Situation in Syria
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Media’s failures during Iraq War cast shadow over Syria coverage”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Iraq War media failure can happen again”
David Corn, Mother Jones: “Iraq 10 years later: The deadly consequences of spin”
John B. Judis, New Republic: “Iraq War 10-Year Anniversary: What it was like to oppose it in 2003”
Mark Sliva, Bloomberg: “Lessons of Iraq, Vietnam: Now Syria”
Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter: “CNN’s ‘Crossfire’ to debut one week earlier to cover Syria”
David Frost (1939-2013)
BBC: "Sir David Frost, broadcaster and writer, dies at 74”
James Poniewozik, Time: “RIP David Frost: The TV host to captured a president”
Genevieve Hassan, BBC: “Frost/Nixon team pay tribute to Sir David Frost”
Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian: “David Frost’s Nixon interview helped end ‘age of deference,’ says Lord Birt"
Peter Walker, The Guardian: “David Frost: A career in clips"
Twitter on the Campaign Trail
Peter Hamby, Shorenstein Center: “Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?” | Full paper
David Carr, New York Times, “Campaign journalism in the age of Twitter”
NFL concussion settlement
Ken Belson, New York Times: “Explaining the NFL Settlement”
Scott Fujita, New York Times: “Mixed feelings over NFL concussions settlement”
Arthur Caplan & Lee Igen, Forbes: “What’s Unsettled about the NFL concussions settlement”
Hunter Felt, The Guardian: “Concussions lawsuit lets NFL off the hook”
Alternative Dispute Resolution Center Press Release
Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada, ESPN: “Players sought $2 billion-plus from NFL in concussion settlement”
Time Warner, CBS reach terms
Tom Krazit, paidcontent.org: “Let there be football: CBS, Time Warner Cable settle programming dispute”
Brian Anthony Hernandez, Mashable: “CBS and Showtime return to Time Warner Cable on Labor Day”
Deadline.com: “Time Warner & CBS end dispute, blackout to end Monday”
Bezos’ vision: New ‘golden era’
Paul Fahri, Washington Post: “Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper”
Onion’s op-ed page… doesn’t stink?
Noreen Malone, New Republic: “The Onion is the country’s best op-ed page. Seriously.”
All Tuckered out
Peggy Ackerman, New York Daily News: “Tucker Carlson falls asleep while hosting ‘Fox & Friends’ with Mike Jerrick and Alisyn Camerota"