The Herman Cain Method

The press hints his campaign isn’t serious. Doesn’t its success suggest otherwise?

By Erika Fry   Oct 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM

Herman Cain, are you running for president? Or are you just busing around the country, dropping into debates and Sunday... More

A Sextee’s Story

By Erika Fry   Oct 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM

It was nearly one year ago—to the day!—that Traci Nobles, a cheerleading coach from Athens, Georgia, “made a few provocative... More

Watch Out For ‘Walmart Moms’

They hold the key to the 2012 election—according to Walmart

By Erika Fry   Oct 11, 2011 at 05:02 PM

You’ve heard of Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads, but how about Walmart Moms? If you haven’t, you will, judging from... More

Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)

Um, not Patrick Howley

By Erika Fry   Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM

I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More

Who’s A Journalist? (Take II)

Um, not Patrick Howley

By Erika Fry   Oct 10, 2011 at 02:55 PM

I wrote Friday about how the arrests of reporters at the Occupy Wall Street protests raised questions about the NYPD... More

Tom Friedman Needs A Factchecker

By Erika Fry   Oct 7, 2011 at 04:33 PM

We’ve called out Tom Friedman in recent months for being “radically wrong” in the past. And then for being “still... More

Who’s A Journalist?

Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process

By Erika Fry   Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM

John Farley, a reporter with WNET/Thirteen’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More

Who’s A Journalist?

Arrest of reporters at Occupy Wall Street protest raise questions about NYPD press credential process

By Erika Fry   Oct 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM

John Farley, a reporter with WNET’s MetroFocus, was standing on the sidewalk interviewing two women who had been pepper sprayed... More

With Perry, it pays to look under the rock

By Erika Fry   Oct 4, 2011 at 12:44 PM

While many reporters in Texas might be racing down dusty roads to find that rock, Brenda Bell of the Austin... More

Q&A: Columnist Charles Stile on Chris Christie

“Now he’s standing in the center of the political universe”

By Erika Fry   Sep 30, 2011 at 03:40 PM

For a man who’s not running for president, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has gotten a whole lot of attention... More

Is Occupy Wall Street Getting Its Fair Share of Press?

What would Charles Tilly say?

By Erika Fry   Sep 29, 2011 at 04:46 PM

#Occupy Wall Street. To cover or not to cover? That is of course the question that, 13 days into the... More

60 Minutes, Meet the AP

Scott Pelley’s paean to Ray Kelly’s anti-terrorism juggernaut ignores the wire’s good work

By Erika Fry   Sep 27, 2011 at 01:46 PM

On Sunday, 60 Minutes broadcast this fifteen-minute report, “Fighting terrorism in New York City,” in which CBS’s Scott Pelley delivers... More

NYTimes Misleads on Pace of Flood Relief

FEMA’s disaster delays are structural, not Congressional

By Erika Fry   Sep 26, 2011 at 02:04 PM

Congress: dysfunctional, broken, mad, maybe even the worst. Ever. But The New York Times went one too far today in... More

After the Google/Fox Debate, Five Annoyances

Dog poop jokes and that blasted chat chime at GOP debate suggest Google’s not that smart

By Erika Fry   Sep 23, 2011 at 04:09 PM

Some things irritated us about last night’s debate and the post-debate wrap-up. Some were small—say, the use of the Gmail... More

Darts and Laurels

Telling the whole story about Thailand

By Erika Fry   Sep 22, 2011 at 06:00 AM

For much of his career, the British journalist Andrew MacGregor Marshall has covered Southeast Asia for Thomson Reuters. During that... More