Here's a good read from CJR

I started reading Columbia Journalism review when I was 11.

No, really - my mom has been a subscriber for as long as I can remember, and I used to pick up her copy of CJR and skim through it. I won't say I understood the import of much of that skimming when I was prepubescent, but I could tell it was a serious magazine that was well-repected.

Here's a great article from CJR about the media's complicity in the Swift Boat Liars for Bush ruckus:

http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000851.asp