Outside the Beltway

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

A man named Carlos killed a woman named Wanda Lopez. Texas executed a different man named Carlos for the crime.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

The major you choose in college will have an impact on your future.

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

The media circus around the shooting of Trayvon Martin is getting worse.

The old have most of the money and power in our society, a trend that is accelerating.

Good Journalism?

Newspapers are still finding it hard to live in the Internet Age.

This morning’s unexpected death of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative muckraker, has sadly if unsurprisingly brought out a wave of nasty commentary.

Lucy Kellaway figures the best thing we middle agers can do for the young is to get the hell out of their way.

Should journalists report things they happen to overhear in a public place?

Getting to the heart of last night’s moment of kabuki theater.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

A Mississippi judge has stayed a slew of pardons issued by Haley Barbour on his way out the door.

A stark account of how American journalism has changed over the last half century.

A progressive columnist has been outed as having sympathies for the Democratic Party.

How did Republicans get in this mess?

Treating entertainment as entertainment is one thing. Treating it as news and education is another.

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Why does wine get so much more written treatment than beer?

Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”

Rick Perry has gotten the most and best coverage thus far in the campaign. President Obama has gotten mostly negative coverage.

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.