Stories by Greg Mitchell
Greg Mitchell is editor of E&P and author of seven books on politics and history.
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
Also: Right-wing talking-point question came from right-wing Fox talker.
Posted on Apr 17, 2008
New York Times columnists Bob Herbert, Paul Krugman and David Brooks battle it out over Reagan and racism.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007
They were at the tail-end of their deployments.
Posted on Sep 12, 2007
'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
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
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
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
Judith Miller's 'missing notebook' raises new questions in the search for the leaker of Valerie Plame's identity.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005
Reporters are the 'badfellas' in Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary about the folk-rock legend.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005
What will it take for the
New York Times to call for withdrawal from Iraq?
Posted on Sep 20, 2005
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
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
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
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
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
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
A veteran reporter traces his first blog-aided journey through an investigative story.
Posted on Mar 2, 2005
How did an inexperienced White House 'reporter' get such extraordinary access despite using a fake name?
Posted on Feb 10, 2005
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
Despite kneejerk accusations of his lack of patriotism, decorated war reporter Joe Galloway says 'declare victory and pull out.'
Posted on Jan 26, 2005
Ken Burns' campaign to pardon Jack Johnson was inspired by racist editorials from some surprising sources.
Posted on Jan 19, 2005
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
Both print reporters and TV talking heads predicted an Osama bounce for Bush. They were very, very wrong.
Posted on Nov 1, 2004
The Georgia senator loses his cool on MSNBC in the face of a few tough questions.
Posted on Sep 2, 2004
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
