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I keep in touch with a bevy of Washington reporters in my work as director of a journalism school and as a frequent writer for D.C.-based publications. I also have been researching this topic for more than a decade. This article captures just about everything I have analyzed or know by contact and experience. The reference to the McClatchy D.C. bureau is spot on. I first observed the disease that has led to the demise of Washington news bureaus when I was a judge two years ago for the D.C. section of the Scripps annual journalism awards ( http://scripps.com/foundation/news/releases/06jan10.html ). Why, I wondered, were so many D.C. reporters covering Iraq, Europe and South America? Then it occurred to me: Those overseas bureaus ... More »

This is one of the first comprehensive stories on the exaggerated and, in some cases, covert elements of the swine flu "pandemic" that really wasn't much of that, either.

This is poor quality journalism on the one hand, and good follow-up on the other, concerning a story that occupied us for two years and that I and others familiar with the Centers for Disease Control suspected was exaggerated--as my posts to NewsTrust.net will show: the so-called swine flu pandemic, on which our government spent billions. Vaccines were late or recalled, just as in 1976.

The quality of this report is not in the sourcing, context or depth, but in the multimedia use to show via animation and videography (other tabs) just how this containment device by BP is supposed to work.

This isn't quality journalism; it's a "news story" based on a report provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, with the reporter garning a few sources to comment on the report, with a bias toward--are you ready?--banks. The story doesn't state what banks went under. Rather, the FDIC is cited as "never" doing that to prevent a run on those banks. If so, then, why does the FDIC post the list? (See my links.) Bad bank journalism.

This is a classic case of journalists holding those in power accountable--in this instance, Obama's pledge to hunt down Osama bin Laden. The article posits whether this was mere campaign rhetoric.

ABC News, which tries to maintain a middle ground between Fox's conservatism and CBS's liberalism, reports the Republican response to what some might deem racist comments from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, appearing in a new book. To Reid's credit, he does not deny that he said the comment. Comparisons to the Democrats' response to a similar incident involving Trent Lott are included.