Pacific Views

Keeping the press honest.

The Columbia Journalism Review is the big dog of press criticism in the US, and deservedly so. We're pleased to see that they've put up a site called Campaign Desk, which will 'analyze and criticize press coverage in real time, so that suggestions for improved coverage might actually be heeded, and incorporated into campaign coverage, while the campaign is still under way.'

They're off to a good start today, with (among other things) excellent critiques of the campaign coverage of AP and ABC television, and a good take-down of the Drudge Report for distorting comments made by Wesley Clark.

You can find Campaign Desk here. We know that we'll be checking it every day.