Best unintentionally funny moment of the Gustav reporting so far: Anderson Cooper, standing in the official reporting zone of the French Quarter, assuring viewers that “You don’t see anyone on the streets here except police and emergency personnel – anyone … Continue reading
Flipping cable channels for the latest on Hurricane Gustav, I can’t help notice a striking similarity to the run-up to Hurricane Katrina three years ago: Every single news station is reporting from the French Quarter, or the adjacent downtown region. … Continue reading
Don’t believe anything you read on the front page of the New York Post, no matter how amusing the headline is: Today’s front-page Post “exclusive” reports that the Yankees and Mets are in “secret talks” to buy the remnants of … Continue reading
In the course of responding to the New Yorker’s problematic profile of Rudy Giuliani a couple of weeks ago (by Elizabeth Kolbert, who’s usually one of my favorite of their writers, but who usually sticks to environmental issues), I tackle … Continue reading
Apparently not everybody reads Metro NY. Two weeks after I debunked the claims that the recent theater stagehands’ strike was costing New York City $2 million a day, this week’s New York magazine declaims, in 30-point type no less: …the … Continue reading
Stagehands at most Broadway theaters are on strike, and here’s how Newsday reported the story today: The stagehands’ union took its cause to the public yesterday, the second day of a strike that has shut 27 Broadway theaters and cost … Continue reading
In this week’s New Yorker, economics columnist James Surowiecki takes on Elizabeth Currid’s book “The Warhol Economy,” which argues that the art/music/fashion industry is more vital to New York City’s economy than even Wall Street. While agreeing that art and … Continue reading
The study that Steve Rendall and I conducted of nightly news coverage of the poor – which I mentioned last week would soon be out – is now online. (You can also grab a snazzy PDF version of it here.) … Continue reading
I recorded a short interview today for CounterSpin, the radio show of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, on my upcoming report for FAIR, “The Poor Will Always Be With Us… Except on TV News,” which examines poverty coverage (and the … Continue reading