Stories by Greg Mitchell

Greg Mitchell is editor of E&P and author of seven books on politics and history.

NYT Finally Corrects Botched Front-Pager on Gitmo Prisoners 'Returning to Jihad'

Dick Cheney took the article's questionable facts and ran with them, arguing against trying Gitmo prisoners in the U.S.
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

How Obama Won: The Rise of Web 2.0

In election '08, the ascendance of new media changed the rules of the game and smoothed Obama's path to victory.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009, Source: Sinclair Books

Veteran Suicides Continue to Rise

As a national crisis grows and Congress starts to pay attention, small town newspapers remain the only sources for information on veteran suicides
Posted on May 13, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

Debate: ABC Decides Top Issues Facing Americans Are Flag Pins and '60s Radicals

Also: Right-wing talking-point question came from right-wing Fox talker.
Posted on Apr 17, 2008, Source: Editor & Publisher

Columnists War Breaks out at 'NYT'

New York Times columnists Bob Herbert, Paul Krugman and David Brooks battle it out over Reagan and racism.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: Editor & Publisher

Two of Seven Soldiers Who Wrote 'NYT' Op-Ed Die in Iraq

They were at the tail-end of their deployments.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007, Source: Editor & Publisher

Pentagon Covered Up 'Friendly Fire' Killing

'How can we expect ordinary Iraqis to trust the police when we don't even trust them not to kill our own men?'
Posted on Nov 1, 2006, Source: Editor & Publisher

Colbert Shocks the Media Silent

The same media that's trashing Stephen Colbert gave a pass to Bush's jokes about missing WMDs in Iraq two years earlier.
Posted on May 4, 2006, Source: Editor & Publisher

Times Completes Long Pass... Then Fumbles

Just when it publishes its groundbreaking investigative piece on Administration spying, news that the Times withheld the story for a year gets heads shaking.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

A Plea to Editors on Iraq

Now that Nicholas Kristof has come out for withdrawal from Iraq, won't the nation's editorial boards help bring the tragedy to a close?
Posted on Nov 16, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Plamegate: 20 Questions

Judith Miller's 'missing notebook' raises new questions in the search for the leaker of Valerie Plame's identity.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

How Bob Dylan Beat the Press

Reporters are the 'badfellas' in Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary about the folk-rock legend.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Challenging the Times

What will it take for the New York Times to call for withdrawal from Iraq?
Posted on Sep 20, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed

60-year-old footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- suppressed and nearly destroyed by the U.S. -- will finally be shown in America.
Posted on Aug 4, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Yucking It Up In the Post

Dana Milbank used the valuable real estate of the Washington Post -- its only coverage of the Downing St. Memo -- to mock Rep. John Conyers and his 'hearty band of playmates.'
Posted on Jun 21, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Papers Reach Iraq Boiling Point

Many of the nation's newspaper editorialists have roused themselves from seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice outright condemnation of the war.
Posted on Jun 8, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

The Tillman Scandal

In the week after Newsweek's retraction, where is the comparable outrage over the military's cover-up of the 'friendly fire' death of Pat Tillman? And where is a Scott McClellan lecture on ethics and credibility?
Posted on May 25, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

At 30: Iraq and the Vietnam Syndrome

Iraq is not Vietnam; still, though some find comparisons silly, the fact remains that 53% of Americans feel the current war is 'not worth it.'
Posted on May 2, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Judith Miller's WMD Problem

Returning home to Las Vegas, the star New York Times reporter who saw WMD in Iraq romanticizes nuclear childhood and omits conflict of interest.
Posted on Apr 4, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Gannon and the Bloggers

A veteran reporter traces his first blog-aided journey through an investigative story.
Posted on Mar 2, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Loose 'Gannon'

How did an inexperienced White House 'reporter' get such extraordinary access despite using a fake name?
Posted on Feb 10, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Media Mangles Iraq Vote

Are the turnout numbers routinely cited by the press – 8 million and 57% – supported by reality? And was the outpouring of voters in Sunni areas really "surprisingly strong"?
Posted on Feb 5, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Vet Reporter: Leave Iraq

Despite kneejerk accusations of his lack of patriotism, decorated war reporter Joe Galloway says 'declare victory and pull out.'
Posted on Jan 26, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Pardoning Jack Johnson

Ken Burns' campaign to pardon Jack Johnson was inspired by racist editorials from some surprising sources.
Posted on Jan 19, 2005, Source: Editor & Publisher

Return of the Embeds

Since the start of the Fallujah offensive, almost 500 wounded U.S. military personnel have been airlifted to Germany – but you wouldn't know it to read the coverage.
Posted on Nov 18, 2004, Source: Editor & Publisher

Pundits Strike Out on bin Laden

Both print reporters and TV talking heads predicted an Osama bounce for Bush. They were very, very wrong.
Posted on Nov 1, 2004, Source: Editor & Publisher

Chris Matthews Plays Hardball with Zell Miller

The Georgia senator loses his cool on MSNBC in the face of a few tough questions.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004, Source: Editor & Publisher

The New York Times Mea Culpa

Following the fall of its favorite source, Ahmad Chalabi, the newspaper issues an overdue but scathing self-rebuke of its coverage of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. But does it go far enough?
Posted on May 26, 2004, Source: Editor & Publisher