The Century Mark

Let’s go substantive on 100-day coverage

By Jane Kim   Apr 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM

President Barack Obama’s hundredth day in office is approaching, and, as Howard Kurtz wrote on Friday (a.k.a. Day 95), it’s... More

Mortgage Defaults Beyond the Numbers

Chronicle reports the figures, LAT goes deeper

By Jane Kim   Apr 23, 2009 at 02:37 PM

Yesterday, a San Diego real estate information service called MDA DataQuick released numbers that show a rising number of mortgage... More

To America, With Love, Signed Barack Obama

NYT too wide-eyed on White House mailman story

By Jane Kim   Apr 21, 2009 at 03:30 PM

The New York Times had a sweet story yesterday about Mike Kelleher, the White House mailman (official title: Director of... More

Budget Balancing Acts

LAT zooms in on California’s Props 1D and 1E

By Jane Kim   Apr 20, 2009 at 01:39 PM

A Los Angeles Times article today discusses two propositions that will appear on the state’s May 19 special election ballot,... More

Omnipresence, That Irritating Thing

Roger Simon’s problem with Obama’s ubiquity

By Jane Kim   Apr 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM

On the scale of one to ten of irritating things that a president might do while dealing with an economic... More

A-Pirate Hunting We Go?

Bad-guy commentary is too easy, limits public discourse

By Jane Kim   Apr 15, 2009 at 04:43 PM

Spike TV is really happy it has a pirate show in the works. After the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard... More

Painting by Polling Number

WaPo’s Gerson depicts wide partisan gap, misses bigger picture

By Jane Kim   Apr 9, 2009 at 08:00 AM

Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson has a column up at The Washington Post arguing that Obama isn’t delivering on his... More

Reporting Celebrity

Press loses context, glosses Obamas’ popularity in Europe

By Jane Kim   Apr 7, 2009 at 07:30 AM

As the Obamas swept across Europe late last week and this weekend, they left some very glittery, starry-eyed reports behind... More

Sticking It to Detroit

HuffPo, others fixate on an autos vs. banks narrative

By Jane Kim   Mar 31, 2009 at 04:15 PM

Yesterday, after President Barack Obama announced the relatively tough terms of his auto industry bailout, reporters were quick to compare... More

Branding Gillibrand

NYT sketches with too loose a hand on NY senator and big tobacco story

By Jane Kim   Mar 27, 2009 at 04:34 PM

The New York Times today has a big story about junior New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that suffers from tunnel... More

The ‘Professor’ Calms the Crowd

Press works (and reworks) the outrage narrative

By Jane Kim   Mar 26, 2009 at 04:48 PM

Last week saw a massive buildup of stories about public outrage at the AIG bonuses and Obama’s attempts—through a slew... More

The Chuckle-Monster

Headlines turn the president’s laugh into a “gaffe”

By Jane Kim   Mar 24, 2009 at 04:16 PM

Steve Kroft’s Sunday night interview with President Obama covered substantive things, like Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s bank rescue plan, which... More

Have Words. Will Choose.

By Jane Kim   Mar 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM

Put on your Friday meditative hats; music criticism could be headed in a Zen direction. Ben Sisario, writing for the... More

Day To-day

By Jane Kim   Mar 20, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Today marks the last day for NPR's "Day to Day," the L.A.-area daily news magazine hosted by Madeleine Brand. Kevin... More

Aisle Love You Forever

By Jane Kim   Mar 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM

They say shopping carts (and contents therein) are the way into a reader's soul. (Don't they?) Well, the New York... More