Roldo Bartimole writes: Okay Plain Dealer reporters: the outlook is dark and tragic. No easy way to put it. So take advantage of the Newhouse family’s bad situation of caring more about making money than serving the public. If they’re going to go to three days start now producing some hard hitting stuff that tests [...]

[Update at 1647 -- Anastasia Pantsios weighs in on the story: People involved in the "Save the Plain Dealer" campaign are asking "Where will we get our news?" Maybe we should respond, "Well, where do we get it NOW?" The PD may currently publish seven days a week and have a staff a third larger [...]

[Update @ 0801 on 8 November: From Its All Journalism: In 2008, Twitter was still a newbie and far from mainstream. But on election night of 2012, Twitter was THE source of news. In fact, the conversation in the room was sparse; the conversation online was an avalanche.] [Originally published on 5 November.] Mano Singham [...]

[Updated on 8 November.] Mano Singham writes: Dana Millbank reports on what he saw during the debates. He said that the reporters were not in the auditorium but were in a separate room in which the debate was shown on a large screen. But the reporters were also glued to their laptop screens reading other [...]

Glenn Greenwald writes: Ample ink is spilled over debating whether the US media is biased in favor of Republicans or Democrats. It is neither. The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it.

Roldo Bartimole writes: I think I’ve concluded. The Plain Dealer front page Sunday convinced me. I’ve been thinking how bad it would be that the city didn’t have a daily newspaper. Reality finally hit. No it wouldn’t. Why? The paper provides too much untrue propaganda. The paper ignores too much reality. It avoids what needs [...]

When I logged on to the Internet Thursday morning, I was immediately struck by a general lovefest for joint press conference host Martha Raddatz and her questioning of Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden. I think some people have very low thresholds for love. Glenn Greenwald was not so smitten. He writes: Exactly [...]

Glenn Greenwald writes: For establishment journalists like Raddatz, “objectivity” is the holy grail. In their minds, it is what distinguishes “real reporters” from mere “opinionists” and, worse, partisans. As they tell it, this objectivity means they traffic only in straight facts, unvarnished by ideology or agenda. This journalistic code obligates them to speak only from [...]

Driving home Wednesday evening I listened to an interview with Michael Lewis on Fresh Air and had this skidmark moment: My whole goal was to create a very natural environment so I could observe him without lots of people worrying about how it was going to be made to look in print. So the agreement [...]

[Update No. 3 @ 1042 on 13 September: His real name is Nakoula Basseley Nakoula] [Update No. 2 @ 1944: Bacile's a fake; not a Jew or an Israeli, who the fuck is he?] [Update No. 1 @ 1626: Glenn Greenwald wades in...] Shaya Tayefe Mohajer (for the Associated Press) writes: An Israeli filmmaker based [...]

Glenn Greenwald writes: It is true that CNNi can point to numerous recent reports describing the violence against protesters by the regime in Bahrain. Given the scope of the violence, and how widely it has now been reported elsewhere, it would be virtually impossible for CNNi never to broadcast such reports while still maintaining any [...]

[Update on 26 August @ 0914: Via a tweet from @danmoulthrop -- And I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore. Originally posted at 0338 on 24 August.] Andrea Seabrook muses: “I realized that there is a part of covering Congress, if you’re doing daily coverage, that is actually sort of colluding with the politicians themselves [...]

Esquire’s Tom Junod on Russia Today’s Alyona Show to talk about The Lethal Presidency.

I’m a horrible copyeditor (dyslexia and all that), but even I winced when I read: The cops could have cared less. Las Vegas Police Sgt. Kevin Manning, who ran Pac’s murder probe, said Pac’s murder investigation dead-ended for the same reason most gang-on-gang inquiries dead-end, because cop-leery witnesses refused to cooperate. in the Los Angeles [...]

Roldo Bartimole writes: Newspapers are killing themselves. How? By giving the public the same brand of coverage they’ve always been offering. They’re stuck in the past. Generations of journalists have been trained in the same manner. The lesson of what a news story is supposed to be. It continues day after day. It’s known as [...]

Arthur Bisbane asks: I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. And people wonder why newspapers are dying…

Roldo Bartimole writes: With newspapers in such precipitous decline my thoughts have traveled back to my first newspaper job in Bridgeport Conn. in 1959. It made me think that I was lucky enough to experience the days of old newspaper people and when the daily newspaper WAS the news. I had the opportunity to enjoy [...]

[With Liberty and Justice for Some by Glenn Greenwald] is an infuriating book. There were many times during last weekend when I was reading it that I wanted to hurl it against the wall though I am not by nature prone to such dramatic displays of emotion. What could possibly make such a non-violent man [...]