Secrecy on the rise
LARRY SASICH WANTS to know why the Food and Drug Administration rejected parecoxib, a pain medication proposed for use after surgery. David Arkush wants to know about automobile safety defects...
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Sun’s challenge of Ehrlich order is dismissed by a federal judge
The Baltimore Sun vowed yesterday to continue fighting an order barring state employees from speaking with two of the newspaper's journalists, despite a decision from a federal judge dismissing the...
Web has changed the shape of ‘reporting’
"I don't like O'Malley and I am no Dumbocrat / Caligulite. Still, methinks you should validate stuff like this before you post it." So wrote "Sartorius" on Aug. 13, 2004....
Network’s brass, critics take solace in the report
CBS News executives say they're vindicated by an independent panel's conclusion that there was no political bias behind September's flawed report on President Bush's National Guard service. At the same...
Restoring public’s trust in CBS News
Not long after he took over as president of CBS News in the late 1990s, Andrew Heyward appeared on the cover of American Journalism Review. The headline was: "Can Andrew...
CBS fires 4 executives, producers over Bush-National Guard report
CBS News fired four executives and senior producers yesterday, after an independent panel concluded that a "myopic zeal" to beat the competition on a story about President Bush's National Guard...
Steele reverses, says talk occurred
The Ehrlich administration acknowledged yesterday that Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele had a conversation with Sun columnist Michael Olesker at Pimlico Race Course in May -- a reversal after the...
After cicada, firefly’s warm glow grows
We cherish the firefly a little more this year. The luminescent insects have always had good timing. They arrive in mid-June to tell us that school is over and summer...
What he left behind
In 1982, NBC first broadcast Family Ties and the nation first met Alex P. Keaton. The show was supposed to be about his parents -- ex-hippies Steve and Elyse who...
Shins seem to sing of cicadas
It appears that a band from Albuquerque, N.M. - a distinctly cicada-free zone - has unwittingly written the perfect anthem to this buzzy season. The band is the Shins, known...