remarkable story has been playing out—unless you’re a reader of Tapped
February 11: As MS continued its very bad pattern, a very good question emerged

February 8: On page one, the New York Times recycles a treasured old tale
February 7: It has become amazingly easy to yell race/race/race at Big Dems
February 6: Obama is a Hollywood starlet, the Times’ unwell columnist says
February 5: Meyerson lodges our nastiest charge—and shows us the shape of our problem
February 4: Philosopher Foser’s cool clear logic showed us what might have been

February 1: We freshmen sneered at the young professor—then learned how very wrong we had been
January 31: Why didn’t Clinton mention John Edwards? Gene Robinson has no idea
January 30: In today’s Post, you’re deceived once again. This follows a brush with true greatness
January 29: Kristol will drag down the Times, liberals say. We ask: Have they ever read Herbert?
January 28: Was Bill Clinton playing a card? We don’t know—but the press corps sure has been

January 25: Josh Marshall, throwing hay to the rubes, finally shows up—ten years later
January 24: Margaret Carlson visited Tucker—and gave him the dope on the press
January 23: When GE can lie to you this way, you’re no longer in a democracy
January 22: Broder types his latest tales–about a straight-talker’s misstatements
January 21: Rachel Maddow got her prize—and Paul Starr pulled his punches

January 18: Matthews boo-hoo-hooed last night—and gave a bogus apology
January 17: Reading the Times, we thought it again. We’re all stuck with Stupid
January 16: Russert and Williams stumbled around–and a consensus emerged
January 15: Rachel Maddow told the truth—and then, she walked the truth back
January 14: Hillary Clinton “insults” Dr. King as the Post stokes a famous old pleasure

January 11: Why did folks finally get mad at Chris? We have no idea
January 10: Gail Collins, stuck in the Trobriand Islands, once again finds herself bored
January 9: Has polling ever failed this badly? Try New Hampshire, way back in 2000
January 8: Peter Fenn seems like a nice guy. He won’t tell the truth even now
January 7: A 16-year-story is ending this week. Most voters still haven’t heard

January 4: A graphic in the Washington Post shows us how Iowa worked
January 3: Three cheers! Todd and Milbank frankly describe their cohort’s outright corruption
January 2: Dean’s wife wouldn’t talk enough. Today’s wives are talking too much