I’ve been buried under reading for my classes, and grading student papers, but I have been keeping at least one eye on the media. One night last week, I had to triple-task between the debates, the Yankees, and a stack of papers. Last week, Daniel Okrent, the Times Public Editor, addressed the question of whether […]

The New York Times editorial in tomorrow’s paper about tonight’s VP debate seems to be the result of wishful thinking on the editorialists’ part. The editorial seems to think that Edwards was the clear winner of the debate, and while I would wish that were so, I have to disagree. But this blog is not […]

This weekend, the New York Times unveiled its new designs for its various Arts & Leisure sections and the Book Review. My personal jury is still out on the revisions, but I’m inclined to like them. The general idea seems to have been to move towards a more magazine-like presentation of the material. Any time […]

Though it’s not media in the press sense of the word, advertising does fit. I want to commend Amtrak’s recent Northeast corridor advertisements. Though they’re thoroughly modern, they capture something of the romance of vinatage Deco train and ship posters. And you can buy ’em cheap, too.

It doesn’t pertain exactly to the media, but I wanted to be on the record with this. Assuming Major League Baseball finalizes the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC, I’d like to suggest that they call the team the “Monuments.” My friend Daniel prefers that they be sponsored by the Homeland Security Department, […]

The Chicago Tribune’s Public Editor wrote today about reader complaints that his newspaper was not fair and balanced the way a newspaper should be. His answer–which is that the news is a collaborative process and that sometimes reader complaints are valid–is true, but there is more going on, and it’s not liberal bias, exactly. (I […]

Here is another story I did this week for Architectural Record. This one is about the architect Thom Mayne and his new design for the Cooper Union in New York.

Though CBS has now acknowledged that the Bush memos are forgeries, much about them still remains a mystery. This Washington Post article is the best reporting on the whole process CBS followed (through yesterday) that I’ve seen.

Newspapers have an obligation to report as much information as they have in as accurate a characterization as they can manage. This morning, USA Today reported that its own poll showed Bush ahead of Kerry. But it stuffs the news that two other polls still have the competitors in a statistical dead heat down in […]

A link to a freelance story I wrote for Architectural Record, where I used to be the web editor. The story is about a film and web site project called Project Rebirth, which will chronicle the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site in time lapse photography.