Down In Frames

Whatever happened to George Lakoff?

By Jane Kim   Aug 13, 2008 at 01:32 PM

This week’s Chronicle Review has an article about cognitive linguist (and Chomsky nemesis) George Lakoff, who has written a new... More

Mark Penn’s Press Strategies

Media mentions from the HRC memos

By Jane Kim   Aug 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Here are some media-related snippets from the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign’s strategy memos and e-mails, recently released by The Atlantic.... More

Reporting The Edwards Affair

What the media wrote before and after John Edwards’s admission of guilt

By Jane Kim   Aug 11, 2008 at 04:35 PM

A (non-comprehensive) look at what a few news outlets said about the Edwards affair, before and after Friday’s confession: The... More

The Edwards Affair

Three questions for and about the media

By Jane Kim   Aug 8, 2008 at 06:40 PM

On July 22, the National Enquirer first broke the story of John Edwards's tryst with Rielle Hunter at the Beverly... More

Now McCain Is Postmodern Too?

By Jane Kim   Aug 8, 2008 at 02:28 PM

The headline of Amy Silverman's long article in the Phoenix New Times yesterday reads: "Postmodern John McCain: the presidential candidate... More

The New Taste

By Jane Kim   Aug 8, 2008 at 12:35 PM

In today's New York Times, David Brooks delineates the changing face of "intellectual one-upmanship." The process, eruditely described: When you... More

Eight Days A Week

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first week reviewed

By Jane Kim   Aug 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM

So Ta-Nehisi Coates has been blogging for a week now for the Atlantic, replacing Matt Yglesias, who will start at... More

Pushing Pause?

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By Jane Kim   Aug 7, 2008 at 03:34 PM

As Slate's Jody Rosen recently discovered, the Montgomery County Bulletin, a Texas alt-weekly with circulation 20,000, has since 2005 been... More

Obama’s “Postmodern” Condition

Is Obama po-mo? No.

By Jane Kim   Aug 6, 2008 at 05:26 PM

Oh, Jonah Goldberg. In a recent USA Today column, the author of Liberal Fascism advanced the notion that Obama is... More

Lincoln Was No Luddite

And neither is John McCain

By Jane Kim   Aug 5, 2008 at 02:21 PM

The New York Times’s Sunday story about John McCain’s technological naivete makes an important point, even if its author doesn’t... More

Don’t Be A Menace To South Central…

Media floats the term “food apartheid” to describe South Central fast food ban

By Jane Kim   Jul 31, 2008 at 03:43 PM

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a law that would ban fast-food restaurants from opening new outlets... More

Earthquake!

Blogs and the Los Angeles Times race to cover today’s earthquake

By Jane Kim   Jul 29, 2008 at 06:31 PM

Here’s a smattering of coverage in the hours following the 5.4-magnitude earthquake in southern California. Who wins, the Los Angeles... More

Do You Hear A Reporter Clapping?

Minority journalists (and those covering them) over-question the ethics of cheering for Obama

By Jane Kim   Jul 28, 2008 at 05:20 PM

Leading up to Barack Obama’s speech yesterday at the Unity convention in Chicago, there was some media speculation about how... More

Ten For 2010?

Scrubbing the gloss off of diversity coverage

By Jane Kim   Jul 28, 2008 at 08:35 AM

Earlier this month, worried about the effect that newsroom cuts were having on minority journalists’ working numbers, the National Association... More

Talking Shop: Johanna Neuman

A conversation with an author of the LAT’s “Countdown to Crawford” blog

By Jane Kim   Jul 24, 2008 at 03:53 PM

Johanna Neuman, along with James Gerstenzang, writes Countdown to Crawford, a one-month-old blog on latimes.com that follows the Bush administration’s... More