A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: WSJ’s Jared Diamond Brings Up Bet-Fixing in Baseball
JULY 2025 - A conspicuous blowout in sports writing these days is the outperformance of the WSJ's relatively small sports staff against the NYT's 400-member team at The Athletic. The WSJ leads with...
Worth Noting: WSJ’s Joe Sternberg Makes Understandable Our Central Bank’s Machinations
JULY 2025 - The American reading public - a decided subset of the American public - doesn't exactly devour the work of economists and business journalists these days. But among the voices in...
Rosebud Winners: Two Reports Last Week on the Evolving Ukraine War
JULY 2025 - To many Americans, Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is the defining geopolitical event of our era, a war of aggression that tests the resolve of not simply the nation of Ukraine but of...
Rosebud Winner: NYT Obit on Bill Moyers Works In the Current, Relevant Idea
JUNE 2025 - Longtime broadcast journalist Bill Moyers died last week at age 91, and both the Washington Post and the NYT came out - on the same day as his death - with lengthy and robustly textured...
Worth Noting: WaPo’s Rightward Op-Ed Swing on Full Display Following NYC Mayoral Vote
JUNE 2025 - A year ago this op-ed headline in The Washington Post would have been unthinkable: "Zohran Mamdani's Victory is Bad for New York and The Democratic Party." Followed by: "New York cannot...
Rosebud Winner: Max Boot’s Column on Trump Parade is a Work of Good Reporting
JUNE 2025 - There was a lot to be relieved about following the US Army's 250th Anniversary parade on June 14 - it turned out to be a relatively easy-going affair, no goose-stepping regiments to...
Rosebud Archives: Eight Weeks After Surfside Collapse, WSJ Tackles Engineering Behind Disaster
JUNE 2025 - Barely eight weeks after the June 2021 Surfside, Florida, building collapse, The Wall Street Journal came out with a remarkable forensic of the many factors - corner-cutting and other...
Rosebud Winner: Dateline Brazil, A Report on A Comedian Whose Jokes Get Him Jail Time
JUNE 2025 - Of the many sad developments surrounding the shrinking news business, nothing stands out quite so much as the death of overseas coverage. And in places other than London and Paris,...
WSJ Op-Ed Illustrates That Even Media Elites Are Happy to Ignore Facts
JUNE 2025 - WSJ op-ed page folks pride themselves on their "free people free markets" mantra - and have for decades. And as such generally they acknowledge facts. But not always. One howling example...
Rosebud Winner: NYT Does Some Basic Reporting on an Aggressive Texas-based Restaurant Chain
JUNE 2025 - It's a report with an undercurrent of today's cultural divide - a Blue State news outfit goes after a Red State restaurant chain - but the June 3 story about Dickey's Barbecue Pit...